Stupid Cole

I'm still not done with the book, which is a shame on it's own. To add on to that the book has literally find nowhere since the last time. Nothing. Has. Happened, so yeah that is as well, a shame. That doesn't make me not like the book though, because I am still liking the book while it lasts.

Also has it seriously not been two book weeks yet, really its been a while since the last supply drop. That better happen soon because Cole is going crazy, he just picked up a mouse and munched on it...he's that desperate. Noooooo though it hasn't been two weeks yet, and he still has to go a year, and still hasn't gone two weeks.

Touching Spirit Bear

Good news and bad news in the case of Cole, that's his name forgot to add it in the first post. Cole has started to rethink his ways of doing things, he's come to realize that he can't blame people for his problems, ah yes. He had his first epiphany, for anyone whom doesn't know what that is it's basically a moment of "Whoa, this makes sense. I need to change something!" Cole has been injured and lies on the ground. In fear of dying he wants to blame somebody, of course he does it is literally what he is known for. He is just getting to know the fact that you can't do that. Can't just blame everyone around you for your problems because you think they caused it when you really did.

Cole comes to regret the stupid idea of burning all his supplies that he wouldn't be receiving more of for at least another week and a half. So in a sense of all this he has just gotten to a single claw of "touching spirit bear" Obviously there will be much more to come on his journey of healing and prosperity, those are the moments I anticipate for myself to read. I just really wanna see how the guards react when they come back for another supply refill, only to find bits of ash all around and neither Cole or the prier supplies to be found. The worst thing I see happening is him getting rid of the next run of supplies, but I don't think he'll be stupid enough to do so.

New Book

So I've gotten a new book, Touching Spirit Bear. So far I've gotta say I actually like the book, it has a simple concept but I like that about it. It revolves around a Native American form of justice; circle justice. I like it as well because the main boy in the book is very tempered and has literally beaten another persons head in for the fourth or fifth time. He's faced with a decision, either he goes to be tried as an adult and sentenced to 25 years in jail or go through circle justice.

Basically it's a tradition of justice where someone is set on an island to thrive and survive for a year alone, as to try and heal and rejuvenate the perpetrator's soul. Now he thinks he'll be able to just swim off the island to a nearby town of northern Alaska. As overconfident as he is he just wants to add insult to injury and burn two weeks worth of supplies. If I was ever in his place I would literally worship the supplies, seriously though what did he expect to gain from that. He is literally losing thinking he'll gain from that. To me that's just plain illogical whether he has temper problems or not. I just don't get it.

Fish in the sky

So stuff has actually happened. Josh has been ditching school for the past week, and Gertrude was raped and might be pregnant. Both very bad things at hand. So the problem josh has is that the day he was gonna tell his mom he comes home to find his mom and his principle sitting and waiting with a "We've missed you at school Josh." Then BOOM..his mom is exploding on him non-stop and Mr.Pinko, principle, is trying to calm her down. He goes on trying to explain that it wasn't his fault, something needed to have caused it such as a bully or something. Josh then says that he was only scared, of the shower warden whom is a girl and he feels unconfortable about that. Pinko is dumbstruck while Josh's mom is exclaiming that it is all just an excuse. Which was fantastic and all but not as serious as Gertrude's situation.
So she was at a party one night and she and her boyfriend were there together. He wanted to go into the other room and she was fine with it too, she was just getting bored. He wanted to do some things and she wasn't into it and didn't wanna do anything. He then began to rip her clothes off and force himself onto her. The only person who knows about this is Josh, when she came home at one in the morning and told him everything. He was both scared for her and not caring because well...it was one in the morning. This wasn't as long of a story but a story nonetheless.

Native Americans/On The Rez

Well for one Native Americans were pushed aside by literally being pushed aside after having their land taken from them. I mean this how they were removed from their homes and land, then swept up and put to a designated area for them to live in. They were made to feel unimportant by the standards of the white settlers. As Captain Henry Pratt put it "Kill the Indian, save the man.", they were portrayed as uncivilized savages from the wild and needed to be "saved" and "standardized" by being taken and removing the Indian culture that they have and replacing it with Pratt's idea of non-savage.

