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Jordy's Literature Canon

 * __The Mortal Instruments - Cassandra Claire__**

Exciting, thrilling and enchanting. This series of "mortal instruments" will have you going up and down as it takes you on a fictional journey with demons, shadowhunters, werewolves and vampires. Don't let the idea of vampires and werewolves throw you off this magnificent series. These book are full of mystery, secrets, twists and unexpected turns. It will have you staying up late in your bed reading the three books (soon to be a fourth and fifth) cover to cover. The emotional connection you feel with every character will have you feeling the same suspense and awkwardness of situations between enemies, siblings and friends. These books are fantastically written, putting the Twilight saga to shame. These books are written with hilarious humour, wit and quirkiness. You’ll be laughing, crying and intrigued throughout the whole series.

Favourite quotes: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the  oranges you originally asked for" - Jace

"Patience grasshopper," said Maia. " Good things come to those who wait ." "I always thought that it was 'Good things come to those who do the wave'", said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life." [|The Mortal Instruments]

__**Looking for Alibrandi - Melina Marchtta **__



Heartbreaking, beautiful and inspiring. This book is by far one of my favourite novels. This novel is eloquently written, taking you with it as you help Josephine discover the person she wants to be and the life she wants to lead. Never have I felt a stronger connection with a novel. They way this book is written makes you feel as though you know the characters on a personal level. It makes you feel as though you too are going through all the same struggles and dramas as this teenager, helping you relate to your own situations in life. With this book you are guarenteed to feel the same emotional connections to these wonderful, heartwarming characters and love every moment of it.

Poem by John in Looking for Alibrandi: [|Looking for Alibrandi]
 * Can you see what I see? **
 * No I don’t think you can **
 * I see images of nothing **
 * and I attempt to make that **
 * nothingness mean something **
 * As hard as I try there is **
 * still nothing and that nothing **
 * is meaningless **
 * I am somewhere else now, outside **
 * I am surrounded by people and **
 * the sky. I see the people and the **
 * blueness of the sky **
 * but still nothing has changed **
 * everything remains the same **
 * I am still alone. **

=**__Angels and Demons - Dan Brown__** =



One of my favourite thrillers. I was gripped into this book from front to back. This science-fictional book has you doubting your own knowledge of history and truth. Dan Brown has written this novel with incredible imagination and persuasion that you'll be absorbing this story as if everything were factual and real events of history. This book is gruesome, brilliant and full of mystery. You'll be guessing with antisipation and still be surprised and excited by the marvellous twist in the book.

//" A human corpse. The body had been stripped naked, and its head had been twisted, facing completely backward. On the victim's chest was a terrible burn. The man had been branded...imprinted with a single word."//


 * Camerlengo**: Do you believe in God?**Robert Langdon**: I’m academic. My mind tells me I will never understand God.**Camerlengo**: And your heart ?**Robert Langdon**: Tells me I am not meant to . Faith is a gift that i am yet to receive.

//﻿//"Quite simply, the goal of terrorism is to create terror and fear. Fear undermines faith in the establishment. It weakens the enemy from within… causing unrest in the masses. Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government’s façade of infallibility, and you remove its people’s faith." //﻿// //﻿// [|Dan Brown]

The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

I.LOVED.THIS.BOOK. Sorry to go all school girlish, but i fell in love with this book. This book is filled with passion, love, romance, heartbreak and yet leaves you feeling wonderfully awed at the beautiful love shared between these two characters. You'll laugh and you'll cry over the sorrow and hardship that comes with the complications of having a DNA disfunction. Intrigued by the possibilities of such truth, you believe every moment, including the ones that seem the most heartbreaking and devastating. If you are sucker for a fantastic and romantic novel, the Time traveller's wife should be on your list to read. It really is a "timeless" wonder. Favourite quotes: //"Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?"// //"We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment."// //"I love you, always. Time is nothing."// //"Time is priceless, but it’s Free. You can't own it, you can use it. You can spend it. But you can't keep it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back."// [|The time travellers wife]

= To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee =



Set in a small town Maycomb in Alabama during the 1960's this book is wellknown for it's voice against racial discrimination in Southern America. What makes this book so powerful is the narrator being none other than Scout (Jean Loius Finch). Scout is a 6 year old girl who witnesses prejudice, racism and discrimination towards people she loves and cares about (eg. Calpumia). The strongest aspect of this book wasn't just the message and meaning to it. It was the fact that the message and meaning was being told and addressed by a little girl. It was the fact that she recognised this behaviour to be wrong and unjust, however the adults in the novel seemed to accept it and consider it normal. Viewing that world, our world, from her eyes is what made this book so beautiful and touching. It is written with care and passion. It is powerful and inspirational. It is with out doubt a classic...even chosen by the dead white men. Putting aside the reputation and concept of this book, it really is an inspiring and touching story, that is also confronting and devastating. It is wonderfully written and is a must read. //"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."// -Atticus //".As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it-whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."-//Atticus Favourite quote right towards the end: //".If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time.it's because he wants to stay inside."//-Jem [|Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird]

