Book Of The Week Wednesday! Hollow City

Hollow City

By: Ransom Riggs

(Second book to Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children)

 

Hollow City is the sequel to the novel Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children. I have a post about it Here if you haven't read it already.

 

Hollow City is about Jacob and his peculiar friends trying to get to London to save their headmistress, Miss Peregrine from staying a bird forever. They have to survive all kinds of dangers including bombs, hollows, and wights.

 

 

Here are some of the characters in this book.

 

My favorite characters are Millard, Hugh, and Bronwyn.

Millard is invisible, Hugh has bees living in his stomach that he can control, and Bronwyn is extremely strong but also very caring.

 

Here are some more peculiar characters.

 

 

 

 

Hollow City made me feel like I was reading multiple books because the children go to many different places and have mini adventures in their journey to London. I really liked this book. I thought it was really good and I loved the ending. It has a really good twist close to the end of the book. (I love twists!) I don't like Jacob or Emma though. I feel like they think that Jacob is the coolest person ever just because he can see hollows and is lucky enough to kill them sometimes. (WITH the help of the other peculiar children.) I like that they can work together and help each other out with their different peculiarities. I don't like Emma because she's pretty much leading Jacob on. She was also Jacob's grandfather's love interest for a while. (Sloppy seconds from your grandpa doesn't sound too good.) But she wants Jacob to stay and then she wants him to leave, she needs to make up her mind. Jacob only stayed because of her but she just gives him mixed signals. Miss Peregrine was also making me mad but you'll understand when you read the book.

 

*If you've read the first one you'll probably read this one too! There is also a 3rd book on the way and a movie! I've read that they are going to turn Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children into a movie, which will be directed by the amazing Tim Burton! I'm curious to see how they will do everything. IMDB says that the movie will come out July 2015 in the USA. Mark your calendars!*

 

 

Thanks For Reading! :)

 

Feel free to comment your opinions and questions!

Who are your favorite and least favorite characters and why?

Are you excited for the movie? 

Who makes you mad?

Reading Time! / Book of the Week!

Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

 

I received Hollow City for my birthday (March 29th) which is the second book to Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. I read Miss Peregrine's a few years ago, so I decided to read it again before I read the second book. Miss Peregrine's is about a sixteen-year-old boy that goes to a remote island to find an abandoned orphanage to figure out what his grandfather meant by (*semi-spoiler alert*) his dying words.

 

Miss Peregrine's is filled with haunting vintage photographs throughout the book that go along with the story. I think they're really cool and creepy. They were the reason why I bought the book in the first place, but I ended up liking the story as well. :)

Here are a few pictures that are in this book: 

 

 

It's really hard for me to buy books even though I love reading. I'm always scared to buy books, then end up never finishing them because I don't like them. I've only ever bought books that I knew I would like or that I fell in love with at the store. This is one of the books that I just fell in love with because I liked the pictures so much.

 

I don't think I've read enough books or know enough about writing books to be able to give this book a review, but I don't have any big complaints. I found out there was a second book recently and I wanted it, so I'm going to guess that I liked the first book. Even if you don't like the story, you still have creepy cool photos to look at. I really like she size/shape of the book as well as the paper on the insides and the outside (hard back) of the book. (Without the paper cover.)

 

I've always wanted a huge bookshelf with a lot of books. I'm not a kindle type of person, so it definitely matters to me what the book looks like. If the book isn't attractive to me then I probably won't go look at it unless I know that I'll like the story. I think I would recommend this to y'all. So go check it out if it interests you! :)

 

 

Thanks For Reading! :)

 

 

 

I will be reading Hollow City next! :)

 

How To Sew A Skirt

How To Sew A Skirt

What you need:

A sewing machine. (Mine is a Vivo Singer)

1 yard of material. (Depending on your size)

Elastic. (Any size/color you want)

Scissors.

Pins.

 

 

 Step 1:
Unfold your material completely to one layer.
Fold over Hamburger style or whichever way you want your material to be.
The top is going to be the top and the bottom is going to be the bottom.

Cut the fold.

 

 When you separate your layers they should look like this.

 
Put one side over the other side. Right sides facing each other.

 

Step 2: 

Pin the sides of the two pieces together

 

Step 3:
Sew both sides.

 

 

Both sides will look like this!

 You'll be able to open the top and bottom.

 

 This is what the sides would be like.
Inside.

  Outside.

Step 4:

Decide what you want to be the bottom.

 

Fold up the material as much as you want for the hem.

 

Pin all around.

 Sew the hem all the way around

 Inside.

Outside.

Step 5:
Pick out an elastic

I picked the thinner elastic.
Cut it a little bit smaller than your waist or hip size.

 Fold over the top of the skirt like the bottom.

 

 Make sure the waistband is wide enough to hold the elastic

Pin it.

 

 Make sure you leave a part open to put the elastic through.

This is how it should look.

Step 6:
Put the elastic through.

It takes a while.

Whenever you're done, put the two sides together and hand sew them.
(Make sure the elastic isn't twisted)

 

 When you're done, you can just sew down the material. (Make sure you don't sew down the elastic)

Turn it right side out and you're done!

Havolyn is modeling the skirt I made. :)

Here is me wearing my skirt.

I thought it was a little too long so I decided to shorten it.

Just cut straight across the bottom however short you want it.
(Remember to keep extra length to hem it)

 Here is the finished result!

    

 

 

Thanks For Reading! :)