ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell 144 pp. Penguin Group. £8.99. (Ages 13 and up) ISBN 9780141182704 Rating: ? Stars This book is set in a future when animals are much cleverer than now. And because of their cleverness, the pigs started a revolution against the humans. Pigs could speak fluently in English unlike the other animals, and that gave them the power to be leaders. But, the story that follows only happened a few years after that... Their first leader, Old Major, was kind and fair who knew animals should be equal. But when Napoleon became the leader it was very unpleasant. He made a rule that allowed the pigs to have better food and that forced all of the other animals to work crazily hard every day and night. That wasn’t enough, Napoleon wanted more power. He decided to kill his brother, Snowball, so that he would be the only leader. Snowball was admired because he came up with a clever idea to build windmill. Sn...
Today is day three of my most favourite week of the book blogging community- the Top Ten lists of 2012! This year's Top Ten of 2012 is hosted by Lisa from A Life Bound By Books , Jessica from Confessions of a Bookaholic , Jaime from Two Chicks on Books , Mindy from Magical Urban Fantasy Reads , and Rachel from Fiktshun ! *In no particular order* 1) Adrian and Sydney from "The Golden Lily" by Richelle Mead: I never thought it possible for me to love characters from Richelle Mead more than I love Dimitri and Rose, however, with each installment of this series I am realizing that it is entirely possible. 2) Noah and Echo from "Pushing the Limits" by Katie McGarry: Broken girl and bad-boy. Could it get any more perfect than that? ( Image credit ) 3) Four and Tris from "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth: Bad-ass and bad-assier (and what is perhaps best about this coupling is that Tris, the female, is the bad-assier one). ( Image credit ) 4) Tamani and Lau...
