Well, I was at an Asian supermarket today and my mumma was aksing for a certain kind of food she calls “cra’ow cra’ow”. The employee she was asking looked just like Zuko after he got his hair cut– short and spiky! It was so weird! Yahahaha!
Ehm. So I was trying to contain laughter. Hopefully I was sucessful.
Oh, and here’s something else funny. My brother Reef just came up to me and told me that all the songs that drunk people sing in “those olden movies” are in 3/4 time. I asked him why that is. He replied, “Because it’s a count they can sway too.”
Then we swayed for a bit to test it out.
In other news, I’ll probably see Valentine’s Day.
–RI
Eh. I have nothing to say. Enjoy the review :)
Other books in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series: Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, Book 4, Book 5
Book 2: the Sea of Monsters
By Rick Riordan
In this sequel to the first book, Percy Jackson finds himself at yet another school. Grover isn’t here with him this time. Now, he’s a got a new friend, a kid named Tyson, who is well, different. Just before school gets out for the summer, Percy gets into a fight in gym class with some cannibals and he finds out that Tyson wasn’t exactly who he thought he was and that there is more trouble at Camp Half-Blood. The magical pine tree that protects the camp borders is dying. And the only way to save it is to sail through the perilous Sea of Monsters and bring back a cure— that is, if they don’t die on the way.
Action packed and filled with fun, this book was a worthy sequel! (That sounded cheesy…)
I had thought when I was reading the first time that it wasn’t as good as the first, but I guess my memory must’ve gone wild on me because this book was pretty darn good. All our favorite characters have returned, and they’re better than before.
Percy is still our brave and troubled hero. He’s smart (kinda), courageous, and very, very funny. As always, Percy’s narration is a blast to read. Some parts I literally had to stop reading and put the book down because I was laughing so hard.
Through Percy’s eyes, we see Annabeth struggle to get over a kind of monster-discrimination. I think that problem really strengthened her character because if you take the magical aspects out of it, accepting those who have hurt us (forgiveness I believe it is called) is a very hard thing to do and most people struggle with it.
Actually, I think in this book, Annabeth grows more than Percy does. Well, I mean, she is taller than him, but her character gets more development time. Percy’s character tends to tack backseat and he becomes more of a comforter to her as she changes.
To keep this short, I’ll just say my favorite thing about this book and one thing I wish I could change. Bad news first: I wish that Riordan had changed the emotional tension when Percy found out that Camp Half-Blood was in trouble. It seemed like a “Here we go again,” moment and Percy didn’t come off as deeply troubled by this.
My favorite part is the plot. I love the new spins on old myths and all the Greek mythology. I the things that happen between the characters and the way they interact with each other: sometimes they are brave, sometimes they are selfish. And the ending is fabulous, a real cliff hanger, but it gets you psyched for the next book (and at least you didn’t have to wait a year for it to come out!).
This book continues all the best parts of the Percy Jackson series, the humor, the writing, the action and the Greek myths. While the plot doesn’t add terribly to the over-arching storyline, it sets up some important themes, ideas and characters that will not fail to excite you. It’s a totally enjoyable read.
Amazon link
Ri’s Rating:
QQQ.5/QQQQQ
3.5/5
0. Couldn’t get past chapter one for fear of wanting to kill myself. Book induced suicide…
1: Yuck. Ew. Below Average. Probably didn’t even read the middle and skipped to the end.
2. Ok. Would’ve been better if I’d written the ending and everything else.
3. Not bad at all. Very enjoyable. Quite nice. Recommendable.
4. My kind of book. Near ideal, but something was a little off (annoying names, bad ending, that sort of thing).
5. WOW. Makes me wonder why people watch T.V when this is out there. Really liked it. Don’t expect to see this often.
6 and above. What I want my book to be.
Hey folks. Check out the new trailer for the Last Airbender. The special effects look wicked, and the bending styles seem true to the source material. But the big question is, will the plot follow through? We find out on July 2 2010.
Watch the trailer below :)
What do you think?
Hey all! Guess what! I got my Elijah Wood picture in the mail today! I was so happy. I sent the letters out in the middle of January and it came so quickly. Usually it takes about three months, but then again, Elijah Wood isn’t usually the person that comes to mind when asking for autographed pictures so maybe they had less mail than say Orlando Bloom or something.
In case anybody was wondering, here is the adress I sent it too:
c/o Nicole David
William Morris Angency
151 S. Camino Dr
Beverly Hills, CA 90212-2775
Although I think I left off the c/o part just in case it had changed.
What I did was a I wrote a fun and exciting letter (which is really optional) asking for an autographed picture (the request is necessary though). Then, I put it into a largish envelope, around 5X4. Into that envelope, I also put a self-adressed manila envelope of the 6X9 size (you have to have this). The postage for that envelope was 88 cents, I believe, though it may be more or less depending on where you live (and when for that matter). Anyways, I folded the manila envelope in half so that it would fit in the smaller one and then I tucked it in, licked it shut and sent it off. And a few weeks later, her it was! They slipped a little piece of carboard in so the photo wouldn’t bend, so I don’t think you have to include that.
Here’s an example of the envelope that I sent everything in:
Here’s my self-adressed envelope that I received (sorry about the blurryness):
Here’s the picture that they sent:
Yup. This was the highlight of my day today. If have questions for me about this little process, then feel free to comment and ask. Other than that, this site is super helpful for finding adresses, and I talked to this person on her blog about Elijah Wood specifically and she was very helpful :)
Also, enjoy these pictures of the strange figures that my brother (Reef) left out on my desk for me:
rock monster chasing man, eating cat, and eating another rock monster
close up of man being chased by rock monster who is hold dynamite and a chainsaw.
ah. farewell beckoning cat.
That’s my beckoning cat getting eaten there. I wonder what’s wrong with that kid.
I wonder if I’ll ever get another review up. Okay, let’s see if I can get the Percy Jacksons up before the movie comes out!
–RI
That’s right folks! This morning, I woke up and saved Hyrule. Oh man alive, that final boss battle was so fun. So incredibly awesomely fun. I loved it. The game as a whole was great. I thought that after a while, all the dungeons would get boring, but the game creators beat that because the last two dungeons were really straightforward unless you wanted to get tons of treasure (which I didn’t). I highly recommend this game. Very well done. The ending was dramatic and satisfying.
To read what I wrote on the game earlier, click here.
Anyways, for those who were wondering what I was talking about yesterday, that Percy Jackson thing was a little trivia challenge at Borders. We got second place, even though we came late and had half the people on our team. Ha. Hahahahaha. Man, but some of those kids were super annoying. One just kept spitting out answers in this dumb pompous voice. I hate little kids like that. I just want to scream “shut up!” at them.
But we had fun, and I’m so psyched for the movie release. A little scared that it might suck, but mostly excited.
My mom sent me this really cool video about the animation of Avatar. Check it out here.
I managed to get sick again right after getting better. I hope I don’t die. I’ve got some good music for this week, and a great pic o’ the week too. So check back for more fun later :)
–RI