 I find the purpose of Shanice's essay to show people who still think under stereotypes about Native Americans a realization. So as to show that there really isn't much different about her and her tribes than normal people outside of the reservations. She lives like a normal person just with a few more chores like going hunting for food or taking care of farm animals; of course she tries to stay close to her roots and participates in big tribal celebrations. Those are the times where she gets to dress up and get to work on necklaces and bead work. As far as I see it, she's just like any other girl.

Fish in The Sky 3

I have a slight dilemma, being that a good chunk of the book is.. inappropriate you could say. Some other things happen in the book obviously but those things are just "Oh, and Jack didn't even come to band today. He even knew that today was mandatory too." Those are the kind of sentences and story in the book. The book is literately just about the boy having his older cousin move in and be considered a princess by his mother, and other than that it's just his.. odd feelings in more emotions than one. I wish I was joking about the book but alas, I'm not. I only wish the book has am actual plot and some depth. Just a little bit is enough.
As I'm almost done with the book it's too late to abandon it. I had faith in it for a while that it would get better, can't say I have that anymore. Projects aren't as hard than doing blogs. Projects are a set objective generally involving just info on the book and characters, blogs on the other hand are always different and rely solely on the events in the book. Well, that's the challenge about it I guess.

Fish in The Sky 2

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.

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.
 

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/

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.

Language and Random

So seriously though, J.R.R Tolkien knew, wait for it...35 languages. First of all, how does someone even do that, like really? Okay to show you I'm gonna list them ALL; Latin, French, German in his childhood, but while at school he learned Middle English, Old English, Finnish, Gothic, Greek, Italian, Old Norse, Spanish, Welsh, and Medieval Welsh, but wait there's more, he also knew these last "few" Danish, Dutch, Lombardic, Norwegian, Icelandic, Russian, Swedish, Middle Dutch, Middle High German, Middle Low German, Old High German, Old Slavonic, and Lithuanian. Really though he knew languages I didn't even know were a thing until I read his biography. He even (if you read the books) made his own languages, most famous being Elvish which he created as an odd spin off of Finnish. Yet here I am with my wonderful English...hooray.
 Heh, so his story of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit are crazy no doubt right? Well he was very questioning of the fans he had made with The Lord of The Rings or just LORDT for short, he was always calling his fans "lunatics" and other things as he found they were dimwitted compared to him being a professor and all. He meant it saying that the fans would never fully understand his work but only just enjoy it from time to time. Another cool thing my book taught me was that the only person in the movies who actually knew Tolkien personally was Christopher Lee. See, Christopher was loving of LORDT books and was giving permission to play Gandolf if ever there were to be a movie made. That sounds pretty cool, obviously. As well as if you've ever seen the movies and know who Christopher Lee is you'd know that he never played Gandolf....but he did play Saruman, or in simpler terms: the bad wizard guy trying to take over Middle-Earth. To me that seems like a good bit to end off on.

Edith and Ronald

It's later now by about ten seconds. As I was saying though, he wanted to see Edith again so very much. By the time he was a legal adult at eighteen he DID see Edith again, but she came with bad news..she was getting married. This sunk Ronald's heart to his stomach, but he was determined and after a few short weeks he convinced her to cancel the marriage and break up with her fiance. That's some pretty good convincing. So him being an adult now he and Edith spent much of their time together, if not then they sent letters.
Ah, young love...I have no clue what it's like. That aside a tragedy happens. Shocker, right? As I said in the post before this, it's the war times and Oxfords student numbers went from three thousand to only about one thousand. Ronald wanted to join just because he felt left out and wanted to go, Edith of course did not care and wanted him to stay so he joined a program that let him finish his degree (A.K.A mostly to see Edith more) then enroll. Although he was not sent out immediately, which was good, however Edith wanted to stay near Ronald which just led to her jumping from house to house as he went from camp to camp. Sounds....fun. Oh boy, next is when he actually goes to war, more fun.

