One quick thought to start you (well, really, my) morning - why do people only make new resolutions on New Years? And why do we feel bound to follow them unlike every other time we tell ourselves to do something? I mean, why not everyday? Okay, that was really more like 2 or 3 thoughts, but anyway - Good morning and goodbye!
-Bookworm
Monday, January 3, 2011
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Help!
So, I'm finally back on track and ready to *hopefully* post regularly. I'm really sorry about spending... um... forever away, but I'm back now (I think). So I was thinking about a change of design. A little more... peppy? Upbeat? Orange? Anyway, let me know what you think. One problem!!!!! If I change the format of the blog, I may not be able to get this current design back! =\
Well, let me know! Thanks,
Bookworm
-peace love and pie
Well, let me know! Thanks,
Bookworm
-peace love and pie
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
April!
Thoughts on April:
Pros:
Often warm
School's almost over
Soccer Season
Spring Musical
Pool's almost open
Closer to my birthday
Cons:
Annoying, changing weather (Monday: hi 87, lo 70. Tuesday: hi 42, lo 28)
Bitter cold
I know next year I have to pick between soccer + cross country
All in all, I'd rate April as a 5.5 on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being best).
Please comment and let me know whether or not you like April!
-Bookworm
Pros:
Often warm
School's almost over
Soccer Season
Spring Musical
Pool's almost open
Closer to my birthday
Cons:
Annoying, changing weather (Monday: hi 87, lo 70. Tuesday: hi 42, lo 28)
Bitter cold
I know next year I have to pick between soccer + cross country
All in all, I'd rate April as a 5.5 on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being best).
Please comment and let me know whether or not you like April!
-Bookworm
Sorry!!
Sorry for not keeping up with this blog regularly. Ever since soccer started, I am so busy. Here is an average week:
Monday: Soccer Practice, 3-5pm Tuesday: Soccer Game: 4-6pm Wednesday: See Monday
Sister soccer practice
Thursday: See Tuesday Friday: Soccer Practice, 3-5pm
And with the school musical coming up, I sometimes have after-school rehearsals.
But I will try to post regularly: like, maybe either all Fridays or all Sundays.
But yeah, sorry.
-Bookworm
Monday: Soccer Practice, 3-5pm Tuesday: Soccer Game: 4-6pm Wednesday: See Monday
Sister soccer practice
Thursday: See Tuesday Friday: Soccer Practice, 3-5pm
And with the school musical coming up, I sometimes have after-school rehearsals.
But I will try to post regularly: like, maybe either all Fridays or all Sundays.
But yeah, sorry.
-Bookworm
Monday, October 12, 2009
David Garrett
German violinist David Garrett performed in the Whitaker Center on Friday, September 18th. I was in the audience. He played a lot of fast music, and most of it was classical based. Garrett says he didn’t listen to anything other than classical music until he was 14. He has set a world record playing The Flight of the Bumblebee in 66 seconds, and his wonderful playing is enhanced with the 290 year old Stradivarius violin he plays. Among the many songs he played were He’s a Pirate from Pirates of the Caribbean, Smooth Criminal, Summer, Nothing Else Matters, Who Wants to Live Forever?, Ain’t No Sunshine, Chelsea Girl, and Rock Prelude. Many other songs were original. He had funny stories for some of them, too.
For Summer, he said that in March up in New York he was playing outside, and it started to rain. As the rain got nearer, he began to worry about his instrument. Just then, a woman from the audience came up and held her umbrella over him, and he finished the concert. Afterward, he went to thank the woman for thinking of his violin. She said that she hadn’t thought of his violin; she was worried about his hair.
David Garrett is an excellent violinist and it was a real privilege to get to hear him.
For Summer, he said that in March up in New York he was playing outside, and it started to rain. As the rain got nearer, he began to worry about his instrument. Just then, a woman from the audience came up and held her umbrella over him, and he finished the concert. Afterward, he went to thank the woman for thinking of his violin. She said that she hadn’t thought of his violin; she was worried about his hair.
David Garrett is an excellent violinist and it was a real privilege to get to hear him.
