Read or be Read

       So the reason I read this book is because my brother used it for his banned book project and he recommended it to me. Before then, I had no clue this book existed. The book has no cover art, but it does have the page pictured above a few pages in, so I will use it as the cover.     Before I go into further detail about this book, it is important to understand some things before you begin reading. This book is meant for children, but it is not about a farm of happy animals, in fact, it is the complete opposite.     Many of the animals on the farm are tired of working long, hard hours and getting little in return. One of the elderly animals on the farm, a boar named old major, has a dream where the animals overthrow the humans on the farm and establish their own farm led by the animals. This is exactly what happens - The pigs lead a raid on the farmhouse and drive out Farmer Jones, his wife, and all his workers. They create Animalis...

Room.  By Steph *Potential Small Spoilers *Implied References of Sexual Violence   Room is eleven feet both ways. Table is three feet nine inches. You are three feet three inches, and today you are 5 years old. It’s your birthday. Ma gives you a drawing, but she doesn’t want Old Nick to see it so it hangs inside of Wardrobe. Today you have cereal with Meltedy Spoon and Table, while it snows today in Outside. You and Ma do Phys Ed on Carpet and play Orchestra with a spoon and Stove. Then Ma reads you a book. You love reading Dylan the Digger, even though cats and rocks are only TV. Sometimes you wish the stuff on TV was real life, because then you could see a dog and a store and mountains and girls and boys and Women and Men. Ma and Old Nick are real though, but you aren’t even sure if Old Nick is really real. He only comes for Sundaytreat and night, when you have to go in the Wardrobe.  You like to count when Ma and Old Nick are on the Duvet, when you’re in the Wardrobe. ...

  Ender's Game: A Book Review     For this week's blog, I will be writing about one of the most popular science fiction books ever, Ender's Game  by Orson Scott Card. Set in the future and told from the perspective of a young child, Earth is at war with an alien race who are attempting to terraform planets for survival. This book deals with many deep themes, from politics to morality in interspace warfare. There is much going on in this complicated book, and it is definitely targeted at an adult audience.     The protagonist of this book, Ender, is a prodigy handpicked by the governments of the world to prepare to fight the aliens. These prodigies are all trained in one spot, a large space station called Battle School. Ender is 6 years old when he is first sent here. All of the other trainees are also extremely young. While at Battle School, Ender is taught a traditional education, except highly advanced and skewed towards military subjects. All of the trai...