October Edition
Books
-By Ransom Riggs
Synopsis:
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
Some quotes to get you interested:
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“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
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“The last act was to infect me with nightmares and paranoid delusions that would take years of therapy and metabolism-wrecking medications to rout out.”
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“I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment.”
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“If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?”
The combination of old vintage photos and dark mystery is what makes this book so unbelievably amazing. This dark and creepy story is totally different from any other book I have ever read and it is a must in every reading list for all the book lovers out there. If you are a fan of dark and a little scary things then this books is totally for you, so I really recommend you to run to the nearest books store or library and ask for it.
P.S: My Advice is that if creepy pictures scare you… don´t read it at night.
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury
Home for Peculiar Children
The Secret circle
-By L.J. Smith
Synopsis:
THE CIRCLE'S POWER HAS LURED HER HOME...
Forced to move from sunny California to gloomy New England, Cassie longs for her old life. Even so, she feels a strange kinship to a terrifying group of teens who seem to rule her school. Initiated into the coven of witched that's controlled New Salem for hundreds of years, she's drawn into the Secret Circle, a thrill that's both intoxicating and deadly. But when she falls for the mysterious and intriguing Adam, Cassie must choose whether to resist temptation or risk dark forces to get what she wants - even if it means that one wrong move could ultimately destroy her
Some quotes to get you interested:
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“There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.”
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“You're a witch, she reminded herself. You should love cemeteries. They're probably your natural habitat.”
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“I won't feel. . . But that was impossible. She couldn't help feeling.”
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“Well then," Faye said. "Now that you've heard our story, we have just one question to ask you." She fixed Cassie with an odd half smile and said in a sweet, false voice, "Are you planning to be a good witch or a bad witch?”
It´s been almost three years since I read this book, at first I thought it was going to be a boring and cliché story overflowing with cheesy romance, and I admit that there are some cheesy romance parts, but it really is a great book. I remember that I borrowed it at the school´s library and then when I went back to borrow the second one they told me that another girl had it, I almost went crazy because I wanted to know what happened. So maybe it is not one of my favorite book series, but it is definitely worth reading.
P.S: The author of this series is also the author of “The Vampire Diaries”!!!
Beautiful Creatures
-by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Synopsis:
Is falling in love the beginning . . . or the end?
In Ethan Wate's hometown there lies the darkest of secrets . . .
There is a girl. Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head . . . Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes.
There is a curse. On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it's been
promised. And no one can stop it.
In the end, there is a grave.
Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed and on her
sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided. Ethan never even saw it coming.
Some quotes to get you interested:
- “The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.”
- “I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any
less than I do, right this second.”
- “Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what
was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.”
- “Well? Is it true? Did she?"
"Did she what?"
"You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?”
I have a love hate relationship with this series. Dont get me wrong, the story is fascinating and you can ́t help but fall in love with some characters, but I do have to warn you that the second book has made many people give up on the series. Fortunately I didn ́t give up and read the third book and fell in love with the series again, so for all the readers that want to try it out please don ́t give up on the second book!!! And I also want to point out that there was a movie adaptation of his book and for those that really want to know the amazing story of Ethan and Lena I have just one advice DON ́T WATCH THE MOVIE. The movie had almost nothing to do with the book and there were so many things that were never explained and/or changed, so please don ́t watch the movie or at least read the book first and then watch the movie.
P.S: There are witches in this book, but they prefer the term Casters.
The Youngest Person Ever To Win The Nobel Peace Prize
With only 17 years, Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 for “her struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”.
She first came to public attention through an anonymous diary she wrote, and was published on BBC Urdu, in which she narrated her desire to remain in education and for girls to have a chance to be educated at the time when the Taliban controlled Swat. After it was discovered that she was the author of all those significative thoughts, in October of 2012 a Taliban gunman shot her in the head during a dramatic assault in which a militant boarded her school bus. She went through several operations in her country and further, she made her rehabilitations in the UK.
Finally in January 2013 she was discharged from the hospital and because of the incident, she passed from being an anonymous voice telling the fears of school girls because of the Taliban, to be worldwide recognized and named one of the most influential people in 2013.
Malala was only 11 years old when her diary was published, and she always received encouragement and support in her activism from her parents, even when she returned home once the militants had been run out of Swat, she never stopped to believe in her principals, and although her family during a whole year was the subject of a lot of threats, it was a subject she never ceased to be passionate about, she remains determined to finish her education. Nowadays she is continuing with her campaign and taking it around the world, as well as a foundation named in her honor which helps children in education and she even travelled to Nigeria, meeting president Goodluck Jonathan to press to free the 200 girls held by Boko Haram Islamist militants.
