All About Drums

Here it is, a guide to my favorite type of instrument that just HAS to go on my blog! This awesome, awesome, and more awesome book has all anyone needs to know about playing the standard five-piece drum kit, and has tons of songs to grab your sticks and crash, bang, and wallop into the ears of your audience with your drumset! If you're drum-crazy, this is your book!

The parts I liked the most about this book were the two parts at the end, first, the "who's who" part, which names important "kit-drummers"(not orchestral drummers). My favorite guy was named Neil Peart, and his drum kit is HUGE, and it's components stretch my imagination. In fact, the picture doesn't even help, since I hardly can see some parts, and there are probably lots I can't see at all! (What a bad angle, stupid camera dude.) The other part I liked was the appendix, which might come in handy when I learn to play drums with written music.

George's Marvelous Medicine

This book by Roald Dahl is short, but still totally hilarious. I think anyone who wants humor in a small package better get their hands on this.

One day, little George's parents go on vacation, and George has to stay with his horrid Grandma--who's such a grouchy old hag that she definitely doesn't deserve to be called Grandma because of the "Grand" part of the word. Her usual medicine doesn't do a thing to cure her grouchiness, which meant George was stuck with mean old "Granny Grunt". Suddenly he was struck with an idea-a great one. He would make grandma a new medicine that would either make her explode or something like that, or make her a much better person. and so it started. George ran all around the property with a big pot, putting all sorts of stuff into it. Later he boiled it and stirred it and whadaya know, it's ready! When George gave it to grandma, the results were bizarre. Grandma ended up with her head sticking through the roof--and her feet still standing on the living room floor! To find out what happened afterwards, read the book.

My favorite part was when grandma got her new meds. First she caught fire from inside her, then she did a perfect backflip, then she inflated and deflated with air, then she got taller and got stuck stretched with her head breaking through the roof and her feet still standing on the living room floor. I think I forgot somthing, but whatever. You've GOT to read it.

Warriors #5: A Dangerous Path (1)

I'm sorry about this 1/2 post, but I had to do it because I haven't been reading as much. I'm somewhere about 3/8ths of the way through this book.

Fireheart, who was taking the ill Bluestar's place at the gathering, was surprised (in the bad way) to see his greatest enemy, Tigerclaw, as leader of ShadowClan. (I should say Tigerstar instead of Tigerclaw now, but I'm just tellin' ya who this guy is.) Just when the the young deputy with the fire-colored fur was about to warn the three other clans about Tigerstar's former presence as a rogue cat. But he seemed rather peaceful.  Perhaps, now that he has satisfied his hunger for power, his only goal is probably to make his sickness-flooded clan powerful again. In fact, the ShadowClan medicine cat got an e-mail from StarClan that a new great leader would rise. (Just kidding about the e-mail part.)

Later, back in the ThunderClan camp, cats were detecting dog-scent nearby, and kept seeing dead rabbits. When Bluestar was informed, she said that WindClan killed the poor bunnies (WindClan hunts them more often then the other clans) and ignored the dog part. Later, a blind kit named Snowkit was taken by a hawk. Bluestar said it was a sign that StarClan was at war with ThunderClan, and that was probably the last major event since I left off.

So far my favorite part was where Fireheart discovered that Tigerstar was the leader of Shadowclan. I like how the author explained this. She used a lot of words and sentences that make it easy to picture and understand.

Warriors #4: Rising Storm

Finally, it's here! Fireheart and the rest of Thunderclan are back into action as we see them live in peace-but soon Bluestar starts to think that Starclan is abandoning her! Fireheart does his best to comfort her, but this fails. Then something terrible strikes. Here's a clue to what it is: Spottedleaf's last message to her clan as a living medicine cat said it would save the clan (poor Spottedleaf-the rest of Starclan must be angry because of how she said the message) and it's HOT.

My favorite part was when they were planning about what would happen at a gathering that was near the end. It was very cool.  Since Bluestar was ill, they had to decide whether it was worth it to go to the gathering without a leader, just the deputy, or if it wasn't worth it. They decided that Fireheart had to take her place because there were many things that they had to warn the other clans about. This doesn't mean that Bluestar died, but she was just too sick to go; she's still the leader of the clan. Fireheart did do a good job in her place at that gathering though. Boy, now I can't even imagine him being the kittypet he used to be!

This series is definitely not going to run away from the house of interest yet! In fact I don't think it ever will!  I already started the next book in the series, so stay tuned for my review of that!

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

Poor Dr. John Dolittle is getting very low on money! He is a doctor who likes animals more than people. This is why he becomes an animal doctor. Soon his talking parrot, Polynesia, teaches him that animals have a language, and even how to speak it. This allowed him to understand the sick animals that get taken there, so he could give them the right stuff, like when a blind horse came in, he said he needed glasses, so that's what he got! The Dr. became famous for that. But chi-chi, the monkey, gets a message from monkeys in africa that they are sick and need the doc badly! So he and his buddies from other species sets out on a journey to africa, with only adventure awaiting them!

My favorite parts of it are the most exiting parts (boys always like excitement)  like when pirates tried to attack them. I also liked the part about dr. doolittle learning animal languages and it would be fun if I had a dream about that. There were a bunch of funny parts, like for example in the learning animal language part, Polynesia says "If I say 'Polly wants a cracker' you understand me, right?" That's quite funny to me. And when Jip the dog was sniffing for a lost person and he kept smelling funny things from a long long way away from them.

I'd recommend this book for anyone who likes animals and perhaps humor too.