Today's Hospital Trip.

Hello Readers. Enjoying your books? :-)

I have just finished reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling. I am now half way through the 2nd book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
They're very good :) I am enjoying them very much, and I think I will like the movies too. My mom is very excited that I have started reading these. She's a HUGE Harry Potter fan ;-D I guess the next movie is coming out next month, and she wants me finished reading all the Harry Potter books and watch the rest of the movies to we can go to the movies together. I think I can do that. I'm almost reading one book a day. It's almost like the books have a real spell on them that makes to read them very fast! Hahahahaha!

As you see below this post, I am working on the reviews for The Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce. It's interesting to think that it was only two months ago I started reading The Protector of the Small quartet, the third series in the Tamora Pierce books.
In those two months I have read: The Protector of the Small quartet, Tricksters (2 books), The Immortals quartet, The Song of the Lioness quartet (all by Tamora Pierce), The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan (It's amazing!), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling, and I'm almost finished reading What the Victorian's Did for us by Adam Hart-Davis (only a few more pages left!!) and some Norse mythology.

I've asked Mom to upload The Iliad, The Odyssey, and Ovid's Metamorphous onto her Kindle, which she lets me use. I'm VERY excited to read all that. :D It will help me to learn about minor Greek gods, and some other unknown myths, which I just LOVE! Very exciting! :) I've been trying to read the Grimm's fairy tales, but somehow all these fantasy books keep overruling them. . . ;) Heehee

So today we had to go to my little brother, Emrys' hospital appointment today in San Francisco. Have I ever mentioned that I HATE hospitals?? Yes, I do not like them AT all! The whole system is totally messed up! Great Gaia it was annoying. We sat in the waiting room for over an hour and a half! Grr!
So anyway, Emrys had another seizure the other night. It was quite scary. But this trip was just a check up. It takes us about two hours to get to San Fran from where we live. So this morning we all packed up in the car and we got out around 10:00 AM. It didn't really seem like a long drive to me, because I was so immersed in my book I didn't even really hear mom and dad talking right next to me. Hahaha! When we got to the hospital we found parking easy (thanks great god of parking!) and got into the waiting room around 11:30. We made killer time on the drive! We didn't end up waiting very long in the first waiting room. a nurse called us in weighed and measured Emrys and then we went into the doctor's office at about 11:50. Then we sat, waited, fed the little ones apples, sat some more for like an hour! we were just about to leave when, finally! a nurse came in. Sadly she didn't know anything about why we were there. We answered a few questions and then she left. Then we sat and waited in that same. . .small. . .blank room for another 45 minutes. Right as we were going to leave again the doctor came in (They seem to know right when you are going to leave on them and then come in and make you stay longer. Is it some sort of scheme to pay them more or is it a test to see how long you can be bored before you start screaming with boredom? The more the patients suffer the more money the doctors and nurses make? Sounds cruel but I'm willing to believe it in this world. :P Grr!), and talked to mom and dad, but i plugged into my book and didn't hear much of what he said. ;D Hahaha! But then we lugged our tired, hungry selves down to the nearest Startbucks at around 3:00 and we all got coffee and snacks which were sorely needed. After a few wrong turns (Holy Hecate San Fran is easy to get lost in!) we got onto the highway and we were free of that awful hospital!

We stopped at a JoAnn's (Fabric Store!!! Woop!) to walk for a bit. Golly it feels nice to walk and feel the blood go to your legs after a while. ;) Turns out that this is the store that Mom has needed to get fabric for her dolls! Yay! And we bought the little ones some cute Halloween prezzies. Emrys got a flashlight that has little Halloween covers so when it shines through pumpkins and ghosts come up on the wall. Gwynnie got a C.U.T.E witch's hat that she seems to like. and Thane got a pumpkin flashlight too.

We next stopped at a BBQ place for dinner, but something is the BBQ sauce had wheat in it I know, because it made me feel yucky, so I didn't eat much. (I had a pancake and a half, the last of the jerky and some chips once we got home ;D Haha!) But Then Emrys' flashlight broke so Dad had to go find another one at Target, and with my-always-have-everything-you'll-ever-need-in-it purse I pulled out scissors to cut the flashlight out of the package and I just happened to have tape to attach the pumpkin cover onto the new flashlight. I felt very proud that me and my purse were needed so badly ;) Mwhaha! I got another chance to pull something out when mom thought dad was about to change lanes into another car. I gave her Rescue Remedy.

Now everyone is completely asleep except me, because I'm writing this, obviously. ;) I'm so glad that today it over and that we didn't stay at a hotel. Holy Hypnos are we all exhausted after today. Mom and Dad are very mad about how long we had to wait, and our next appointment is with a totally new doctor who won't know anything about Emrys which is a pain trying to retell our story to every time we go there a meet a new doctor. So We're not going to go to that hospital anymore. We want to find a doctor, for when Emrys might have another seizure that's closer by. I hope that we can find one.

Great Muses it feels good to write today out. I'll prob print this out and put it in my diary, but I want to try to really write today down with some more personal thought down. I like to write by hand, and I don’t want to get out of practice by writing on the computer all the time. I'll prob do it tomorrow. Thanks for listening to my day. there's totally a difference in writing in your diary and writing on a blog where lots of people read it. sometime's it feels good to have other people read your writing.

I'm off to go sleep. Tomorrow I'll finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, What the Victorians did for us, and the article about chocolate in mom's magazine. ;)

Good night everyone from here!

~Rhanna~

Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce.

