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Wes Lu – 10/29/2019 "What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal." Hello everyone! It's time for my review, which is totally on time (sorry Emma, Nate, and Clara). In this blog post I will be talking about Legend , my favorite book of all time. I love Legend  so much that it is fair to say that I have read over this book tens of times. I am so excited that I am able to talk about it today. The quote I put at the beginning of this blog post is from Legend , and I feel as though it perfectly captures the plot and humor of this book. I'll explain more about that in the review. With that said... --- *No Spoilers* June is a 14 year old living in the wealthy Ruby Sector of Los Angeles, The Republic. The remnants of western American are now called the Republic after long and bloody civil war that is still being fought. June comes from a wealthy family (although both her parents died when she w...

Hey, this is Clara again and this month I will be reviewing Paper Towns by John Greene. This story follows and is narrated by Quentin Jacobsen, a high school senior in Orlando, California. He is an unpopular and quiet boy with a few close band geek friends, and has little to no variation in his life. Every day, he follows pretty much the exact same schedule, because he is comforted by routines. With only a few weeks left in the school year, his predictable life is turned upside down when Margo Roth Spiegelman, a girl he hasn’t talked to in nine years, takes him on an 11 step revenge plan in the middle of the night to get back at her cheating boyfriend, and disappears the next day. Margo Roth Spiegelman is the most popular girl in school, and is known for being incredibly unpredictable. She is perfect in every way, or at least she is through Quentin’s eyes, as the reader is given no other perspective at the beginning of the book. Quentin and Margo were best friends...

            Hello! It’s Emma Murawski here and I recently read a book called, The Prophet, written by Kahlil Gibran. It is quite a unique book and a short read. Summary (short; no spoiling details):      The main character, “the Prophet” from the title, is a very wise man who is traveling out of his hometown. For many years, people consulted with him when they had problems. Now that he is leaving for good, people feel the need to ask him all the questions they never had a chance to ask before. On his way out of the town, the villagers approach him with last-minute questions for advice about morals and life itself. He replies to each of them with a beautiful and complex moral teaching.      The structure of The Prophet itself is intriguing because it is in the form of short chapters written poetically with specific meanings. Each chapter’s meaning is a new moral that is intended to be adopted by the reader. Each chapter po...

Wes Lu - 10/8/2019 Oliver Sacks, the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat and Other Clinical Cases , was a British neurologist who treated many patients during his active years. He writes about his patients (without using their names as that would be illegal) in many books, including the one I am going to talk about today. This book is quite a step away from the flaming humor of Animal Farm , however it is a welcome one. Today, I am going to talk about the namesake story of this book, Chapter 1: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat . --- Sacks starts off with a short description of his patient (named Mr. P) so we can learn more about who Sacks is treating. Sacks also starts to outline some of the problems, e.g. Mr. P not being able to see faces, and seeing them where there were no faces. After seeing some of the problems Mr. P is facing (pun intended), Sacks calls Mr. P in for an interview, and from there Sacks starts to do some experiments of Mr. P....

Sup! It's Nate here again and today I'll be talking more about the first book of the Leviathan  trilogy, appropriately called Leviathan . Go check out part 1 if you haven't already to catch up on the current summary! After Alek and his men run from the Austro-Hungarian palace because the Germans think he has a claim to the throne, Alek begins learning how to use the intricate Clanker walkers, and find that he quite enjoys piloting them. He navigates the crew through several skirmishes with German walkers, and the crew eventually end up at an old castle in the Alps. Because Alek's dad is a super rich and paranoid king, he had this castle outfitted to be used as a hiding place. At this point, Alek's teacher Count Volger reveals that the pope made Alek his father's heir. Alek was doubting that he would have royal status because his dad had married a commoner, but this confirms he is technically the new Austro-Hungarian king. While Alek contemplates this, he is di...