Spring Break Reading!

[Robin Nourie]

What are you going to read?  I'll be finishing Bel Canto by Ann Patchet.  It's a story about a party in an unnamed country in South America, where a group of insurgents take the guests hostage. Sounds violent, but it's actually quite a gentle story about how the hostages interact with each other and with their captors. The presence of a beautiful opera singer adds an element of beauty and magic to this trying experience where many of the characters discover sides to themselves they barely knew existed. 

And so what are you all reading?

[Tunde Sogo]

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Still round the corner there may wait
   A new road or a secret gate;
And though I oft have passed them by,
   A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
   West of the Moon, East of the Sun

[peter Bixler]

For Spring Break I will be reading Storm Of Swords By George R.R. Martin

[Robin Nourie]

Love the quote! So magical!  Have a great trip Tunde!

[Boone]

Albert Einstein: A Biography

(I don't really like fiction because life is more fascinating than fantasy)

Like Isaac Newton before him, he was attracted by the synthesis of classical geometry because it was so clear-cut and certain. Remembering his fondness for mathematics as a child, he later, in 1935, told a reporter for a high school newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey, "As a boy of twelve years making my acquaintance with elementary mathematics, I was thrilled in seeing that it was possible to find out truth by reasoning alone. ...I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure."

(He probably would've been the coolest college professor, EVER!)

Although sadly student were confused with his lectures, and terrible handwriting...

[Jeremy Berman]

The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown

Raising his bloody hands to pray, he watched the raindrops caress his fingers, turning them white again.  As the droplets fell harder across his back and shoulders, he could feel his body disappearing bit by bit into the mist.

I am a ghost.

[M Buckmire]

61 Hours By Lee Child

Five minutes to three in the afternoon. Exactly sixty-one hours before it happened. The lawyer drove in and parked in the empty lot. There was an inch of new snow on the ground, so he spent a minute fumbling in the foot well until his overshoes were secure.

[Boone]

Albert Einstein: A Biography

By: Alice Calaprice and Trevor Lipscombe

[JP]

I am reading A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

[Sophie Smith]

This spring break I have been reading / will continue to read The Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

[Lila Sternberg-Sher]

Over spring break I read Stolen by Lucy Christopher. It is a good book that I would reccomend mostly to girls but some boys might enjoy it.

 

Quote: I turned to see the rest of the view; horizon, horizon, Seperates, horizon, horizon, horizon, nowhere to run.

 

Absolute: The sun was above me, beating down hard, but it wasn't the same kind of stiffling heat as near the house.

[Moriya Dichter]

I am reading Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion. 

“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.” (51)

[livi pinover]

For Spring Break I read Shine by Lauren Myracle

[Samantha Bruttomesso-Clarke]

For spring break i read Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

"That is unexpected, but not harsh.  The walk isn't that bad-- its not like she made me hike ten miles through a snowstorm uphill in both directions or anything.  The streets are quiet and pretty.  The snow covers yesterday's slush and settles on the rooftops like powdered sugar on a gingerbread town."

[peter Bixler]

I will also be reading the first 4 Harry Potter books

"And then without warning his scar exploded with pain. It was agony such he had never felt in all his life; his wand slipped from his fingers as he put his hands over his face; his knees buckled; he was on the ground and he could see nothing at all; his head was about to split open. From far away above his head, he heard a high cold voice say, "kill the spare." A swishing noise and a second voice which screeched the words to the night, "avada kedavra"

[J Thompson]

Hardy Boys: Deprivation House

"Here's the book you requested." Vijay slapped a bright blue book down in front of me, the rolled his cart away with a big grin on his face. I knew what the grin was about as soon as I read the book's title: The Bonehead's Guide to Talking to Girls.

[Lucy Curtis]

I read The Tradgedy Paper, by Elizabeth Laban. It was good, very relatable and very sad. The only critique I have for it was it wasn't wriiten very well. anyway, here is my quote:

It was at that moment that a little boy I hadn't noticed before peeked up from behind the far table. His hair was a shocking white, and his skin was like paper. The other kids didn't seem to be aware of him at all. Maybe he always hung out below the table. He stared at me, and at first I wanted to run; I didn't want to be connected to the little kid who was too scared to come out from behind the table.