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  How We Got to the Moon by John Rocco is a book that I was recently introduced to. I received this book as a prize for scoring highest in an aeronautics quiz at an aerospace engineering camp. The camp instructors facilitated tests on aeronautics and astronautics to 9th-12th graders. The winners of each test received this book as a prize. How We Got to the Moon Is a nonfiction book so full of information that it stayed interesting the entire time I was reading it. It had very fine details about things that you might have never considered while making a rocket. For example How We Got to the Moon shared things about how the parachutes of the capsules were made, it shared the problems with combustion instability in the rocket engines at the bottom of the massive Saturn V, and it even shared information about how the flight computers worked which was fascinating to me. How We Got to the Moon started at the start of the space program with the launch of the sputnik capsule, the first ...

         This blog is going to be about my thoughts on the beginner’s guide to photography, Photo Basics. This book is written by Joel Sartore, a photographer and contributor to National Geographic, and is a tutorial on how to become a better photographer. I checked out this book over the summer because I was going on a road trip and wanted to take good photos. Although I had only been able to read the first 3 chapters before going, it still made my photos look much better.     The first chapter talked about the different components of a camera and equipment. It gave brief descriptions on the different types of cameras and talked about the anatomy of a DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera (one of the common ones). Then it discussed about different tools for stabilization (tripods), lighting, lenses, and other gear that Sartore found helpful in his experiences. But the most important part about this chapter (at least to me), was the sectio...

      Many people know the singer, Lana Del Rey. But I know it's not often that someone views her in the same way I do. I have been a hardcore Lana Del Rey stan for a while now, as she is one of the only artists I consistently bless my ears with. When I listen to her songs, I not only see them as songs, but  poetry. Each song tells a story, sometimes connecting to each other.     While her writing by itself tells a story, her singing adds more meaning. Lana's emphasis on certain words or phrases while she's singing uncovers what she originally wrote the story to mean. In her song Salvatore speficically, if you were to read it as it is written, it would lead you to believe this is a past memory that she is almost longing to experience again. But with Lana's  performance, it seems more like she's daring this man, and playing with him. It feels like she's explicitly sayings she doesn't care for him, but like taunting him.      On the f...

  By: Muhammad Iftikhar  The Book of Dust is an interesting, slow-moving one that accomplishes a lot, but very little at the same time. The story starts out following a young boy Malcolm Polstead’s day-to-day life working in the inn his parent's inn. The beginning of the story is honestly pretty slow as it goes through Malcolm's school day, the work he does at the inn, and his boat rides on La Belle Sauvage (this rowboat that he used to go down the river close to the inn). In Malcom's world, every single human is accompanied by their own animal counterpart, who shares their thoughts, and pain, and live the exact same day-to-day life as they are inseparable from their humans. They’re essentially their human best friends, and they’re called Daemons. One day when Malcom was on a boat ride with this daemon Astra, he saw a man drop an item on the ground. The man goes on a frantic search to find his lost valuable, however, he’s taken away by two men in some time, and he disappear...

  Growing up, I loved reading graphic novels. I especially loved Raina Telgemeier’s collection of autobiographical graphic novels. But most of all I loved her book Sisters. Sisters is a sequel to Telgemeier’s first book Smile. In it, she shares her experiences growing up and more specifically her relationship with her sister.        The book follows Raina as she goes on a roadtrip with her sister Amara. It also shows flashbacks to pivotal moments in her childhood that included her sister. It displayed her and her sister’s bonds by showing their fights, rivalries and surprising heartfelt moments.       When I was younger I thought immediately that the characters were exact mirrors to me and my sister. Raina looked exactly like my older sister and I looked similar enough to the younger sister Amara. Now I see this mirror as not only how we look but how we act too. Me and my sister have the exact same dynamic as the pair have in the book. F...

     This blog is on some of my favorite books that I read in elementary school. I got introduced to all of these books as part of the bluestem program at my elementary school. Bluestem is a book list of about 20 books that gets updated each year and is catered towards late elementary school kids.                                                                            Counting Thyme      In this book, the main character Thyme and her family are moving to New York to try to save her brother Val's life. Thymes' Val has a rare type of cancer that has no cure and is dying. There is only one way that could save him, which is moving across the entire country to participate in a drug trial in New York city. Thyme hopes that the trial goes s...