Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Reading Blog
Holes is a strange miss-match of stories which are loosely connected - yet somehow work. Holes is quite an interesting read. It's about several things - but mostly it's about Stanley Yelnats, a teenage boy from a poor family who has the misfortune of being caught with a stolen pair of shoes (because they fell on him) and he is sent to a juvenile detention facility. The facility is on an old dried up lake, and the inmates spend their time digging holes. Their is a backstory about Stanley's grandparents, and a backstory to the lake - which makes the book weird and interesting. I actually didn't like the book as well as the movie, but you might not feel the same way. This book is fun and entertaining, and definitely geared to our age range.
Monday, May 19, 2014
Reading Blog
Little Brother 2/2
Seventeen year old Marcus is somewhat of an expert hacker. At least he's good enough to easily hack his high schools system. Unfortunately, while skipping school, Marcus and his friends are caught in the middle of a terrorist attack in San Francisco. Due to his unlucky placement near the incident, he and his friends are taken by the Department of Homeland Security and interrogated. Once he gets back, he find the city under deep surveillance. He grows to hate Homeland Security - and everything that they are doing to his beloved city. He makes a drastic decision of his city, and for what he believes is right; Marcus decides to take on the DHS.
I liked this book a lot. I didn't understand all the hacker/computer stuff, but I got the just of it. Although somewhat unrealistic, I liked the plot and characters of this book. It was exciting, although it didn't rely on violence to do so. I would recommend this book to anyone our age and older - especially if they have an interest in terrorism, national security, and hacking.
Seventeen year old Marcus is somewhat of an expert hacker. At least he's good enough to easily hack his high schools system. Unfortunately, while skipping school, Marcus and his friends are caught in the middle of a terrorist attack in San Francisco. Due to his unlucky placement near the incident, he and his friends are taken by the Department of Homeland Security and interrogated. Once he gets back, he find the city under deep surveillance. He grows to hate Homeland Security - and everything that they are doing to his beloved city. He makes a drastic decision of his city, and for what he believes is right; Marcus decides to take on the DHS.
I liked this book a lot. I didn't understand all the hacker/computer stuff, but I got the just of it. Although somewhat unrealistic, I liked the plot and characters of this book. It was exciting, although it didn't rely on violence to do so. I would recommend this book to anyone our age and older - especially if they have an interest in terrorism, national security, and hacking.
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