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Why I Think I Would Make An Excellent Vestal Virgin And Fisher King And You Should Consider Me For The Position by Isa <- - Just some girlbosses tending a fire <-- A medieval Fisher King mosaic    Hey guys! Welcome to yet another unhinged blog post with Isa. After my Twilight hate train, I’ve had a few lunch-time requests to write something in a similarly feral fashion and seeing as this will be my final post this year, I am indulging. While I'm not sure I can replicate my 1 am-gotta-go-can't-stop mentality at 12:48 pm, I have a few cursed topics in the cracks of my brain I thought I’d use.     For a certain history project that brutally disrupted my mental state, I studied the Vestal Virgins, a very powerful group of women from ancient Rome who had politics and priests at the time in a saccharine chokehold.  A book I read while collecting info was Brides of Rome: a Novel of the Vestal Virgins by Debra Macleod, which is a very good fictional st...

  Yet Another Masterpiece, Dry by Neal Shusterman By Felix Lee               Imagine a situation where water stopped running from faucets and you were left without water. What would you do in order to survive? This scenario is depicted in Dry by Neal Shusterman, a realistic fiction novel. The book begins with the California drought escalating to catastrophic proportions as the taps run dry. All of a sudden, with the realization of the lack of water, people begin to panic. They start doing whatever they can to ensure they have enough water to survive, and as the options dwindle down, they become more and more desperate. The story follows the perspective of two different main characters, Alyssa and Kelton, as they struggle to survive. Alyssa, a 16-year-old high school student, and her family are caught off guard by the water shortage. On the other hand, Kelton, Alyssa’s neighbor, who has a major crush on her (to t...

  Catching Fire and Mockingjay : Critiquing the Sequels by: Luke Fahnestock (Spoilers ahead) In one of my previous blogs reviewing the Hunger Games , I mentioned that the first book was my favorite, and the other books were not as enjoyable. I have decided to make a follow up post critiquing the second and third books in the Hunger Games series, Catching Fire and Mockingjay . In general, both Catching Fire and Mockingjay pale in comparison to the original Hunger Games . The plot of the first Hunger Games is exciting and new for a reader that has never encountered the series before, but the sequels fail to replicate this vital attribute. The obvious way to continue the Hunger Games series was to create scenarios where Katniss and/or Peeta would have to fight for their lives in the arena a second and third time, but Suzanne Collins does not initiate this strategy in the most effective way. Catching Fire does create a somewhat different scenario to set up the 75th Hunger Games...

 Anonymous Noise by Ryoko Fukuyama review by: Gabby Mongwa This manga series starts with the main character Nino and her childhood friend Momo, who liked to sing with her through the windows of their neighboring houses. One day, Momo has to move away, and Nino starts wearing a mask over her mouth all the time to keep from screaming. Not long after that, Nino meets Yuzu, a boy around Nino’s age who’s a composer and doesn’t sing because if he does, he’ll “turn to bubbles and disappear”. The two become close friends as well, with Nino singing the songs Yuzu composes, but after an incident that causes Yuzu to have to leave as well, Nino starts singing at the beach every day in an attempt to try and reach either Yuzu or Momo. 6-7 years in the future, Nino is in high school, still continuing her ritual of singing at the beach, until after a high school orientation performance, where she finally finds Yuzu again. She then joins the music club and the masked band “In NO Hurry” in her pursu...