Alex Rider: Storm Breaker

This book is all about a boy named Alex Rider who 's uncle dies during a secret mission. Alex then takes it upon himself to avenge his uncle by joining the Army and looking for his fathers killer. Alex finds out about why his uncle was killed. He meets up with the head of the association that his uncle worked for. His sister then becomes worried about how Alex was going to take being a spy and learning more about the death.

Find out more about the book by reading the book.

This book was quite heart breaking in the beginning. But in the end it became very exciting as they folded out a plan on how to protect the president from being ambushed.

Great for action fans.

Mao's Last Dancer

This is about a poor Chinese family that lives in one of the poorest cities in China. The family had lived there for years. They had about seven children, four boys and three girls. The children where taken care of by the aunt who's name was Niang and the Grand mother. The uncle and grand father helped with the cutting down of trees and fixing things around in the house. A few years later one of the boys wanted to dance as a ballet dancer. in the end it turned out that the same boy competed in a city competition. All the other dancers had failed to compete due to injuries. So the boy was about to step up to compete until .....

This book got me addicted to reading.
I would have to say that the book affected me because it showed me how others are way less fortunate.

Dragon Lance

TAKE CAUTION. THIS BOOK IS KILLER FUNNY

The book was just way more than I expected, 

every page had me on the floor with stitches.

This book is brilliant if you need to lift your spirits.

The end defies the laws of physics.

Anyone who doesn't see that as cool, is majorly crazy.

THE BOOK WAS ABOUT:

dwarfs and humans, they can see each other but they can't be seen together. 

So a dwarf and human decide to break rules and go on a quest for a book, yes a book.

Now what you have to understand is that they didn't have Amazon, eBay, or Walmart. So everything was turned into a giant quest. So if you wanted to eat Ribs, you would essentially go on a hunt for pork. You probably had to "quest" for margarine as well. I'm glad I live in this day and age. In the end though, beside their alliance for the book quest, the human double-crosses the dwarf. And someone ends up with a knife stuck up their chest, yes, up their chest. I won't say who did what. 

Just read the book.

Jane Eyre

Besides all the weird parts, this book, just like a sunrise becomes hotter and hotter towards the end. There was a whole lot of stuff going on there.
For me there were too little comical events, the romance was way too deep. It was great how Charlotte made Jane's story so emotional! I also was fascinated that Mr. Rochester locked up his wife. In the movie, we are rewarded with Mrs. Rochester spitting out flies. That was cool.

Over and above, Jane had a hard life. And besides the love drama, her pain touched me.
The romance made me tear up (because of my boredom).

Since the movie is out I'll do a double review.
The movie had too much hair! And tents. ( I think those were dresses though)

To Charlotte,
Well done, on keeping me awake!

Much Ado About Nothing: By William Shakespeare, Review by Uli Vuma

This is Shakespeare's Midnight's Dream without Tinker Bell.

It's body-on-the-floor funny and "scandal" is not even a word in this thing. The names are larney and outdated, yet the characters can be seen in your everyday teenager.

Here's the jist of the story in Glee format:
Finn=Benedick
Rachel=Beatrice
Puck=Claudio
Quinn=Hero
Santana=Don John

Warning: this can only be understood from the views of a Finchel fan. The only explanation  for Finchel fans is the cast of characters above. Right?
For the rest of you,
Benedick and Beatrice are meant to be together. The only problem they have is their lack of communication skills. Classic Finn and Rachel, until Season 2 of course. On the flip side, Claudio and Hero are madly in love with each other and they don't mind the occasional PDA. Classic Puck and Quinn. The large standing problem between the couples and their engagement is the evil and Hero-(Claudio and Benedick in Santana's case)Loving Don John. Killer name. A chronic idiot though. Santana at her best.

In the end of all this Glee drama, when Don John is on to the next one, the happy couples marry and they sing and dance their way out until the curtain is prompted to close. Singing and Dancing. See why I used Glee as an example?

Brilliant Funny. I'm pretty sure Ryan Murphy wrote this.

The Help: By Katheryn Stokett, Review by Uli Vuma

I don't concern myself with things I believe to be boring. But usually when I'm confronted with these things at some point, a deep and dangerous love affair evolves. This happened with Golf, Reading and Liqourice(I thought it looked ugly. I also don't concern myself with things I believe to look ugly).

So, when the words "Civil" and "Rights" are brought up, I tend to prepare to build long and secure walls. Just before this "Civil Rights" wall is about to peak over my head, I am accosted with this golden & shiny (Me like Shiny) beacon in the name of The Help. And the only reason that the wall broke down is not my love for shiny things but my love for rave-reviews. And the air was a-tweeting with rave-reviews for The Help. All I could hear was how "deliciously good" the novel was. Or that it was the author's, Katheryn Stoketts's, "wonderful debut". And I latch onto rave-reviews like a vice. So the book had to be read. And it was.

This is my verdict before The Almighty God:
W.O.W

Never have I loved something I thought to be boring-beyond-tears like this before. Ever. The characters are the people that I confront in my head and heart everyday. And it is rare to find a book that has characters that sit so close to home.
I love all the characters. Even the hare-brained Minny. This is the the first book I've read without even knowing anything about the movie. And that is saying something. This book is amazing. Probably the best previously-boring thing that I have fallen in love with. I am totally in love. The impact that this book has left me with is irrevocable and will forever remain in my heart.

The Final Word on this Book?

Best Book I Have Ever Read.

Carte Blanche: By Jeffery Deaver, Review by Uli Vuma

The name's Bond. James Bond.

I have mixed feelings about this latest James Bond installment. Probably because I didn't understand most of it.
Basically the story is set in the 9/11 era in Afghanistan. Bond is "on it" as always. This time, the mission at the offset of the story is to stop the derailment of a freight train impregnated with deadly chemicals. The usual.
Anyway, as all Bond missions go, it is carried out with success. No. In fact, it wasn't a success more than that the train was derailed in an underpopulated area and the man who orchestrated the entire mess escaped. So no, we don't get the feel of an actual Mi6 black-site in the first few chapters. The man who escaped (who's name escapes my memory. Wow, he's good) works for the Mother of Psycho-Villains. Forget Mr. Doofensmirtz, this guy is the real deal. I mean, this guy spends his 'zen-time' fantasizing about exhuming dead people(one of them including his mother, I'm sure) and using them in your everyday canned product. Pretty gruesome stuff. Not for the faint at heart. Not for people on full stomachs either.

While you're thinking about how grotesque the above must look, Bond is busy befriending this deranged person. He meets him in Cape Town, South Africa (Shout out), and that is where this sinister bromance begins.
Bond becomes incredibly "close" to this guy and for a moment, he also becomes his right hand man. And just when he is about to fulfill his mission and turn the Psycho in,
[Enter Current Lover]
his beautiful, South African lover sabotages the whole project. I know; the guy should ditch the mysterious ladies and stick to Moneypenny. This girl imparts everything Bond has told her in confidence and we discover that she works for the Psycho. Bummer for Bond. But being Bond, nothing will end if not brutal and vengeful. And bonus, all those steroids that he induces had come to great use. It turned out to be peachy in the end.
[Enter signature theme]
Thrilling at times and astonishing at others.

This one is only for the fearless of Bond Fans.