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Hi. This is Ryan and I'm reading __The Islands of the Blessed__ by Nancy Farmer. Schaulp and Mrs. Tanner get married when Schaulp shows her the gifts that he brings her. Jack and the other vikings arrive at a colony with vikings that are controlled by Adder-tooth. The Bard gets rid of the cursed fortress they had and Adder-tooth. The Bard, Jack, and Thorgil go to the Notlands where they meet the king and queen. The Bard tells the king about his daughter who became a draugr and later the Bard uses himself to get the draugr to come with him. Adder-tooth wasn't much of a leader. He took control of Bjorn Skull-Splitter's people by sending in monsters to destroy him. He was also a coward who couldn't fix his problems such as with the hobgoblins. Instead of giving himself up to save all the people he gave other people to the hobgoblins. I think that the Bard will come back from giving himself up to the draugr. It just seems like the thing that should happen. Hi. This is Ryan and I'm still reading __The Islands of the Blessed__ by Nancy Farmer. Now that I have gotten farther in the book, it has become more interesting. Jack and Thorgil meet the Northmen that have arrived at Jack's home. All of them are the same, but there is a half-giant that is Skakki's half-brother. The Bard, Jack, Thorgil, and the Tanners go on the northmen ship to go to Bebba's town. When they get there, the Bard, Thorgil, and Jack go and find Father Severus to show him the draug. They discover that the Tanners stole the bell and it was rung so they all split up to find the draug. I wonder why Father Severus changed so much from what he was. From this book I get the impression that he was someone who cared for others when Jack first met him. Now he seems like a person who cares only for himself and acts like nothing will hurt him. Kind of like Ceaser. I also wonder how the Bard's daugther, Ethne, deals with the loneliness of being in a room all by herself. The room calms her ancestor's spirits, but she has to be in a room about as big as a closet listening only to the voices of the preists outside. I would feel extremely isolated if I were her. I also think that Schaulp will have a hard time understanding why Mrs. Tanner won't ever come back. It might hurt him since he is so convinced that she will come back and marry him. Hi. This is Ryan and I'm still reading __The Islands of the Blessed__ by Nancy Farmer. As I've been reading this book, I've realized that I don't really know what is happening. It might be because I haven't read the last book for so long. I guess that means I will just read the books again after this book. Now, to the summary. Jack, the main character, learns about the story of Fair Lamenting and how the Mermaid came to be the draugr that is in the hazel woods. Jack and the bard go to the hazel woods where they tell the draug to stop killing people. After that, Jack comes across the hobgoblins that had taken her sister hazel. The Tanner girls and their mother are taught a lesson from hobgoblins because they are irritating everybody. I wonder how Jack feels about his sister being taken by hobgoblins. It seems he treats her like he always would, acting like a responsible brother. I bet he wishes that her sister was with him all the time. I think the way the two hobgoblins handled the problem with the Tanner girls was the wrong way. Kidnapping them and taking them to the hazel woods was as far as they got, but I think that something bad wold've happened to them if Jack weren't there to stop it. It seems like Jack has feelings for Thorgil. I also noticed that Thorgil doesan't really like Jack like that.
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Hi. I'm reading __The Islands of the Blessed__ by Nancy Farmer. The reason I chose to read this book was because I have read the two books before this one. Those two books are __The Sea of Trolls__ and __The Land of the Silver Apples__. Those books were good so I decided to see how this book is. The main character of this book is Jack who is a bard in training. He is being trained by the bard known as dragon tongue. There are weird things happening such as the disappearance of Gog and Magog and other things. Thorgil, a northmen(viking), is also having problems living among the Saxons(humans) and all the Saxons are tired of her behavior. I wonder why Thorgil is living with Jack and not with her own people. Could it be from her family being deceased? Could she have had been taken away? i'm not sure because I haven't read the last book in the series for a very long time. I think that the next thing that will happen is something that will get the story going. Right now the story is boring and making me fall asleep so I hope something happens.
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3rd blog Hi. I finished reading the book __Fang__ by James Paterson. I chose to read this book because I really like the series. In this book, there is the flock- Gazzy, Iggy, Nudge, Fang, Angel, and Max- and they come across the scientist Dr. Haagen- Dazs. He is going on about genetic mutations and how they will save the Earth from apocalypse. He brings in another bird person named Dylan. Fang and Max love each other and can't take care of the flock at the same time. Later the doctor tries to experiment with Fang and the whole flock comes and saves Fang. Afterwards Fang leaves the flock. Dylan must feel like he doesn't to be in the world because he never gets the attention that he wants from Max. He cares for Max but Max doesn't care for him because she loves Fang. The whole flock must have been really weirded out by the things that Angel did. They are so used to being cautious and secret and when they go out in public like they did, it probably made them uneasy. I wonder how things will go now that Fang left the flock. Max probably won't be able to live with her self and so will the rest of the flock. Fang probably is going to have problems dealing with it also. With the big ending in __Max__, I wonder how the next book will be. I bet that Max and Fang will think it is to hard to be separated from each other and they will find each other again. I also what the name of the next book will be. So far they have used the names of Max and Fang. I think it will be Angel.
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2nd blog Hi. This is Ryan Kokjohn with his second blog and I'm reading Evil Star by Anthony Horowitz. I am reading this book because I read the book before this one and wanted to know what happens next. This book has the main character, Matt, and his friend Richard. Matt is going to a private school suggested by Nexus and there he is having troubles. His Aunt Gwenda is influenced by the Old Ones and she finds the school that Matt goes to and blows it up with an oil tanker. Everyone lives because of Matt's powers. Later he goes to Peru where he is separated from Richard and with a kid named Pedro on the run. I think that it is impossible for Matt to run from his role to save the world. He doesn't want to have anything to do with the Nexus, but if he ignores his role he will bring the trouble to himself and anybody with him. An example of this is when his Aunt ran the tanker into the school. I also think that Pedro is a lot like Matt. They've had their tragedies in life that changed them as people. Pedro having his village wiped out and Matt with his parents in the car crash. Now that I'm thinking of it, it seems like these tragedies might be the test in their lives that shows whether they can get through the pain. I'll keep that in mind as I read in the future.

1st blog Hi! This is Ryan Kokjohn and I read the book Raven's Gate by Anthony Horowitz. I read the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz about a year ago and I really liked it. When I saw this book was by the same author, I was interested in how it would be. I found this book at the Ericson Public Library. In this book, the main character, Matt, is a thirteen year-old who had his parents die six years ago. He gets caught up in a crime that he didn't do and he ends up in a program for foster kids. At the village called Lesser Malling, he has a gaurdian, Mrs. Deverill who takes care of him. When Matt learns that the place is bad, he tries to get help but everyone who tries to help gets killed.One person, Richard, helps save Matt and they both figure out that there are people, the Old Ones, that use dark magic. Matt is almost used as a sacrifice but he uses his power and escapes with Richard. If I were in Matt's shoes, I would feel really confused. He is told that he could be one of the five children to save the world. That is a lot to take in when he is nearly getting killed by shadow dogs. I feel bad about the fact that Matt could've kept his parents from dying. If he did stop it, I bet Matt would have been in much better place than he is now. I think that the storyline is good. There are good characters and a real challenge that the main character has to face. The only bad thing about the storyline is that in one or two parts, what happens next is predictable. This book is interesting and in some ways, I think this book is kind of like the Pendragon series. Both of these books have a exciting storyline that makes me wonder what's next. Now that I have finishedRaven'[s Gate, I am going to read the next book, Evil Star. I hope it is good.