A Very Busy Reading Week!

I have had a very bus reading week and have read 11 books this week and I would like to tell  you about them!

This week I read…

1.      City of Ember by Jeanne DePrau

2.      City of Ember: The People of Sparks by Jeanne DePrau

3.      The City of Ember: The Diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne DuPrau

4.      The City of Ember: The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne DuPrau

5.      Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World The Graphic Novel Volume One by Robert Jordan, Chuck Dixon, Chase Conley

6.      Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World The Graphic Novel Volume Two by Robert Jordan, Chuck Dixon, Chase Conley

7.      Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World The Graphic Novel Volume Three by Robert Jordan, Chuck Dixon, Chase Conley

8.      Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World The Graphic Novel Volume Four by Robert Jordan, Chuck Dixon, Chase Conley

9.      Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World The Graphic Novel Volume Five by Robert Jordan, Chuck Dixon, Chase Conley

10. That’s a Great Question, I’d Love to Tell You by Elyse Myers

11. Immortal Consequences by I. V. Marie

This is what I thought of each one.

City of Ember by Jeanne DePrau

This book is super good and the movie did a good adaptation of the book I feel.The book starts off on career day and Lina wants to be a messenger and Doon wants to be an electrician but working in the pipe works is fine. One by one the kids (who are 12) pick out of a bag, their careers. Lina chooses pipe works and Doon picks messenger. They decide to trade jobs.Lina finds that her sister is chewing on a piece of paper but saves what she can from it, she isn't sure what the importance of the paper is but she attempts to figure it out and tells the mayor about it who doesn't do anything about it. Doon wants to understand why Ember keeps loosing electricity and thinks that there is something going on underneath it and he wants to discover what is going on.Lina comes to Doon with the message that she is trying to piece together and the find out that it is instructions on how to leave Ember left behind by the builders. During their discovery of figuring this out, they also come across the realization that the mayor is hording all of the food and other communities like light bulbs.Doon, Lina and her sister Poppy end up following the instructions to leave Ember and they do. After a long journey what turns out to be to the surface that we call the ground and that Ember was build far underneath the ground. The 3 end up discovering all sorts of new sounds and feels seeing as they never felt the warmth of the sun or the heat from it. Doon and Lina decide to send a message back down to Ember to tell people that it is time to leave.

City of Ember: The People of Sparks by Jeanne DePrau

This book starts off right where City of Ember leaves off.The people of Ember come to ground level and they walk until they come to a village that is call the Sparks. The people of Sparks welcome the people of Ember in but determine that they are going to show them a few things and then in 6 months they are going to set them on their own journey away.Lina decides that she is going to go on a journey with Mady and Casper to one of the big cities that was destroyed. When she gets there she realizes that it has been destroyed and nature has taken over and it is no place for the people of Ember and it is most definitely not the place that she was drawing when she was in Ember. Mady and Lina come back to Ember where they find that the people of Ember and the people of Sparks are going to have a war between each other started the next day.After an fire is accidentally set during the fight, both the people of Sparks and Ember need to work together to get it out. This calls for a town meeting where it is determined that the people of Ember are now considered to be people of Sparks and they are going to work together.Casper comes back from the city and he brings back light bulbs but he doesn't know that they are light bulbs as Sparks doesn't have electricity. Doon has been working on a devices that can produce electricity but he didn't have a light bulb to test it out on until now. What caused the destruction that caused The City of Ember to be created was due to the 4 wars and the 3 plaques that occurred.

The City of Ember: The Diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne DuPrau

A roamer comes to Sparks that brings a book that she had found on her travels but not being able to read and having no use for the book she uses the pages for kindling but Doon still has uses for books so he trades for it.Part of the title of the book is 'For The People of Ember'. Together Doon and Lina try to work out what is going on in this book and they decide that they are going to go back to Ember to discover what they need to.When they get back to Ember, they see a light so they decide to go back down. When they get there, a family has taken over Ember and renamed it Darkhold as there is no electricity. Trogger captures Doon but Lina is able to stay hidden and takes the long journey back to ground level. Trogger has a diamond that he plans to sell and become rich with someday. The next day one of the kids ends up release Doon from his angle chain and gives him the diamond as Doon helped him out before and Doon sets out to ground level to find Lina and go back to Sparks.Doon and Lina find each other but are seperated by wolfs so Doon throws the diamond at them and the wolfs go away. Doon and Lina look around and find a door at the top of the entryway down to Ember where they find rooms of these diamonds. Doon and Lina bring some back with them to Sparks where they discover that these diamonds are more like solar rocks and can produce electricity of sorts to them. The people of Sparks and the people who were from Ember go back and bring back all of the diamonds back as well as taken all necessary goods from Ember back to Sparks. These adventure helps Sparks through the harsh winter.Trogger and his family come to Sparks to sell their wares but end up making a life for themselves there. Doon ends up becoming quite the tinkerer and recreates and discovers everything he can regarding the diamonds and Lina becomes a messenger between other settlements and brings letter, packages and news to the world.

