Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire By: J.K Rowling

             

Joanne Kathleen Rowling

Born :  Joanne Rowling
(1965-07-31)            31 July 1965 (age 47)
           Yate, South Gloucestershire, England

Occupation:  Novelist

Nationality:  British

Education:  Bachelor of Arts

Alma mater:  University of Exeter

Genres:  Fantasy

Notable work(s):  Harry Potter series

Spouse(s):  Jorge Arantes (m. 1992–95)
                       Neil Murray (m. 2001–present)

Children:  2 daughters, 1 son

Class was about to come. Harry Potter with his friends are now in their fouth year in Hogwarts and was enjoying Harry’s summer vacation with his friends. Ron’s family got a ticket of The Quidditch World Cup. Eveyone of them are excited and looking forward with the match. After the match is over, people dressed like Lord Voldermort’s “Death Eaters” set a fire to all the visitors, tents in the camp, and with a couple appearance of Voldermort’s symbol, the “Dark Mark” in the sky which causes a frenzy across the magical community.

Same year, the Hogwarts hosting “The Triwizard Tournament”, a magical tournament between the three-well known schools of magic: Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. The contestants should be above the age of 17 and was chosen by the magical object called The Goblet of Fire. The magical object should chose or spew three names to duel in the tournament. Eveybody in Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang stund for the Harry is fourth contender in the tornament. Eveyone was against with it and Harry didn’t know who put his name in the goblet. Since the magic cannot be reversed, Harry is forced to duel in it and face the three exceedingly in difficult tasks.

To Kill A Mockingbird By: Harper Lee

      

Harper Lee

AKA Nelle Harper Lee

Born: 28-Apr-1926

Birthplace: Monroeville, AL

Gender: Female
Religion: Methodist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: To Kill A Mockingbird

      Lee was five years old in the small Alabama town of Scottsboro, when the first trials began regarding with the rape case of two white women by a nine black men. A twelve-year old boy found guilty and was sentenced to death without having a lawyer in the first trial and was judged by the white jury. The Scottsboro case left a deep impression of young Lee, who would use these case as the rough basis for the events of her novel "To kill a Mockingbird".

       To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Alabama during the depression. A six-year old girl named Jean Louise "scout" Finch stand as the narrator in the story who's a rebellious tomboy and believes in her heart in the goodness of people behind of their unequal traits the whites and black men. Together with his older brother Jeremy "jem" Finch who has very high standard and expectations for people, her best friend Charles Baker "dill" Harris who exhibits strong sense of adventure and initiates the expeditions towards Radley's house. Her father, Atticus Finch is a standard moral lawyer who fights for freedom and justice of Tom Robinson who has been accused of raping a very poor girl named Mayella Ewell a member of Ewell Family, who belong to the layer of Maycomb society that people refer to as "trash". The Finch family races harsh criticism in the heavy racist of Maycomb because of Atticus decision to defend the black man  Tom Robinson. Despite this, Atticus wants to reveal the truth to his fellow townspeople, expose their bigotry, and encourage them to imagine the possibility of racial equality. 

       This novel shows racial inequality in Alabama Maycomb between the white and black men. It shows different races that indicates their social level and their different ways of living in Alabama Maycomb. Curiosity, adventure, social inequality issues and family relationship that occupies in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird that wakes the readers because of its issues inside.

GOOD MORNING, KILLER By: April Smith

              

                 Good Morning, Killer  is one of the series story of  April Smith. The author introduced her readership to an FBI Agent  in her first thriller, NORTH OF MONTANA. As Grey returns in GOOD MORNING, KILLER. Agent Ana Grey is a hardworking, sharp, tenacious in capturing the bad guys, and devoted to have justice to the victims. In Smith's second novel, she developed and explore the personality of her character Ana Grey.

               Santa Monica is stunned when one of its daughter Juliana Meyer-Murphy is kidnapped. Agent Grey is teamed with her lover Detective Andrew Berringer to solve the crime and return the teenage girl to its family. If she found alive. There are tensions between the two law enforcement officers when the case takes in different directions and strategies. It came to the point that her emotion stretched out between her lover and their relationship came cooling of at best. As the story goes, each chapter of these movie have its twist where the reader did not expect to be happened. When Juliana showed up and Agent Grey found out that she was brutalized, Ana Grey digs out to find justice to the victim. More twist, trilling events, disturbing personalities, relationship, and trust  in every chapter. 

                

Imperfect Endings By: Zoe FitzGerald Carter

Zoe FitzGerald Carter

          

           Zoe FitzGerald Carter is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and has written for numerous publications including New York magazine, The New York Observer, Premiere, and various national magazines. Imperfect Endings is her first memoir. It won first place in the 2008 Pacific Northwest Writer's Association's literary contest and was a finalist at The San Francisco Writer's Conference. Zoe lives in Northern California with her husband and two daughters.

                  A Daughters Story of Love, Loss and Letting Go. . . I was amazed with these story. From its title alone, I was curious of what's the story behind it. Imperfect Endings was a base to a true to life story where the author was Zoe Fitzgerald Carter who lives in the west coast together with her husband and two daughters. An unexpected detour came when her glamourous, independent-minded mother, Margaret, decides she wants to “end things.” Tired of living with Parkinson’s disease, Margaret declares she is no longer willing to go where the illness is taking her. So she ask help with her daughters to help her with her plans.

 

          It was hard for Zoe to participate with her plans for she loved her so much. Zoe have a hard of time to convince her not to do it but Margaret's plans are firm sans she can't forced her.As I read these book every night. In every chapters that I have read. My heart skip a beat and imagining things that I was in the authors shoe. I can't help myself to imagine things from these book. Then I realize that I should treasure and love those bonding moments that we have with my mother. Death is everywhere and I don't have he assurance to have her for a long time. Thus, as Margaret died on her own terms the family who has to learn to let her go.