Summary: Tyler Miller is a high school senior. He used to be a "nerd," until he spray painted the school. After this incident, he takes up an outdoor job and gets fit. With this new reputation and look, he gets the attention of the most popular girl in school. It just so happens that the girl he likes is also the sister of his worst enemy and the daughter of his father's boss. He goes through a rough time and has to make hard decisions. Not only at school, but also at his home that he thinks is dysfunctional.
Million Dollar Arm Genre: Non-Fiction Rating: 3/5
Summary: J.B. Bernstein is a sports agent with not that many clients left. His clients included people like Barry Bonds and such. After one young football prospect asked for $1,000,000 in cash, he had to find someone else. With business not booming like it used too, he attempts to try something no one else has done before. He sets his sights on Starting a baseball reality/competition show, in India. His idea is not so well received when he tries to get an investor. When he is finally about to give up, he gets an investor and flies out to India. I did not finish this book. I got bored of it because I felt like it was too slow. When I stopped reading, J.B. hadn't found anything for a long time, until he met Rinku and Dinesh.
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Tokyo Ghoul Genre: Manga
I want to read Tokyo Ghoul because I have watched the anime, but I heard the manga is better and explains more. I never read manga, but the concept of this story is really interesting and I feel like I want to know more than what the anime told. The story is, Kaneki is a high school boy that is very shy and timid. One day, he meets a beautiful girls that likes the same books that he does. After his friend Hide makes fun of him, he asks her out on a date. The girl, Rize, accepts and they have fun until he walks her home. She tells him that she likes him the same way he does. She leans in for a kiss, but bites him instead. It turns out She is a ghoul, a supernatural being who feeds on human flesh. He tries to escape, and out of nowhere, Rize is killed from something falling on her. Keneki passes out, and when he wakes up, he realizes he in a hospital. The doctor that saved his life has also ruined it. Kaneki now has a ghoul organ, making him half ghoul.