Sunday, April 29, 2018

The Stone Child

Another horror book, ladies and gentleman, seems like I know not to read another thing than this, but I will gladly introduce you to this amazing book. The Stone Child by Dan Poblocki, but we will just call him Dan (I had to check the spelling of his last name at least 7 times). Dan is very famous as a horror-fantasy book writer, but so far...I've only read The Stone Child. This book is a horror kind of book (of course it is horror, its author is Dan.P), and it's about a kid named Edgar Fennicks, also known as Eddie. It really is an amazing story about how he moves with his family to Gatesweed which is a pretty rare thing, since people usually move out of Gatesweed. Does this have to do with the Olmstead curse that nobody will talk about? Let me ask you a question, have you ever felt...like if you were being...watched? Or is it just an illusion? Is your mind playing with you? Or something is actually trying to connect with you from the unknown? Well, that's one of Eddie's most usual feelings, but I won't spoil how and when. Do you want to find out? Read the book! 

Frozen Charlotte

Creeping through your room, crawling under your bed, poking your eyes with needles, are the cruel playful Charlotte dolls. Straight up from hell, this book will give you nightmares! Well, at least to me it did. A book in which Sophie (the main character) gets involved in a huge problem. Everything started with an Ouija board, which Sophie thinks (and probably knows) was the responsible for her friend's death. This book is called Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell, it is indeed a horror kind of book, but I believe if this book was an anime it would straight up be Gore. The book had me (and still has me) hooked in the story, no matter if it was in the middle, or beginning...
I
Wanted
To
Finish
I got in frustration when I lost the book, but I totally recommend it (just don't be as forgetful/irresponsible as me and actually finish the book before losing it, or just don't lose it). It was honestly the best book I've read...I could read it a hundred times! But not at night though...


Sunday, January 7, 2018

Comment Using the "Core Four" Strategies

The book I was reading is called The Bar Code Tattoo by Suzanne Weyn. I already finished reading the book, but I stopped at page 101 to work on these strategies, but I had a technical problem so could't post them until now; without further ado, let's start.

Predict

I think Zekeal is going to get in trouble with Kayla and Nedra, because he's supposed to be with Nedra, but he kissed Kayla. Additionally, I think that if Nedra figures this out she's going to want revenge against Kayla, and at the end, Kayla will have a broken heart (stopped at page 101 of the book The Bar Code Tattoo).

Question

What if this happened in the real world? We're not so far from it, we already created artificial intelligence, why not tattoos that have our information on them?. What could Kayla's visions mean? Could she be seeing the future? Is that how everything is going to end? I have too many questions in my head at this point.

Clarify

What I want to clarify are some of the meanings of words I found hard to understand.
Compel (page 5) meaning : force or oblige (someone) to do something.
Smithreens (page 5) meaning : small pieces.
Salesclerk (page 18) meaning : an assistant who sells goods in a retail store.
There are so much more words I had to look up, or read twice to understand what they meant.

Summarize

A summary of what has happened so far in the story would go like this...SPOILER ALERT
Kayla and her family are another victim of the bar code, her father killed himself after going into a deep depression "because of the tattoo", at least that's what Kayla's mom says. Kayla has a friend named Amber, but unfortunately Amber's family is "attacked" by the bar code as well, and in an emergency Amber has to leave. Kayla finds herself completely alone until while she was walking found Zekeal, and he takes her with the "Decode" group of the high school. Everything seems to go well...so far.

Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed, and see you next time!