Hush Hush, somewhere around halfway through

Hush Hush was so-so. Although the suspense is really great, the weirdness of Patch, the guy with the ski mask, Patch reading her mind, and the whole "he creeps me out." plot is great. The movement of the overall plot is as slow as a turtle. If I didn't know that it was an angel book, or looked at the blurb and saw "one of the fallen." saw the cover of a falling man with big feathers, picked up the hint about the ride "The Arch-Angel." I would have not clue Patch was an angel. I would just think, wow, Patch is a creepy as creepy can get. But there is one good thing about it. It has sooo much suspense, that I would kill myself if I put it down and never read it again. It has provoked so many questions, that if questions were helium, I would be waving to airplanes. Anyway, as soon as I get a nice long time with absolutely no questions and the trial mostly out of the way, I fully intend to finish the book all in one go. And besides the slowness of the overall plot, this book is awesome!

Books I want to read, kind of A.K.A. my Summer Reading List

This isn't technically my summer reading list, but here it is.

1. The Lost, I tried to read this book when I was at my Grandmother's but I didn't finish it.
2. The last book of the Edge Chronicles, The Immortals.
3. Soon I Will be invincible.
4. I am the Messenger.
5. Buddha  Boy.
6. The Knife of Never Letting Go.
7. Ship Breaker
8. Chiggers.
9. The Good Thief.
10. The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet.

Books I have enjoyed, the Redwall series

The Redwall series is written by Brian Jacques. In the series, the only characters are animals, although there was a reference to a town in the first book. The animals can be assumed to have opposable thumbs because they are able to hold onto various things. Each animal has an accent, which is sometimes broken, for example, an educated mole, for plot purposes. Most of the story revolves around an abbey named Redwall named for its large red brick walls. But there was one warrior who was supposed to be there to defend the abbey. The abbey, of course had certain creatures that their species was known for fighting skills just in case. In addition to accents, each animal had a different type of attitude, for example, badgers were supposed to be huge living war machines, but could be caring animals when not under attack. One interesting thing about the series is that the difference in size between animals has been diminished, so badgers for example, are not so huge compared to mice as they are in real life. The whole thing is set in a sort of medieval time with vermin as bandits and warlords. Each character in the book appears at least twice in different books. And sometimes they only appear once because there was a time switch. What I like about it, is that it is jumping around in time, and if you read it in chronological order, nothing would make sense.

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10 reccomendation books

Here are ten books I have read and recommend.

1. Redwall
2. Mossflower
3. The Book Thief
4. Godless
5. To Kill A Mockingbird
6. The Amulet of Samarkand (first book in series)
7. Harry Potter and the Philosophers' Stone (first book in series
8. A Swiftly Tilting Planet
9. The Ring of Solomon
10. A Wrinkle In Time

Angel factory, finished

Now I have finished Angel Factory. In the end, Thomas finds his real mom and finds out about these discs that can "shut down" angels and their spirit goes back to The Presence on the angels home planet. Later on, Thomas's friend Gip who helped with the taking of the encrypted files, does research by asking other adopted kid's parents do the same thing and behave the way thomas' s parents do. He finds out that The Project, the project to save mankind, is bigger than he expected, as all the kids show that their parents are angels. Then Thomas goes to meet the president, who is also an angel. He starts off as a friendly person, but when Thomas says he will not participate in The Project, things get creepy. He suddenly turns creepy evil and sort of implies that Thomas has doomed mankind. When Thomas gets home, Cy, another angel, says that The Project is leaving mankind. Just after Gip says he knows a way to blow The Project's cover, he is revealed to be an angel and deactivated. All of the angels go to the Angel Factory (Yay! now we know the significance of the title) and are filled with all of humanity's faults, to wipe out all traces of The Project's influence. The president then resigns and disappears. Then Thomas meets Gip, who was reactivated by other angel friends of his and says that now he is a fallen angel. He also thanks Thomas for deactivating him because now it gave him the strength to fall.
One important line was from Thomas's sister Amy. She said that when the angels went into the angel factory, their derms (marks of their angel-ness) faded but didn't completely go away. I think this is trying to say that no matter how faulted people are, there is still some angel goodness in them. Which contributes to the bigger theme that humanity can only be saved by humanity...

In the middle of Angel Factory

Now I am in the middle of angel factory, somewhat. The book is getting very intense and awkward. Encrypted files on his parents computer reveal that he was adopted. Later the person who decoded them dies in a car accident. And now for my prediction, the people I thought were angels are angels and are training Thomas to be a good person. But not in the way I thought. They are sterile aliens that are made to look like humans and sent to earth to stop it from destroying itself. But its not bad that my prediction didn't turn out the way I wanted it to, predictable books are boring. So far the book is great, and all I'm waiting for is what comes next and the importance of the title, Angel Factory :)

City of Angels

In the movie, City Of Angels (C.O.A.), angels are depicted traditionally and not traditionally. As for tradition, they aren't human, they come for dead people, they don't have blood, and they act in a way as guardian angels in the scene where the angels squeeze the people's shoulders when they are in a tough situation. But they are depicted non-traditionally too. Here are the ways they are depicted that way, they have no wings, they can't really fly although they can get into a lot of places, angels have free will (with real angels, this is why they envy humans), they also wear black, there aren't really assigned people for the angels to guard, and they are invisible. I thought that C.O.A. put an interesting twist on angels to make the movie interesting, but kept certain characteristics so people would recognize them. And I think it did a good job of that.