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For today's blog post, I wanted to rate some of my favorite childhood books that I'm pretty sure everyone read growing up. I find these books hilarious and that they bring so much joy and fun.  Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems Summary: A bus driver takes a break and leaves the reader in charge, with one important instruction: “Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus!” and the pigeon shows up, pleading and throwing tantrums to get permission to drive. The book shows a lot of silly jokes, but its also an easy book and can be joyful to anyone who reads it. I rate this book an 11/10! Grumpy Monkey by Suzanne Lang Pretty much this book is about a monkey named Jim Panzee, that wakes up feeling grumpy for no known reason, his friends try multiple things to cheer him up but Jim continues being grumpy. Until Jim realized its okay to feel grumpy sometimes and learned to embrace his emotions. This book is the cutest and I love it so much! It teaches kids that its okay to feel...

  Love Bullet   by Inee I 'fell in love' with this series very quickly (Haha get it? because it's about cupids?) and  I cannot recommend any other series more. Even though it's a work in progress, the pure amount of potential it has makes it hold a 'special place in my heart' (I'm sorry that's the last joke I swear). Love Bullet  is set in a world where people who never fall in love take on the role of cupids after they die (given to them by the Goddess of love). Cupids take on missions to make people fall in love and create couples, and Love Bullet  shows this by having the cupids use guns, grenades, and other firearms with heart bullets to do so. Every mission taken gives the cupid a karma point, and collecting 500 grants them the ability to be reborn into the real world. This starts competition between cupids, each wanting their own escape for different reasons. The main character (Koharu), known for her matchmaking skills, becomes a cupid because of ...

Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins is an autobiography of a Navy SEAL and ultramarathon runner. I read it after I saw Diken reading it. I didn’t know a lot about it, but he showed me some excerpts, and they were crazy. Reading it was different than the other books I recently read for school. I didnt wait to get interesting, and build up slowly, instead it dived straight into his challenges. This book actually made me want to read, which I haven’t really felt in a while. The book describes how he had a really hard childhood, which would ruin most people's lives. The issues in his life kept growing as he did. From getting abused and barely making it through school to completing some of the hardest military and physical training in the world, his life was more like a fantasy superhero than a real autobiography. It’s hard to imagine one person going through the challenges he did and still accomplishing all he has. The way he saw the challenges he went through was the really interestin...

  Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney is about a kid named Greg Heffley and his experience growing up and dealing with new things he does not like. This but instead of looking into one major point looks at the awkward moments in his middle school life, and realizing that growing up is not that fun. Most people know about this book series, and they know the plot is not that interesting and sometimes it is kind of messy. But what makes the book so good is how relatable it is even though a times it is exaggerated. In comparison to other books in the series, this one feels more serious, it is not nonstop funny like the second book, and I think this is what they were going for. In this book Greg is dealing with multiple things including pranks, school drama and losing his best friend Rowley for a little, as well as realizing he is not always the good person. I likes how they showed this without making it boring and adding some good jokes and comedy into it. there are time...

  The story begins in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, with an 18-year-old named Jule West William, who's casually living alone in Playa Grande Resort, and travels to many places. Is she a normal girl, or is she hiding something or from someone? Genuine Fraud is one of those rare novels that show psychological thrillers that can grab your attention not through jump scares or flashy twists, but through character study and a bold narrative structure. The novel is told in reverse chronological order, which invites the reader to piece together the truth with small pieces just like in a puzzle. The story can be described as very captivating.  Through the novel, there is a lot of tension between identity and performance. This story is even more captivating, as a confident young woman caught in lies, violence, and self-transformation. The main character, Jules, not only hides secrets, but she's also constantly reinventing herself, forcing you to wonder who Jules really is and how she will en...

  Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson I started to read Thomas Erikson’s Surrounded by idiots 3 months ago, and I lost interest quickly, but keep reading. The book starts slowly, even though the way it is broken up and the storytelling is well done, I struggled to find a reason to read it in my free time. I began to see it as homework for class rather than a book I wanted to read. I almost entirely gave up until Mr. Mitchell urged me to share my review after he saw the provocative title. This gave me a reason to keep going, and I’m thankful I did.  The main idea of the book is that everyone can be put into four different personality types, corresponding to the colors red, yellow, green, and blue. I thought that this was oversimplifying human psychology, and thought maybe the author was the real idiot. Then I read the beginning of the book, and it said it was not an all-size-fits-all psychology book. This made me feel like I had to read the rest of the book as an apology,...