Opinion about other people's post about "Freak the Mighty"

So instead of doing a normal post about a book I am reading, I have decided to do responses on my classmates'
blog posts that are about the same book I have read. I found a few good posts about Freak the Mighty, so I have decided to do my opinion on them. Sophia's  blog post on Freak the mighty was really good. I agreed on a lot of the things.
     One thing I like that she said is that **Spoiler Alert** when Freak died at the end, their friendship stayed in Max's heart, which I can totally agree with, and it's a really good observation. I did feel bad for Max when that happened, but I never thought about how friendship could still stay in someone's heart, even when you think it's over. I also agree with what she said about how Freak is a character that's hard to forget. I have to admit, Freak is a very interesting character. A character so small physically but so big in geniocity (I know, it's not a real word, but I couldn't think of a real word that would be good enough to describe him as). Freak practically knows almost every word in the English dictionary, can invent so many cool things from scratch, can name alol of the chemical compositions of a firework during the fourth of July. Come on, tell me he's not unique. Who could ever forget him?
       I also like Dia's second blog post on Freak the mighty, how it teaches you a lesson. I never was able to really figure out the author's purpose or lesson in the book, just that it had something to do with friendship. But Dia said that the lesson is that there are two roads in life, and you have to take one, the one you feel safe and secure in, the one you can comfortably walk down. I think this is a really deep thought and I never would of thought of that.
    I'm glad I read other peoples' blogs about a book I have read, it helps me think deeper about the book.

Millions

      I'm still reading millions, and for this post I want to focus more on Anthony and Damian's dad. Their dad is also kind of weird, like the whole story itself. I find it weird how long it took him to notice the huge heavy duffer bags they sometimes carry around, and all the new toys in their room (although they're hidden). He found out near the end of the book, so about a month or two in real life.
      I think maybe it's because of the death of his wife/Anthony and Damian's kids, and that he's still not over it or something, because the book never stated how or when she died. The kids are still pretty well behaved besides the lying about the money, and he just encourages them by constantly telling them to be "excellent". But he doesn't really enforce it. It's like the Jaywalking law. Damian does try to do what his dad says as much as he can, but Anthony is more of a slacker kind of kid. He technically lies the most throughout the whole book and stuff, while Damian just keeps his mouth shut, but that's also bad, too.
      But I also kind of feel bad for the dad, too. In the book, he meets this woman who works in an organization that collects donations for the poor, and they kind of start to get close. But later he realizes she really didn't work for that organization, that she just used him to get the money Damian and Anthony found to keep it to herself, which she manages to steal a little before Christmas. After he found out about the money, he let Dorothy count it with him, since he thought they were good friends now (or soon to be more than that).      After that, he didn't seem as heartbroken as I expected. For now he's just focusing on getting his money back.

What would you do with a million in cash?

The book I started reading now is called Millions and it's about these two brothers who find a huge bag filled with a million in British pounds, and become rich. But the thing is, they only have a few days to spend it because the money is in British pounds and they will soon get rid of the British pound and switch to Euros.
     The main character in this book is named Damian and his brother, Anthony. Damian is a very weird and interesting character. For instance, the thing he keeps on talking about throughout the whole book is about saints.  
Yes saints, saints and patrons of almost anything you can imagine, and he knows all their full names, what they did to be considered saints, and when they died. So this makes him pretty religious too and he thinks the money came from God.
        And since he likes saints so much he wants to be like one. He wants to donate most of the money they found to charity and people who need it more and stuff. I think that's what makes him inspiring, to do good deeds to the world. But his brother is kind of the opposite. He doesn't care much about the poor and doesn't really agree to all this donating stuff, he just wants to buy things for himself. What he also does is that since their mom died, whenever he wants something or gets in trouble for something he just mentions her death and pretends to cry. I's like doesn't care about her death or something, but I don't want to judge because I haven't
experienced something like that, but most characters from other books don't do such a thing.
                  Another weird thing is that their dad doesn't even know about this. He did question the big duffer bag once or twice, but they just answered with a lie. He didn't even notice all the new toys they bought for themselves! Also, Damian is weird to. He has these visions of saints talking to him or something, and I don't know if the author is trying to make this book more fantasy-like or just trying to make Damian seem like some
weird kid with mental problems.
        And one last thing that makes this book a little weird. England never switched from Pounds to Euros, but
I guess he can do tat since it is a fiction book after all. But what I did notice is that England is just instantly getting rid of their pounds. The day after they switch to Euros they can't take the money in Pounds and exchange it to Euros. Most countries still allow you to exchange old money, if you still have any, to the new money.
         But overall, this book is pretty good, just a little... different.      

