Big Annoucement!

I will be premiering a new blog this week. It will be a TV show and movie blog. I will be reviewing episodes of TV show and movies. I will also put up ideas of Tv shows and movies! :)

IWannaRead #8 (Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell)

Here is the plot!! From GoodReads!!

The sheriff's deputy at the front door brings hard news to Ree Dolly. Her father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. Ree's father has disappeared before. The Dolly clan has worked the shadowy side of the law for generations, and arrests (and attempts to avoid them) are part of life in Rathlin Valley. With two young brothers depending on her and a mother who's entered a kind of second childhood, sixteen-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive. She has grown up in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks and learns quickly that asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake. But along the way to a shocking revelation, Ree discovers unforeseen depths in herself and in a family network that protects its own at any cost. "A piercing, intense tale told from way inside, WINTER'S BONE is stark evidence that Daniel Woodrell is a writer of exceptional originality and importance." -Thomas McGuane "In prose both taut and lyrical, WINTER'S BONE vividly evokes the spirit of one little woman warrior." -Edna O'Brien

So what do you think? Is it good or bad? Should I review it?

IWannaRead #7 (Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann)

Here is the plot! From GoodReads!

Kendall loves her life in small town Cryer¹s Cross, Montana, but she also longs for something more. She knows the chances of going to school in New York are small, but she's not the type to give up easily. Even though it will mean leaving Nico, the world's sweetest boyfriend, behind.

But when Cryer's Cross is rocked by unspeakable tragedy, Kendall shoves her dreams aside and focuses on just one goal: help find her missing friends. Even if it means spending time with the one boy she shouldn't get close to... the one boy who makes her question everything she feels for Nico.

Determined to help and to stay true to the boy she's always loved, Kendall keeps up the search--and stumbles upon some frightening local history. She knows she can't stop digging, but Kendall is about to find out just how far the townspeople will go to keep their secrets buried....

So what do you think? Do you love it or hate it? Should I review it? :)

IWannaRead #5 (Lockdown(Escape From the Furnace) by Alexander Gordon Smith)

Sorry guys! I forgot #5 but here it is! Here is the plot! From GoodReads!
Furnace Penitentiary: the world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. Convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, sentenced to life without parole, “new fish” Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world. Except in Furnace, death is the least of his worries. Soon Alex discovers that the prison is a place of pure evil, where inhuman creatures in gas masks stalk the corridors at night, where giants in black suits drag screaming inmates into the shadows, where deformed beasts can be heard howling from the blood-drenched tunnels below. And behind everything is the mysterious, all-powerful warden, a man as cruel and dangerous as the devil himself, whose unthinkable acts have consequences that stretch far beyond the walls of the prison.

Together with a bunch of inmates—some innocent kids who have been framed, others cold-blooded killers—Alex plans an escape. But as he starts to uncover the truth about Furnace’s deeper, darker purpose, Alex’s actions grow ever more dangerous, and he must risk everything to expose this nightmare that’s hidden from the eyes of the world.

What do you think? Do you love it or hate it? Should I review it? :)

IWannaRead #6 (Dark Life by Kat Falls)

Here is the plot!! From GoodReads!!
A thrilling futuristic adventure set deep undersea, Dark Life follows the settlers of the world's first subsea settlement as they defend their homesteads against a brazen band of outlaws.

Set in an apocalyptic future where rising oceans have swallowed up entire regions and people live packed like sardines on the dry land left, DARK LIFE is the harrowing tale of underwater pioneers who have carved out a life for themselves in the harsh deep-sea environment, farming the seafloor in exchange for the land deed.

The story follows Ty, who has lived his whole life on his family's homestead and has dreams of claiming his own stake when he turns eighteen. But when outlaws' attacks on government supply ships and settlements...

So what do you think? Is it good or bad? Should I review it? I LOVE THE COVER! :)

IWannaRead #4 (Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan)

Here is the plot! From GoodReads!

Berlin, 1939. A young, brilliant trumpet-player, Hieronymus, is arrested in a Paris cafe. The star musician was never heard from again. He was twenty years old. He was a German citizen. And he was black.

Fifty years later, Sidney Griffiths, the only witness that day, still refuses to speak of what he saw. When Chip Jones, his friend and fellow band member, comes to visit, recounting the discovery of a strange letter, Sid begins a slow journey towards redemption.

From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, Sid leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world, and into the heart of his own guilty conscience.

Half-Blood Blues is an electric, heart-breaking story about music, race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art.

What do you think? Is it good or bad? Should I review it? :)

IWannaRead #3 (The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Here is the plot! From GoodReads!

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.


So what do you think? Is it good or bad? Should I review it? :)

IWannaRead #2 (Bliss by Lauren Myracle)

Here is the plot! From GoodReads!

