Hey, my name is Bri. I’m in ninth grade, and the reason I started this website is because I basically love books. (Love is an understatement.) The Harry Potter series is my life, and I believe they are the best books ever written.
The main point of my book reviews/blogs is to give my opinion on teen books. At the top of each review I rate the book. Five is the highest, and one is the lowest, pretty simple. Although this is a book review site, I’m also going to be comparing books to their movies.
So please, please, please comment on my posts, it would make me happy!
I hope you enjoy my site.
Harry Potter and all of his friends are back in this amazing musical based off of the Harry Potter books. But this time, things are switched around. Lucius Malfoy and all of the Death Eaters are plotting against Harry Potter because he got rid of Lord Voldemort for good. And how are they doing this? Well they’re going back in time of course! I would have never even thought of that idea.
As you go back in time to Harry’s first year at Hogwarts, you meet many different people. The Weasley family, Rita Skeeter, Professor Lupin and Luna Lovegood are included. And on top of the Death Eaters being out for Harry, Sirius Black is on the loose! Also, Umbridge was hired this year; what could be worse than a new crazy teacher coming to work at Hogwarts?
In the end, help comes from someone totally unexpected and everything is better once more. It’s sad to say that it doesn’t look like there is going to be another musical. But there is always the possibility!
When I first started watching this musical, I thought that it wouldn’t be as good as the first one, as it usually is with sequels to movies and such. But I was SO wrong! This musical was as totally awesome as the first! I loved it! This one had new songs and even a few group dances! Also, this musical focused not only on comedy, but all the emotion behind the characters. If you loved A Very Potter Musical, then you will definitely love A Very Potter Sequel!
While I was in Niagara Falls, Canada with my family for our vacation, we took a trip to Toronto to go to the Ontario Science Centre. The Science Centre was holding the Harry Potter Exhibition. I was so excited! The Exhibition consisted of over two hundred props from the Harry Potter movies.
When you first enter, a few lucky witches or wizards get chosen to be sorted by the Sorting Hat (although everyone is put in to Gryffindor) before you pass the Hogwarts Express. Then, you walk in to the actual exhibition. You are first greeted by moving pictures and the Fat Lady from the Prisoner of Azkaban who guards the Gryffindor Common room.
There are rooms and rooms filled with props. In the first room, there was Harry and Ron’s stuff from their Common room. Harry and Ron’s beds, along with their trunks filled with various items: wands, the Marauder’s Map, books and belongings.
Almost every important character’s school robes are in this room: Harry Potter, Ron and Ginny Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger, and even Draco Malfoy.
In the next room, you see things from the classrooms, which are mostly the Defense Against the Dark Arts rooms. Gilderoy Lockhart and the Half-Blood Prince’s books are there. The Boggart Wardrobe from the Prisoner of Azkaban. Hagrid’s Hut featuring Norbert’s egg and Hagrid’s huge chair.
Then, you travel into the next room, which features mostly things about Voldemort. There’s the Sorcerer’s Stone, Riddle’s Diary, Voldemort’s robes from the Goblet of Fire, Death Eaters’ masks and robes. Even Buckbeak, Aragog and some centaurs are in there, too.
Then the final room is the Great Hall. Before you enter, along the outside wall you see the Educational Decrees from the Order of the Phoenix that Umbridge sent out. Inside the Great Hall, you see Yule Ball robes and dresses. Also, there are food and candy like Chocolate Frogs and Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans. Then, right before you leave you see Dumbledore’s robes, along with Dobby and the Triwizard Cup.
There are so much more, and some things I don’t even remember! The Harry Potter Exhibition was great! I would have taken a picture of everything, but we weren’t allowed to take pictures. :[
I had a really great time! The Exhibition travels around a lot check out their website, and they might come to a place near you! http://www.harrypotterexhibition.com/
Samantha Kingston has seven days to relieve the day of her death. What ended up being the last day of her life was supposed to be the best day ever. She had it all. The friends. The boyfriend. The popularity. But the car accident changed her life – literally. After a while, Sam takes advantage of the seven days she has left. She does things she never did before; talks to people she’s never even took a second glance at. But in the end, Sam realized that she wasn’t granted these seven days to save her life, but to save someone else’s.
I loved this book. There is no other way to say it. I love it. This book has so many different messages that you have to uncover. My favorite was: “Don’t live life with your eyes closed”. At least that’s what I got out of it, and I think that’s the best thing you can say to anyone. This book is a must-read!
So, have any of you read this book? What did you think of it? Are there any other hidden messages that you picked up on? Comment!
Where do I start on this movie?
I cannot believe Chris Columbus, who directed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, directed this movie. I am so surprised. I first saw this movie without reading the book, and I thought it was pretty good. But now that I’ve read the book, I realized the movie is kind of horrible.
This movie doesn’t stay even close to the plot of the book. In the book, Percy is twelve and in sixth grade. In the movie, he looks at least sixteen or seventeen and can drive a car.
Basically, the main plot was changed. Instead of Percy going on a quest to get Zeus’s lightning bolt from Hades and save his mom while doing so, he sneaks out of Camp Half-Blood to find his mom and just “happens” to find the lightning bolt along the way. It annoyed me how he was just like a sixteen year old kid crying for his mom the whole time. At least in the book he said how much his mom meant to him and all that.
