Read or be Read

 What makes a good book? Mr. Mitchell (and whoever else decides to read this blog), I am going to be very honest, I did not read at all these last 4 weeks. Whether it was reader's block or just lack of time, I was not able to get past 5 pages without losing any focus I even had to begin with. Obviously, this is a problem since we have to write readers' blogs so I was naturally concerned as to what I would do. I considered finding the summary to some old books I've read and talking about those or speed reading a book in the span of 3 hours. However, neither of those choices seemed to make much sense nor be very efficient. Whilst frantically scrolling through my Goodreads I suddenly thought of an idea. Instead of turning to find summaries of books I've read in the past, why didn't I write about my favorite aspect of each one? Ok, maybe not each one, I thought, since that would take hours, but what about the ones I liked the most? And with a little adjusting of my init...

       To be honest, When I started reading this book, I didn't know exactly what I was getting myself into. My mom recommended it to me when I was looking through a bunch of old books in my house. It looked interesting, but similar to other books that attempt to create a story set during the Napoleonic times and end up with 600 pages of boring. I would later find out that I was very wrong about that. Anyways, I thought the book might be okay so I read the back cover and decided to try it out.     The story is basically about a young boy named Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo, who is the son of a baron and lives in a villa in the imaginary town of Ombrosa in Italy. He and his brother are both excellent tree climbers and spend a lot of their time climbing the trees in and around their property. However, Cosimo is fed up and dissatisfied with his life. One afternoon during a meal, while eating a plate of snails (which is what the family ate almost every day), Co...