Wednesday, July 2, 2008

OH MAN! Lots Of Reading! Don't get much of it Here!

OH MAN! Its July! Not very much longer till school! ugh:(! Anyway, Just got back from a trip to North Carolina. We went to 2 museums. A Natural Science museum and a North Caolina History
museum. Our main point was to go to my cousin David's Wedding. OK, I don't have much to say. But I'm reading a new book. Grim Tuesday by Garth Nix. Well I'm not really reading the book, I'm listening to it on a CD. They didn't have it in the Library so I checked out that and the 4th book. OK Grim Tuesday is the 2nd book in the Keys to the Kingdom Series by Garth Nix. Here is a summary of the Series:

The series' protagonist is an asthmatic 12-year-old boy, Arthur Penhaligon. The series begins on a Monday, with the main events starting a week later on the next Monday. Each book moves onto the next day of this week, concluding on Sunday. Each day features beings, collectively known as the Trustees, who each govern a portion of the House, which is the center of all Universes. The seven demesnes of the House are, in the following order: the Lower House, the Far Reaches, the Border Sea, the Great Maze, the Middle House, the Upper House, and the Incomparable Gardens.
In the beginning of the first book, Arthur lives a relatively normal life as an adopted child in a large and caring family. There is reference to biological terrorism in the recent past, hinting at the book's temporal setting. An asthma attack on a Monday that should have killed him brings him to the Lower House, where he is to find the cure to a plague brought to his world by its agents. By convenience, he is declared Heir to the Kingdom, and given the Lesser Half of the First Key, which is shaped like the minute hand of a clock. Because of this Key's magical properties, Arthur is relieved of his asthma, and proceeds to a strange and dangerous set of adventures.
As Arthur discovers, the Will of the Architect (Creator of the House and the "Secondary Realms" that surround it) was not fulfilled as it should have been. Instead, it was broken into seven pieces by the Architect's Trustees, the Morrow Days. The Will was forced to act on its own, and its First Part chooses Arthur to be the Heir to the Kingdom. It thus becomes Arthur's responsibility to recover each of the missing pieces of the Will, defeat each Trustee - each of whom has been afflicted with one of the seven deadly sins - and claim their domain by taking their respective Key.

Ok I just started A New Series, The Children of the Red King of Charlie Bone. I'm only one the second one and Its a excellent series. If you like Harry Potter(like me!) you will love this series. Here's a Summary of This awesome series:

Children of the Red King is a popular series of children's fantasy novels written by British author Jenny Nimmo. It is also known as the "Charlie Bone" series and, before it was extended to six books, (approaching eight) as the "Red King Quintet".
The protagonist of the series is Charlie Bone, a twelve-year-old boy endowed with supernatural talents to converse and "visit" people contained within photographs or paintings.
As a result of his endowment, Charlie is sent to Bloor's Academy, a weekday unordinary school for those endowed with magical, artistic, dramatic or musical talents. While he makes enemies among the owners, the Bloors, who persist in mayhem and havoc as they attempt to bring every endowed person under their control, he also makes a significant number of friends who assist in his attempts to preserve the good.
The series follows Charlie as he aids those who have been persecuted by the Bloors, and searches for clues to his father's disappearance many years ago.

Now I have read the Keys to the Kingdom Series already, but only the 2nd and 3rd books, so I'm re-reading them. My old 5th & 6th Teacher, Mr.Daley suggested The Charlie Bone Series 3 years ago and now I'm just getting to them. Ok this post is on of my longest ones....SSOO WEIRD!

1 comments:

Catherine said...

I loved the Charlie Bone series!

I read the first one in fourth grade, and kept imaging myself as Olivia, LOL.