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What I have learned is that this book has made me feel more curious and intrigued into science fiction and mysterious things because this book was very interesting for me to read and made me learn many things about myself. I've discovered many interests in genres and books that I've read over the past few years, but this book made me have a better feeling for science fiction more than any book in that genre.

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It reminds me of the book Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman because they both have themes about honor, and honoring the dead. The book is told by Benny Imura, and his adventure with his older brother Tom in the zombie apocalypse. To find out where an illegal zombie fighting arena is, Benny and Tom have to track down the two most feared zombie hunters known as Charlie Pink-eye and the Motor City Hammer. 

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I was surprised me was the way that Maberry displays people’s different adaptations to the apocalypse from becoming a monk, to a mercenary. 

It also changed the way I viewed a few morals, since the book breaks down how ethnically it’s wrong to kill zombies. In a simplified version, the book compares zombie killing to desecrating dead bodies, tombs, and coffins. 

Heart: 

The book gave me a different view of the world because it explained the difference between disturbing the peace around you to stay alive, and disturbing the peace for fun or for you’re benifit beyond survival. 

My actions will change as a result of the book by having a better understanding of what honor really means. This means that my reputation has become more important to me than before, and disturbing the peace for something more than survival isn’t considered by me anymore. 

Educated, Tara Westover 

Memoir, non-fiction

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Educated is about a family that lives a way different life than everybody else. The parents don’t believe in medicine or going to school. Tara is the person telling the story which is one of the daughters. It is all based on how Tara tries to get out of her life of living with her parents. This book is related to 5 feet apart in some ways because they are both wanting to escape an area that feels unsafe. In 5 feet apart it was her illness and in Educated it is the situation she is in. They both escape and 5 feet apart they pass away and in education she physically did by leaving and starting her life over again. 

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The thing that changed my thinking in this book was just the struggle for Tara to get an education. In my mind that came easy because everyone got one and I was grown up by my parents that it is normal to get one. On the other hand Tara is eager to get on and is running away to do so. She changed my thinking by how grateful I should be because getting on to me the process is way simpler and I have support to do it. It also surprised me because I never really thought about people with different lives than myself and how someone’s beliefs could affect and damage multiple people.

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I learned about myself by how lucky I am to be in the life I have. I am able to go to school and in the future college too. Also for me to have parents that would pay for me and support me throughout my education. I noticed now that not many people in this world are that fortunate. This book made me feel blessed and appreciated that I can live this type of life.     

 The book is Kelly Johnson's autobiography Kelly Johnson was an engineer that worked at Lockheed Martin company in the 20th century. The book is about Kelly's Johnson's life from June 1995 when you wrote the book. The book not only tells the story of Aviation, but it also tells the story of a person. The reader feels like they are right alongside him during the story. When talking about his life Kelly not only makes you think of what it is to live and what it is to be happy, but he also makes you feel about what sacrifices people have to go through and the amount of effort it takes to succeed at your dreams. 

 Before the book, the author expects you to know who Kelly Johnson is. The book, however, puts a whole new Twist on who he is whenever you hear from you always hear of him as a successful person who has achieved many accomplishments in aviation. The book makes the reader rethink who he is. He's not just someone who accomplished many things in aviation; he is also someone who achieved his dream. One thing that I noticed throughout the book it's how much The Reader can relate the book.

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The book makes the reader think about many different things from Life dreams to what people do for fun. The book asks you to think about Stress and Anxiety but also what it means to be a leader and have fun. This book challenges the way we do things, whether it be on a local a global scale. These things are not visible, but the more you think about it, the more, the more critical lessons from Kelly Johnson's life become.

Book: The book begins when Bella Swan is leaving her mother and moving to live with her Dad in the town of Forks. She had been dreading moving and was most certainly not excited to meet her Dad and all the kids in the town of Forks. Her mood shifted when she saw him, Edward and the rest of her family. They looked almost not real to her. She was very suspicious of them and she found something out that changed her world. Bella Swan is a fearless character the reader will like throughout the book. Bella tells the story from her perspective. She goes on many adventures and even life-threatening ones that will make one want to keep reading. The novel really reminds me of the show Vampire Diaries because the adventures and conflicts they go through are very similar.

Head: I was surprised how well Bella handled the information she found out about  Edward and the rest of her family. She remained calm and kept it a secret for the sake of Edward. I also was surprised how the book was “balanced”. It was a romance novel but it was not too corny. There was a balance between romance and everything going on around them. Besides the love story of two totally opposites, there were adventures and conflicts. 

Heart: Even though this book was fantasy it made me learn many things. This book changed my thinking about the real meaning of love. No matter how deeply your feelings are for someone or if you believe they are the right person does not always mean it is safe. Sometimes it is best to let  go for the sake of each other. It is important to feel trusted and feel safe when you are with someone and if you don't then that should be a red flag. The character Bella also inspired me to never judge someone for what they are. You need to get to know someone before making assumptions from what you have heard or know.

 

It is Memoir

Book: It is a collection of stories that shows from how his life used to be from not being a famous youtube star to where he is today being one of the many  icons of today's society.Shane himself is narrating the story.I feel the author wanted to show how life will get better even when it seems dark.Truly I have never read any other book like this other than half of this books sequel.

