Riha Writes

Most of us have heard of Rick Riordan. Or at least heard of his well-known and beloved ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ series and its continuation books.   For those of you who don’t know about the books, it’s about a demigod with dyslexia and ADHD battling monsters and normal high school life. It has 2 continuation series, the Heroes Of and the Trials of Apollo. His writing style is first person, from Percy’s point of view in the first series and then shifts to third person, shifting from the points of view of one main character at a time. One thing we never realized is that they are not the only similarities between the book series.   The color scheme of the book covers are also similar. The first book of the first series, the Lightning Thief, was released in 2005, and the last book, the Last Olympian was released in 2009. The first book of the second series, the Lost Hero, was released in 2010 and the last book, the Blood of Olympus, was released in 2014. The first book of the t

COVID 19. Or corona virus as it is widely known. A global pandemic that has taken up the world by storm. The world is silent as the global lockdown takes effect. People locked at homes as a precaution to control the spread of the virus and to reduce the infected and the death toll. People resort to any form of entertainment to help pass the time during this time. And one of the most used forms of entertainment is movies and books. And there has been a spike in the popularity of epidemic movies and books. Some of them include Contagion, Outbreak, The Stand, Warm Bodies, Daybreakers, The Resident Evil series and much more. + Contagion, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Matt Damon and Kate Winslet in the lead roles, is about a global pandemic.   It was inspired by the SARS and the flu outbreak. It has elements used in real life like index patients, lockdowns, collaborations between global organizations like WHO and UN and false information and the people who spread it, like conspiracy