Ah yes, this book. Originally the book was brought to my attention by a friend and and flipped around to random pages to find that it was a lot like "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" in the way of it being a growing up/coming of age story. Just with the characters being in middle school than being sophomores and seniors in high school. It's a little like this show (you probably have never heard of it as it was in my childhood) by the name of "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" Just a little story about a boy making tips and making friends and getting into weird experiences through his middle school career. That show made me the weird person I am today, and especially books like the one I'm reading because they are just straight weird and honest and that's the kind of thing I like/can relate to.
Most books I can never get into, but as I said that it's books like this that I can get into. I'm guessing it's because almost everyone can relate to the stories foretold in the book. I don't know, now I'm just blabbering on. This is all I can think of to write for now, but this post will be updated soon.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Fish in The Sky
Good news. I finally have a new book and it's called "Fish in The Sky" and all it's really about is a 14 year old boy living in Iceland and like any other teenager ever he's got problems. First off there is a kind of crude humor that you'd expect from a 13/14 year old, you can use your imagination for that one. As I was saying his dad hasn't been around for years, there is this really cute girl he likes but she just thinks he's weird and doesn't like him after his first encounter with her, and thirdly so far his 17 or so cousin, Gertrude, is moving in with him after her mother was institutionalized. Oh and her room is within his own room, so that just adds insult to injury for him.
Other than just calling him just another kid the author doesn't describe him much yet, hopefully he will. The book also really focuses around teenage humor and around a growing boys mind, like I said you get what I mean. It isn't too bad to the point where it isn't humorous at all, and it isn't too soft of humor so it's pretty much in a sweet spot. Scratch that, a little overly weird but that's not the point. That helps though, I say this because this is the first book in a while that I'm enjoying to read; first one in a while that I'll just sit and read for a bit. Now like I said this is a good thing and a bad thing as there are more productive things I could be doing rather than just sitting and reading. Let's just say it's more on the "good" side, yeah? Yeah.
Other than just calling him just another kid the author doesn't describe him much yet, hopefully he will. The book also really focuses around teenage humor and around a growing boys mind, like I said you get what I mean. It isn't too bad to the point where it isn't humorous at all, and it isn't too soft of humor so it's pretty much in a sweet spot. Scratch that, a little overly weird but that's not the point. That helps though, I say this because this is the first book in a while that I'm enjoying to read; first one in a while that I'll just sit and read for a bit. Now like I said this is a good thing and a bad thing as there are more productive things I could be doing rather than just sitting and reading. Let's just say it's more on the "good" side, yeah? Yeah.
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Out of books
This is a bit weird, I've got a problem. I finished my book so that means I don't have anything to blog about and am in need of a new book. In the meantime I need to do a post so I'll just get to an article I read. Let's talk about #TheDress. If you have no idea what I'm talking about I'll explain; it's simply a picture of a dress posted to twitter and depending on who and how you are people thought the dress looked white and gold when really it was black blue. Got it? This was important to many people so scientist even began doing more research on how our eyes work.
They found that if the persons screen was on the brightside that many peoples brains ignored the blue light length and their brain will just be weird and see white and the black turns to gold to compliment the white. Then, if their screens are darker than the original picture well, they'll just end up seeing blue and black like they did before. That's because once your brain has decided something it's pretty hard to change it's mind...wait no your mind. It's hard to change your mind, yeah. I personally see it how the dress actually IS, blue and black. So there yah go.
Article: https://newsela.com/articles/dress-color/id/7732/
They found that if the persons screen was on the brightside that many peoples brains ignored the blue light length and their brain will just be weird and see white and the black turns to gold to compliment the white. Then, if their screens are darker than the original picture well, they'll just end up seeing blue and black like they did before. That's because once your brain has decided something it's pretty hard to change it's mind...wait no your mind. It's hard to change your mind, yeah. I personally see it how the dress actually IS, blue and black. So there yah go.
Article: https://newsela.com/articles/dress-color/id/7732/
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
That's it
This just might be my last blog about J.R.R Tolkien. Bout time, but then again that means I need to find another book. Fun. There really isn't much more to cover so this blog might not be as good as the rest. Anyway, I guess what I'm going to talk about is some of the other work that Tolkien did. Things like "The Silmarillion" which was #1 best seller in 1977 after Tolkien's son finished the writing for him, for good reason too. If you don't know what the book is about I'll explain. Basically it's a collection of other stories, mostly focused around middle-earth, from elvish translations to maps and other tales of middle-earth itself. However it did have many negative thoughts put to light about it, one of which being how many readers disliked the book because of it's style and way of portraying itself was similar to the bible. Apparently. I wouldn't know.
That's beside the point of well...my point. The book is mainly about the universe of Eä which holds the many lands in the TLOTR. Including middle-earth of course. Spanning from the beginning of time to elves and their leave from middle-earth. I don't know but I find it oddly cool how the Silmarillion was his first book, but also his last. It was published by his son Christopher, long after Tolkien told Christopher to finish the book if and when Tolkien were to die. There are small rumors about a movie of the Simarillion but, most say that there is a very very...very low chance of it. Despite it bringing much profit than it already has. Other than that all I can say is that I want to read it.
That's beside the point of well...my point. The book is mainly about the universe of Eä which holds the many lands in the TLOTR. Including middle-earth of course. Spanning from the beginning of time to elves and their leave from middle-earth. I don't know but I find it oddly cool how the Silmarillion was his first book, but also his last. It was published by his son Christopher, long after Tolkien told Christopher to finish the book if and when Tolkien were to die. There are small rumors about a movie of the Simarillion but, most say that there is a very very...very low chance of it. Despite it bringing much profit than it already has. Other than that all I can say is that I want to read it.
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