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Hi all, today I will be reviewing and analyzing the book Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Ready Player One is a book that is centered around the 80's and 90's pop culture. It follows a teenager named Wade Watts who lives in the year 2045 where the world suffers from overpopulation and pollution which they escape from using the OASIS, a massive virtual reality game that only costs 50 cents to play. This is where Wade spends most of his time as he lives in "the stacks" a massive multi-level trailer park. He goes to school in the OASIS as well as hanging out with friends in virtual rooms that they can program to their taste. The book starts 13 years after the founder of the OASIS has died. The founder, James Halliday a total social recluse and genius, releases a video will to the public announcing a contest to find three keys which lead to an easter egg of sorts that grants the winner Halliday's fortune of billions of dollars. Wade is a gunter, short for egg-hunter,...

My Best Friend's Exorcism, by Grady Hendrix, I found through Marlow's review of the book here:  https://litliteraturegang.blogspot.com/2019/11/my-best-friends-exorcism.html . It's a great review, I recommend you check it out if you want another opinion on the book! As the title of this review suggests, these are my first impressions of the book. I am not very far into reading it- so bear in mind that this review does not have that much material to work with. However, so far I am impressed with this book's ability to transform the setting. When you first open the book, it's as if you're looking at a stranger's yearbook, as the cover page is stuffed with signatures and notes from the characters of the novel. The format of the cover page and the back page in itself is magical- it brings the story to life with a clever, and enticing strategy. When you read the story itself, its as though you're transported back to the 80s', and you can so easily pict...

Hello all. Some of my favorite books are those from Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon  series which more of you probably know for the movies that have very little to with any of the books. But despite them being very different from the amazing movie trilogy, they are still very enjoyable. This review will have a few minor spoilers so if that bothers you, bye. If you are still here, here is my review of all 12 of Cressida Cowell's brilliant  How to Train Your Dragon books . The series is about a young scrawny viking named Hiccup whose only goals are to grow a few arm pit hairs and be smelly like his fellow viking peers and to impress his father who is the chief of the village. He soon finds the egg of a little dragon who he names Toothless for the dragon's lack of teeth. When he returns to his home on the island of Berk, he is mocked for his small dragon and he is determined to impress everyone with his brain instead of his non-existent brawn. As Hiccup and Toothle...

Reviewer: Vraj Patel No Spoilers Hello! Welcome back to my blog! Today I will talk about Refugee  by Alan Gratz. Published in 2017, Refugee  takes on three perspectives of refugees, all occurring at different times and different places throughout history. I found this book at a book fair a couple of years ago, and I have read it many times since. Here is my review of Refugee : Perspective 1 - Josef: Josef is a 12-year-old Jewish boy living in Berlin, Nazi Germany in the year 1938. Kristallnacht , or "The Night of Broken Glass" had just occurred, and the Nazis took Josef's father away to a concentration camp. Josef, his sister Ruthie, and his mother try to get him back, but in vain. 6 months after he was taken, they receive a telegram from Josef's father saying he was released from the concentration camp and must leave Germany immediately. Upon hearing this news, Josef's mother takes her children to a seaport where they meet up with their father. Her...