Cody's Book Buzz
I have always liked looking at books. When I was a kid, I had a lot of dinosaur books. My mom had gone to a workshop when I was young that taught her that people like myself learn words as a whole rather than sounding out letters. So my mom and me spent many, many hours with her writing out words on long Q cards, and she would just read the words to me over and over and over again. I don’t know if that helped me learn to read, but it probably did. I think I became interested in larger books when I was around 17. Probably the first set of books I read was Harry Potter. I had already watched the movies so understanding the books was easier because I had already knew the story. At first, I only read books that had movies. I was reading book 4 of the Jason Bourne books when I left it at school and it was now summer holidays. So my mom went to the library to pick up the book that I had been in the middle of reading and I wouldn’t read it but she couldn’t figure out why. So we waited until September and she asked my teacher for the missing book but it was gone. So then my mom bought a replacement and I read the book and she discovered that I only read books that I own. Fast-forward about eight years and I now own about 400 books. Fortunately, I have been able to put most of them through my funding because you can imagine how much money 400 books adds up to. My dad and me just put up a bookcase last week and I know which book is on which bookcase. My bookcases and all the books is my happy place. Here is a picture of me standing beside one of my tree bookcases. I have two of these tree Bookcases. They are cool, but they don’t hold as many books as the standard bookcases do. I have three of those
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My next book review is on Godzilla. I have five Godzilla books and they are mostly based on Godzilla movies. I have loved Godzilla since I was a youngster. So in order to talk about the books, I have to talk about the Godzilla movies as well. The first Godzilla movie came out in the 1950s and now we are at 38 different Godzilla movies. I have a lot of those movies. In fact when I was young, I even watched a movie that was in Japanese and it had no English subtitles. I would watch it over and over again because I loved the Godzilla stuff in it. If you look at what I’m wearing in the picture, I have a Godzilla cap, a Godzilla hoodie, Godzilla pants and even Godzilla shoes. Does that not tell you that I’m a fan of Godzilla?
My next book review is on Godzilla. I have five Godzilla books and they are mostly based on Godzilla movies. I have loved Godzilla since I was a youngster. So in order to talk about the books, I have to talk about the Godzilla movies as well. The first Godzilla movie came out in the 1950s and now we are at 38 different Godzilla movies. I have a lot of those movies. In fact when I was young, I even watched a movie that was in Japanese and it had no English subtitles. I would watch it over and over again because I loved the Godzilla stuff in it. If you look at what I’m wearing in the picture, I have a Godzilla cap, a Godzilla hoodie, Godzilla pants and even Godzilla shoes. Does that not tell you that I’m a fan of Godzilla?
Believe it or not, Godzilla has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. I have attached a picture to prove it.
As I said before, my books are about some of the different movies. The different monsters in the books and movies are result of radiation from Japan because of the atomic bombs of World War II. And if you don’t know anything about Godzilla, he is actually the good guy. He usually comes out of the water at the beginning of the book or
movie and goes back into the water at the end. And even though he does a lot of damage to the streets and buildings, it’s because he is chasing bad monsters.
I usually tell you what I like about books and include my dislikes, but with Godzilla, I love everything about them, including the bad guy monsters because they are all so cool. And in the last few years, they have started to come up with Godzilla versus Kong type books and movies. At first, Godzilla and Kong fought against each other, but now they fight side-by-side to kill other monsters. I always look so forward to when a new movie or book comes out because I just love Godzilla.
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For the most part, I am doing my book reviews on the sets of books I’ve read. And again hopefully a lot of you know the story behind the hunger games. I did enjoy the books, but there is something dark to them because teens
March's
Book Buzz
from different districts are forced to fight in the hunger games to the death. So there is one winner per games. The main character is a girl by the name of Katniss, and she kind of breaks all the rules. The first rule she breaks is that the second person from her district and herself decide not to kill each other so the powers to be have to change the rules a bit. In the final book Katniss starts an uprising and a bunch of them go after the bad guys and terminate them. The worst man is somebody by the name of President Snow.
Fast-forward a number of years and two more books are written for the series, both of them are prequel, which means they happened before the main set of books. So, the first prequel was a book by the name of the ballad of songbirds and snakes, and it’s the story of President Snow rise to power.
