Entry #4: Summer Reading Project 2014

This particular novel is actually sequel to the first one called Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children. These books always caught my eye because I always find an interest in creepy fictional books. I also really enjoyed The Series Of Unfotunate Events Stories with an author of the Pen name Lemony Snicket. When I went to the book store I was walking around when I saw these books. I couldn't help but instantly want to pick it up and read it. So, when I read the back of the book I knew I had to buy it. Both the first book and the sequel to it. There were a few personal connections with me and this novel. The main one I focused on was how you never know what is going to happen in the future. Sometimes not even 20 minutes from where we are right now in this moment. Jacob and his peculiar friends always found themselves lost throughout all they are going through, never knowing where they will end in their crazy lives. I always catch myself daydreaming, "What does the future have in store for me?" Even though Ransom Riggs' novels are becoming very popular for many people, I think there are a handful of people that would actually grasp, and enjoy what Ransom is writing about. Like I said you will have to be the kind of person that likes creepy, yet very fictional stories, and in that case you have found your book.

Entry #3: Summer Reading Project 2014

"I heard a plane threading the clouds high above us and let my oars drag, neck craning up, arrested by a vision of our little armada from such a height: this world I had chosen, and everything I had in it, and all our precious, peculiar lives, contained in three splinters of wood adrift upon the vast, unblinking eye of the sea. Mercy." (page. 17, Hollow City, Ransom Riggs ) I chose this context of my story because personally I think the author Ransom was trying to hook the reader to read further and further into the story. I chose a context that was closer to the beginning of the book because in a lot of stories there are contexts that hook readers ether near the beginning or the end of the read to hook you into the next book which is the case in this story since there is a third book coming out hopefully soon. In this context Jacob Portman, (a peculiar) is talking to us about the beginning of his journey after the end of a very scary one in the first book Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children. He has no idea what lies ahead, and what obstacles people (or things) may throw at him, but in this context all he can think of is the water, the boat, and his new family beside him. Jacob wants us (the readers) to go on this adventure with him, and I did. All I can say was it was a very memorable adventure. I was hooked.

The Creepy, yet beautiful Ocean Jacob and his peculiar friends were
rowing on,