Head: What I noticed in this book is that some of the experiences in his book have actually happened to me once.What challenged my thinking was how different he is now compared to the stories of his childhood it truly shows how he has grown and changed.

Heart: What I have learned about myself after reading this book made me realize that I have a few things in common with a youtuber and it made me feel sort’ve confused because I used to think the only people I would have stuff in common with would be with family and friends.

Dystopian Young Adult Fiction

Book: This book is narrated by the main character Todd Hewitt, a twelve-year-old boy who is soon to be thirteen. Todd Hewitt lives in a small town called Prentisstown that is located on a planet that they refer to as “the new world”.Everyone in town is a man, which happens when they turn thirteen, Todd Hewitt is the youngest of the town and is shortly about to turn thirteen in a month. Prentisstown is occupied by 146 men and no women due to a germ released by an alien race known as the “Shackle”, called the “Noise Germ” which killed all the women, and half of the men in the town. The Noise germ gave all the humans and animals the ability to hear everyone’s thoughts and mentally communicate with one another. The author wants the reader to know about the significance of the loss of innocence when childhood ends, and when adulthood begins. The author signifies in this book that with adulthood and the loss of innocence comes decision making and in this story, committing brutal acts. This book reminded me of the  “ A Separate Peace” by John Knowles because of the recurring theme of the loss of innocence.

Head: I was surprised by how well Todd adapted to the different environments that he was in. What also surprised, and what I noticed was that in the story when Todd left the town he started to realize that most of the things that he was told while living in Prentisstown told had been false.

Heart: This book made me realize that not everything said is true, and a person should not believe everything one is told. In this story, Todd goes through a part in his life in which he is uncertain about himself and what is around him, which is something that everybody goes through as they grow up, or anytime in their life. Which is was helps people grow and become better people, and grow into one’s own person.

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This book is about a teenager who dies in a car crash and the 136 days leading up to her death and how the main characters spend it. 
Miles ‘Pudge’ Halter is telling the story. 
The author wants me to know that the only way to live a life of freedom and happiness is to forgive and understand that we can’t control everything.

This book makes me think of little fires everywhere by Celeste Ng.
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I was surprised to find out that to make the labyrinth of suffering bearable is to forgive. I still  believe there that there will never be an answer to the question. But it can guide you through your life and he experiences you will encounter.

I noticed that the author had little reliefs of joy and jokes in what was a serious topic that the author surrounded the book by.  

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After reading the book I had mixed emotions. I was really miserable about Alaska’s death and finding out her headspace leading up to the last seconds of her life (I felt like I knew her, it really hit different). Though I was excited that we learned how to bear the labyrinth of suffering.      I learned that I’m okay with life being unpredictable and how I want to learn how to be able to appreciate everything and forgive without having regrets. 

         
                           

Louvre curator and a member of Priory of Sion - Sauniere was murdered in the Louvre museum. After he was shot he had some time to leave some clues in Da Vinci’s paintings, and some encrypted messages, that lead to the Holy Grail. In his death note he mentioned Professor Langdon because he was supposed to be the one to decrypt all of his messages, and find the answer to a religious mystery. But during the investigation Langdon becomes the main suspect, so he has to run away with the help of Sauniere’s granddaughter. And throughout the book they become closer and closer to solving the mystery, and learning more about themselves.

The story is told from the third point of view, so the author - Dan Brown is telling it. He talks about religious mysteries, and as the story goes many famous events appear to be different from what all of us were told. For example, the Holy Grail in the book didn’t turn out to be a cup, it is actually the place of the burial of Magdalene's bones. And it makes the reader think if everything we were told is true because all of these events and discoveries are so popular and well-known, but do we actually know the truth? And the book challenges your thinking because you never know what is going to appear as truth, who is going to appear as the murderer, where they are going to end up. And The Da Vinci Code’s plot is so thoughtfully put together, that it sounds like truth. The main characters would solve riddles, and they would decrypt messages and codes, and all of that relies on scientifically proven facts, or on discoveries that were made thousands of years ago. And maybe some parts of the book could actually be the truth. 

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What surprised me is what all of the encrypted messages lead them to. When Neveu and Langdon are about to solve a cryptex, or find a code to the bank’s safe deposit box you never know what is going to happen, and you never know what the answer is going to be based on. All of the messages, and ciphers are so complicated and connected to so many things that the answers to them are kind of surprising.

I noticed that sometimes in the book the author would bring up the stereotypes that people have to face very often. For example, Neveu is a very young cryptographer still very successful for her age. Sometimes in the book I would just notice how she wouldn’t be trusted with what she would say. In the very beginning the police didn’t seem to be very trusting even though she had all of the evidence that proved what she was saying. Just because she was young she wasn’t trusted as anyone else older probably would be.

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The Da Vinci Code kind of made me feel like I can’t trust everything I see or hear. The plot of the story is built using real life events, but the story is made up. But it could be true and we will never know. Maybe Da Vinci’s paintings actually have meanings, maybe they lead to something, and maybe someone knows the answer as the members of Priory of Sion knew. As the result of reading this text, maybe I will start thinking and learning more about the events that are happening around me, or the ones that lead to them and happened thousands of years ago.