Should I read on? Ehh..., Slawter [2]

Unfortunately, I am still reading Slawter by the more than good, successful and prodigious author Darren Shan. Unfortunately, because I wasn't planning on reading this book that long, but I am. Only because I haven't been doing as much as reading as I've done in the past [shh...] More about this book, there's a kid named Grubbs. Grubbs Grady. In the book, he has a uncle named, Dervish who is pretty chill and cool, he's a monster fighter! The monster is Lord Loss, or called the Demonata. They encounter a lady who offers them a role in her movie, Slawter only to have a surprise, she's working with the Demonata. When they try to escape, unexpected things happen...

In Slawter, there's a lot of different things going on. Well, it looks like it since i'm very little into the book. Especially in the part of the book i'm in, there's another character I forgot to mention, Bill-E Spleen. Bill-E is Grubbs' brother, but Bill-E just doesn't know it. He has a problem, he has Lycanthropy which makes him turn into a wolf who eats people. They are searching for him, in the book they try to run away from the Demonata but they end up in another "dream world" where he is captured. I think this book is more about like, "running away from your fears won't solve anything", because really that's what they're doing. And it's not helping. I think it's just making the problem worse. In the story, I felt that Grubbs, Dervish and Bill-E were a little audacious running away from the Demonata, because he can find you anywhere, anytime. I felt that was stupid as well. This book is kind of predictable, like I know or, I sense that Grubbs/Dervish will fight Lord Loss to protect Bill-E.

I think the story shows a sincere theme that reflects off of life too. "Running away from your fears won't solve anything" and it's true. When you're in a mess, neglecting it will just make it worse. I would know, that's what I always do. It's something I can seriously relate to. Even though I barely read, I think i'm starting to like this book enough to continue it.

Also, notice how I changed the picture even though it's the same book, yeah I'm so nice 8)

What do you think? Should I read it or just quit? Let me know!

*Black, underlined words are for the Writing Challenge.

Yours truly,

Zarrin 813 (:

Hide under your covers.

This is actually my third time reading a book from the Demonata series, which was written by the wonderful and famous author, Darren Shan. This novel is called, Slawter is a continuing book from the first book, Lord Loss. In this book, the main character, Grubbs Grady lives with his uncle, Dervish Grady in a town where he doesn't know anyone. In this book, his uncle, Dervish had just came back from a battle with the Lord Loss, and is still haunted with terrible nightmares from then. Lord Loss is this dark, evil Demonata who is who causes terror to Grubbs and his family. Although i am about 30 pages into the book, I didn't really pay attention to anything, just kept reading. I barely know what's going, but I still decided to write this post. 

Since I don't have much to say on the book yet, I have some thoughts on what I think might happen in the future of the book. In the story, I think Grubbs will [obviously] face Lord Loss again, but this time I feel that he'll meet new people along the way. I mean that's what happens in every book basically, but this time he'll meet enemies, friends and even fakes. And, I sense that he might have a love relationship with someone blah. Which I really don't want to happen, hopefully *crosses fingers* won't happen. I just sense a lot of it, a little because of the blurb and just instinct. 

I think the Demonata series is pretty graphic, the text and all. Even the front cover picture, that's what kept me from reading it first in 5th grade. I saw it first then, and thought OMG, this looks really scary. And decided not to read it, but then someone told me it's really good and started to read it last year. The point is to talk about a story: In 7th grade when I first read it, I was like a little scared that night. I would keep imagining Lord Loss and get a little scared, I would always hide under the covers when I thought about it. I know, baby stuff ;P so what? I was scared ahahaha. Main point is, that Shan's writing is stupendous, and really beautiful to read, but sometimes it can be a little graphic. So, people who like fantasy/horror, go for it. But, if you're on the "ehh..." side, I suggest not. Overall, my thoughts on this book is uncertain for now, but hopefully will be as good as the other ones I read. 

So you guys should comment and tell me, what fantasy books did/do you like? Do you have any interesting stories along with your books?

People should really check out some of Darren Shan's other books. You can see some of them HERE. They're just really good pieces of work.

Yours truly, 

Zarrin 813 (:

The meaning and issues of life in music videos.

 I know we weren't supposed to post this week and completely devote our time to our Social Justice project, but i'm done, and I've been really wanting to post this for a while. So, yeah:

Just recently, Katy Perry's video for her new song, "Firework" just came out. When I usually watch music videos, I don't watch the full thing, I just usually stop mid-way and declare that, "I watched it." Now Katy Perry's videos are really, I mean REALLY crazy, and fun. But, when I watched "Firework", I was really dumbfounded. 

I was literally like *:O* the whole time I was watching the video, because 1)it didn't start out with her craziness, I mean it did, but it didn't. y'know? 2)the video  showed issues, and problems going on for teens and well, people in general, and 3)the song is pretty catchy, and for a catchy song I didn't think it'd have such a profound atmosphere and theme. The song demonstrated that no matter if; you're fat/skinny, if you have a disease, if you're being bullied, if you're les/gay/bi/trans, or even if you're not the richest, I can go on and on about the message that the video represented you're still a person. And a person isn't perfect, but the real message was that even if you're all of those things, you can still show it, you can still make a difference. 

Basically, you can DO it, you can FIGHT against it. I clicked on the video to listen to a popular, catchy song only to find a beautiful video with a sententious meaning HERE . If you want to watch the video you can watch it . This wasn't the only video with a powerful message, there is also Handlebars-Flobots and World On Fire , which we watched in class. Those two are very captivating videos and songs, you should watch them to see the power I saw among them.

*The videos above may include inappropriate scenes/comments.

Yours truly,

Zarrin Class 813. (: