books i've read this year

Brandon's bookshelf: books-for-2nd-nine-weeks

FallenThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's NestThe Girl Who Played with FireThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)Saving the World and Other Extreme SportsThe Final Warning

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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I was sitting on my couch watching t.v. Then I hear my mom scream. It’s one of those blood curtailing screams that let you know instantly that something is horribly wrong. I jump off the couch and storm outside. My dad is running down the long driveway to the van that is in the ditch. I wonder why my mom is freaking out about the van in the ditch, but then I remember something. My baby brother in the van, and my dad had left it on because he was about to leave but he had to grab something inside. I charge down the driveway towards the van. I can feel the gravel dig into my feet. The adrenaline and fear coursing through my veins. When I get there my fears were true. There is my 4 year-old brother. Trapped under the van.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Life on Mars

    I wonder how life on Mars would be? The way that David Gill portrayed it in Black Hole Sun is very interesting. Earth is unlivable, of course, and they were forced to move to Mars. Scientists have created a green house effect on Mars to speed up the process of making an atmosphere on Mars. Making it so everyone could live on Mars. Surprisingly there are tundras on Mars. Tundras are basically flat lands covered in ice and snow. This tundras don’t cover the entire planet but it does cover about one-fourth.
I don’t think I could live on a tundra. I like cold weather and snow and all that, but I couldn’t live in that weather. Having to wear 5 sweat shirts, and a big jacket just to go outside would be unbearable. I would go insane. Luckily for the characters in this book they get symbiarmor. Symbiarmor helps protect them and allows them to fall from great hights or take devastating hits and still be okay. An example is when Durango jumps down an elevator chute and crashes through a roof unharmed. I want one of those things. That would be awesome.
After Durango lands a group of shock-troopers enter the room to see what was going on. He turns himself in so they would take them to their leader. When he gets there he sees what he was looking for. The kidnapped girl he was supposed to rescue. Good right? Wrong. Unfortunatly for him she is chained up above a pool of sludge and the chain has an explosive on it that is hooked to a pressure trigger, and the leader already has the button pressed. A pressure trigger is a device that once you press the button as soon as you let the button go, it triggers what it is connected to.
I really like this book. I recommend this to anyone who likes to read.