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Game of Thrones

June5

One day in the North, Ned Stark discovers 6 baby dire wolf pups.  He believes this to be a good sign seeing that he has 6 children, what he ignores is that the mother direwolf had been killed by a deer.  The sigil of the king’s house is a stag, and the Stark’s sigil is […]

A Game of Thrones

June5

Lord Eddard Stark travels south to Kings Landing, the capitol of Westeros, with King Robert Baratheon, who visited Winterfell to hear the news of the White Walkers.  The king wants Ned to become the new Hand of the King. Ned’s youngest son Bran is in a coma, after he was pushed out the window of […]

A Game of Thrones

June4

A Game of Thrones is the first volume of the series A Song of Ice and Fire, written by George R. R. Martin.  The book is a fantasy novel set in the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos.  The story contains a very wide variety of characters, all portrayed from their point of view. The […]

Looking for Alaska

June4

Towards the middle of Looking for Alaska, Pudge and his friends are faced with a tragedy that continues for the rest of the book.  The morning after Alaska suddenly left the school in the middle of the night, drunk and crying, the Dean of Students called in an emergency assembly.  The tragic news that Alaska […]

Looking for Alaska

May15

In the book Looking for Alaska, after a successful prank, the group decided to celebrate with a night of drinking.  Alaska left the room to make a call to her boyfriend, suddenly about 30 minutes later she burst into the room crying saying that she needed to leave campus right away.  She did not want […]

Looking For Alaska

May15

Looking For Alaska, by John Green, opens up with a boy ironically nicknamed Pudge, starting his freshman year at a boarding school in rural Alabama.  He quickly becomes friends with his roommate, The Colonel, and his group of friends.  Among them is a girl named Alaska, Pudge finds her absolutely beautiful in every way, ignoring […]

The Fault In Our Stars

April15

The Fault In Our Stars, by John Green, is narrorated by a 16 year old girl named Hazel Grace, who has a form of lung cancer.  She spends a lot of her time reading her favorite book.  An Imperial Affliction, by Peter Van Houten, is an entirely open ended book about a girl very similar […]

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

April2

In the end of the book, Dexter discovered it all.  His sister’s new boyfriend turned out to be Brian Moser, Dexter’s biological brother.  Not only was Brian only dating Deb to get close to Dexter, he also revealed himself to be The Ice Truck Killer, despite the police department thinking they caught the killer.  Brian […]

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

March21

Nearing the end of Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dexter has discovered that his mother was brutally murdered in front of him when he was very young and his adoptive father found him at a crime scene.  Another important detail Harry did not tell him was that Dexter had an older brother, he was found at the crime scene […]

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

February22

Dexter Morgan has split his life in to two entirely different people.  On one side you have the normal every day Dexter Morgan that his friends, family, and coworkers know.  “Normal Dexter” is always calm, cool, and collected; he never draws any attention to himself.  The other side, Dexter refers to as his “Dark Passenger,” […]

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