'Ted, your new responsibility is to keep the pidgeons from defiling our ledges.'
'Are you hoping this awful assignment will cause me to quit?'
'Not at all.'
'Are you hoping I'll fall out a window?'
'Maybe you should stop guessing now.'
Haha! Anyway. Yes! It's that time again where I update YOU on the books I'VE read! Hehe. Yes, which also means you can just skip this post. And of course, the pictures, the books, the sypnosis, I do not own.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- J.K.Rowling
It is the middle of the summer, but there is an unseasonal mist pressing against the windowpanes. Harry Potter is waiting nervously in his bedroom at the Dursleys' house in Privet Drive for a visit from Professor Dumbledore himself. One of the last times he saw the Headmaster was in a fierce one-to-one duel with Lord Voldermort, and Harry can't quite believe that Professor Dumbledore will actually appear at the Dursleys' of all places. Why is the Professor coming to visit him now? What is it that cannot wait until Harry retuns to Hogwarts in a few weeks' time? Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts has already got off to an unusual start, as the worlds of Muggle and magic start to intertwine...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- J.K. Rowling
Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shardows. But Harry must somehow find wintin himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or hesitation the inexorable path laid out for him...
I reread the 6th book for the movie that came out I-forgot-when this year, and couldn't stop myself from then rereading the 7th book as well. The Harry Potter Series is undoubtedly a fantastic, inventive series. Whenever I put down a HP book, I always feel like I'm living amongst so many unknown things, that I'm actually living in a world where wizards and magic really exists. Haha. I always have to stop myself short and tell myself I'm living in reality (same goes with all fantasy books I read) and these things do not exist. Although I am sure of myself that I would not mind at all if it turns out that they actually do. Haha. The plot is so amazing and definitely unpredictable (sort of). I am so amazed, seriously, by how J.K. Rowling can think of a plot so imaginative, sourcing from nothing but her thoughts and ideas, starting from scratch, creating an entirely different world! From the 6th book onwards, I thought that everything became much more serious, especially in the 7th book with so much conflict going on. But it's really awesome. For the movie, I think that the movies for this series were done reasonably well, but the 6th was kind of disappointing for me. It was 3 hours long, but I felt that everything was just so rushed. Every scene had no proper introduction and ending, it just kept changing from scene to scene. And I didn't like the castle they 'used', I still think they one they 'used' in the 1st movie was the best, I guess, maybe because it was the first image of the castle given. Hmm. But the 6th was also disappointing because they cut out really good parts that I was anticipating to watch on screen, or because they didn't do those parts well. I don't really blame them, with them rushing on like they did and still taking 3 hours, I can't imagine how long the movie would have taken if they took their time on certain scenes. I was really looking forward to these scenes: of course, the big fight in Hogwarts towards the end, when Harry used Sectumsempra for the first time, when Katy Bell touched the cursed necklace, and of course the part in the lake in the cave, the Inferi. They didn't do these parts up to my expectations. When I read the book, I was seriously creeped out by some of these scenes, but in the movie it wasn't so. But oh well. I still say the best movie they did was Order of the Phoenix. Haha. Awaiting the Deathly Hallows movie. Another neverending applause for J.K. Rowling for how she put together the puzzle pieces so perfectly together, even pieces from the first book fall together in the 7th book. Clap clap clap! Need I say? 5/5 for me! Hehe, some cooly pics I like, some I've only just seen just now when searching. I guess I just really like those taglines they put on the top/bottom of the pics! I like Malfoy! Love Bellatrix!
LOOK AT BELLATRIX!!!!!!!
I know! I'm crazy! I'm a geek!
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief- Rick Riordan
Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That's when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends, and generally trying to stay alive. This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea. Can Percy find the lightning bolt before a fully-fledged war of the Gods erupts?
This book is based on Greek Mythology in modern day. I really, really like this book, as I do with all books that talk about super powers and stuff. Haha. And OMGosh OMGosh!!! I just found out the movie is in the making! Coming out next year in Feb! AAAAHHHH!! And guess when? My BIRTHDAY! I can't wait. Seriously, this book has made me interested in taking Greek Mythology (an empty wish I'm sure, one that would not be). This book is all adventures and discovery, and very interesting even to someone who doesn't know anything about Greek Mythology, only that Herculus and the flying unicorn (what's its name?) and Hades and Zeus and I-can't-remember-who-else were all in a cartoon in Astro. Hmm. But it does get confusing sometimes, because I don't know the story behind the gods, so I sometimes have to take time to figure out what was going on. There are five books and I've only read the first! I read the hard-cover book I borrowed from my friend. The pics (from left) are, I presume, the original book (I think, it's the one in the site), the hardcover I read, and the republished one (I think!). Hmm, which one should I get? 5/5!
Trailer! Wow, director of HP 1 and 2! I think those movies are not bad, really! My birthday, 2010! Can't wait!!!
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