Reading response :)

I finished the third book in the Mortal Instruments series, City of Glass, and it was pretty good. It was supposed to be the last book, because it was a trilogy, but she wrote another book continuing after the third. I do not think that it is a completely different series, because she marked it as book four in the very same series as the other City books. The book that I am talking about (the fourth book) is titled City of Fallen Angels.

As I mentioned in my last reading response blog post, I had a guess about one of the characters, and I thought they might not be exactly who they—and everybody else—thought they were. I did not find out until the very end of the book, but my hunch turned out to be true!  I was really happy when I found out, because it kind of lets other things fall into order.

Now I am reading City of Fallen Angels, the fourth book, and I am about one hundred and fifty pages in. I really like it so far, but one of the main characters is really bugging me. It kind of sets it up so you feel bad for him, but it still annoys me. You see, he accidentally got to where he had two girlfriends, and although they know each other, they don’t get along and rarely see each other, so they do not know they are both dating him. At first he just hung out with each of them, because he liked them, and now he is dating both. He is trying to work things out, but of course, he does not want to hurt either of them. Luckily—for them, not him—there is an event that is coming up in the story where he is supposed to go with both of them to, I can’t wait!

Although it is annoying at the moment, I really like the book so far. It’s crazy, but yet it is intriguing

Reading Response :)

Right now I am reading the third book in The Mortal Insturments series. The first two books are titled City of Bones, and City of Ashes. The third one is called City of Glass. The author that wrote these books is Cassandra Clare.

So far, I really like this book. It keeps you on the edge of your seat, and it is very hard to put down and stop reading. I like how the author throws in major twists and turns, but at the same time, some of them make me want to throw the book at the wall like I have gone insane. Sometimes throughout the series, thing people have said have made me come up with ideas of what is going to happen next, and sometimes I am right, sometimes I am not, but the one that I really want to find out about hasn’t really been clarified. It was something that somebody said as they were dying about one of the main characters scars he has that makes you wonder if he is really who you think he is.

Also, I am reading the book The Way of Kings. It is one of Brandon Sanderson’s newer books.. Both my brother and my father are really big Brandon Sanderson fans, and my brother repeatedly told me I should read it, so now we are reading in together.(him for the second time) it is really good so far, but the only thing that bugs me is how it switches between three different characters every chapter. Normally I wouldn’t mind, but every time you read a chapter of one of the characters, you don’t want to stop reading from their persective, but about a page into a different characters view, your thinking the same thing! But despite that, I love the book so far.

What would life be like if you were only six inches tall? :)

                 Imagine a world where a simple chair towers as high as a skyscraper. A world in which you could climb twigs instead of trees, and a trip across town would be a long dangerous journey. Imagine a world if you were only six inches tall.

                Maybe this wouldn’t be so bad. But that would probably only be the case if everybody else was only six inches in height also, and everything else was set to that proportion.  Then again, what are the chances of that? Most likely, everything would be gigantic. Spiders would be the size of dogs, birds the size of cars. Everyday things would become great challenges.  While brushing your teeth, what would you use? A normal toothbrush like the one you probably use  now would become way to big. You would have to find other means of doing that.

                What about eating? Any food you currently enjoy would have to be broken up into small pieces, and you would probably find yourself eating more like an insect. Restaurants would be out of the question. There would be close to no logical way to order! Would they ever notice you, when they are behind that big desk of theirs. Plus, it would be kind of difficult  getting high enough to reach the food!  It isn’t like you could just climb the leg of a table or chair..

                If you lived a life in which you were only six inches tall, life would be very dangerous and scary. Though at the same time, if you think about it, it would be a really big adventure.

vocabulary :)

Mammonism: the greedy pursuit of riches.
Screed: a long discourse or essay.
Delude: to mislead the mind or judgement of; deceive.
Fallacious: containing a fallacy, logically unsound.
Scintillating: animated, vivacious.
Truncated: shortened by or as if by having a part cut off. cut short.