Week #19: Ready Player One

 Ready Player One is one of my favorite books that I have read this year (up there with The Martian), and I highly recommend this book for everyone if you are fine with language and mature content. It is set in the future, where a lot of things has gone wrong for the human population. The planet is in the third stage of the great recession, and more than half of the population is without food. War is constant, and the environment of course is screwed up. The only thing for most people that makes life worth living is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) named the OASIS. There is a lot of history that goes with the OASIS, but what is important to the plot is that James Halliday (the game’s creator) died. When the died, he left behind his multi-billion dollar fortune and the ownership OASIS game itself, but he did not simply leave it for his relatives (he didn't have any), he created a huge hunt that was filled with puzzles and games that only can be solved by people determined to know everything about Halliday’s life. This is a very fun and interesting, book which I think everyone should read. 

Week #17: Out of My Mind

    Last week I decided to read this very well written novel, and I am very happy that I did. This is a book about an adolescent girl named Melody, who suffers from cerebral palsy and is almost completely incapacitated. Because of her illness, it is hard for her to convey her toughest to her family, so that they don't know how  she is on the inside.
    Like I said, this book is very well written and overall an amazing story, that i would recommend to anyone in our class. There is not much mature content, and it is something that anyone in our class can handle. I had a very good experience reading this book, and I hope everyone else does as well.

Week #16: Batman Comics

       This winter break I did not have a ton of time to read with all of the travelling my family did, but I did manage to read a collection of original Batman comics that I was given for Christmas. I have not yet read many comics at all, so this was an interesting and new reading experience for me, that I thoroughly enjoyed. Despite my original notion that superhero comics are always campy and directed a children, I found that there was an incredible emotional core to the comics that I read, and I hope that is also true to the comics that I will surely read in the future.
       Despite my somewhat low expectations for these comics, I really enjoyed them and I believe that they can be enjoyed by anyone with the right mindset towards them.