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Entry One: September 26, 2011
= This one!!!⇒⇒⇒ ⇐⇐⇐This one!!!=

At the moment I'm reading book 3 of the Stoneheart Trilogy, __Silvertongue__, by Charlie Fletcher. I found it when I was at the Ericson Public Library after I had read the first two books of the trilogy, Stoneheart and Ironhand. I was drawn to it because of the cover design, and decided to take a look. I read the inside flap and it looked interesting so I went ahead and checked it out. I'm already a third through it.

So far in the book, time has stopped in London and the layer of un-London that George and Edie are in has been cut off from the rest of London, and with the London Stone cracked by the intense cold brought by the ice demon, the two fellow darknesses are teaming up and chaos is ensuing. The taints, all of the monstrous statues of London, have gathered, anwsering the call of the ice demon, and the spits, all of the statues with human appearances and intentions, are working together with George and Edie to find out how to get the "now" that they're in to start moving again before it dies.

I think that this is a very unique book, and it's definitely one of my favorites now. It has a different style of writing to it that I've never seen before and I really like how it was done. The storyline and setting of the book described in this style really adds to the entire experience of reading it. To show what I mean, here's an example:

"Long, long ago, before history stared and the wildness of the world was tamed, there was a great struggle between the light that gave life, and the darkness that walked the earth spreading ignorance and hatred, feeding off the terror it left in its wake. Only after a long and brutal fight did light win this struggle and pen the darkness deep in the rocky heart of the world. "Ages later, but still long before the time of the Tomans or even the Druids that came before them, the people of the island needed a sacred stone. And the place was the place where they went to hack that stone from the living rock was the place where the darkness had been defeated. They went there because they knew it was a sacred place, but they had forgotten why, or they would have chosen a different spot and a better stone. But because the struggle cetween light and the darkness had happened so long before their distant ancestors had even been born, the memories of precisely why the place was sacred had been lost. And so the Stone was carved from the earth, and when it was moved to a new place, the darkmess went with it. "And the darkness stayed imprisoned in the Stone. "And waited."

They talk about the Stone as being a living thing, and in a sense, it is. I've never read a book with this style and it's definitely caught by interest. The best part about it is probably the fact that I become so absorbed in the book, I'm a part of the adventure. For me, if a book can do that, then it's definitely a good book! The things that are said in the book and how they are said, makes me have to think a little bit about what it can mean, because a lot of the things they say have another meaning, other than the ones interpreted in the book. It takes some brain power to process everything as it goes by, but it's well worth it!

Entry Two: October 6, 2011
Hey! I'm back again to tell you how my book, __Silvertongue__ by Charlie Fletcher, has progressed so far! As of now, I'm on page 326, at chapter forty-four, called Walker on the Beach. Edie, the stubborn glint who can see and experience the past just by her touch, has gone through the Black Friars mirrors with the raven, known from legends as Munin, or Memory, one of Odin's two messenger crows, as her guide in order to see her mom once again. In the meantime, George and Spout, his gargoyle that he changed with his making hands, are off to stop the three spits, Dictionary, the Clocker, and the Queen of Time, from trying to restart the "now" that they are in. They arrived to her plinth and were too late. After a battle against a dragon with assistance from Shack and the Queen of America, two other spits, it ends with Dictionary have his eyesight taken away protecting George.

They later discover that Georges arm is turning into limestone, seeing as he's running out of time for his duel against the Last Knight of the Cnihtengild, who has been taken over by the darkness that was inside the London Stone, and is now known as the Night Mare. George faces his duel, and defeats him, taking the Knight off of his horse and the Cnihtengild rip him apart, taking away the shape the darkness needs to survive. Among all of this, the Gunner and the Queen separate from the rest of the spits to find Edie, and end at the door of the Black Friar, barely visible among the icy fog consuming a huge chunk of London. The Gunner goes into the mirrors after Edie and they travel around, following her mother, as she falls into the hands of the Walker, a cursed person doomed to walk the Earth until they have served their purpose.

So far, I really like where the story is going. The settings the author is creating are very detailed and very visual. It's really easy to imagine what the scenery might actually look like. I'm also really enjoying how George and Edie are growing as characters. George is learning to take that leap of faith and stop running, while Edie is maybe starting to open up about how strongly she felt for her mother. They're growing stronger in courage and letting someone see how they really feel. The two of them are almost complete as characters, but they still have one more challenge ahead and I can't wait to see how they will grow from it as well. Overall, I'm thoroughly enjoying this book! It has very good settings, characters, and an amazing storyline that makes you want to keep reading. That's all for now but wait for my next blog, when I'll finish my thoughts on __Silvertongue__. Until then, toodles!