In which ten-year old Alanna sneaks of to court of Tortall, disguised as a boy named Alan. She becomes a page there and befriends other pages, the prince, and the King of Thieves. During her training she fights mean bullies, battles the sweating sickness, suspects Duke Rodger the prince's cousin and court magican, and proves herself to be as good as the boys. But when she starts her period unexpectedly she goes to George, the King of Thieves, for help. He is more than surprised to find that she is a girl, but takes her to his mother who tells Alanna about womanhood. From then on Alanna and George are best friends. She is invited to join her friends on a trip to the desert to meet some of the locals, where they hear the story of the Black City, and abandoned city with has evil magic that pulls youths to it and eats them up. Alanna wakes in the night and with the Prince they ride to the city. They meet the magical elders and fight an amazing magic battle, that ends with secrets being discovered.

I LOVE this book. I love the whole Alanna series! I think Alanna has become one of my favorite heroines ever. In the beginning Alanna secretly switches places with her twin brother Thom to be a knight while Thom goes to become a sorcerer. Alanna's relationship with all her friends is so much fun to read about it makes you laugh, smile, frown, and you feel every emtion that they are feeling. I Loved all of her friends, Coram, her loving manservant who has been with her since the beginning, Prince Jonathan, George, and Sir Myles, a elderly kinght and teacher who becomes Alanna's new loving father. Tamora Pierce is an amazing writer and I love reading all her books and her heroines are a blast to read about.

This book is in The Song of the Lioness series.

Reccommended for people who like: spunky girls, magic, battles, and amazing friendship.

The Wild Girls by Pat Murphy

In which twelve year old Joan is doubting she will like living in California, when she meets the Queen of the Foxes and her whole life changes. Fox (her real name is Sarah) and Joan become fast friends and soon are spending all their afternoons together climbing trees and becoming the wild girls. When school starts, they enter a contest to write a short story and they win. They meet a writer who likes their story and asks them to join her writing class for the summer and they agree. Joan and Sarah meet many new interesting people and learn to live more freely and ask wonderful questions. The class helps Joan and Sarah deal with the hard problems they are having with their parents and brings them closer together.


It's written in first-person from Joan's view. This story was one of the best books that I have ever read. It was so realistic that I felt very much for the characters and as I got deeper into the story I felt that it was really real and I want to jump in and join them. I LOVED Sarah and Joan's relationship. They were the best-true-friends that everyone always wishes to have. Verla Volante is fabulous! I would very much love to join her class. I loved all the questions she asks and how everyone answers them, it feels like you are almost in it yourself. It was very sad to read about Sarah and Joan's parental problems, but it was interesting to read about what it might be like to have a family that was so torn. It made me feel very blessed to have my wonderful close family and it makes me feel awful for the families in real life that have these problems. I will be suggesting this book to all my friends.
Recommended for people who like: foxes, lipstick war paint, and amazing friendship.

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan.

In which it is the final battle for Percy Jackson and his friends. The prophecy of Percy’s death has been told. New York and Olympus are under attack and the gods are gone fighting a monster. It’s up to Percy, Annabeth and all the campers to save Olympus from Kronos, the evil Titan lord, who wants to destroy the world, humans, and the gods. In the final adventure Percy and his friends run into loving hellhounds, shadow traveling, visions from the past, a beef-brain minotaur, baths in the river Styx, mortals who are more important than they seem, and great battles that are so intense you can‘t look away. Will Olympus and the world be saved and will Percy live through what may be his last adventure?


This book is so serious that you can’t put it down. With the fear that any of the characters can die in the end, you are turning the pages with amazing speed. Even if you are not a big reader this book will make you one! But it is so fun to read. Clarisse is so stubborn that you can’t believe it! What happens to Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Tyson leaves you so excited that you could scream and jump around! I was a little disappointed with the very ending because it left some stuff unanswered but Mr. Riordan says that the story will keep going but just with different characters. I hope that Percy, Annabeth, Grover, Tyson, and everybody else will still be there to save the day.

This book is in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

Recommended for people who like: sitting-on-the-edge-of-your-seat-excitement, the river Styx, special life spots, and shadows.

Hello Readers :-)

Happy Autumn Readers! Read anything good lately?



I just wanted to drop into to say I'm sorry for not writing any reviews in a while. I've felt kind of bad for not keeping up with this blog because i really do enjoy writing reviews. I have been busy reading lots of new books (and learning how to surf! It's lots of fun.) and doing some other stuff. I've just finished a brand new book and I have some more that I've read lately that I would like to start reviewing again. So I am going to try to get better at writing more often. :) Maybe two reviews a week? I don't know, but I will get better at it. :) I will be adding more books to my list of books I want to read or review as well. I hope that you will enjoy them!

(By the way, I was not able to come up with a good review for The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan {the fourth book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series}. I tried and tried but nothing would come to me, so I gave up. :-P
But I have made one for The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan, that I was hesitating to post, but I think I will now.)

But I also wanted to see if anyone thinks it might be a good idea if I started writing in here about other things than books? Like other blogs I could write about whatever I want too like unschooling, surfing, crafts, baking, my comparative mythology studies, my day-to-day-routine and other subjects I like to talk about.
I think that would be lots of fun, and much easier than starting a new blog. ;-) I doubt I would do very many other posts along with the book reviews, but maybe every once in a while. I think I'll try it a few times. :-)

Thanks you reading everyone! I'm going to try to get better at writing here, writing on the other blogs I am on, and writing Emails. :) I hope you enjoy.

~Rhanna