CATCHING FIRE

In my quest to find an interesting book, I have just given up and started reading Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. I'm not that far in the book so nothing really interesting has went down yet. For those who have seen the movie you know that she is back home from winning the games and is now living in the Victors Village. Unlike the book the movie leaves out so much detail that the book uses to make the story much more clear.

Basically it starts out just like the movie with her out hunting but only she is alone and Gale is at work. I believe that the director of the movie put Gale in that first scene to kinda play out the love triangle between Katniss, Gale, and Peta. Other similarities are that President Snow does come to her home and talks with Katniss about her attempt to kill herself and Peta in the Hunger Games. What surprised me is that they movie Used the exact dialogue that President snow said in the book.  

So that's exactly where I left off with her encounter with Snow and how he tell her that she must play out the love story further to prevent an uprising and to save her life and the ones she loves.

I will keep you updated on the book and movie comparisons as soon as I dive a little bit further in.  

The End of Yummy

I have recently finished the Comic book Yummy and I was shocked by the ending. The young kid was scared that he had all these people looking for him and he didn't know were to go. His so called brothers Left him and he really felt alone. I understand his feeling because that's exactly what gangs do to a person. They never really care about a member unless he's doing his job and making money. sadly for Yummy he didn't do his job right and that why the gang got fed up with him and (spoiler alert) they killed him.
At the very end of the book i was reading the authors notes and he touched on how the violence in Chicago was taking the lives of many your souls that just lived in the wrong place. They lived in a neighborhood were you had to be tough and you had to be street smart or else you weren't going to make it. With gang persuading young kids no more that 13 years of age to go out a kill or sell drugs for them, saying that they will protect them that they would be there for them saying that they were a "family" was just telling those poor kids a huge lie to their faces.
Also at they end of the story the author asked was yummy a nice kid hiding under the mask if a hard tough gangster of was he really a gangster pretending to be nice to people when adults were around. To be honest you could argue both ways equally. For me I can't choose a side that I could argue best and defend. I can say one thing tho that Yummy's life will never be forgotten to those who really knew him and could really answer the authors question.

Yummy

I have recently finished my last book I Am Number Four and It rapped up with this huge battle between him, his friends, number six and his protector all against what you can call a small magadorian army.

I am now reading Yummy a south side story of a young kid who fell into the life of crime. The book is told in a comic through the voice of Roger a fictional character who wants to know the whole story of who yummy was a why he was killed. Though roger is a fictional character the story is still true with little fictional detail to make it more dramatic. 

Its a great book if you want to read something quick and want to learn a little about the history of the Southside of Chicago and want to learn a little of how it was like to live there and the big stories that went down around that area. Roger who is only just 11 years of age never really knew yummy. it is said that they went to the same school and yummy would pick on him and bully him. but those were the day when yummy even came to school. Most days he would just skip school; doing things like stealing, fighting and blasting his gun all over the place. Yummy just being only 11 years of age himself joined a gang called the Black disciple Nation BDN for short which he felt showed him a family of brothers who would protect him. 

I kinda sympythise for yummy. Both parents in and out of jail, forced to live with his grandmother who actually showed him love and care but he never apreceated it. He was taken away form his grandmother and sent to live in a special home for boy where there he was picked on.  So I can see why he looked towards a gang so they he could feel security in his life.

The book I am reading for the independent reading in I Am Number Four. A book turned to movie; author Pittacus Lore tells a story told through the main character Number 4 or John Smith a name h choose to hide his real identity. You see "John" is an alien from the planet called Lorien. He looks just like a human but with more physical strength, he can hear and smell more than we can and has special powers that come to him as he gets older.  There were nine like him that came to earth after their planet was attacked by another alien culture called the Mogadorian from the planet Mogadore. 

Its a pretty fast pace book that tells just about every little detail but it builds so much suspense that you just have to keep reading. To be honest this is the first book I really read and got into since the eighth grade. “Yea its that good.”

I even suggest reading the sequel to it even though I haven’t. If its as good as this one then it’s a must read. You can really connect with “John,” going into his mind is like a journey to a whole other universe. It's a pretty fast pace book with every chapter going through every little detail and then at the end leaving you with a cliff hanger that makes you read on and not put the book down.
I'm reaching the end of the book where John gets caught by the Magadorians because of a foolish move to save his human girlfriend. In luck he runs into number six who is just like him and Henry his protecter also comes to his help. They kill of many of the "scout" Magadorians but when the bigger badder soliders come with the "beast" is where they now have troubles and that where i left off.