George Orwell wrote this shortly after (Possibly even during, I am not entirely sure) World War Two, during the communist/'socialist' vs. capitalist frenzy as well as everything else that I know we all know about to some extent (if for some reason not, Google is your best friend.) This is a book directly about the Communist/Socialist vs. Capitalist issue at hand at the time, just under a very loose, very thin veil. George Orwell was fantastic in writing this book - he kept it just veiled enough that no one could prove anything about the book and have him imprisoned and most likely killed for it, but he also made it obvious enough that if you know anything about the history of Socialism, and how it turned into Communism in most places - well, you will get pretty much everything in this book. You will get everything that Orwell thinly disguises, from the who is who, to the what place is what place, what symbolizes what, etc., etc.
Hello every-very-few-body! I hope you are all having a good Easter weekend - I know I did, even though I was admittedly sick for the last week and a half, which on the upside gave me a lot of time for reading. Because (I know, grade one English teachers are probably frowning, but you can start a sentence with 'because') of this I read the classic Animal Farm by George Orwell.
George Orwell wrote this shortly after (Possibly even during, I am not entirely sure) World War Two, during the communist/'socialist' vs. capitalist frenzy as well as everything else that I know we all know about to some extent (if for some reason not, Google is your best friend.) This is a book directly about the Communist/Socialist vs. Capitalist issue at hand at the time, just under a very loose, very thin veil. George Orwell was fantastic in writing this book - he kept it just veiled enough that no one could prove anything about the book and have him imprisoned and most likely killed for it, but he also made it obvious enough that if you know anything about the history of Socialism, and how it turned into Communism in most places - well, you will get pretty much everything in this book. You will get everything that Orwell thinly disguises, from the who is who, to the what place is what place, what symbolizes what, etc., etc.
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Do you remember when Gangnam Style was the only style, when no one knew what the fox says (and some still don't, apparently), and when the only thing that people read were boring books about the different types of grey? Oh yeah, that was just over the last few years. Anyways, today I am introducing a new thing, Flashback Sunday, where every once in a while I share from the days that I wrote book reviews for a small school publication. (I will say, I loved the book so much that I had no clue what to say at the end, I had endless praises that I did not want to flood the review with, so it ends somewhat abruptly. And yes, I do think you need to steal this book from whoever you see has it.) Anyways, here is a book review from the days gone by, I hope you like it. I must admit – whenever I see a book that has anything to do with dragons, I run and take cover. But something about Seraphina intrigued me. Once I started reading I was immediately sucked in. Rachel Hartman writes with such a strong voice, and really, I could probably write endless praises for this book all day. But I won’t. Seraphina is a book about how we all have secrets that need to be hidden – but to what extent, and for what price? In a medieval kingdom called Goredd, the townsfolk are nearing the 40th anniversary of a peace treaty between dragons and humans – but that does not mean everyone has accepted it. Let me say this: I hate March Break. Yes, I mean it. No, I'm not joking. Okay, maybe I would hate it less if I had more books to read - I had quite a few lined up that would hopefully keep me busy ('had' being the keyword in that sentence). I had gone to the school library and picked up 3 books - altogether being a total of just over 1300 pages to keep me busy over the March Break, two being from the same series, this being the third one. Call me a nerd, but I was excited and (Do I daresay?) had even made myself a reading plan. I was going to read just over 100 pages a day. I was happily cruising along through my books, just finishing my first book thinking "Just 700 pages to go!" when I realized the next book I took out from the library was three books down in the series, meaning of course that I could not read it. I was devastated, to say the least. Okay, now that my most recent trauma has been lifted off my chest, I suppose I will review a book. Like this one. Hello! Sorry that there was a post missed by Elizabeth (apparently some people *cough* Elizabeth *cough* can't keep a publication date). Just kidding, she had a legitimate reason - we were surprised by the fact that we were getting a puppy that was halfway across the province on the day Elizabeth was going to write and publish her review. Anyways, we now have a cute 9 week old puppy named Thalia (aka Tally). Now, before I go on and rant about how great our dear Tally is, let me stop myself and actually write a book review. (Which, I'm guessing, is probably what you came here for.) What can I say about this book? It was written well (I will admit that it was written by 2 authors that I really like), but I did not find myself enjoying it a whole lot, although I do recommend it to some people - what I am saying will hopefully make more sense in a few minutes. Canada is being blasted with such diverse weather conditions every day – one day can have a blizzard that is as cold as -30 degrees Celsius, with the next day feeling like the perfect introduction to spring. Because of this, my sister and I have had lots of extra time on our hands for reading. Luckily just before a really big bout of snow last week I had gotten into the library and picked up this book, the first in a three book series: The Maze Runner. Because of the finicky weather I read it in just 2 days! And I must say one thing about this book: Wow. I really enjoyed myself with this book, it was written well, and had a great point of view, and a very interesting storyline. I do not know why I haven’t read it earlier! It was great, and if the school library has the next book in the series, I am fairly sure I am going to read it. I must say, I was a bit surprised by the ending of this first book (not giving away any spoilers, but let’s just say there was a... little blood spilled), but it is a futuristic sci-fi dystopian novel, what did I expect? Before we get to my review, I would just like to apologize for how long it has been since we posted our last reviews (3 weeks!). We got attacked by exams and lots of homework, and could not take the time to write a book review. We will both do our best to make sure that there will not be such a gap between reviews from now on! Now for the book review: This is the second book that I have ever read by Neil Gaiman (The first was Coraline). I was hoping that I would enjoy this book as much as I did Coraline . But now, after having finished reading The Graveyard Book, I have realized that such a comparison is bordering near impossible, because both books are good in their own respective way. I am not usually a fan of books within the ‘paranormal’ kind of genre, but I gave this one a shot after having enjoyed Coraline so much. I must say I did not enjoy this book as much as I thought that I would. The Flavia de Luce Series↴ I just finished the most recent book in the Flavia de Luce series, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, and so I decided to do a review on the series. (Why not, right?) First off let me say this one thing: I have a list of my favourite writers that is extremely hard to get on (Let’s just say I am a little picky when it comes to favourites), and shortly after reading Alan Bradley’s first book, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, he made it onto that list. Just like that. I love his writing so much that I have bought every single book Alan Bradley has written since then. He’s that good. Alan Bradley chose to set his series smack dab in the middle of post-World War II England at the slightly run down de Luce family estate, Buckshaw. With the main character being Flavia de Luce, an 11 year old chemistry genius who has a passion for poisons with an entire laboratory for her to use for whatever project she wants. Because it is totally safe to let an 11 year old girl conduct poisonous chemical experiments all alone inside of an old house, right? |
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