Monday, September 28, 2009
The Thief By: Megan Whalen Turner
Prison can change you. Eugenides, or Gen, as he is better known, should know. After bragging about how he could steal the king’s seal, Gen is overheard and sent to jail for being a thief. The book starts when the king’s magus, or scholar, finds out where an ancient treasure is hidden. The king wants it, so they take Gen out of jail.
The magus doesn’t care about Gen himself, he only cares about Gen’s skills: Gen can steal anything. Taking along Pol, a guard, Ambiades, and Sophos, the magus and Gen set off to find this treasure. They find out that the king of Sounis, the magus’s king, only wants the treasure, called Hamiathes’s Gift, to marry the queen of Eddis. If he succeeds in winning the queen’s hand, Sounis will rule Eddis and Sounis.
Gen and his companions embark on a dangerous path, hunted by soldiers. When they finally locate the site, Gen takes three days to find Hamiathes’s Gift. He finds it, meeting the gods and goddesses of his religion in the process.
He takes the Gift, returns, and on the trip back, loses it in a battle! No one is seriously wounded, but Hamiathes’s Gift is missing. They carry on, still upset, but doing their duty. Out of food, the magus orders Gen to steal food and horses from Pirrhea, which he reluctantly does. The magus says, “I thought you said you could steal anything,” to which Gen replies, “Things don’t make noise.”
He discovers that the gods are interest in him, and they travel on. They’d spotted their enemies twice, but Gen is given Sophos’s sword to delay them. Gen gets trapped, and the next thing he knows, he’s back in Eddis’s dungeon.
The magus and Sophos are free, and instantly come to see if Gen is okay. Gen, bruised, hurt, irritated, and tired, tries to shoo them away, but falls asleep instead. Gen later learns from Sophos that Pol and Ambiades died in the battle against the Eddis soldiers. Sophos told Gen that he thought he was a great swordsman, but Gen says that it was all because his father had wanted him to be a soldier. Gen is pulled out of jail to speak with the Queen, to bargain for his freedom. Gen is now free, but Sophos and the magus are then arrested. Gen hurries to save them, and helps them escape.
In the book, you will find out whether or not Gen and his friends are freed. Does Gen then return to the Sounis prison, or does the king free him because of his help? Perhaps, more important, do they find Hamiathes’s Gift again?
I really liked this book because it was challenging, fun, and adventurous, all at the same time. In this suspense filled cliffhanger, the reader is kept on his/her toes. No one can just walk away from a book like The Thief. It really keeps you on your toes; just when you think Gen is safe, he gets into an even bigger pickle. Megan Whalen Turner is a great author, and I loved her book. I hope to read more of her amazing work some day.
The magus doesn’t care about Gen himself, he only cares about Gen’s skills: Gen can steal anything. Taking along Pol, a guard, Ambiades, and Sophos, the magus and Gen set off to find this treasure. They find out that the king of Sounis, the magus’s king, only wants the treasure, called Hamiathes’s Gift, to marry the queen of Eddis. If he succeeds in winning the queen’s hand, Sounis will rule Eddis and Sounis.
Gen and his companions embark on a dangerous path, hunted by soldiers. When they finally locate the site, Gen takes three days to find Hamiathes’s Gift. He finds it, meeting the gods and goddesses of his religion in the process.
He takes the Gift, returns, and on the trip back, loses it in a battle! No one is seriously wounded, but Hamiathes’s Gift is missing. They carry on, still upset, but doing their duty. Out of food, the magus orders Gen to steal food and horses from Pirrhea, which he reluctantly does. The magus says, “I thought you said you could steal anything,” to which Gen replies, “Things don’t make noise.”
He discovers that the gods are interest in him, and they travel on. They’d spotted their enemies twice, but Gen is given Sophos’s sword to delay them. Gen gets trapped, and the next thing he knows, he’s back in Eddis’s dungeon.
The magus and Sophos are free, and instantly come to see if Gen is okay. Gen, bruised, hurt, irritated, and tired, tries to shoo them away, but falls asleep instead. Gen later learns from Sophos that Pol and Ambiades died in the battle against the Eddis soldiers. Sophos told Gen that he thought he was a great swordsman, but Gen says that it was all because his father had wanted him to be a soldier. Gen is pulled out of jail to speak with the Queen, to bargain for his freedom. Gen is now free, but Sophos and the magus are then arrested. Gen hurries to save them, and helps them escape.
