My Life: March 2012

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Favorite Books (updated)

I could never choose my favorite book, because almost all of the books I have read are my favorite. A few extremely good books I have read are:

- The Inheritance Cycle by Chirstopher Paolini
Eragon
Eldest
Brisingr
Inheritance
A few characters in these books are Eragon, Saphira, Ayra, Roran, and Murtagh.

- The Rangers Apprentice Series by John Flanagan
The Ruins of Gorlan
The Burning Bridge
The Icebound Land
The Battle for Skandia
The Sorcerer of the North
The Siege of Macindaw
Erak's Ransom
The Kings of Clonmel
Halt's Peril
The Emperor of Nihon-Ja
The Lost Stories
If you want to read them in order from time sequence, read Erak's Ransom before The Sorcerer of the North.
A few characters are Will, Gilan, Horace, and Halt.

- The Dragon of Trelian by Michelle Knudsen
The will be a sequel to this book called the Princess of Trelian. Another will come after that too.
A few characters are Calen, Meg, and Jakl.

- The Seventh Tower Series by Garth Nix
The Fall
The Castle
Aenir
Above the Veil
Into Battle
The Violet Keystone
A few characters are Tal, Mila, Adras, and Odris.

- The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins
Gregor the Overlander
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
Gregor and the Marks of Secret
Gregor and the Code of Claw
A few characters are Gregor, Luxa, Boots, Ares, Aurora, and Ripred.
Suzanne Collins also wrote the Hunger Games series. (they are very good too)

- The Dark is Rising Series by Susan Cooper
Over the Sea, Under the Stone
The Dark is Rising
Greenwitch
The Grey King
Silver on the Tree
Some characters are Will, Jane, Barney, Simon, and Merriman.

- Maximum Ride Series by James Patterson
The Angle Experiment
Schools Out -- Forever
The Final Warning
Saving The World And Other Extreme Sports
Max: A Maximum Ride Novel
Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel
Angle: A Maximum Ride Novel
Nevermore: A Maximum Ride Novel (comes out August 6, 2012)
Some characters are Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman(Gazzy), and Angel.
These books are also hilarious.

-The Man Who Listens To Horses - Monty Roberts
This is an autobiography of Monty Roberts life. This is an extremely good book and I suggest reading it. Not just because it has horses in it, but because of what he lived through and did. This book proves it's possible for one person to make a difference.

I love all these books/series and there are many more I have read and love. I would totally recommend you read them.

Friday, March 16, 2012

The Easy Button

Have you ever seen those Staples Easy Button commercials?
Have you ever wished you could use the easy button? Several times I have wanted to use that button.
Just last week I wished I had that button. We had to write a poem about Earth's atmospheric layers. It had to have at least 24 lines, rhyme, and describe the layers of the atmosphere. It's not easy to find things that rhyme with 'atmosphere' and 'troposphere' that make sense and will work with the information I needed to put in it. It took me a long time to write it. I ended up using 'here' and 'near' mostly. It kind of got repetitive, but it worked.