Savanah's Place

In my first year of college, I found myself a little lost in what to buy for college; so many people told me to buy all these materials, and I realized I was not going to need them. So here are the basic supplies you need to buy before starting classes.     Pencils This might sound like I am an eighty-year-old person. But pencils are essential for me. I started taking notes on my computer, then pens, and then I had to switch to pencils, and I prefer taking tests and generally writing with pencils. As a history/archeology major, I take a lot of handwritten notes, and my hands can start to hurt very fast. However, my mom got me thicker pencils in elementary school, and I loved using them. So I decided to find these pencils and use them once again. These pencils are typically for children learning to write but help save my hand. Tot pencils are my favorite pencils; they take a lot to break, so I don’t have to worry about them in my backpack. Where I get my Tot Pencils - h...

  We all have books that have stuck with us from childhood; they are the stories that become part of us, and a small part of us want to be part of them. There are so many times when I think of the books I loved as a child, and I wish to read them for the first time again and feel the sense of adventure and expectation again. Honestly, it is like a high. Since these books are such a part of me, I wanted to share some of my childhood favorites with you all. So here are my top 5 favorite and most thought-provoking books from my childhood.   1.        Sign of the Beaver   This book is about a family living in the early settlements of America who move from their home to a western part of Maine. But, the family’s mother is pregnant and cannot go until after the baby is born. So the men of the house (the father and 12-year-old Matt) must go and build and set up the house. But Matt will have to stay in the wilderness while Father returns for ...

  I love to read a cute romance book, but every once in a while, I crave a book that a character does not find their true love or love is not even mentioned in the book. So to celebrate the singles in the world such as myself. Here are my top five non-romance books.   Fawkes by Nadine Brandes   Fawkes is a historical fiction book with a hint of fantasy that follows Guy Fawkes’s son (Thomas) as he tries to find his father to receive the most significant honor the Igniters have their mask. Their mask are essential as whatever color mask is given to the child of an Igniter is the color they can control (so if you have a blue mask, you can control any blue object like water, grey would control things like stone, and so on). However, the people of this time are dealing with a severe plague called the Stone Plague which Thomas has in his eye. Thomas must find his father to get his mask and hopefully pardon himself from the plague he has contracted. But when Thomas meets...