Jackson and the Olympians‚ Book 1) The book is funny and witty‚ effortlessly matching old mythology and tradition with modern culture in a way that makes the book engrossing and unpredictable. There is talk of gods having affairs with mortals‚ and quite a bit of married gods having affairs with other gods. In the following book report‚ I will first introduce the plot of the story. Then‚ I will talk about the writing of the author and the strengths and weaknesses of the books. After that‚ I will talk
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am still reading Ophelia Speaks by Sara Shandler. When I first started reading the book I was very interested in it but as I got further in reading the book personally I feel like it gets more depressing. They are all stories about how people have messed up in their lives in many different types of ways or the people’s family issues. It is a good way to learn what not to do‚ which will help some people. But‚ this book for me it is very boring because I would like to read something that is more entertaining
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Mortality Doctrine The book‚ The Rule Of Thoughts was an amazing book. It was written by one of my favorite authors James Dashner. Dashner grew up in Austell‚ Georgia where he was one of six children in his family. He later went to Utah for college at Brigham Young University and started writing books that were for young teens. His books typically had the adventure‚ survival‚ and science-fiction genres. He then proceeded to write The Maze Runner which was one of his most famous books. So today I am writing
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one faculty member died and three faculty members seriously injured and one student injured Whitney Cerak. And that is where the story begins. The day of the accident Whitney Cerak and Laura VanRyn were misidentified‚ and this was not found out until five weeks after the accident. While the Cerak family was mourning the death of their daughter Whitney the VanRyn family was struggling remaining sane and caring for their seriously injured daughter in the hospital. The Cerak family was making funeral arrangements
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Book Report: The Judgement of Paris The Judgement of Paris: Manet‚ Meissonier‚ and an Artistic Revolution contrasts the lives and artistic struggles of two painters against the backdrop of life in Paris. In the 1860s Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in Europe. His fame was built on his thoroughly detailed‚ realistic depiction of historical subjects. Meissonier sold his works for record prices and could afford to spend years working on them (he took 13 years to paint Napoleon’s
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While a review along the lines of “Goal readers are now doing the best work of their lives” might seem like hyperbole for most books‚ it is surprisingly accurate for Eliyahu Goldratt’s book. Perhaps part of The Goal’s allure is the fictional novel format in which it is written‚ setting it apart from other books focused on explaining a method. The novel starts with its main character‚ Alex Rogo‚ struggling to create success for a manufacturing plant making some fictional product and a threat that
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Oliver Sacks From the outside‚ we all look roughly the same‚ but if you delve into the world of our minds some people stand out as subtly different. Oliver Sacks was a Neurologist and Author. He wrote several books including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat‚ Migraine and An Anthropologist on Mars. My favourite cases are some of the weirdest ones. For example‚ who would… or COULD mistake their wife for a hat. Dr P was a professor of music at a university. He frequently makes silly mistakes
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murder‚ manipulate‚ and lie - all in the name of his personal ambitions. In Vincent Bugliosi’s book‚ Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders‚ the reader is provided a thorough explanation of how Manson developed his criminal lifestyle though the focus is on the famous murders he helped to commit as the leader of The Family and the process used to convict him. After a brief comment about the book as a whole and its writing style and content‚ Manson’s connections to the subject of interpersonal
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This book report is being written for Mr. Reynold Bassant‚ lecturer for Comparative Literature. The book which was carefully selected is New Moon‚ it was written by Stephanie Meyer‚ one of the most promising new authors of this century. The book has 563 pages and was first published in hard cover by Little Brown and Company in September 2006‚ in the United States of America. After mass circulation and the sale of two million copies‚ the book became the New York Times Number One bestseller for 2007
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Book report ‘A child called it’ by Dave Pelzer This book is based on the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer‚ who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable‚ alcoholic mother. A mother who played tortuous‚ unpredictable games; games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother’s games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son‚ but a slave; and no longer
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