Lauren Myracle brings her keen understanding of teen dynamics to a hypnotic horror story of twisted friendship.
When Bliss’s hippie parents leave the commune and dump her at the home of her aloof grandmother in a tony Atlanta neighborhood, it’s like being set down on an alien planet. The only guide naïve Bliss has to her new environment is what she’s seen on The Andy Griffith Show. But Mayberry is poor preparation for Crestview Academy, an elite school where the tensions of the present and the dark secrets of the past threaten to simmer into violence. Openhearted, naïve Bliss is happy to be friends with anyone. That’s not the way it has ever worked at Crestview, and soon Bliss is at the center of a struggle for power between three girls—two living and one long dead.

So what do you think! Is it good or bad? Should I review it?

IWannaRead! #1 (Life of Pi By Yann Martel)

Here is the plot! :) From GoodReads!
Life of Pi is a masterful and utterly original novel that is at once the story of a young castaway who faces immeasurable hardships on the high seas, and a meditation on religion, faith, art and life that is as witty as it is profound. Using the threads of all of our best stories, Yann Martel has woven a glorious spiritual adventure that makes us question what it means to be alive, and to believe.

Growing up in Pondicherry, India, Piscine Molitor Patel -- known as Pi -- has a rich life. Bookish by nature, young Pi acquires a broad knowledge of not only the great religious texts but of all literature, and has a great curiosity about how the world works. His family runs the local zoo, and he spends many of his days among goats, hippos, swans, and bears, developing his own theories about the nature of animals and how human nature conforms to it. Pi’s family life is quite happy, even though his brother picks on him and his parents aren’t quite sure how to accept his decision to simultaneously embrace and practise three religions -- Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam.

But despite the lush and nurturing variety of Pi’s world, there are broad political changes afoot in India, and when Pi is sixteen his parents decide that the family needs to escape to a better life. Choosing to move to Canada, they close the zoo, pack their belongings, and board a Japanese cargo ship called the Tsimtsum. Travelling with them are many of their animals, bound for zoos in North America. However, they have only just begun their journey when the ship sinks, taking the dreams of the Patel family down with it. Only Pi survives, cast adrift in a lifeboat with the unlikeliest of travelling companions: a zebra, an orang-utan, a hyena, and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

Thus begins Pi Patel’s epic, 227-day voyage across the Pacific, and the powerful story of faith and survival at the heart of Life of Pi. Worn and scared, oscillating between hope and despair, Pi is witness to the playing out of the food chain, quite aware of his new position within it. When only the tiger is left of the seafaring menagerie, Pi realizes that his survival depends on his ability to assert his own will, and sets upon a grand and ordered scheme to keep from being Richard Parker’s next meal.

As the days pass, Pi fights both boredom and terror by throwing himself into the practical details of surviving on the open sea -- catching fish, collecting rain water, protecting himself from the sun -- all the while ensuring that the tiger is also kept alive, and knows that Pi is the key to his survival. The castaways face gruelling pain in their brushes with starvation, illness, and the storms that lash the small boat, but there is also the solace of beauty: the rainbow hues of a dorado’s death-throes, the peaceful eye of a looming whale, the shimmering blues of the ocean’s swells. Hope is fleeting, however, and despite adapting his religious practices to his daily routine, Pi feels the constant, pressing weight of despair. It is during the most hopeless and gruelling days of his voyage that Pi whittles to the core of his beliefs, casts off his own assumptions, and faces his underlying terrors head-on.

As Yann Martel has said in one interview, “The theme of this novel can be summarized in three lines. Life is a story. You can choose your story. And a story with an imaginative overlay is the better story.” And for Martel, the greatest imaginative overlay is religion. “God is a shorthand for anything that is beyond the material -- any greater pattern of meaning.” In Life of Pi, the question of stories, and of what stories to believe, is front and centre from the beginning, when the author tells us how he was led to Pi Patel and to this novel: in an Indian coffee house, a gentleman told him, “I have a story that will make you believe in God.” And as this novel comes to its brilliant conclusion, Pi shows us that the story with the imaginative overlay is also the story that contains the most truth.

So tell me about it! Do you like it or hate it. Do you want me to review it! :)

HUGE ANNOUCEMENT!

Hello Guys! I know I've been taking a long break. I've just been really busy. But starting today I will be premiering a new segment entiltled IWannaRead! This is a segment where I put up books that i would like to read. You can also participate in this segment. You can leave a comment below giving your opinion on this book if you read it. If you have not read it then you can ask me if I can review it for you! :)

Twitter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey guys! I finally put up a twitter account. Just type in Miles Eackles and I'm @PercussionChild!!! :)

EXCITING ANNOUCMENT!!

I will be debuting 2 new blogs this week. One will be a music blog where I review albums and stuff like that. The other blog will be about movies and TV. Where I review movies and TV shows and just talk about movies and TV! :)

Sorry Guys!

