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Let's be real- everyone thought 2020 was going to be their year. Then January happened- then February and March- and here we are in April- waiting for the inevitable boss battle of sorts. If you have not seen the memes regarding the whole 2020 situation- I have to ask... are you living under a rock? Among the many memes I've seen- some better than others- several I've seen have been poking fun at 'the movie we thought 2020 was going to be' and 'the movie that 2020 is'. As I'm slowly running out of books to write about on here, (aren't we all?), I'll be taking this time to ask the question: what kind of book is 2020? Fiction vs. Nonfiction?  While this is obviously a real-life event- it of course by default has to fall into the category of Nonfiction. However, for the reason that I need something to fill up the rest of this review, I will continue this blog post under the assumption that the entirety of 2020 is a fictional event. Realis...

Reviewer: Vraj Patel Spoiler Warning, I guess (I don't really know what counts as a "spoiler" in this case) Since quarantine started, I realized I do not have any books available on my bookshelf to review that I have not already reviewed. I can't really go to the library to check out a book because 1, it's closed, and 2, I don't want to get coronavirus. While thinking about what to do for my next blog post, I noticed my AP Bio Exam prep book on the floor, and suddenly this review came to mind. So, here we go: Summary: The exam prep book begins, as all books do, with a table of contents. The chapters are: 1) About the Exam, 2) Biochemistry, 3) The Cell, 4) Cell Cycle, 5) Energy, Metabolism, and Enzymes, 6) Cell Respiration, 7) Photosynthesis, 8) Heredity, 9) The Molecular Basis of Inheritance, 10) Biological Diversity, 11) Evolution, 12) Plants, 13) Human Physiology, 14) Endocrine and Nervous System, 15) The Human Immune System, 16) Animal Reproducti...

Hi all, my name is Charles Richard Hechler and today I will be reviewing Micheal Vey the Prisoner of Cell 25  by Richard Paul Evans. I first came across this book in middle school, but I never read it, mostly because it was on the Rebecca Caudill list and I personally thought that most books on the list were quite bad. However, my little brother was extremely fond of the books and even purchased some. A bit before break I happened upon the first book and decided to give it a go. Now without further ado let us get into the review. *Spoiler Warning* The story kicks off when Micheal, the main character who is constantly bullied because of his Tourette's Syndrome is in another fight with a group of bullies and he discovers he has electric powers when he nearly electrocutes the whole group. The only other person to witness the encounter is Taylor, who is conveniently both the hottest most popular cheerleader that Micheal has a crush on, as well as another person who can use electric ...

Hello all. As Blog Week 2 comes to a close I once again find myself searching the internet for non book review topics to write about and I found a site that suggested I write about the genres. So I decided I would rank them and hope for the best. This is my personal opinion so no need to get angry as you guys have done before. 6. Romance Like most people, I am not a big fan of romance. I have yet to read a romance novel that I have enjoyed. Hell, I don't even like it when romance is mentioned in a book of any genre. Guess I'm just not a romance guy. 5. Non-Fiction Although I don't dislike non-fiction, I'm not too fond of it because it is the opposite of fiction. (I know that's the point but still) I like it when literature goes outside the laws of reality because then the stories tend to be more unique and interesting as well as entertaining. 4. Horror I like this genre for a few reasons but the biggest being that I like to watch people suffer at the hands (Or...

Hello again all. It is currently day three of blog week as I am writing this but I like writing these for some reason so I don't mind writing them early. Today I thought I would talk about villains in literature and why most of them are kinda bland and predictable. This is gonna be a quick one so let's get's going. The average villain in literature will have some dumb reason for being the enemy of the main character. Most of the time these reasons are brought up throughout the book but rarely do we ever see too much evidence that these events have happened. These villains are fine but not great. They serve their purpose in the book and work most of the time but rarely will you finish a book with one of these villains and remember the villain of the book above all else. Why? Because they are forgettable and they are all the same. Sure, they might vary a little but the most important part of a villain is the motive and when we get a villain with a motive that we don't se...