Behemoth time

After reading the Leviathan  I instantly decided to pick up and read its sequel, Behemoth. I started almost exactly where the Leviathan left off, Alek and his crew aboard the leviathan, after helping the British escape the Germans while they let them stay on the ship for a few days to work on the engines. At first, I was wondering what the conflict could possibly be now, everything seemed to be going on just fine, until things drastically changed. Britain was officially at war with the Austrians, and now that there were Austrians (A.K.A. Alek and his crew) on the ship, they now had to be considered prisoners of war.
     I thought this was really unfair because Alek had done so much to help the ship repair and escape from the Germans. He risked so many things by doing this. His loyalty to the country, his name and position in the royal family, and even his own life. Alek only had one choice. To escape the ship. And Deryn knew that, and she secretly had a crush on him without wanting to admit it since she's secretly a girl, but she helped him escape. She never said anything to anyone when Alek was snooping around on the ship to find an escape hatch. Deryn thought she was stupid for doing this but I think it was very brave of her, risking being hanged for not being loyal and telling the captain just so Alek can be safe. Deryn is one of the strongest female characters I have read in a book and she is very unique, different from other girls.
       After Alek escapes, everything goes to even more chaos, something I will continue on into a next post.

Still reading Leviathan!

i am still reading Leviathan, and I'm only about halfway done with the book, and it's the first time I'm kind of happy about this, I really like the book. But when I first started reading the book, there were two main characters, one was named Alek, an Austrian prince, and a girl named Deryn, who ats like a Tomboy and now serves on the Darwinist ship called the Leviathan (there are two sides in the war in Europe, the Darwinists, who have mutant animals as war machines, and Clankers, who use actual machines like tanks to fight the war, a few countries on each side, they each have different views on things) where she serves as a temporary midshipman since she was saved after getting lost while doing her flight test. She's actually pretending to be a man, since women aren't allowed in the military for some reason, and she really wants to be in it.
           Anyway, the book kept on switching between their perspectives, and it was like two shorter books in one, and I wondered why that is. And now I know, it's because Alek and Deryn (or Dylan, her fake boy name) meet up in a weird, coincidental way. Deryn's ship the Leviathan, a big flying whale thing was attacked by German fighter planes, which were mechanical. The Germans attacked them because the Leviathan was a British ship and Britain was an enemy to them , so they attacked. After the long aerial battle, the Leviathan crashed on a mountain in Switzerland, right where Alek and his tutors after escaping Austria to go into hiding after Alek's parent's were Assassinated, so this is how they met. I think it'll get interesting from here because Deryn's British and Alek's Austrian, so they're technically enemies. I know, the book is kind of complicated, but very fast-paced and suspenseful.

Leviathan

I just started reading the book "Leviathan" by Scott Westerfield, and at first I thought this book would take me forever to read and finish the book, since it has almost 500 pages. Burt now I don't think it'll take that long at all.
I've read only about the first sixty pages so far and I already think it's awesome. It's just what I like in books: action, violence, and lots of suspense. That's because this is a science fiction/fantasy book about most of Eastern Europe at war. It takes place all countries like England, France, Austria, and Russia, but i think there'll be even more when I get further into the book.
        There are two main characters: Alek and Deryn. Alek is a royal prince in England who is obsessed with the idea of war, like all kids are, since they think it's so cool and stuff. But then the action instantly starts as his servants take him outside in the middle of the night, put him in a war machine, and try to lead him to safety out of the city because he might get assassinated, since his parents were assassinated just recently. Yeah, the beginning is kind of confusing.
   And Deryn is a tom-boyish girl who really wants to be a pilot so after months of studying and pretending to be a guy (girls supposedly aren't allowe to be pilots) so she can take the test and hopefully pass it. And so far, she's a lot more fearless than all the other boys around!

Nicky Flynn's Hard Life

There are a lot of hard things going on in Nicky's life right now in the book "How I Nicky Flynn Finally Get a Life (and a Dog). Kind of long title, isn't it? The story is about how this average kid named Nicky Flynn went from living in a nice, upper-class town in the suburbs of Littleton with a big house to a Ghetto-like neighborhood in Charleston because his parents split up and have less money now. So now he lives in a somewhat crappy apartment with only one bedroom and a bad-tempered landlord. The only problem I think he complains about too much is how now he doesn't have his own room, how he has to sleep on a foldout bed. I've been through not having my own room and instead having to take the living room. Sure, it can get annoying once in a while but it's really not that bad.
     I also think that he's acting kind of weird about how his mom brought him a German Shepherd from the pound for him to keep as a pet. He didn't have the reaction most characters do, with all the happiness about finally getting a pet and all. Instead, he seemed annoyed by it. He acted like it wasn't his dog and that his mom shouldn't of got it for him. And he's always wanted one, too! I think it's because he's still depressed about is parents' divorce and having to move and everything. But as the book progresses on, I think the bond between Nicky and Reggie (the dog) is slowly starting to grow, even if he doesn't want to admit it.