I'm so sorry i've been taking so long putting up posts. I have been very busy these past few days. But I will be making an exciting annoucment. Stay tuned for more news on this AMAZING announcment! :)

Annoucement! (Book Talk)

Hi Guys! So I going to do a new segment on this blog called Book Talk and Book Tags. Book Talk is just where I randomly talk about books and stuff like that. Book Tags are like questions viewers ask or I get from someone else. I hope you continue reading my blog because I have more great ideas to come!!! :)

The Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher is a fantasy novel about friendship. Here's the plot from Good Reads. Eddie hasn't had an easy year
First his father dies. Then his best friend Billy accidentally kicks a stack of Sheetrock over on himself, breaking his neck and effectively hitting tilt on his Earthgame. Eddie and Billy were inseparable. Still are. Billy isn't going to let a little thing like death stop him from hanging in there with his friend. And when Eddie faces an epic struggle with the powers that be, Billy will remain right there beside him.

As much as I wanted to like this book I did not. I disliked this book very much!
The writing is very annoying and the characters aren't likable at ALL!
That's it. The book was BAD.
I give it 1 out of 10 stars.

Article 5 (Review)

Article 5 is a gripping dystopian that will leave you breathless until the VERY last page!! Heres the plot taken from Good Reads.  New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned.

The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral Statutes.

There are no more police—instead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for bad behavior—instead, there are arrests, trials, and maybe worse. People who get arrested usually don't come back.

Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller is old enough to remember that things weren't always this way. Living with her rebellious single mother, it's hard for her to forget that people weren't always arrested for reading the wrong books or staying out after dark. It's hard to forget that life in the United States used to be different.

Ember has perfected the art of keeping a low profile. She knows how to get the things she needs, like food stamps and hand-me-down clothes, and how to pass the random home inspections by the military. Her life is as close to peaceful as circumstances allow.

That is, until her mother is arrested for noncompliance with Article 5 of the Moral Statutes. And one of the arresting officers is none other than Chase Jennings—the only boy Ember has ever loved.

This book was very good and enjoyable! I loved the setting and the gritty dark feel to this novel. There was only one thing I disliked about this book. Ember was... well not an enjoyable character for me. I tried to enjoy her but it was IMPOSSIBLE. She thought she could do everything when clearly she could not. That was the only thing. But other then that it was really good. I give this book 7 out of 10 stars!!!

BIG ANNOUCMENT!!!

Since I want to appeal to all YA audiences, Im am going to be reading all YA books such as chick lits, paranormal romance, dystopian etc. I am a teenage boy but I want everyone to enjoy this site. I will be reading boy and girl novels. If you want me to review a YA book leave a comment!! :) Bye.! Article 5 review will be up really soon!!!!

Annoucement!! :)

If you would like me to do any book review to put on my blog, I would be more than happy to do it. There's just one exception. They must be a Young Adult novel. Those are sadly the only books I read! :) Also if you need any book suggestions, I will be more than happy to give you some! If you would look further down you will some books I've reviewed and some books I'm going to review. Have a GREAT Father's Day Weekend and I'll post the review for Article 5 by Kristen Simmons very soon! :)

Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (Book Review)

Miss Peregrins Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs is a spooky novel that will leave you wanting more when it ends.

The story begins with Jacob, a 16 year old boy, who has always believed in his grandfathers bedtime stories as a little kid. Now that he's a teenager Jacob is doubtful about whether they are true or not. His grandfathers stories were about a land far away where children with special abilites lived in a boarding home ran by a mysterious lady named Miss Peregrine. One child named Olive who is on the cover had the ability to float off the ground. Another child had the ability to disapear. When Jacob travels to the island because of a family tragedy he goes to the home his grandfather told him about. What he doesen't  know is that the place might be haunted and the children might just still be alive.

A very interesting thing about this book is that it contains pictures throughout the book. The really amazing thing about this book is that they are real pictures found at garage sales.

I really loved this book because of the very creepy nature of the book. Jacob learns a whole lot about himself and his grandfather throughout this book. This book was AMAZING! I give it 8 out of 10 stars!

The Way We Fall (Book Review)

The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe is a gripping thriller that will leave you on the edge of your seat! The story is told in a form of letters to Kaelyn's best friend Leo who has moved to New York. Kaelyn lives in a small Canadian island community and is sheltered from the outside world. As the story progresses on people in Kaelyn's community start to get a inch in their throat that won't go away. That's when people start to act "unusual". Her best friend Rachel is one of the first people to get this itch. She then starts to notice that Rachel is starting to act really unusual. She's acting more happy then usual and acting very clingy. A few day later Rachel is admitted to the hospital from a mysterious virus. Kaelyn's father who is the only doctor on the island is really worried She soon learns from her father that this virus is very deadly and contagious. More people on the island start to develop this virus. About 2 days later the island is put on lockdown which means, no one can come to the island and no one can leave. Kaelyn's mother bans her from going to school. Kaelyn is furious at this at first but then she learn half of the school has gotten the virus and is in the hospital. Soon half of the island is in the hospital, and once you get the virus there is no cure and you die.

This book will leave you speechless from beginning to end. One thing I absolutely LOVED about this book is the main character Kaelyn. She was strong and would not let anything stop her, even when it got tough. This is a sad book I must admit. The ending is very heartbreaking. But overall the book is AMAZING. I give this book 8 out of 10 stars.