Book Recomend

Sorry I haven't done any book recomendations. Here is one. This is a trilogy by Ally Condie called Matached. There are three books Matched, Crossed, and Reached. I am still on book one and my mom is on book three. They are great books, very similar to The Hunger Games. It is set in the future but everyone is equal, same clothes, food, homes, and books. Every thing has been taken away but the things the society has allowed. It is all to help people live longer.

Book Cover Summary by Ally Condie:

Cassia has always trusted the society's choices.

And when her best friend appears on the matched screen, Cassia is certain he is the one... Until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.

Now she is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path no one dares follow... between perfection and passion.

I hope you enjoy this great series. The third book, Reached, is expected to be out on paper back soon so look for it in stores along with the first two books.

Wattpad Snippets

Dear Readers,

For any of you that think you might be interested in reading any of my books on Wattpad but don't want to join and find out that they are about here are snippets from both of my puplished stories.

The Secret Life of an American Night Owl:

Book one:

I went to scholl the next day with the snow owl fallowing me. I had a week to be ready to go. Well five days anyway. I had more nerves today. The letter and Zarlace warned me of Torlooks. It's kinda hard to not trust an owl that can talk. He said that everything in the letter was true. Torlooks were creatures that serve a very evil being. He said that the Immortals were in trouble and I was the only one that could help them and bring balance to the world. Somehow, it wasn't all that hard to believe. I guess I have somehow known what I really am. I walked into my first period and sat down cautiously in y seat. I looked around to see if anyone was looking at me differntly now that I know what I am. So far so good. I looked out the window to see Zarlace on a sunshade of a classroom window around the corner. Izzy came into the class room and sat down next to me and pinched my sides like she ususally does. This time though I really flinched thinking she was a Torlook coming after me.

"Gosh, Athena! Didn't know this was 'be really jumpy day.' Relax a little bit, it's just me," She laughed and brushed back her hair out of her face. Izzy and I have been friends for the past six years. We are nerdy and act crazy, but we consider me the sane one and her the insane one.

"Sorry Iz, I just have this feeling someone is after me today," I didn't lie to her, I just didn't tell her the full truth. When you find out you are kinda wanted dead by an unknown evil force, you tend to look over your shoulder more. I looked out the window to find that Zarlce had left. Then I started to doubt that I ever saw him. Soon as I thought that, he flew back up on the shade with a mouse in his mouth I was at ease until the bell rang.

I flinched again and Izzy looked at me. "Wow, you really are jumpy today. Thena, no one is after you, just relax will ya?" she scoffed. If only she knew the truth. If she knew that I was a Milliam, then she would understand why I was so jittery.

I couldn't focus in English. My leg was bouncing crazily and it wouldn't stop no matter how hard Izzy held it down with her foot. When the bell finally rang, I grabbed my stuff and ran out of the classroom. I left Izzy behind but I didn't really care. The Torlooks arn't after her, they are after me.

While I was in first period, I saw a person looking at me with an angry face through the window in the door. I could see in his face that he was here for me. I had to get away.

Locked in Down Under:

It was 9:20 and the sun was just setting. Before he unlocked his car he reached into coat pocket and pulled out a blind fold.

"Is that really nessisary, Daniel?" I asked because this was all becoming cheesy.

"Yes, Rick it is!" He replied turning me around to tie the bandanna.

I smiled and he told me to spin 20 times in the street so my sense of direction was off balance. I heard him run to the driver side door and start to unlock the car. I did as he said and started to spin. At spin number five I heard his car failing to start. 'Why does he drive the run down heap of junk?" I thought to myself. I got to spin 15 and heard a largish car deive forward and stop. I felt embarrased that I was fallowing my boyfriend's instructions ans was keeping a car from parking. I hear a sliding door open and felt a hand grab my arm and a cloth was placed over my mouth. I tried not to breath knowing that the cloth was laced with chloroform. Someone started to drag me and I couldn't help but let them because I was extremely dizzy. I finally gave into the cloth when I heard Daniel scream my name. His voice sounded hysterical but then I heard nothing. Everything went blank.

Locked in down under is about a girl named Rickly Tanner who is kidnapped while on a date with her boyfriend. She is taken to a state-of-the-art prison cell. Will she escape? Find out on Wattpad.com Author: Tophfongbe

The Secret Life of an American Night Owl is about a girl who finds out she is a mortal representation of the greek goddess Athena, which is who she is named after. Other Immorals, including Athena, have been going missing and an evil force, called The Shadow, is slowly taking over the world. Thena, with the help of her friends, try to save the Immortals and stop The Shadow. Will she succeed? Find out in the TV like book series on Wattpad.com Author: Tophfongbe

Please check out my stories and I hope you enjoy!

 

News for all my fallowers

News!!

Stories!

Dear Blog Readers,
I know it has been a while since I last posted but I have something new to share with you all. I have found this cool new website called Wattpad (www.wattpad.com). On this website you can read stories by other authors, write your own stories, and engage in conversations with other users of the Wattpad. I have started writing stories. They are short stories but that is all I can manage so far. If you wish to read them they here are your directions on how to find them.

