Blog Reflection

1.     See Weblog Rubric

2.     For my book review blog I wrote eight posts. The books I wrote about were The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, The Pact by Jodi Picoult, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling and Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard.

3.     I included a number of quotes for some books that were powerful to the true meaning of the book. For example I used the quote “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly and then all at once” because it portrays how much the main characters loves each other and that there connection was much deeper than regular teenage relationships.

4.     I chose the gadget of showing recent comments because it is a nice reminder to me that other people are reading and appreciating my blog. Also for other readers it gives them insight into what other people’s opinion’s are on the books I’ve reviewed. I also chose the gadget on translator because some of my viewers are from different countries so I want them to be able to translate it into the language they speak.

5.     The template I chose for my blog works well with my theme of books because the colour brown is usally associated with books. Also the map in the background shows that the books are talk about are famous all over the world and the topics of the books are very worldy and talk about different cultures. 

6.     I included a picture of myself so that my followers would know there is a real person behind the writing.

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8.     My followers are Brenda Chan, Matt M, Brodie J, Thomas P, Andy, Evan.

9.     I was able to check my comments and control what comments I want to be seen on my blog. For example if a comment was inappropriate then I can delete it. Also it was nice to have that control over blog.

10. I was very happy to see that other people has read over my blog and made comments. They all had nice things to say about my different post and hopefully they read some of the books I suggested.

11. I made sure when I was commenting on my followers blog to make the comments nice and appropriate. Each blog have very unique and different posts.

12. I used a number of pictures but made sure that the first picture for every blog is to be the book cover so the readers would know what the book looked like if they wanted to find it.

13. My one video post was a trailer for the third harry potter movie so readers could see how the movie is different from the book.

14. I checked through all the grammar to make sure it sounded proper.

15. Analytics were added to help monitor my weblog

Analytics Summary:

            I added the analytics so every time I open up my blog I can so I can see how many people have looked at my blog, where they live and who can published a comment on my blog. It is very easy to find because it pops up on the first page that you go to for your blog. Everyday that I work on my blog I see that I have six followers and nine posts. It helps me keep track of what I have written so far and how many page view’s I have gotten today.

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

This is another great book series centered around four
girls, Aria, Spencer, Emily, and Hanna. There troubles
begin when they are twelve years old and their best friend
Alison goes missing. After Alison's disappearance they
begin to lead separate lives.  Aria moved to Iceland with
family, Spencer moves on to become a straight A student
with no time for fun, Emily is a champion swimmer and
Hanna becomes the new it girl at Rosewood High. But
even though they lead new lives they can't run from their
pasts and someone by name of "A" wont let them. Their tormentor "A" knows all their dirty little secrets and wants to make sure they suffer for what they have done. All of them have one secret in common that will destroy their lives forever if it got out.

What got me addicted to this series is that ever book ends very dramatically always leaves you wanting more. If you read this book and want to read more the next book in the series is called Flawless.

So i would definitly give this book a rating of five stars our five stars. Even though it is an easy read you have ten other books to read after if you finish it really quickly.

As you may know they have made a television series of this series but i must inform you know like most televised books they are nothing alike. The only thing similar between them is that Alison died and that they have a stalker named "A". So i hope you check out the book and thanks for taking the time to check out my blog.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling

In the Harry Potter series there are seven books in total but i am going to talk about the third book of the series. I have read all books and this is my favourite out of them all. The reason i like "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" the most is because its the first book that begins to turn from a happy ending children's series to dark and mysterious teens series. In the third book Harry has already faced Lord Voldemort, the wizard who killed his parents and defeated his younger self trapped in a diary. Harry has faced many things from the past and in this book he will face the person supposedly responsible for the death of his parents. The night before he is meant to go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry he uses magic on his aunt marge and is forced to leave his home earlier than expected. When he finally arrives at Hogwarts he finds out that Sirius Black, the man who betrayed his parents, is coming to kill Harry Potter so he can avenge the dark lord. It is again up to Harry to fins Sirius Black and find out what really happened the night of his parents death. Of course he has his best friends Ron and Hermione by his side to help him through this journey.

I would rate this book 28750249082390840928309 stars out of 5 stars. The Harry Potter series is the best book series i have ever read. It also doesn't hurt that they made movies out of all the books, that's an added bonus. I encourage you to read the books before you watch the movies because although the movies are very entertaining the books are much more in depth of detail.

The authour of the Harry Potter series is J.K Rowling.           
She was born in 1965 in England. She has a movie
about her life and how she came to create the Harry Potter
 series. She now lives with her husband and three children
in Edinburgh.