Harry Potter - J.K.Rowling

It's Harry Potter. Seriously, need I really say more? How many times have you heard someone say "Yeah...but it's not better than Harry Potter" or "Hey...that's nearly as good as Harry Potter." Harry Potter is a genre of it's own with its own criteria. Books are compared and criticised against this 7 book series of brillaince. It's a series of magic and literally everything. I kid you not. Harry Potter is one of the most popular series of all time due to it's imagination and inclusion of so many genres. It has romance, action, comedy, life and death, right vs wrong, war, prejudice and racism all linked in with teenage dramas, life problems and an obvious one; magic including witches, wizards, dragons, werewolves and new creatures such as a hypogriff. The way that the series is written includes different views and opinions from every character. Whether it be the wisedom from Albus Dumbledore, the right thing to do from the rule abiding Hermione, the best friends advice from Ron or the snide comments from bad boy Malfoy, It's purely the imagination, the creation of another world and the books in themeselves that make them nothing other than...the one...the only...HARRY POTTER.

Favourite quotes: "you're a wizard harry"

" After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure" - Dumbledore

'It does not do to live in dreams and forget to live'

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities" - Dumbledore

[|Home of Harry Potter]

=Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte =



It's not a story about a girl who is considered beautiful by a vampire and hot werewolve, or who has super powers or who is a super spy. It's a story of a plain ordinary girl. A girl, although plain, has strength, independence and talents. It's the story that we all want to relate to when even an ordinary girl can have her happy ending. This book is gothic and romantic. It takes us through the struggles of an unwanted orphaned child who finds to stand on her own feet and can make something of herself. It has mystery, twist and turns and my favourite part; the revealing of secrets of the past and present. Never did I find this book tedious or boring. I was intrigued of what this young woman would do with her life throughout the whole novel. And when stubborn, harsh Mr Rochester comes into the story it will have you desperate to find out what the future holds for these two who, although the come from different lifestyles, attract like north to south.

Favourite quotes: //"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will..."// -Jane to Mr. Rochester

//"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags" - Jane Eyre//

//"My bride is here... because my equal is here, and my likeness"// -Mr. Rochester to Jane

[|Jane Eyre Wiki] =**__Little Women - Louisa May Alcott__**=



A beautiful story of young girls who grow into women. This book is one of my favourites. The story of a family, of sisters, who stick together throughout everything. With stuggles including the war and poverty.Due to the war this family of five had to do without a man of the house, making these young women take up the man's role. This made the four sisters strong and independent who stood up for what they believed in a appreciated what they had as they always had to work for it. To them family is everything. Which is what makes this book so heartbreaking yet so beautiful. Even through the sad times these Little Women are inspiring and contrive to be happy. They be happy for one another, never selfish, always doing what the can to be there for one another. I love this story all so very much. With the four main characters you are bounf to relate to one of them. Whether it be the tomboyish Jo, the beautiful Meg, the quiet yet talented Beth or the artistic naive Amy. This book is carefully written with passion and heart. You'll laugh, cry and appreciate the simplest things of life.

//"I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman,' and not be rough and wild; but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else."//

//"You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play..."//

//"Money is a needful and precious thing,--and, when well used, a noble thing,--but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace."//

[|Little Women]

The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S.Lewis
==  == Let me take you to another world. A world that you can only get to when you least expect; through a forrest, a wardrobe or a painting. Where animals and trees can talk, war goes on between humans, witches and magical creatures and time in your other world seems to stop. This was one of my favourite childhoos series. Even reading it today I am still reminded of the wonderful feelings of excited and joy that always seem to follow with books that contain magic and fantasy on every page. These stories come to life the moment you open the cover. The reader is as much apart of Narnia as the characters in the story. Our way may not be through a forrest, or wardrobe or painting...it is instead through these magical books. The books a written with as much excitement that we feel, you can feel the love and passion that C.S.Lewis had put into these books, he has captured the world that children and adults love. //"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven://

//Always keep in mind that God has a time for everything, we just have to be patient and wait for it"// **I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.**

**"**Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight. At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more. When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death. And when he shakes his mane, it will be spring again."

[|About The C.O.N] =** The Witches - Roal Dahl **=

The witches. The equivalent book to Angels and Demons for children. Maybe not to that extreme, but this was one of the first books that actually made me scared. Having angst to turn the next page however trembling with excitement to find out what would happen. This book is fantastic. Even today I love reading this book by Roald Dahl. It has humour, is gruesome and is written with so much intensity that you can't put it down. Whether it has you thinking about women who are actually witches in our society, or the idea that some rats may actually be children just shows that this book will stay on your mind. Maybe because i was young this book had me thinking about it all the time, but even at a young age for a book to be able to do that juts shows it sugnificance and how great it really is. I reccommend this book to read for any audience. It'll may take you back to your childhood days or allow you to be intrigued on this intense mysterious story.

Favourite quotes: //"//my darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all" I said. "//It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you."//  //"She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness.// //I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible."//