Geomancers Compass.

The Geomancer's Compass by Melissa Hardy  is about a girl named Miranda Liu. You follow her through the first person view as she encounters the daemon ghost of her relative who was murdered by Canadians because he was in a relation ship with her. Miranda and her cousin with A.D.H.D. and Dyslexia have to go and dig up his bones with the help of their great,great grandfather or The Grandfather. They can only meet The Grandfather while wearing I-Spex.  This is probably the only book that in which you absolutely despise the main character. Hardy just made Miranda heartless and inconsiderate.

As you probably didn't guess this takes place in the future, I enjoy that but as you read the book it seems as though it's just like real life today, so I really don't count it as Sci-fi in fact it's pretty much only fantasy. This makes it seem even worse for her character. A great example of this is when Miranda just denies that any of her own culture can be even somewhat true in front of her dying mothers face. Her text and thoughts prove this.

Another thing that makes her completely heartless is that constantly talking about all of the way her cousin is bad. She constantly rambles on and on about how Brian can't read or pay attention. She also continues to talk on and on about how Brian talks to dirty, dirty homeless people and why he keeps bringing up conversations with them. It just makes you so angry, so very angry!!

Near the end she starts to get better understanding her cousin. It doesn't mean she gets any better though, Her text is still SO annoying. She happens to be continually getting dumber and dumber as the book goes on and this makes me happy seeing my favorite character getting the spotlight, that being Brian, this makes me happy.

In conclusion I actually didn't write about the book but about the main character, meaning that I have to write about it Sunday, or some other day. Any way Miranda couldn't be more of a _____ even if she was hilarious (which she isn't) and she is heartless and inconsiderate,  which makes me happy because the ending is worth going through Miranda.

The two Characters of my liking.

Great characters are the characters that you understand, that you feel for. Characters that you as a reader can relate to. Arnold, the main character from True Diary by Sherman Alexi is a perfect example of that. He's relate able, he shows his feelings well, and you really get to know him like he was your friend. On the other hand we also love characters who aren't relate able what so ever but we are envious of because of there amazing traits and their characteristics. No character demonstrates that better then Tom Sawyer, the main character of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain go figure.

The reason why Arnold displays so much emotion and so many thoughts to us is because he is written in the first person view. Not only this but his character is relate able and has the traits of a normal human being. He isn't special (Other then the fact that he has a brain disorder.) and that makes us feel more for this amazing character as he grows and matures through out the book.

Unlike Arnold, Tom Sawyer is written in the third person view, and that's a good thing because of his traits and characteristics. Tom is a very special almost inhuman due to his brilliant traits, such as slyness, cunning, smart, adventurousness, and of course bravery. If this story was told in the first-person view I doubt it would be as iconic as it is. Watching Tom grow and fool everyone in his community is so much fun as it is in the third-person.

A good example of the time it's better to have a third person view is when in Tom Sawyer, Tom tricks all of his friends into painting a fence and better yet making them give him  something so that they could paint it for him. This Wouldn't be fun in the third-person because what would Tom be thinking other then, "hahaha what a bunch of suckers!", this might be decent, but not  for a page. A good example of when It's good to have a first-person view is when Arnold is getting booed and attacked verbally by the Spokane indians. This chapter is full of emotion because he is Spokane and this is full of emotion so you want to see his point of view.

In conclusion any character can be great but each character has to fit its writing style. If you have a character that fits the wrong writing style it won't be as good as if it fit the right writing style. These characters just happen to fit their writing styles perfectly and I enjoy that about these characters. This is what I like to see about characters and I hope that more authors learn about it.

A Absolutely true Diary of a part time Indian. Gosh that's a long title.

In  The Absolutely True Diary of a part time Indian by Sherman Alexie, is an amazing book and is the first book (other than Ender's Game) that I actually loved so much that I read  it twice. It has an amazing, emotional, funny story. It is also full of the cast of some of the funniest characters in the world. It also has one of the most dark twists.

In the book Arnold, the main character, is troubled with a brain disease that doesn't hinder him but makes the other Indians on the rez pick on him and beat him up. He has only one true friend, Rowdy, who's dad  beats him, this causes allot of issues in Arnold's life. When his teacher Mr. P tells him not to give up and to leave the Rez in order to continue to fight on, that's exactly what Arnold does. Arnold then decides that he has to go to a specific school, a school full of another race of raciest white people. In my opinion this is actually a really good plot line and knowing that he has to leave his own tribe and them turning there backs on him is just amazingly beautiful.

The cast of Characters is also hilarious. When Arnold gets to Reardan, his new school, he makes frieds with a nerd, Gordy, who believes that books should give you a metaphorical boner, (Arnold doesn't understand that it's metaphorical at first.) Meets his future girlfriend, Penelope, who just happens to be bulimic, and Roger, the gigantic at-first bully then friend guy, who becomes Arnold's friend because Arnold punches him in the face. This might not seem funny at first but the way Alexie writes it is just comic to the soul.

In the book though, does have many a serious moment. When family troubles occur ,like a death for example, Alexie just changes Arnold's voice. He makes Arnold serious and emotional. He makes the book seem like how it would be if this issue happened to you. He some how keeps the mood lightened up just enough to keep you from sobbing and stop reading the book.

In conclusion this book is the best book of today and it has all of the elements that a great book needs. The characters are serious and yet funny, the story is depressing and yet light and comic at most times, the ending is beautiful and the book itself is a master piece. This book I would struggle to put out of ten because it deserves much more than ten. So I will end this review by putting this book at the 999/10 mark. 

The books of today vs the books of the past prt 2

Leaving off from my last blog I was talking about the books of today and the books of the past. Today I'm going to explain how the books of the past are better than the books of today. First off they had amazingly emotional characters. They had Deep stories and the most realistic settings or most fantastical. These are those stories that have been passed down for generations. When I mean books of the past I mean 1980's or earlier.

In The Once and Future King by T.H. White The story begins with Arthur being a young child in his foster fathers castle. In the beginning when Arthur is just a child Merlin takes him on wonderful journeys and the book is funny and uplifting. The story only gets darker and darker though. By the end of the book half of the cast of characters is dead and Arthur himself is about to die. This builds suspense and a tension in the story so that you never want to put the book down because you want to know what happens next.

In the greatest book in the world by fact and popular opinion, or in other terms the best book I've ever read and will probably ever will read, meaning Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Ender is a very amazing, special character, he goes through so much and develops from being to one being picked on  to a star captain who can pick on you and get legally away with it. Did I mention he's about ten? This is something books will try to take up today but Card made his book so dark and so unique that no one could ever repeat it.

Finally in the masterpiece known as Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a great book that has amazing settings or backgrounds as you may call it. The main characters in this book go to and live on an island, have an encounter with a few criminals and get into a ton of trouble. Twain puts so much detail into the town they live in and what the island looks like that you feel like your there.

In Conclusion the books of the past are much, much better than the books of today. They had better stories settings and characters. They felt more emotional and even more relate-able than the books of today. Yes there are many good books of today but there are none I would call Great.