Olivia Book review

The white giraffe

The white giraffe is about a young English GIRL named martine whose parents were killed in a house fire. Her only living relative is a grandmother she didn’t know she had. Who, just happens to live thousands of miles away, in a game reserve in south Africa. Martine does not want to live with her strict grandmother, who she thinks doesn’t want her. Tendai, her grandmother’s assistant, mistakenly lets word of the legend of the white giraffe of sawubona loose. Martine has to find it in a race against time.

             Although I like this book, I seriously don’t see why the main characters of books are orphans. Take for instance, harry potter. He’s a orphan. Artemis fowl- his dad is missing and his mom doesn’t leave her room. Katniss- dad is dead and mother doesn’t take care of children for some time. Sisters grimm- parents in enchanted sleep. I don’t get it.yes, if martine’s parents wouldn’t have died she wouldn’t have moved to Africa and met jemmy. Oops, who is jemmy? You’ll have to find out.

Luke Book Review

Dragon lance-War of Souls vol. 1

                This story is set after the events of the “Chaos war” of a previous series. In the beginning, the main(ish) character, Mina, appears after a huge storm sweeps across Ansalon. She then gains the trust of the Neraka knights camped within the valley she came from, healing the minotaur Galdar`s lost right arm and reshaping the armor of the previous (and now deceased) commander. Later, she increases her forces at the siege of Solace/Sharumitn/etc.,etc. I can`t say it, blah blah blah. Via taking control of a mercenary unit hired by the Knights.

                Then, the story shows other protagonists, including the elfish princes Silvan and Gilthas, of the nation’s Silvanesti and Qualinesti respectively. Then comes Gerard and Tas, the Solamnic Knight who wishes for a more honorable post, and the kender whose very existence could have caused the whole world to go out of whack.

Overall, this was a good book, if somewhat confusing. The multiple plots were hard to grasp altogether, and the connections between the stories were almost nil until the ending, when TWO characters met for the first time, and then proceeded to kick the end in the rear to get an ending/cliff-hanger. I liked it, but it was (as I stated) hard to add the stories together at first, so I almost always ended up following mostly one story at any time.

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Go for gold

DAY 14 OF THE OLYMPICS, AND THE US IS LEADING CHINA BY 4 MEDALS. 2 OF WHICH WERE SCORED BY AMERICANS KERRI WALSH-JENNINGS AND MISTY MAY-TREANOR, THE OLYMPIC ‘GOLDEN GIRLS’ AND APRIL ROSSS AND JENNIFER KESSY. LAST NIGHT AT HORSE GUARDS PARADE THE GOLD MEDAL MATCH WAS NOT BETWEEN THE U.S. AND BRAZIL, BUT THE 2 AMERICAN TEAMS. MAY AND WALSH HAD PREVIOUSLY WON 2 GOLD MEDALS FOR BEACH VOLLEYBALL IN ATHENS AND BEIJING. THE WERE LOOKING TO KEEP THEIR TITLE RUNNING FOR 3 OLYMPICS, WHICH NO ONE HAS DONE BEFORE. THE FIRST SET RAN SMOOTHLY, AND A SERVICE ERROR GAVE MISTY AND KERRI THEIR HARD EARNED MEDAL. KERRI AND MAY DOMINAATED BEACH VOLLEY BALL, WITH A SCORE OF 42-1 SETS AND 21-O MATCHES.THEY WERE PARTNERS FOR 11 YEARS AND WON 3 CONSECUTIVE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS. MISTY MAY- TREANOR IS DECIDING TO RETIRE, BUT KERRI IS LOOKING FOR A NEW PARTNER.

      STILL, THE GOLDEN GIRLS LEAVE BEHIND A LEGACY THAT’S HARD TO BEAT.

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Kilpatrick`s back?!?!?

In the newspaper today, it seems that the public corruption case of Kwame Kilpatrick, his father, a water boss named Mercado, and a man named Ferguson. They are charged with the crime of corruption because of a multi-million project that authorities say paid $23 million more than necessary, mostly due to Kilpatrick and Mercado lining their own pockets and sending more work towards Ferguson. Unfortunately, this case was postponed multiple times before now, and there seems to be a conflict of interest between Kilpatrick and his lawyer, and Mercado is still attempting to get his own trial instead of a “guilt-by-association” one with the other three men.

Personally, I wish the trial would get on. If there is enough evidence to prove that THEY DID THE CRIME, start a trial, show the evidence, and then hope that the jury actually understands what they`ve been told instead of doing something like letting the men walk away. I know it`ll take longer than that, with jury selections and the actual trial, but after that, the trial should really have been done by now. It`s bad enough that the trial was postponed, and if there keeps being some distraction whenever it`s gonna start the trial might as well be called off.

(the pressure`s starting to get to me…. I can feel it… I CAN FEEL IT!!!!! AAAGGGGHHH!!!!!!!)

Here is a sign of my frustration.