Harry Potter series

Author: J. K. Rowling

Country: United Kingdom

Subject: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Vizardry

Genre: Fantasy

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Publication date: 30 June 1997 - 21 July 2007

Rating: 5/5

Read: Whole series

British author J.K. Rowling wrote the Harry Potter book series. This is probably the best - selling fantasy novel in the world today. The author earns more than hundreds million dollar by writing this book.

My language Incident

The incident happened about three years ago while I was still a SPP student. I can still remember almost everything even until now. I got into serious trouble because of this incident.

It was a sunny day three years from now. The first period was English and our class started as usual. Our English teacher was a very kind looking Australian lady and she teaches SPP students. I can't recall her name now, since she taught us just for a short period of time.

After twenty minutes of class time, our English teacher made us to draw a picture of her and wrote down some nice thing to describe her. I was not good at drawing, so I quickly finished the artwork and started to write some adjectives. Can you imagine how limited is the vocabulary for a SPP 1 student? The only things came out are like 'fun, interesting, pretty...'. The most horrible thing was, I included the word 'old' in my description, which is a unforgivable mistake.

When I handed in my work to my teacher, she looked fine with her expression at first. But after she saw that evil word I had written to describe her, the English teacher turned her face down on me.

'Do I look old?' my English teacher asked to me. What I had done next made it even worse, I said 'You look like my grandmother.' (My grandmother was fifty-five years old that year and my English teacher was probably more than sixty)

She misunderstood me again, I wasn't trying to insult my English teacher for her age. She sent me to the principal's office. I ended up having a detention in the office for 'insulting' my teacher.

This taught me a great lesson – be very careful about you language use.

The Inheritance Cycle series

Author: Christopher Paolini

Country: United States of America

Subject: The Alagaësia

Genre: Young Adult

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Publication date: 2002 - ongoing

Source: MS library

Rating 4.5/5

Read: First book

The Inheritance Cycle is a book series written by American author Christopher Paolini. He became very famous after his first High Fantasy book - Eragon. It placed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 121 weeks. This series took place in the fictional continent 'Alagaësia'. The story starts with Eragon, a 15-year-old farm boy in Carvahall, finds a dragon's egg. Later in the story, the protagonist fights against the evil king - Galbatorix and his mighty empire.

I really love this book a lot. This is the first English fantasy book I have ever read. Before I saw this book in the Middle School Library, I was still reading 'Harry Potter' with Chinese translation. The language of this book is not so hard to understand and it doesn't require much reading skill. This is a good book for everyone to read. The book Eragon was adapted into a movie with the same name and story on 2006.

I am preparing to read the second and the third series of The Inheritance Circle. The fourth book is going to be published soon after.