Tuesday, December 17, 2013

I AM DONE!

I finished! That book seemed to taking forever to finish. If you love mysteries, mythical stories, romance, action, and just want to read a great book pick this book up right now I guarantee you will love it! I had a really good time reading the book and the ending is very good and leaves you with a great cliff-hanger. Now I'm not going to tell you what happens at the end because I don't want to be a spoiler to anyone wanting to read it. I might need some help finding a new book to read. Anyone want to help me? Also Rick has finished the series to both of the books of The Lost Hero, and The Red Pyramid. Check them out!

This weekend was the collagen football awards and I'd like to say congrats to Jameis Winston on winning the Heisman Trophy! So I was wondering what other people have won this award, so I went on the Internet and looked at the past winners and their careers at their school/academy. Did you know that Roger Staubach is the only Heisman Trophy winner ever to go to a arms forces academy. Archie Griffen, from The Ohio State University, is the on Heisman winner to win it back to back! Last year Jonny Football was the first ever Freshman to win the Heisman, but this year Famous Jameis became the second in a row!

The Heisman Trophy

Monday, December 9, 2013

The Lost Hero 3/4 Done

Alright I got about 150 pages left in my book and it's getting really confusing right now, but at the same time action pack and cool. Right now the gang is at an hotel fighting an Greek monster trying to protect something, I don't know what at the moment. I probably already read what they are going after I just don't remember I have really bad short term memory. Now how they got there is really cool, so there was a out of control mechanical dragon loose in the camp that Hephaestus/ Vulcan (1st name Greek, 2nd Roman) made to protect the camp. Leo who is the son of Hephaestus gets the campers to grab the dragon so he could restore it back to its normal form. Well Leo does and the dragon and him become BFFs and the dragon helps him all the time and they live happily ever after... Just Kidding! Well sorta the dragon helps the friends on their quest to find out what is going on.

So throughout this book I have been thinking...if I were a demi-god who's son would I be? Well me personally I would want to be either Poseidon, Zeus, or Ares. They are like the coolest gods ever! If I were Poseidon's son I would be able to control water and the water would heal me! If i were Zeus's son I could control weather, so if I don't like someone...BOOM! Lightning everywhere ruining their day. Finally if I were Ares's son I could be the best war general ever! And we would never loose a war...EVER! If I could be the son of all there gods... don't get me mad. But I would like to propose a question to you. If you were a demi-god who's son/daughter would you like to be? I will leave a like to a site with all the gods and you can decide! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological_figures
Ares-God of war
Poseidon-God of the sea
Zeus-God of thunder

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Break Reading

During the break I read my book that I have been reading and also reading some history on The Game. Ohio State and that team up north fans will understand what The Game is. In my usual book The Lost Hero the characters are on their way to Olympus to see what is going on with the gods because they aren't responding to their sons and daughters. The characters now know who their parents are: Jason is the son of Zeus, Jason is the son of Hephaestus, and Piper is the daughter of Athena. Along with Annabeth they are on their way to Olympus.

Also this past week I caught up on my history of the Ohio State and Michigan rivalry. As an Ohio State fan I read mostly things on the Ohio State side, not that ugly blue and yellow side. I found out a lot of cool things like in the 90s John Cooper, the Ohio State coach at the time, could NOT beat that team. Also this weekend I found out that there might be a bigger game than Ohio State Michigan... Alabama Auburn! I watched the Roll Tide, War Eagle 30 for 30 and the fans of these 2 schools are CRAZY! If you don't know much about this rivalry you need to watch this documentary about it, like right now!

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Lost Hero Week 2

So this book is litterly what the title says it is! The protagonist in the story doesn't remember anything from his life, not even his name. Ugh I guess I'll have to tell you guys what the character's name is... Well Jason and his friends were just attacked by tornado daemons on the walk way of the Grand Canyon and were saved by Annabeth, a character from the past series, and are taken to camp half blood. There Jason finds out that he is the son of Zeus, the god of the weather, but he is actually a roman half blood so he would be the son of Jupiter. Jason is slowly starting to remember things while his friends from their correctional camp find out about their god fathers and mothers.

I watched the second Percy Jackson movie this weekend and it was very good! I can't remember how close it was from the book because i read it a long time ago, but my brother just finished reading it and he said the movie was right on the book sometimes then other times it was no where close to it. I think if you love the myths of the Greeks and Romans, you will love not only the Hero's of Olympus series and the Percy Jackson series, but the movies based off the books. In other things Rick Riordan the author of both series has made another series involving  Eygytion gods called the Kane Chronicals. I read a little of the first book of the series called the Red Pyramid and I have to say it is very good pick it up now!