Overall, I didn’t like the take on this movie. I suggest that if you’ve read the book, that you don’t even bother watching this movie. It is nothing like the book, and it will aggravate you to no end.
If you haven’t read and don’t plan on reading the book, watch this movie, because it will make no difference to you.
Percy Jackson isn’t your average teenage boy. He’s a demigod and his father is a Greek god – who he believed to be a myth. His life is spinning out of control. Greek monsters are appearing all over New York. Once Grover, a satyr who is Percy’s protector, takes him to Camp Half Blood, Percy discovers that the people of Mt. Olympus believe that he has stolen Zeus’s master lightning bolt. Percy sets out of a journey along with Grover and Athena’s daughter Annabeth, to find the lightning bolt before a war starts within Mt. Olympus. But along the way, Percy will discover someone is not who he says he is.
I really, really liked this book. I think the Greek gods are really interesting, and to have them brought to life in a modern-day story is really cool! Rick Riordan’s idea was so original! I’m definitely going to read the rest of the series.
My Rating: 4 stars
I was really interested to see how this book was brought to life in this movie. I thought it was pretty good. Dakota Fanning did the voice for Coraline. I really thought it was interesting how the director, Henry Selick, made Coraline a kind of animated claymation movie. There were only a few minor changes, but they really didn’t affect the plot of the story. Overall, this movie was just right. But I suggest you read the book first before you see it, because the book will help you understand some things throughout the movie and, of course, the book is always better!
Coraline is a strange little girl. And what’s even stranger is the new house she lives in. In her drawing room, there is a small little door that leads to a totally reversed universe. There, Coraline meets her other mother and other father who treat her so much better than her own parents do. They actually pay attention to her, make her real food for dinner and make her life fun. But when Coraline discovers that her other mother and the world she created isn’t everything she thought it was, she must find a way out.
Overall, I thought this book was really interesting. I think Neil Gaiman is a genius. I loved the idea of the other parents and the button eyes. I would have never expected the button eyes. Coraline’s other mother makes anyone who reads this appreciate their real parents.
**If you haven’t read previous books, don’t read!**
In the third Pretty Little Liars book, the four girls are still dealing with their secrets. Emily’s family will not accept who she is. Hanna’s gross secret of how she changed her looks is revealed to the public. Aria and Mr. Fitz get into a not-so-good-situation that cannot be undone and her family is still a mess. And Spencer is dealing with that fact that she could possibly be Ali’s murderer. But in the end, when everyone thinks they’ve got everything all figured out, “A” changes everything.
I loved this book, like I loved all the previous Pretty Little Liars books. The end of this book is a huge cliffhanger! I need the next book, or I will not survive! Hahaha. Have any of you guys read the Pretty Little Liars books or plan on reading them? Tell me what you think!
I remember when I first started blogging back in October of 2009.
I really can’t believe it’s only been nine months.
Back then this website was just something I did for fun, like a hobby. My dad actually suggested the idea. I love books, so why not make a website about them? And believe it or not, I wasn’t going to do it. My posts were so short in the beginning. They were about four to five sentences and told you basically nothing about the book or what I thought about it. I updated maybe once or twice a week.
A lot has changed since then. My website is not only a hobby; it is part of my life. I love it so much. My posts are more frequent and definitely lengthier. I try to update as frequently as I possibly can, which is basically every two or three days at the least. I remember how excited I was when I found out that my website comes up on Google, Yahoo and Bing when you search things like “teen book blog” or “book blog for teens”. Also, some people have found my website and asked me to review their books, someone asked me to write for his website, and an author of a book I reviewed, Katie Alender, commented on my post & is going to link me on her website.
But most of all, I want to thank my fellow booknerdbloggers. All those people out there, who comment on my new book reviews, vote in my polls and are a fan of my Facebook page. Thank you so much, it means so much to me. I am glad that you all love books as much as I do!
This is only my 100th post and I hope for a lot more in the future!
-Bri
Hey there! Today was the final day to vote for the “Favorite author” poll.
Here are the results:
J.K. Rowling: 30
James Patterson: 0
Stephenie Meyer: 9
Nicholas Sparks: 1
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast: 4
Ellen Hopkins: 2
With a total of 30 votes, J.K. Rowling wins this one! Thanks for voting!
New poll! I decided to have this type of poll because the new Twilight movie, Eclipse, is out, and everyone always argues over which team is better.
Which team are you?
1. Team Edward
2. Team Jacob
3. Team Switzerland
You have until August 4th! Vote for your favorite team!
And if you have any ideas for a new post, I’d love to hear them! Just leave me a comment.
-Bri
Hey, my name is Bri. I’m in ninth grade, and the reason I started this website is because I basically love books. (Love is an understatement.) The Harry Potter series is my life, and I believe they are the best books ever written.
While I was in Niagara Falls, Canada with my family for our vacation, we took a trip to Toronto to go to the Ontario Science Centre. The Science Centre was holding the Harry Potter Exhibition. I was so excited! The Exhibition consisted of over two hundred props from the Harry Potter movies.