1. You must first create an account. Don't worry, it is free. (There is an app for it as well).
2. Search for the user name of tophfongbe.
3. There are many results to come up but these are my stories: Locked In Down Under (Completed) and The Life of An American Night Owl (In progress)

Please check these stories out and coment. I am an amature writer still and I will take advice from my readers as long as you keep it very respectful and nice. Thank you and I hope you enjoy!

Newsflash

NewsFlash

Information need to know!

Hey blog readers! I'm here to anounce that I have started a new blog about my second love next to stories and poems! Stupid Pics. If you are a fan of jokes or epic fails check it out because I love them too. I will post jokes of other peoples and jokes of my own on this new blog! I hope I make you lol!

~Stokes-the-Mighty

Sonnet

Shakespeare Sonnet

This is a sonnet and I don't think it is by Shakespeare though he did create the perfect sonnet according to history but here is Sonnet XXIII!

As an unperfect actor on the stage,

Who with his fear is put beside his part,

Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,

Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;

So I, for fear of trust, forget to say

The perfect ceremony of love's rite,

And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,

O'ercharged with burthen of mine own love's might.

O! let my looks be then the eloquence

And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,

Who plead for love, and look for recompense,

More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.

O! learn to read what silent love hath writ:

To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.

 

 

 

I looked back over Romeo and Juliet and noticed that there first conversation has something similar to this sonnet. Take a look!

Romeo

Juliet

 

If I profane with my unworthiest hand

This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this;

My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready to stand

To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss

Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,

Which mannerly devotion shows in this;

For saints have hands that pilgrams' hands do touch

And palm to palm is holy palmer' kiss

Have saints lips, and holy palmers too?

Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

O, then, dear saint, let lips so what hands do!

They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

Then move not while my prayer's effect I take

Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged.

Then have my lips the sin that they have took

Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged!

Give me my sin again.

You kiss by th' book.

 

*The Romeo and Juliet Sonnet I found in my copy of Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet on pages 30-31 from line 95-112 I don't own either of these sonnets.*

 



I'm just a man

In my honors class in literature we finished reading Fahrenheit 451 (very good book by the way). For our final project we had to do something creative to show the conflict in the book. I wrote a song by re-writing the lyrics to the song Superman (It's not easy) by Five For Fighting. I wrote the song in the point of view of the main character Montag. If you have read the book you will understand the song more just like the original song Superman (It's not easy). I hope you enjoy and the numbers in the parentheses are the page numbers of that line in the book Fahrenheit 451 by the way.

I'm just a man

Lyrics by Stokes-The-Mighty and Ray Bradbury with Five For Fighting

Music from Superman (It's not easy) by Five For Fighting

 

 

 

Stay up in the night

To put up fire's light

This is what my life

Is turned out to be like

I'm just a man

Who lives in a world

Where TVs and programs come to life

And it's not easy to be me

I'll hold onto the world tight someday. (162)

I've got a finger on it now; that a beginning. (162)

I'm just a man

Who lives in a world

Where I don't need to read or write or learn

I'm just a man

Who knows it's not right

But some girls still think in the dark of night

That's not easy for me now

Some think all ideas are bad

They might be right

Though some still talk at night

And they're not crazy or anything

Many people idle away their life

Some still live in a shadow of what it used to be

But you can't make people listen. (153)

They have to come 'round on their own time, (153)

wondering what happened and why the world blew up under them. (153)

And I used to say

It was a pleasure to burn. (3)

But it's not easy to burn them now!

 

 

 

*I don't own music to the song and I did not come up with the quoted lines, those are from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I just wrote some lines and arranged them to the music.*





Book Recommend

Hello Readers,

Hello readers Stokes the mighty here to recommend a book. I got it from a book fair at my sister's school. It is called Palace of Mirrors. Here is a quote from the book: "Somewhere in the world I have a tiara in a little box. It is not safe for me to wear it .... It is not safe for me to even tall anyone who I really am. But I know-I have always known."

Cecilia knows that she is not just another peasant girl; she is actually the true princess, in hiding until the evil forces that killed her parents are vanquished. A commoner named Desmia is on the throne as a decoy.As she gets older, Cecilia finds it harder to study statesmanship and palace protocol secretly at night ans then pretend that she has nothing on her mind other than scrubbing the gruel stains out of her best apron by day. Cecilia knows that it is time to take charge. Along with her best friend, Harper, she flees to the capital city, determined to reclaim her throne and face the danger head on. When Harper and Cecilia reach the famed palace of mirrors they discover complications: Princess Desmia believes an entirely different version of the story.
Margaret Peterson Haddix author of Just Ella writes an amazing story where a princess in hiding and a pretender to the throne discover that nothing is as it appears.

I really enjoyed reading this story and loved how it isn't just for girls but for boys as well.