In the book, you will find out whether or not Gen and his friends are freed. Does Gen then return to the Sounis prison, or does the king free him because of his help? Perhaps, more important, do they find Hamiathes’s Gift again?
I really liked this book because it was challenging, fun, and adventurous, all at the same time. In this suspense filled cliffhanger, the reader is kept on his/her toes. No one can just walk away from a book like The Thief. It really keeps you on your toes; just when you think Gen is safe, he gets into an even bigger pickle. Megan Whalen Turner is a great author, and I loved her book. I hope to read more of her amazing work some day.
The Lighthouse Land By: Adrian McKinty
Jamie O’Neill lives a normal life, except for the loss of one arm after bone cancer. He hasn’t spoken since the cancer took his arm and when Jamie’s mother receives a letter that tells her she has inherited a little house called the Lighthouse House in Ireland on Muck Island, he feels like his life might be making a turn for the better.
In Ireland, the Irish people call Jamie a lord, because he is a descendant of a long line of Irish kings, all of whom disappeared long ago. With his newfound Irish friend, Ramsay, Jamie explores an ancient lighthouse next to the Lighthouse House, which gives the House its name, and discovers a mystic artifact left by his ancestors. They are astonished to find out that the artifact, a gold key shaped object called the Salmon of Knowledge, is a key to another world in peril. On this world, they find that a girl on this other planet who speaks English, Old English. She, too, called Jamie ‘Lord Jamie,’ and Ramsay ‘Lord Ramsay.’ The girl introduced herself as Wishaway. Wishaway has been sent by her father to wait for the return of the ‘Lords Ui Neill,’ and Altair, her “city” on this world, has been visited once before by the Lords Ui Neill, maybe even twice.
Wishaway explains that her city is being attacked by the citizens of Alkhava, and is in desperate need of help. Jamie is determined to help her out. Suddenly, all people in these two cities fall ill. Ramsay has given them chicken pox!
On Earth, chicken pox is common, and people are somewhat used to it. But in this world, where the inhabitants aren’t adapted to it, it is fatal. The Salmon of Knowledge has altered Wishaway so that she is prepared for it, but what about her father and her friends? Jamie, Ramsay, and Wishaway must find a cure, and save this poor world.
I really like the book The Lighthouse Land, because it is about a boy just like us, only he finds this key that opens a wormhole to another world. It feels like the author, Adrian McKinty, really takes us back with Jamie, Ramsay, and Wishaway. This book feels almost real.
In Ireland, the Irish people call Jamie a lord, because he is a descendant of a long line of Irish kings, all of whom disappeared long ago. With his newfound Irish friend, Ramsay, Jamie explores an ancient lighthouse next to the Lighthouse House, which gives the House its name, and discovers a mystic artifact left by his ancestors. They are astonished to find out that the artifact, a gold key shaped object called the Salmon of Knowledge, is a key to another world in peril. On this world, they find that a girl on this other planet who speaks English, Old English. She, too, called Jamie ‘Lord Jamie,’ and Ramsay ‘Lord Ramsay.’ The girl introduced herself as Wishaway. Wishaway has been sent by her father to wait for the return of the ‘Lords Ui Neill,’ and Altair, her “city” on this world, has been visited once before by the Lords Ui Neill, maybe even twice.
Wishaway explains that her city is being attacked by the citizens of Alkhava, and is in desperate need of help. Jamie is determined to help her out. Suddenly, all people in these two cities fall ill. Ramsay has given them chicken pox!
On Earth, chicken pox is common, and people are somewhat used to it. But in this world, where the inhabitants aren’t adapted to it, it is fatal. The Salmon of Knowledge has altered Wishaway so that she is prepared for it, but what about her father and her friends? Jamie, Ramsay, and Wishaway must find a cure, and save this poor world.
I really like the book The Lighthouse Land, because it is about a boy just like us, only he finds this key that opens a wormhole to another world. It feels like the author, Adrian McKinty, really takes us back with Jamie, Ramsay, and Wishaway. This book feels almost real.
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