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No Game No Life by Yü Kamiya The book is about two siblings, a girl named Shiro and her older brother Sora. They have never been defeated in any game, but one day they get an email from an anonymous sender challenging them to a game of chess, after they beat the challenger they get sent to another world where everything is decided in games. The genre is mostly game, comedy, fantasy, strategy and action, well it depends on what you consider action. It’s not action fight’s, but more like epic moments. The beginning of the story takes place on earth but the rest of the book takes place on the planet Disboard, the fantasy world that they are transported to by the god Tet. The sibling try to conquer the world and beat the god Tet in a game. However they have to overcome many challenges and hardships to do it. The older brother Sora is Eighteen years old and he wears a T-shirt with the words “I <3 ppl” on it, jeans and unkempt black hair.The little sister Shiro who is ten years old, sh...

Ferals by Jacob Grey This time I have read a book called Ferals: The Swarm Descends by Jacob Grey, And this is the second book in his Ferals series. This series is a trilogy and that means it has three books in total. I myself have only read the first and now this one. I’m gonna read the third as soon as possible because I think it’s a really good story in them and that they aren’t that hard to read. Not too many pages and the writing lines aren’t too small either. This second book has 279 pages and I don’t personally think it’s so many because I enjoy reading this series so much. I would say that this is a fantasy/humour/adventure/a little romance series, because things are happening in the books that aren’t "normal". For example that there are ferals. The book is about Caw who is a feral, which means that he can control and talk to a specific animal. In his case it is crows he can talk to and he can control them, as I said. And in this book he is trying to figure out...

Fantastic beasts and where to find them: The original screenplay Author: J.K Rowling By Felicia Björkroth, 9k2 My book is a fantasy book about a man called Newt Scamander. He is from England, but travels to New York to buy a magical beast. He owns a case full of magical creatures and beasts that he takes care of. Newt doesn’t really follow all the American rules for wizards and witches because the rules aren’t really the same as in England. A lot of beasts escapes and he has to find them again. He gets help by a no-maj (Non-magical person) named Jacob Kowalski and the witch sisters Queenie and Tina Goldstein. Together they find the creatures but they don’t know they’re in danger when a very dangerous magical force is about to destroy New York. I love Harry Potter and because of that I really enjoyed this book. I learned a lot more about the magical creatures in J.K Rowling’s world. I also learned more about the wizarding world in America. The book is written like a script....

Diary of a wimpy kid, Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney The book is about Greg Heffley and his life in school, at home, and about all things that are happening around him. This book is like a reality/diary book. He can sometimes be very upset with things. It's written in first person perspective. Diary of a wimpy kid is a big series by Jeff Kinney. It’s famous all over the world. It’s famous because of it’s accurate humor. In this book, Greg Heffley (main character) tells about bullies in, and outside school. About his friends being bullied and about him being bullied by older boys in school. This is around christmas, so he tells about different Christmas stories that have happened to him. The big thing in this book is that something on the school property has been destroyed by someone or some people. But Greg Heffley is the prime suspect, for some reason. The authorities will catch up with him soon. Jeff Kinney, the author, was born on February 19, 1971 Fort Washington, Maryl...

The Witches by Roald Dahl These past few weeks I have been reading a book titled The Witches by the infamous English-Norwegian author Roald Dahl, who has written several other very well-known books in the past. They have been translated to many different languages all over the world. Books such as Matilda , James and the Giant Peach , Fantastic Mr. Fox and last but not least Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which arguably, is his biggest and most popular book he’s ever written. The plot is about an English-Norwegian young boy and his parents, who are going on their annual vacation to Norway to visit the boy’s grandmother. Whilst driving across the Norwegian countryside they landslide and collide into another car, dealing a devastating blow to the car and killing both parents in the process. As specified in the parents’ will, the grandmother now has full custody over the boy and he has to come live with her in Norway, until she decides it’s best for them to move back to his o...

Wings: Spitfire take to the skies by Tom Palmer It’s about a boy called Greg who lives near an old airfield in Great Britain. He is on a football summer school, but he doesn’t like it and he just wants to play games. He got homework to ask Steve, the owner of the house he lives in to tell him about the airfield. Steve tells him it is an old RAF airfield from WW2. One night Greg woke up in the middle of the night and started painting a spitfire model that he got from Steve, but then he heard a sound and looked out of his window and he started to dream that he was in a Spitfire and in the middle of a dogfight in WW2. The story takes place in Great Britain. The main character is Grzegorz Tomaszewski, but he is called Greg and he is from Poland. He is 12 years old and he is on a football summer school but he is not interested in it anymore. The front page has a spitfire flying pretty close to the ground and someone with a pilot suit looking up at it which I believe is Greg I think it’s ...

