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My mom got me the book The Adventures of a Dwergish Girl  as a Christmas present, but I was too lazy to read anything during the break so I forgot about it. I didn't know what to read for a blog post, so I got it out from my bookcase and read it. I found it a nice book that also teaches a bit about history.  It follows a Dwergish (Dwarf basically) girl named Molly who decides to leave her village hidden in the mountains to go live with normal people. She gets some money from selling Dwergish gold, which is gold from the mines that the Dwergish people mine. Molly then goes to work at a pizza shop and gets paid like $2 an hour but at least she gets free pizza. She becomes friends with another girl named Leni and together they go on adventures, like exploring New York. It's a very nice and small book. The part that could be considered educational is when Molly learns more and more about the town she went to, named Kingston. It gives a short but informative history lesson about th...

Real life sighting of Dracula Hi everyone, Welcome back to the greatest blog on planet Earth, the Shooting Star Blog. For the past few weeks, I've been making my way through Bram Stoker's Dracula , the novel which introduces the most famous vampire into popular culture. But why is Dracula  still so influential, and why is he the first character that we think of when we think of "vampire?" So today, I'll be giving you my reasons for why I think  Dracula is still a good read, and why it has stood the test of time.  Dracula is an epistolary (meaning narrated through letters, journals, etc.) novel that describes a vampire named Count Dracula, who initially lives in an old Transylvanian castle. However, he plans to move to London, a much busier place with more potential victims and a lower chance of being recognized. To aid him in buying new London property, he hires a lawyer named Jonathan Harker, and when Harker travels to Dracula's castle, he quickly finds out t...

  First of all, Amazing book to movie transition. I watch that movie at least once a week.  The book itself is similar to any other YA romance novel. A quirky shy girl falls in love with a popular jock, and they end up together in the end. Lara Jean, an Asian American teen whose mom passed when she was younger, navigates love by writing letters. She never sends them, but she stores them in a teal hatbox her mother gave her. One day, all her letters get sent. One to her sister's ex boyfriend Josh, one to a kid from camp, to a friend from model U.N, someone she danced with at a freshman homecoming, and her 7th grade crush Peter Kavinsky. As a younger child, I thought this was so innovative and cute. And you know what, I still do. This book is great. I own three copies of the first book and one of each of books two and three. The movies and books are still great comfort movies. However, as I grow older, it becomes more comfortable in terms of familiarity rather than viewing it as...

          Recently , I checked out a book called  The Blood Meridian.  I had heard about it on YouTube,  and it seemed interesting. The book has a reputation for being unfilmable. The video said that this book has a lot of violence, which makes people shy away from filming it. When I heard this I wondered why the author would include this violent content in his book, but the rest of the video that talked about that part of the book had major spoilers so I decided to not watch the rest of it and just check the book out for myself.     When looking up the author, Cormac Mcarthy, I found that he has written many other popular books like The Road and No Country for Old Men. I was surprised to see that he had written No Country for Old Men because I know that it's a popular movie. When I saw that I knew that Cormac Mcarthy was a good author, for his book to be made into a movie.     When I started reading the book the first th...

     Most people today are quite familiar with the Jurassic Park movie series. The movies are some of today's most popular. Significantly less famous, however, is the novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, despite having been a bestseller. Made in 1990, it follows a very similar plotline to the one in the first Jurassic Park movie, with some differences which I won't go into here.      The Jurassic Park novel is partially about the concerns about genetic engineering of the time. At the time it was less regulated, allowing companies to have more leeway in what they did. Jurassic Park demonstrated an exploitation of this relative lack of regulation. The public held, and still holds, ethical, environmental, and other concerns about genetic engineering's potential future. These include concerns of companies producing pests, pathogens, disruption of the environment, or creation of other dangerous organisms to either human or animal welfare, whether on purpose ...

Charlotte's web was a book most people read as children, and since I don't know what else to do this post on, why not do it on one of the only books that made me cry. The story, if you forgot, is about a pig named Wilbur, a little girl named Fern, and a spider named Charlotte. Wilbur, a small and weak pig, is about to get slaughtered by Fern's dad, but Fern convinces her dad to let her adopt the pig. Wilbur then gets moved to a different barn, where he mainly doesn't get along with the other animals, until he finds a spider there called Charlotte. Fern meanwhile frequently visits the animals and watches them talk to each other. It was mostly peaceful until Wilbur was once again going to be slaughtered. Charlotte decides to help Wilbur by weaving a web with words in it. This shocked Fern's family, who then make Wilbur into a farm attraction thing for many people to see. Charlotte continues writing words within her spider webs until Fern's family enters Wilbur int...