Utterly me, Clarice Bean

Utterly Me, Clarice Bean
Utterly Me, Clarice Bean, is in the Clarice Bean series by Lauren Child. This book is basically about Clarice's life and a review everyone in her class has to do about a book they've learned something from. Clarice partners up with her utterly best friend, Betty Moody. They utterly want to win and the book is about the entire review. It also has a few snippets of another book, 'Ruby Redford Rules', a series the author has made up. I finished it in about one hour so it's rather short. 90% entertaining, 5% mystery, 4.9% family life and 0.1% weird, a 100% amazing book. 


"E" rating: 
EEEEE

Movie Reviews 3!

Recently I have watched three movies: Third Man on the Mountain, Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates and The Sound of Music, all based on books. Today I will focus on, 


The Sound of Music

The sound of music. What can I say. Absolutely, Positively, Without a doubt, an awesome movie. Sure, it had it's down moments, every movie does. But not that many. About 1. Maria is a nun who is very adventurous. She desperately wants to stay at the abbey but she has to leave. After a series of, as usual, fortunate events, she's back, but not to stay. She doesn't know whether she should stay, or return to the Von Trapp family. She returns and her return is utterly fabulous. The kids are singing a song she taught them, she joins in, they all run over etc. etc. etc. This also happens to be set when the Germans took Austria. The family flees through the mountains to escape the new rule of the Germans. 


Overall "E" rating: 
EEEEE + E!

Movie Reviews 2!

Recently I have watched three movies: Third Man on the Mountain, Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates and The Sound of Music, all based on books. Today I will focus on  


Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates

Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates is about Hans Brinker and his family. Yet again, the main character has a goal, but it is difficult to acheive. After an unfortunate event, the family cannot find $1000 their father hid. It has a funny ending with a mistake that could have prevented the whole series of events. I recommend it for 8+. Full of suspense, loyalty, teamwork, forgiveness, and unexpected happenings, it's a brilliant movie. A perfect movie for when there's only one hour to bedtime.


Total "E" rating: 
EEEEe

Movie reviews

Recently I have watched three movies: Third Man on the Mountain, Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates and The Sound of Music, all based on books. Today I will focus on,


Third Man on the Mountain: 


Third Man on the Mountain is  a very good movie about a boy named Rudi who wants to be a guide on The Citadel. His Father attempted to climb it and died in the attempt.  Rudi lives with his Uncle and Mother. His Uncle is the best guide in the village and his Uncle has climbed all the mountains except the Citadel. In the village they say the mountain is cursed but Rudi still wants to climb it. After a series of fortunate events, he finds himself the third man on the mountain. I suggest it for 11+. It's based on 'Banner in the sky' by James Ramsey Ullman.

A gripping movie with laughs, a few tears, and suspense. 

Overall "E" rating:  

EEEEe 

The Hobbit, Graphic Novel

I have recently finished reading The Hobbit, Graphic Novel by Charles Dixon and Sean Deming. 

It is a very interesting book, while not as descriptive as the full version originally written by J.R.R. Tolkien. But it is a graphic novel and graphic novels are shorter that novels. Being a graphic novel, the pictures (by David Wenzel)  were very distracting and I found it hard to continue reading for more that 10-15 minutes at a time before I just looked at the pictures. 


I have not read the original book but this one was very interesting, and the pictures, while, as I mentioned earlier, distracting, were very well done. It was a bit bloodthirsty at times but a on the whole, a brilliant book. Having read this, I am going to try to get hold of The Hobbit, the novel and read it.

If you can read you should read the graphic novel. 

I am doing a blog about books I am going to read. I am choosing to give myself 365 days to read 26 books. I have 36 on the list so I have a bit of choice about what I will read and what I won't. Right about now you're probably thinking, this is easy for her, she's just going to have half a book a week! Well, I assure you. With homework piling up 
't              h              i            s' thick soon and some of the books being 
't         h              i             s' thick, and a triathlon in March to do, and training for that triathlon, it won't be as easy as it looks. I will post comments on each book. Daily, if I can manage. The list of books I'm going to read is below:

1.       The Moorehawke Trilogy, The Poison Throne

Celine Keirnan

2.        The Moorehawke Trilogy, Crowded Shadows

Celine Keirnan

3.       The Moorehawke Trilogy, The Rebel Prince

Celine Keirnan

4.       The Seventh Son

Linda McNabb

5.       The Crystal Runners

Linda McNabb

6.       Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery

7.       Night Flying

Rita Murphy

8.       Inheritance Trilogy, Brisngr

Christopher Paolini

9.       Inheritance Trilogy, Eragon

Christopher Paolini

10.   Circle of Magic Quartet, The Power in the Storm

Tamora Pierce

11.    Circle of Magic Quartet, The Fire in the Forging

Tamora Pierce

12.    Circle of Magic Quartet, The Healing in the Vine

Tamora Pierce

13.    Song of the Lioness Quartet, Alana: The First Adventure

Tamora Pierce

14.      Song of the Lioness Quartet, In the Hands of the Goddess

Tamora Pierce

15.      Song of the Lioness Quartet, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

Tamora Pierce

16.      Song of the Lioness Quartet, Lioness Rampant

Tamora Pierce

17.    The Circle Opens, Magic Steps

Tamora Pierce

18. The Immortals Quartet, Wild Magic

Tamora Pierce

19. The Immortals Quartet, Wolf Speaker

Tamora Pierce

20. The Immortals Quartet, The Emperor Mage

Tamora Pierce

21. The Immortals Quartet, In the Realms of the Gods

Tamora Pierce

22. His Dark Materials Trilogy, Northern Lights

Phillip Pullman

23. His Dark Materials Trilogy, The Subtle Knife

Phillip Pullman

24. His Dark Materials Trilogy, The Amber Spyglass

Phillip Pullman

25. Saving Arthur

Kathryn England

26. Inkheart

Cornelia Funke

27. Inkdeath

Cornelia Funke

28. Dark Horses

Heather Cato

29. The Recruit

Robert Muchamore

30. Whispering to Witches

Anna Dale

31. The Medici Seal

Theresa Breslin

32. Starlight

Jenny Oldfield

33. Chronicles of Stone, Scorched Bone

Vincent Ford

34. Chronicles of Stone, Set in Stone

Vincent Ford

35. Chronicles of Stone, Tribal Ash

Vincent Ford

36. The Borrowers

Mary Norton

P.S. You may have noticed there are a lot of books by Tamora Pierce on my list. 12 to be exact. That's one third of the list. There are that many because she's a really good author and I own a lot of her books.