The book is called The front room and it's written by Michelle Magorian. The book is about Hannah and her family and they are on a holiday, but it's not a regular holiday, not for Hannah, because she says that it is a holiday from hell. She thinks that her room is haunted and she is right about it because her room is haunted. Hannah describes that when she is sleeping she feels that something is coming closer and closer to her but when she opens the light it's like gone! She doesn't know what it is yet, but she will know it soon. The main character is Hannah, who has dark curly hair, big eyes and is short. The book takes place in Hanna’s room, on the beach and at a police station. The book is a thriller, because there are always happening things in the book and it has a big mystery. The characters in the book want to find out what it is and they will do that. The author has titled the book The front room and under the title it says “please let me wake up soon…” ...

The greatest show of all by Jane Eagland Jane Eagland started writing books when she was quite old and she is around 50 years now. She was born in Essex in England and worked as a teacher teaching English for many years. She got a bit bored of teaching so she started writing books instead. She has also written a book called Wildthorn . She has dedicated the book The greatest show of all to a person called Selina Pratt. I don’t know who this person is, maybe it is a friend of Jane’s? It's about a girl named Kitty who loves horses and she lives with her father and I think she has a brother who is gone. It doesn’t say in the book where Kitty’s mother is. One day Kitty felt angry and not welcome at the stable, so she ran away to a circus and tried to get a job there. She met a boy called Fred. He was going to help her to get a job at the circus. Fred's family owns the circus. When I first looked at the front I thought it was a fantasy book. The girl on the front page looked ...

I have read the book Fuzzy mud , which is written by Louis Sachar. The book Fuzzy mud is about Tamaya and Marshall who are two students who go to a school called “Woodrige Academy”. It is a private school in the US. Tamaya and Marshall are two school years apart, but they walk together to and from school. This is because Tamaya is not allowed to walk to and from school by herself. Marshall is constantly getting bullied by another student in his class for no real reason. This student is called Chad. One day marshall was threatened by Chad to meet at a place they go through to get home, it was normally unavoidable to pass through there. That day he suddenly knows a shortcut through the forest that is behind the school. That forest is forbidden to walk through because of the supposed dangers in it. Tamaya and Marshall walk through the forest; they get lost. When they are a bit into the forest Tamaya sees some mud but it has a fuzzy looking coating. Somehow Chad finds them in the forest...

Carrie by Stephen King The book is about Carrie who is a clumsy girl in high school. She never gets jokes and she's odd and is bullied by her classmates. But Carrie has hidden powers that nobody knows about. By concentrating she can make things levitate and other things. Her religious mother thinks it´s a gift from the devil and that it should be hidden. On the schools prom Carrie got pranked and she released her full power in despair and the result is devastating. Carrie was written by Stephen King and was published in 1974. It is Stephen King's first written book and it was his best selling books. It's in the horror genre. The book was written in a weird way with some extracts from police interrogations and scientific publications. It's a bit weird when the story switches to a science text about telekinetic powers but i got used to it in time. The book is pretty gory and it has a strong language. Carrie has been made to two films one in 1976 and one in 2013. ...

A Clash of Kings is a book written by George R. R. Martin, and is the second book in the series of “A Song of Ice and Fire”, which has been adapted into the famous TV-series “Game of Thrones”. It is a fantasy book with action, war, mystery and the politics of nobles. It is a long book at 969 pages and a lot of characters. A reason I really like this series is the way the people of the book think and that the actions each character makes fits just that character. One of the things that I actually like is that the books are not written so that the main characters are always going to survive. Even though I like books, movies, etc. with that one hero that is strong and wins over evil I enjoyed this series’ multiple characters and the “more talk less fight”, because when they do fight someone is probably going to die. You follow different characters from the noble houses of the four continents in this medieval world: Westeros, Essos, Sothoryos and Ulthos. Each chapter is from a different ...

Call the midwife is the first book in a series, based on real encounters and experiences of Jennifer Worth. The book is essentially Jennifer’s, or as she refers to herself Jenny’s, memoirs describing her life in her early twenties when she was a hard working midwife in the East End of London. At this time she was living in and working for Nonnatus house, and in the book she tells about her colleagues, friends and even patients. She gives a very broad and clear perspective of how hard times were during the 1950s. Less than a decade had passed since the second world war had ended and it had left some deep scars in especially the East end of London. Throughout the book Jenny tells different stories of how she and the other midwives had to deliver many babies in houses where there weren't any running water and how babies were born in slum conditions. It becomes obvious how difficult it was for the majority of the middle- and working class families, trying to make ends meet in povert...

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Today I've read a book that was recommended to me a while ago, but I haven't had the chance to get around to it until now. The book's called Never, never and is written by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher. The book is about Charlie and Silas, who both realise, practically at the same time, that they've lost their memory. They can't remember anything beyond a certain point; it's as if they both suddenly woke up from a black-out with no memory of anything whatsoever.  They know some facts, like how the GPS works in a car or who a certain celebrity is, but their own lives seem gone. Carefully, the try to piece together their own history. Who it really is that they're speaking with the corridor at school, where they live and what their families look like. Both understand from what others tell them that they used to be together, but aren't any more. None of them understand why, since it's obvious to them that they really seem to like each other. Th...