Book Review: Must Read

I started this book yesterday. I finished this book yesterday. It was AMAZING!! Recently, my friends and I are in sort of a reading contest. We each had to pick 5 books at random from a book list and read them. Fortunately, I picked this one! It is so good!

The Plot:
Thomas arrives in a place called the Glade , having no memory of who he was or his life prior to waking up in an elevator while on the way up to the Glade. He is one of about 50 boys. He finds out the Glade is the center of an ever-changing maze which seems to have no exit, and which is populated by blood-thirsty creatures known as "grievers". There are 4 doors leading into the maze, that open every morning, and shut every night. The boys that inhabit the Glade, send"runners" into the maze each day to map it out. All have to be back before the doors close or they will not survive the night in the maze. The day after Thomas arrives, the first and only girl ever sent to the Glade arrives with a message that she is the last one to be sent and that the end is near. She then lapses into a fitful coma. Thomas must try to figure out why she looks familiar and if there is a way out of the maze before everything completely falls apart in the Glade.


I think this book is really well written and has a really good plot line! If you think it looks good; read it. If you think it looks bad; read it. Don't be daunted by the start. It is kind of confusing, but it's supposed to be that way! You'll get it more as the main character learns more. It's a mystery story that you keep collecting little pieces of throughout the book!

Warning: It is a series. The Maze Runner is just book one and the next book doesn't come out until OCTOBER! It also has a really bad cliff-hanger ending. It's your choice. In my opinion, read it anyways! It's that good (and you know how much I read)!

My Plans...

I got tickets to Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief on opening day! I am so excited! I will most likely bug whoever is sitting next to me with my consistent burst of annoyance at how it was changed. So, I have a backup plan. I am going to bring a notebook, refrain myself from speaking, and write down all the changes that were made from the book. Then I will post a review on the movie for all those that wish to see it! I really loved the book! It's my favorite series. I hope they do it justice with this movie! (And if you haven't read it, don't judge the book by what you see in the movie)

My Favorite Things...

You know, today I was thinking. (Yes I do think.) The viewers of my blog should get to know me better! So, I have composed this song to the tune of My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music. So, if you do not wish to know more about me or my favorite things, you are now free to press the red X at the top right hand corner of your screen. Go on. . . No? All right then! This next 1-15 minutes (depending on how fast you read) is entirely devoted to me!

My (Michaela's) Favorite Things

Eating at restaurants, and sleeping 'till lunchtime.
Reading the comics and soaking in sunshine.
Wearing (some) jewelry like CTR rings,
These are a few of my favorite things!

Shoes built for comfort and not built for style.
My chewed off nails, that I don't have to file.
Singing is showers, a Hawaiian shore,
These are some things that I simply adore!

Anything that comes from Paris or France,
Music that really make me want to dance!
Crystallized Pineapple, reading a TON!
But, most of all I just love to have fun!

Now you know that,
I love lots of things,
So if your feeling bored,
Just write up a song, and post it on your blog,
and then you won't be. . . ignored!

TA! DA!

Thank you! Thank you! Hold the applause! If you would like to see a list of extremely confusing things, please go to Courtney's blog! She gave me the idea!
See? Aren't you glad you read that? Now you know me!

Funny signs!

I decided to do a collage of funny signs today... enjoy...











Way to be blunt...

Shining Armor

My friend Olivia Hatton has a song on iTunes and I think that it is really good! The same day that I found out it was on iTunes was the same day that I realized she could sing! It's called "Shining Armor". Check it out. I would put the picture on here but it wont show up. Sorry!Tell me what you think! I'm so jealous...

Night before Christmas

I thought that because it is Christmas time, I would post the most well known Christmas poem ever!

THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
by Clement Clarke Moore
or Henry Livingston

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,

While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;

And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,

Had just settled down for a long winter's nap,

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash,

Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow

Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,

When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,

But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,

I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.

More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,

And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;

"Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!

On, Comet! on Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!

To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!

Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,

When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,

So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,

With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof

The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

As I drew in my head, and was turning around,

Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,

And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;

A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,

And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

His eyes -- how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,

And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,

And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;

He had a broad face and a little round belly,

That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,

And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,

Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,

And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,

And laying his finger aside of his nose,

And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,

And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.

But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,

"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."

Posters

More Movie Posters:

Percy Jackson with the Trident (which he never ever touches in the book)

Annabeth (who should really be blond)

Grover the Satyr (one of the points in the book is that Grover can't do woodland magic very well, so I don't know why he has that magic ball in his hand)

Riptide (Percy's sword, which can't really spark electricity like that)

An awesome representation of Percy's powers



As you can tell, I will most likely be judging the movie very harshly. The Upside of reading the book is that I will know everything that they left out or changed in the movie!
The Downside of reading the book is that I will know everything that they left out or changed in the movie.
Kind of bitter-sweet. Mostly SWEET.
I AM SO EXITED!!!!!