The City of Ember: The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne DuPrau

This book is a prequel to the City of Ember series.We are about 50 years before a destruction happen that people were sent down to Ember but it would be another 50 years before something did happen and at least 200 after the first 100 years that the people of Ember come back to the service.In the town of Yonwood a girl named Althea has a vision and is taken to rest in bed where Mrs. Beaston is sent to be taking notes and delivering messages straight from her.Mrs. Beaston starts to take away all the privileged that the townspeople enjoy.The story really follows a girl named Niki and her friend Groover but Niki really and how she just doesn't understand what is going on until her dog gets taken away and she goes to Althea directly and asks about it. Althea doesn't know what to tell her but states that she was dreaming of a city where there was no dogs or anything there. At this Althea comes out of her house and proclaims this and all of the towns people's privileges come back.Niki's dad is away working on a top secret project and now this job is permanent. As it turns out he is working on the city of Ember. The book ends with Niki now being 60 years old, volunteering to go into the city of Ember and leaving a message at the door that Lina and Doon find at the end of City of Ember.

Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World The Graphic Novel Volume One by Robert Jordan, Chuck Dixon, Chase Conley

This graphic novel is more so world building and taking on from what everything in the Wheel of Time actually means and then taking you on a journey where the kids leave the Two Rivers and Moiraine takes them to the city.We are getting to know what the Aes Sedai are really about.

Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World The Graphic Novel Volume Two by Robert Jordan, Chuck Dixon, Chase Conley

We are following Moiraine and Lan and what the curious paddlers and other people that are trying to interfere with the Wheel of Time and we are setting up some magic systems in this book and what really lays belong the Two Rivers and Rand notices the Draghkar's silhouette.

Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World The Graphic Novel Volume Three by Robert Jordan, Chuck Dixon, Chase Conley

This graphic novel is more about the kids from Two Rivers/Edmond Field splitting up a bit and of course the Trollocs are a clear and present danager as well.The hunt for the horn is also being discuses and things do go down at the Inn that may not be helpful in the end for them, new friends are always welcome.

Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World The Graphic Novel Volume Four by Robert Jordan, Chuck Dixon, Chase Conley

The group of Emond's Fielders get split up, Perrin and Egwin get caught by the White Clocks and it turns out that Perrin might be a ware wolf but Moiraine doesn't know a lot about this creature.Mat and Rand get to be gleemen on a boat to experience life on the water for a little while but the Trollocs are always ready to attach by the end everyone is back together and they arrive in Caemlyn.

Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World The Graphic Novel Volume Five by Robert Jordan, Chuck Dixon, Chase Conley

Everyone is together but they are at odds with what they have experience since leaving their home. Rand meets Loial and Oiger in the library and he is quiet the big guy that Rand mistakes him for a Trolloc at first but they become fast friends by the end of their conversation.The graphic novel discusses how Rand is the dragon reborn and Ba'alzamon gets caught.

That’s a Great Question, I’d Love to Tell You by Elyse Myers

This book is from an influence and it is but it is non fiction and it works.Elyse's catch phrase if you may is really the title of this book which I find to be very fitting for it.Elyse talks about various things it and also narrates the book itself which I find to be an extra personal touch to the experience as well.Elyse is personable and does retell a lot of her stories that she says on her social media. Due to this, I find that you don't necessarily need to read this book. It does flow rather well but if you are a fan of hers and watch her content then you have already heard everything that is written in this book which is rather interesting. An added touch that she does make in this book that there is a passage in this book where she does state that if you find yourself relating to any of these stories, that is fantastic but take not that there is no para social relationship with her. You don't really know her and she doesn't know you, you will never know her and it will be no more than a passing thought on either side which I do find to be touching as a lot of people out there don't realize this. I did appreciate this passage just for this reason!Overall, I did enjoy this book but did want something more, maybe more details in her travels and why she did travel and oh my gosh, she was in an orchestra? I knew she could sing but this was new information to me which is nice to learn something new of an individual that you are reading about.

Immortal Consequences by I. V. Marie

This is a multi point of view book but it mainly stays focused on Wren.Wren is dead but in her afterlife she is joining Blackwood Academy to learn skills and spells in the dark arts. Every 10 years there is a competition called the Decennial where one lucky students gets to compete and they get immortality and gets to chose between a few select choices.This year the school decides that there is going to be 12 people competing for this title and Wren is one of the 12. During some of the challenges that happen a few students (& friends) die and when Wren asks about them to a fellow student, she has no idea who she is talking about and Wren can't find their bodies anywhere which leads the remaining competitor to investigate to ultimately learn that every Decennial there are 12 people chosen and that everyone minds gets changed so no one remembers but the winner has to live with their immortality with this information and can't tell anyone about it.The headmaster is also a suspicious character as well and is not who he seems.There is also a feud between the Demien Order and Blackwood Academy. Which one is better?

Overall, it has been quite the productive week and I am happy that I was able to read as many books as I did and I am looking forward to another great reading week ahead of me despite knowing that I will most likely never have a week like this again where I will be reading 11 books in one week and I don’t think I will ever try to let alone try to read 12 books in one week!

Happy reading everyone and I will see you on the next Dippit!