Going Bovine {Part 2}

In the next few chapters of the book we learn even more about Cameron, his very small social life and a few people he knows. Cameron, as I mentioned earlier doesn't really have a designated group of friends so he really just hangs out by himself and listens to music by a band named Tremelo, but he only listens to this particular band because he gets a kick out of the fact that someone else is a even bigger loser than he is. We also learn about a guy name Eubie of whom Cameron isn't close friends with but they talk and have friendly conversations. Next we meet his dad, Cameron isn't fond of his father much less anyone else but when he goes to visit his father at his job his father seems to be very unsupportive and disappointed in him because of how he throws different things Cameron has done mildly, in his face. This book is really great for people who are more so interested in reading about people's life/life story and books that are unique and have a uncommon series of events!
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Going Bovine

Thanks to Evan's blog post about Going Bovine it really encouraged me to start reading it! So I've only read up to the 4th chapter but I'm already very interested. So the book is mainly about a boy named Cameron and surviving high school. So in the book he starts out by talking about when he was 5 years old and his parents and his twin sister, Jenna went to Disney World and they were all on the small world ride. So he goes on to talk about the different versions of the song in different languages and eventually they came to came to a place in the ride were he started freaking out and went on to jump into the water in attempt to get to the emergency door but he ends up having to be rescued. In the next couple of chapters he talks about how he doesn't really have a group of people he hangs out with and that he just lingers socially. The part in the book that really stood out to me is how his sister is popular and even though he makes unnecessary jokes she never stands up for him and just lets her friends pick on him and I'm interested I finding out why things are like so.

The Hunger Games Cntd.

So I haven't had lots of time to read much of the hunger games but I have gotten further into the book. So Katniss and her family are waiting for the mayor to announce who is being sacrificed and they find out that her little sister, Primrose will have to fight. In the heat of the moment Katniss freezes and watches her sister slowly walk to the stage and right before she starts walking up the steps Katniss comes back to earth (so to speak) and stops her sister from walking to the stage and as her sister tries to fight it she is grabbed by. What surprised me the most is how calm about it but she says it's because she doesn't want the other contestants to think that she is weak. I think that Katniss isn't scared so much about the fact that she might die as much as the fact that even if she did win what fighting might do to her. This is because a former contestant from district 12 that won the games many years ago, attended the ceremony as a special guest and she describes him as a person that doesn't take good care of himself and intoxicates himself with alcohol a lot. I am excited to continue reading especially because I want to find out what boy from district 12 is participating.

~ Sydney Benjamin ~

2nd Blog Post ~ The Hunger Games

On Monday I started reading a book called the hunger games and it really got me interested because a wide variety of people did book reports on them so I figured I would check it out. So within the first couple of pages I became very interested, even though I'm not through with the first chapter I learned a lot. So this girl named Katnis lives in an area known as the Panem and this is where North America was before a war. Katnis lives with her mother and sister and before her father died he taught her how to hunt and enter the woods without getting caught. Katniss goes hunting daily with her best friend Peeta who gave her family food while they were starving. The hunger games is a way that the Capitol controls people of the districts (Katniss lives in the 12th district). Because people tried to rebel, every year each district has to "sacrifice" a boy and a girl between 12 and 18 to fight in an arena until death. Katniss holds a grudge against her mother because after her father died her mother became depressed and stopped being a mother and forced Katniss to take care of her mother, her sister, Primrose, and herself so now Primrose is the only person she is certain she loves.

Lauren Myracle book review.

So one of the most recent books I've read was Ten by lauren myracle and it was ok but I think they made this book after they made the books 11-14. And it isn't that big of a deal but I completely lost interest because I basically already know what is going to happen so I don't really feel a sense of surprise or a rediness to continue reading so that kind of killed it for me! So anyway my brother has these diary of a wimpy kid book and it was actually really funny and entertaining my favorite part was when at the end he ran into the womens bathroom at his grandfathers old people home. But this is a really good book for people that really like a sort of appropriate funny book that will keep you entertained the WHOLE ENTIRE reading, and a book that many people would at some part in the book could really relate to. Even if in this book in the series you couldn't relate to it at some point, I can almost guarantee that you will find at least one book in the series that you will really really really really like. My favorite character was greg not only because he was the main character but because he was really up front and what you could call heartless but overall he really has good intentions.