Intro: Today I will be talking about Off The Rim Details: The author of this book is Fred Bowen. Fred Bowen was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, a seaside town north of Boston. His wife was a reporter on a local paper, she suggested that I try writing movie reviews.…
In Cold Blood Remember the murder in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959? Not many people do. In the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, good light is shone on this subject. Though this book explains the homicide of the Clutter family, is it a good read? This book goes into great detail of a homicide, and events leading to it.…
1) Ed Tom Bell a) He is in his late fifties and is a WWII veteran. b) He is the main character of the story. He is the sheriff that oversees the investigation of a trail of murders by Chigurh and tries to save Moss’ life. Llewellyn Moss a) He is a young man in his thirties. b) Moss stumbles upon a drug deal site where he finds two million dollars and goes on the run from Chigurh, a hitman trying to kill him.…
Have you ever thought about the different conspiracy theories? Something that exposed the myths of science denial? Well if you have, this book has conspiracy theories and just enough evidence to make you believe it! Darryl Cunningham’s book “How to Fake a Moon Landing” is a graphic novel that entices you with several different scientific facts and tries to cast a shadow of doubt.…
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits written David Wong takes place in two contrasting areas. To begin with, the novel starts out in the countryside of Colorado and later transfers to a fictional city named Tabula Rasa. Tabula Rasa is a city much like Las Vegas only with fewer restrictions. Additionally, the story takes place thirty-to-forty years from now, in a future that resembles the present with just some quirks that you would need to adjust to if you were to live there. You can liken the future’s difference from the nineteen-eighties to the present.…
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby is a fantasy book about perspective. A main topic in the book is the difference between looking and seeing. It includes imagery of fantasy, different views of self-image, and the heavy burden that beauty can be and the detrimental ways we look at and treat women. It can be dreadfully tense and there is this feeling of anxiety that runs throughout the novel. The book is romantic when it needed, empowering where it counts, and is simply beautiful in its telling.…
“The SandLot” is a great movie for kids 12 and up. But maybe not for lower than 12. This was a GREAT movie. It had some inappropriate content in it but not that much.…
The stories we reed were all interesting in their own way. Some were a little scary all had a twist to each story. There is a story of a wear wolf. A story of an old lottery. A story of a goldfish who granted someone’s wishes that were good wishes.…
I can agree with Meghan Cox Gurdon about one thing in the article, Darkness Too Visible; YA literature has become much darker than it was in 1967. So what? All of the topics she laments have taken over YA literature are certainly not new. Profanity, kidnapping etc. have been around a lot longer than 1967. Are some of these topics not appropriate for kids at age 13?…
The Ebola outbreak that began in 2014 was one of the deadliest and fast-moving epidemics the world has seen. Outbreaks mainly began in West Africa and quickly spread worldwide, affecting well over tens of thousands of people. It was not long before much of the world became familiar with the disease through personal connections or hearing about it from the extensive news coverage. Richard Preston, an American author, is very familiar with infectious diseases, and dives into all aspects of Eebola, including explaining its origins, its deadly symptoms, and how it spread in his book The Hot Zone. He has mastered the knowledge of infectious diseases through his extensive research.…
The first installment of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark trilogy hit book shelves in 1981. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is about a guy named George Flint. He wants liver, but his wife eats all the liver one by one while she cooks it. So she goes to the church and steals a woman’s liver. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is not beneficial for children because it has graphic details, it’s too violent, and is way too scary for children.…
Kids will be sharing secrets and then to the newspaper. Why would kids do that? Does it seem worth…
The aggressive ping ding of bloated raindrops on the tin roof muddled our minds. Diving recklessly through the air, thousands of plump little kamikaze pilots assaulted the ancient cinder block building. Suddenly, a flood of electric energy breached the solid blackness, with a deafening crackle in hot pursuit. No, this is not the beginning of a low-budget horror movie or gritty crime thriller. This is the end of a long day at a leadership training course for teenagers.…
Secondly, there is a cyberbullying that your child can get involved in. Third, social media can be a distraction from their school work. To prevent all this from happening to children, they should not be on social under the age of 13. To begin, children under the age of 13 should not be on social media because they can be exposed to dangerous people or inappropriate content.…