J.R.R Tolkein...again

Okay, so apparently he's a vet, like what. He didn't kill any one, though he saw countless lives taken away. Hmmm...seems a bit like Mordor, oh wait, that's what Mordor was inspired from you know that horrific place with the Orcs and Sauron....yeah that one. Oh and Bilbo Baggin's village is based off of where he grew up. I never knew biographies would actually teach me interesting things. Well, he only really joined the war because he felt left out, literally just went so he wouldn't feel left out, that was only after finishing his degree at Oxford.
Also I don't know if I've said this before but when he was in his later teens he was in love with a girl, Edith, after hanging out for several months they eventually figured out they both had feelings for each other. Alas she moved away after they had no contact with each other, not even letters, because Father Francis, legal guardian of the Tolkien boys, forbid it as Tolkien began to mess up is school work. He became desperate and waited around the town market wanting to "accidentally" see her and engage in small talk. Oh hey...I'll finish this later.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Well before I read the Lord of The Rings books what I'm gonna do is read a quick book on Tolkien  and his history. If you for some odd reason don't happen to know who J.R.R Tolkien is the-then you should, he's the amazing writer of The Hobbit, and The Lord of The Rings series. So it is short but I think it'll do the trick. Seriously though, am I the only one that thinks it's weird his name is "Ronald"
I just don't like that name. The book as well says that he lived in South Africa for an amount of his childhood.....wouldn't really expect that.
Now, the book says The Hobbit is a children's book, it was originally tested by a child but as far as the movies go it's anything but. Something to note is that he answered some of these questions when he was around 70 and he even says that a lot of the things in his past very well... kinda expected but you know, felt as if it needed to be said. Updates will be made on the book though.

The Carnivorous Carnival pt.2

Okay, so now I've finished the book. As I've said I don't read the books for the endings because they are literally the same every time. Predictable. I read them for the events pryer to them, that's the part that's always different. From just some old guys house to a reptile house with a man eating snake on the loose. Always different. I mean a giant pit filled with lions ripping people to shreds is just but a tad different than the first two examples.
That's not my point, my point is that it was a good book, and I'm not gonna end up reading anymore so why not spoil a the end of a book you're never gonna read. Eventually in the end book literally called "The End" Olaf dies. Whoop whoop. He dies in a weird way as well, like he gets shot by a harpoon by a character that doesn't matter currently. Don't worry it gets better, he miraculously manages to stay alive long enough to help a woman give birth and wait for it....recites a poem and "*ploop, just falls over dead*". Yeah gotta mention the children help with the birth and the mother dies right after, and hey guess what the orphans are now parents for an orphan....fun times. Also at least they burred their bodies and payed their respects. Not the best ending but still glad Lemony kept the common theme of people always dying in some way. Which sounds psychotic, slightly is, but still. So you're welcome for a book that doesn't really matter.....HOORAY! 

The Carnivorous Carnival

I have read all the eight prier books to the ninth one, this one,  in the series "A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket, and a year or so ago I only began to read this one but I'm back where I left off. So here's a little bit of whats going on. For anyone who knows the series know that the main villain in the books is Count Olaf a terrible, weird, disgusting man. Anyway in this one the children find themselves in a carnival, surprise surprise, where they have disguised themselves as carny freaks to hide from the rechid....rechid? Is that how it's spelled, haven't found anything else. Anyway, rechid Count Olaf. Yeah, that's pretty much in as far as I've read.  I guess the children themselves need to be explained.
The Baudelaire children's names first of all are Violet, Klaus, and Sunny from oldest to youngest. It all began when their parents were killed within in their own blazing house while they were young. Ever since they've had to go from distant relative to distant relative, all ending the same way. They arrive, they have a miserable time, Count Olaf shows up, and people end up dead, then the cycle starts over.