Entry Three: October 17, 2011
This is a little late but I'm going to go ahead and write up my blog number 3. I finished my book __Silvertongue__, and I was very satisfied with the ending. I promise I won't tell you every little detail this time! Edie and George were fighting together against the taints and together, with help from the dragon that guards the door next to the Black Friars place, they stopped the Ice Devil. However, when the Ice Devil was sent into the mirrors, the walker came back out, searching for revenge.The ending is really exciting and action packed, so I'm not going to tell you how it ends, but it's definitely good.

I really loved reading this book. Whenever I read it, I got absorbed really fast and fell into character with almost no effort at all. I read a book and pretty much become a part of it and this book was really good for that. Anybody else who is really into books and does a lot of reading will know what I mean. This book also made me want to look up some of these statues and see if they were real. Turns out some of them are, and are standing in the real London, (not to confuse it with un-London)!

I really loved this book and I want to recommend it to you. It's definitely for those who like fantasies. Here are some of the characters in the book that are real statues, so I hope you enjoyed this long, long 3 part entry about __Silvertongue__, by Charlie Fletcher.

= Dictionary = = Last Knight of Cnihtengild = = The London Spinx = = The Gunner = = The Queen of Time = = Richard the Lionheart = = There's so many others but there are just too many! Look them up online when you get the chance! =

Entry Four: October 24, 2011
Hey everybody! The book I', reading at the moment is called //Mistwood// and it's by Leah Cypess. It is about the Shifter who always is made to serve whomever puts the Shifter seal bracelet on her, and without knowing it, she is thrown into something much bigger than what she thought in the first place. Her first priority is protecting her king however she can and she will do anything it takes to keep him safe.

I got this book at the Ericson Public Library and picked it out partially because of the cover and the title name of the book. I haven't read very far in, but I can tell it's going to be one of my favorites by the time I'm done with it. I don't really have any favorite quotes out of the book yet but my favorite character is probably Isabel, the Shifter. She can pretend to be so many different people and she is basicly works like magic, as if her brain was programmed to process with it as would be done with an involuntary action such as breathing or your heart beating. She is simply a very magical creature so that's why she's already one of my favorites.

I will blog this same week to make up for the one I missed so I'll see you all soon!

Entry Five: November 3, 2011
Hey I'm back and here to talk about //Mistwood// by Leah Cypess. The Shifter, Isabel, feels like there's something wrong with her being shifter. No matter how hard she tried to shift into a bird, wolf, or even a mouse, it was impossible for her to do so. She has conflicting **human** feelings about who she is supposed to be protecting, which according to the legend of the Shifter, says that she has no human emotions what-so-ever. In the end, Isabel makes a huge discovery that explains why all of this is how it is.

I really liked this book. It is another one of my fantasies but this one was a little different than what I usually read. It had the usual aspects of a fantasy book, magic, magical creatures, and a prince or ruler of some sort in a far off land, but it also had a lot of mystery and suspense as Isabel discovered who she really was. The story of how she finds herself and makes her different discoveries along the way make it an interesting book to read filled with logic and basic reasoning. I would highly recomend this book to those who love fantasies of course, but also to the people who read books with a lot of self-discovery in them, as in the more realistic books. = I'll present my next book soon. Blog to ya later! ;) = = = = =

Entry Six: November 6, 2011
= Hey I'm back! = I'm here to talk about my book, //Raven's Gate// by Anthony Horowitz. It's book one of the Gatekeepers series and it starts out with a delinquent, 14-year-old kid who gets caught for theft and is forced into a new government program called LEAF (Liberty and Education Achieved through Fostering).

Matthew Freeman, commonly known as Matt, goes into the home of Mrs. Deverill, with her farmhand Noah, out into the middle of nowhere for a year. He later finds that she is hiding many things from him and he's out to discover what's going on in the small, delapidated town of Lesser Malling. Those he reaches out to for help die from mysterious causes, and he's trapped out in the middle of nowhere with nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide. Matt goes out on an adventure of self-discovey, magic, action, and friendship, on his way to find out what sinister things are happening in Lesser Malling.

I read this book in about four to five hours almost straight through, so it's a really quick read for those who read quickly and often. If you have trouble finishing large books, I would advise this one. It's only 253 pages long, and busy throughout all of them. I've picked up this book before to read it a few years ago but I never got around to actually reading it. I really liked this book for all the action and logical analysis of the main character, Matt. He was a smart character and deduced what was going on even though everything was hidden so well among the people of Lesser Malling. I would recommend this book to those of you who really like magical discovery in the real world. I'm going to be reading the rest of these books in the series and I hope you take a peek at it sometime too!