So in my recent posts I have talked about how great comic books but went into very little depth and I figured since I was trying to avoid reviewing a book that I would write about it some more. This is gonna be a quick one so let's not make the introduction as long as the rest. When I first considered reading a comic in the fourth grade, I was worried that the illustrations wouldn't show enough detail to make up for the lack of words but oh boy was I wrong. The illustrations in some comics are able to do double what a normal book could with words. A big reason for this is that you can see the same amount of information in the corner of a comic panel as you could reading an entire page from a regular book. My favorite example of this is the background of an action scene in the Spider Man Comics. Call me nerdy, dorky, or whatever it is that you want (I probably won't hear you due to my poor hearing so it doesn't really matter) but I really like these comics for several r...

Hello All. I was thinking of things to write about for Blog Week 2 and since I was trying to stay away from just reviewing a book I thought to myself, "Hey, what's something dumb you can write about since you just hit your head on a stop sign and your brain isn't quite functioning properly?" Ranking different kinds of writing was the best I could come up with so here it is. Keep in mind that this is my opinion and that I personally just hate poetry. If you're not gonna give it to me straight, I don't wanna hear it. (I also know that I am probably missing tons of different kinds of writing but again they were just some I could think of.) 6. Poems Not much to say here other than I am not a poetry person. I personally find it to be a waste of time.(Sorry Mr. Mitchell) I think the main reasons I don't like poetry are because trying to follow the rules of poetry seems unnecessarily complicated to me and I am not good with metaphors which is something poetry ...

So a little while ago I made a post discussing why most book movies fail and how some become better in the form of a movie and I thought that since a lot of people said they agreed with what I had said and then some of them proceeded to write their own movie vs book blogs that I would write a part 2. But this time I won't be writing whether or not the book movie is better or worse than the book but rather if watching a movie is better or worse than reading a book. Let's get started. As I mentioned in my previous book vs movie post, books tend to be more detailed and are a bit easier to pace properly. However, when movies manage to be more detailed they are really good for the most part. But since books that have a lot more detail are a bit easier to come by so I guess books win that argument. So now the visual aspect of a movie comes in and ties it up right? Well although that is what I said in my previous blog, I was being a big dumb dumb and overlooked something huge. Comic ...

A review of the 3 forms of media Miss Peregrine's home for Peculiar Children can be consumed in. Story by Ransom Riggs Review by Emily Shunk. If you can't tell already, I'm quickly running out of blog post ideas. I've read all of the books of this series (I'm going to shorten the name to Miss Peregrine's because seriously the name is ridiculously long to repetitively use throughout this post), I've seen the movie, and I've even read the first two graphic novels of the series. For the purposes of comparison, I'll be shortening my review to only include coverage of the first book, or I guess movie. Besides- I've at this point forgotten the 3rd book to its entirety. Keep in mind that for a large part, I haven't seen the movie or read the books for quite some time. Basic story- Jacob's grandfather dies under peculiar circumstances. Jacob is concerned for good reason, when the monster in the woods that took his grandfather's eyes ...

Hello All. Today I thought I would use the free time we have due to the lack of school work we have been given to write another blog and I thought I would explain how I use the number scale in my reviews. I know that writing this review towards the beginning of the school year would have made way more sense but better late then never I guess. I would first like to explain the difference between various methods of using the number scale. Some people like to use 10/10 as a way to show that a book is the best book they have ever read while others like to use 10/10 for the book they think is perfect. An example of this could be if you found someone and asked them what they thought the best book was and they said Harry Potter was the best book in their opinion. But, if you asked them if they thought it was perfect, they would probably say no. Do you see my point? Depending on what scale you are using, your score for a book might change. And although the change probably wouldn't be anyt...

Hello all. Before I start writing another controversial blog I would like to thank everyone who took the time to yell at my Review of Reviews Blog. Not only did you give me another fun topic to write about, you also got me to 114 views on a single post as well as 10 comments. So in short, thanks for the hate. Now that I have given credit where credit is due, I will begin. Okay, first comment is Lili's. This was one of the comments that was mostly positive. Not much to say other than thanks for summarizing 90% of the points I'm gonna make later in this blog in one sentence. The sentence said, "I like how you are not afraid to state you opinion even if they might make someone mad." This works for a big portion of my argument and I'll go further into depth later as to why it works as a fair argument but for now I'm going to move on to the next comment. Which was Nate's. This comment was essentially the same thing except it focused a bit more on the categorie...