The Bees Knees

 When trying to think of a blog post, I was stuck on what I should write about. Then, I realized that so many of my posts have been about mangas and ranking them. However, I never even stated what I deem a "good" manga! This post will basically be skimming my brain to see how it works! I will talk about Waiting for Spring  by Anashin, since I believe this manga is one of the best I have ever read. I think many things go into being a good book, let alone being a good manga. As someone who is very picky about what she reads, my brain goes through various "checklists" that send off signals, telling me I will enjoy it. First, we have the first thing that most people notice: art style. To put it simply, if someone doesn't have a good art style, I will not enjoy it, no matter how many other boxes they check. If it has a bad art style, I will refuse to read it. An example of this is Classmates by Asumiko Nakamura. On the other side of the spectrum, you have Waiting for...

(DISCLAIMER: This review is NOT based on the paperback version of the book. This is based off of a different online version which holds the same plot and same story as the book!!!)               If I asked what defines good and bad, I’d get a lot of different answers. Good and bad are what individuals like to ponder yet can never actually define them or what makes them different. The book Not Even Bones paints a terrific picture of how vague and undefined the line between good and bad is.               Starring Nita, a young woman who strives to go to college and who loves dissecting bodies maybe a little too much, this book narrates her journey of attaining power and the struggles of how she reaches that goal. From killing probably hundreds of people on an island where no one who was held captive there ever made it out alive to tell the tale, to taking ...

Hello all. This month, I will be covering "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. I first read this book back in 5th grade for an online literature course, and recently re-read it in my free time. Despite being quite dense, I think the themes within this story are very prominent, and has topics that we can all relate to. Although this story is actually a written play, the book version is read in the form of a script.  This story takes place in the 17th century, right in the middle of the horrific Salem Witch trials. The main character's name is John Proctor,  who was a dramatized version of the real-life John Proctor who was murdered along with his wife during the Salem Witch Trials. Towards the beginning of the story, he finds himself facing multiple accusations. Truthfully, he actually had an affair with another woman named Abigail, and has been hiding the secret for a year. While I won't tell you the verdict and spoil the ending of the story, the play revolves around a lo...

by Sophia Chen I'm sure you've heard about it already, but if not, The Twilight Saga is a series of four books (plus a few bonus novels) by Stephenie Meyer about a shy, awkward damsel in distress and her dark and mysterious vampire boyfriend. (There are also movies, but I prefer to go by the motto 'the books are always better.') If you're looking to read The Twilight Saga , you should obviously read them in order. Doing otherwise would be... ineffective, to say the least. However, I had no other ideas for a book blog. So in this post, I'm rating the books in the Twilight Saga (which I read in 5th grade) from worst to best. Starting with, drumroll please... Life and Death. 1. Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined For anyone who doesn't know, Life and Death  is basically Twilight  (the first book), gender swapped. Now, while I can normally appreciate a good gender swap fanfiction, the key lies in the word good . This is not a good book. The new names are horrib...

 Hello everyone! My review this month is on  Turtles All the Way Down  by John Green. It was a christmas gift and it is one of my favorite realistic fiction novels so far. The book's protagonist, Aza Holmes, has OCD and struggles with "thought spirals", which are essentially her getting stuck in her own thoughts and being unable to escape them. While she battles with an unrealistic obsession over a very rare stomach disease  C. diff , she ends up drinking sanitizer after kissing someone just so she can feel clean. She regularly doesn't feel normal and is insecure, often believing that even her best friend doesn't like her. She falls in love with her childhood friend, Davis Pickett, whose billionaire father recently disappeared. However, the combination of her mental health issues in addition to Davis's stress over his father makes it difficult. Towards the end of the story, Aza and Davis both experience their own traumatic and life-changing event, causing Aza ...

                As much as I love FNAF, taking a break is always* a good thing. Therefore, today I’ll be talking about a book I read in elementary school. It was one of the best books I’ve ever read. This book caught my eye with its title written in swoopy-swirly lettering on its spine while I was aimlessly browsing through my town’s public library.                                                                                                                                       *Always is a relevant term. If you have other things, you need to be doing and you’ve been taking a “break” for the past hour, it’s pro...

 I got quite a few books over winter break and have already read most of them! I decided to rank them and give recommendations on which ones I think are the best. 1. Death Note Death Note is about an extremely smart high school senior, who is bored with his life. Light Yagami, the protagonist, then finds a notebook that simply has the words "Death Note" on the cover. He picks it up and when he gets home, he opens it to find rules on it. It says that if you write someone's first and last name in the book, the person will die in sixty seconds from a heart attack. This leads Light to start writing criminals' names in the book, which makes the police force start suspecting that someone is magically murdering them. It turns into a police chase, with Light working alongside the police as a "detective" on the case. This manga was extremely interesting and an amazing read. I got the entire set and blew through them so fast. I watched the anime first and it was such ...