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Lost Hero Blog Post 1

I just started this book and I really like it because of the mythical aspect of it and the Greek/Roman gods myths have always intrigued. I think the author wrote this book to entertain readers and to get them thinking of the Greek/Roman gods myths. He did a really good job with the demigod camps that he implamented into the story. I like the new problem in this new story with having a Roman demigod at a Greek demigod camp and Percy the old protaginist who is a Greek demigod at a Roman demigod camp.


Nature has a huge part in this story due to the fact that the gods are based off nature and their demigod kids try to contol the powers that were pasted down to them by their god parents. The protaginist forgets who he is and what he is doing, he was like Percy in the Roman camp. Percy is the same way he forgets who he is, his friends, and his father (Posiedon) and for gets his powers. Now I won't tell you what the name is of the protaginist is and who his father is you'll have to find out yourself. 

 

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Reflection

Blog that I think is the best: http://michaelhall9blog.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-rivalry-week-2-this-book-is-really.html
           I felt like I did a really good job describing what the charcters are doing but not giving it away what is happening in the book. Also I connected the book to another book and I thought that was pretty cool. I did a really good job of telling peoplpe that the book is a chalange going from flash-forward to flash-back. I didn't get todo a theme because you couldn't tell what it was because I just started.


           Next trimester my goal is to remember the blog and get on atleast 3 times a week. Also I would like to finish more than 2 books so I will have more to blog about. I would like to read books that I've thought i would never like and give them a shot. Finally I would like for me to read atleast 150 mins. a night,

Rivalry Recap

Guys I really want to go to this game now. After I've read this book I've started watching all the Army, Navy, Air force teams and I just really like the teams. My boy Matt Sterwart is going to Navy for college to play football and i hope to see him on everyones sholdiers when they beat ND.


Monday, October 21, 2013

The Rivalry...Im done!

I finished it!!! It's a great book and a great read! If you love sports books, or mysteries you will love this book! PICK IT UP NOW!

Monday, October 7, 2013

The Rivarly Week 6.1

Im starting to get bored with this book because I can already tell whats going to happen at the end...but anyone who likes sports should read it especially if you like football because you'll get it easily.

Monday, September 30, 2013

The Rivarly Week 5.2

The characters this story are students that work for the school news paper covering the game. There is a boy and a girl and they are both the same age and they are very close to each other. They get along very well and are always doing stuff together. This book is still really good! Pick it up now!

Sunday, September 29, 2013

The Rivalry week 5.2

Still same stuff going on... nothing exciting happening. I'm starting to get bored with it but I personally do not like reading that much but i think someone who loves mysteries and or sports should read it, it's still a really good book!

The Rivarly Week 5

Alright finally was able to focus this week and got pretty far into my story! They are finally into the game but still nothing yet to happen. Can't wait to see what happens though! I'm starting to think the theme of this story is nothing is to good to be true, because there will be a lot of conservancy in this book just judging by the cover. Pick this book up now!

Monday, September 23, 2013

The Rivalry Week 4

Still about the same things going on they are about an hour away from the game, nothing has changed in it so I can't really say what is really going on yet. I still do think there will be a really bad call the cost one team the game. I think anyone that likes sports or mysteries should pick up this book NOW!

The Rivarly Week 3

This week it was hard for me to read and pay attention to my book because I had a lot of things going on. From what I did get to read everything is the same going on they are just getting closer to the game . I still really like this book and I think people that like to read sports books, but even if you don't like sports and you like mysteries you would still really like this book.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

The Rivalry Week 2


This book is really good I love how the author took aw huge football game like this and added a mystery to go with it! I cant put it down... well I can actually. The characters in this are news paper writers for Navy and are covering the game. The book has a flash forward flash backward sorta deal like in the Whirligig from last year. It's confusing but I still really like it!

Thursday, September 12, 2013

The Rivalry

I think in my book The Rivalry I think that during the game (Army v.s. Navy) there will be a weird call that cost one of the teams the game. I believe someone paid one of the referees a lot of money to insure a victory for that certain team. I don't really know who and what team it could be yet because the story had just started. It's really confusing at the moment because I can't really tell what is going on at the moment. It started in a flashback and now it's in a flash forward and it's just really confusing. I can't really tell a theme right now either because I just got into the book. I cant really connect this story to anything yet because I just really started it. I really like this book because I love reading mysteries and sports books and this is a combination of both.