We did a pre-order on the fifth book and it just arrived a few days ago, so I started reading it pretty much as soon as I got it. That book is called "Sunrise on the Reaping and it’s the story of one of the winners of the hunger games 25 years earlier by the name of Haymitch when he was 16 and had to go into the hunger games. who later on went on to become a coach to Katniss. He actually turned into an alcoholic and was not a well person after going through the games. It definitely affected him negatively.
So the part I liked best about the books is when a bunch of teens stood up to the bad guys, particularly president, Snow, and went against him. The part I didn’t like about the book was that these kids had to fight each other to the death in order to win the Hunger Games.
February's Book Buzz
The suspense is finally over! Thanks for hanging in there—trust me, it’s totally worth the wait!
The “Lord of the Rings” set of four books, that is familiar to a lot of people. It was a written by J.R. Tolkien in the 1950s. It’s a shame that the author was not around to see the movies because he would’ve been pretty impressed. The movie has stayed pretty close to the actual story in the book, and if there was anything added, it enhanced the story.
In picture I shared (left) of me I was trying to be Gollum who is kind of a bad little creature who used to own the most powerful ring. But it turned him from a person into a raw fish-eating creature, but he still wants to get the ring back throughout the book because of the feeling it gives him. The person who has the ring now is a person by the name of Frodo. He is a hobbit which is kind of a combination between a person, a dwarf and hairy character.
So, the book is set up with all types of Kingdoms and different kinds of people who either want the ring for them themselves or want to see it destroyed. Frodo needs to go to the place where the ring was initially made and throw it into to destroy it once and for all, and to save mankind.
There’s lots of nice creatures in the book, beautiful scenery, and believable settings, and costumes, as a whole lot of money was spent on the production of the film. We were watching some of the extras behind the scenes only to discover that the man who would eventually become King kicked, a helmet at
the top of a hill when he found out two of his hobbit friends had been kidnapped and were likely not alive anymore. But when he kicked the helmet in real life, he actually broke his toe so the look on his face was genuine. My worst character in the story was a huge, huge spider about half the size of a bedroom that came after Frodo who was passing through. The spider bit him and made him unconscious. The spider was going to eat him later, but fortunately his best friend saves the day.
My favorite characters in the story were from the bad guys and they were elephants. Many people can ride them at the same time. Here is a picture of them as well.
January's Book Buzz
I am going to do my first book review on the first set of books that I ever read. When I was 17 years old, my mom used to carpool to day camp with a friend of hers who also had a son with Down syndrome. At the time I was borrowing the Harry Potter series from my cousin Lynae. So as soon as I would finish one of the books, she would hand me the next one. So I was reading book 4, and my mom‘s friend noticed that book at the front of the van and she asked my mom “who is reading Harry Potter? “ And my mom said “Believe it or not, Cody is”. So the next day when my mom went to pick up my friend for day camp, my mom’s friend came out with a reusable grocery bag and said here’s an early 18th birthday present for Cody and it had all the Harry Potter books in the bag that she had picked up at a garage sale. So now I had my own set of Harry Potter books. Those were my first big boy books. I later replaced them with a brand new set and gave the old ones to my cousin Meaghan' s kids.
So most of you know the story of Harry Potter so I won’t go into it. My mom tells me that when the books were originally written, people used to wait in line at bookstores the morning the bookstore was allowed to sell the newest book. She even knows a couple that bought two books on opening day so they both could read the book at the same time
So I liked the story very much. My favourite part in all of the books was when Harry and three others had to fight against dragons. My favourite books to read are about dragons and I have a lot of dragon related books
One part I didn’t like about the book is that there’s this basilisk that Harry has to fight. A basilisk is really a big snake. And I hate snakes.
But the part I hated the most in the whole set of books is whenever there were spiders involved. Because I really really hate spiders!
Your review photo is absolutely amazing 🤩. Impressive ⭐. Can't wait to read your review! Your followers all know it's worth the wait! 😊.
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I'm so very proud of you Cody, it's such an amazing accomplishment!! I'm with you on the snakes and spiders, not my favorite thing either 😊
So very proud of you, and I know how you feel, I just bought myself another bookcase also!
I loved reading your book review Cody! I hate hate snakes too!
I loved reading about your first series, and I'm glad I got to be a part of it! Keep up the fantastic reviews.
Amazing buddy! I hate spiders too
Seeing you with all your books on this website makes my heart happy! Way to go, Cody!!
Amazing 😊❤️💯