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120 SINF facts I collected while rereading the series

Behold, my magnum opus.

Josh likes Shrek

Dee has The X-Files theme song as his ringtone

Scatty doesn’t blink. Ever.

Dee gave Mary Shelley the idea for Frankenstein

Scatty can’t enter your room if you don’t invite her in

Scatty is a vegetarian

Perry needed to teach Nicholas English at some point because he forgot it

Ghosts love bathrooms

Josh is 5 cm taller than Sophie

Dee has always been fascinated by the idea of flying

Josh hates snakes, spiders, rats, and scorpions

Scatty hates rain, and it is one of the reasons she left Ireland

Scatty is allergic to feathers and fur

Scatty easily burns in the sun

According to the Codex, apples are poisonous and frogs can turn into princes, both of which Zephaniah confirms are incorrect claims

Zephaniah tried to marry off Scatty to king Nabukodonosor when she was 15

Dee prefers living in bigger cities

Scatty gets sick from using leygates

Josh is incredibly susceptible to seasickness

Nicholas helped create the French sign language

Machiavelli desecrated Nicholas’ and Perenelle’s graves more than three centuries ago and broke their gravestone. The Flamels saw everything

Zephaniah is an Elvis Presley fan

Sophie thinks European chocolate is too bitter

Scatty hates flying

Scatty speaks 6-7 HUNDRED languages

Machiavelli is the type of guy to punch a hole in the wall when he’s angry

Francis speaks ALL languages. ALL of them.

Scatty bites her nails when she’s nervous

Vampyres don’t sweat (this includes Scatty and Aoife)

Francis is terrible at tending to plants

Nicholas pulled off the first blood transfusion in history

Joan is also a vegetarian

Dee has a habit of cutting the phone call before the other person just so that his word can be last. Machiavelli is the most prominent victim of this

Dee doesn’t like flying

The Sphynx is afraid of dark

The pyramids in Egypt were built for the Danu Talis survivors

Josh collects fossilized feces

Joan loves cooking and grows spices on her rooftop

Machiavelli has manicured nails

Dagon often has nightmares about the fall of Danu Talis

Machiavelli knows how to program in five different programming languages

Machiavelli's one of the few world experts on quantum physics

Aerop-Enap tends to sleep off large chunks of human history

Sophie can run really fast

Machiavelli is a vegetarian

Machiavelli has stamina problems

Gilgamesh doesn't have an aura

Perry's aura doesn't have a smell

William cooks when he's nervous

Bastet can tolerate iron better than most Elders

Both Josh and Mars carry swords in their left hand

Machiavelli was the brain behind Napoleon

Francis is the only known person in the SINF universe that was born with the ability to see where leygates are

Scatty was told that she'd die in an exotic place

Billy speaks French

The Flamels worked on the first atomic bomb ever

Gilgamesh once requested to have the world’s first atomic bomb be detonated right above him. The Flamels placed him in a mental institution for 10 years because of it

Sophie doesn't like onions

Francis taught Aoife how to see leygates

Machiavelli thinks about his death unusually often

Niten is the only humani who defeated Scatty in a one-on-one fight

Virginia has a very expensive taste

Virginia lives in a tent

Canonically the reason Machiavelli and Dee keep underestimating Perenelle is that they're misogynists (at least according to Virginia Dare)

Niten collects classic cars

Dee is terrible at tending to plants

Aoife once crashed a vimana and blamed it on Scatty

Odin sacrificed his eye to an Archon in exchange for eldritch knowledge

Abraham has an extra finger on each hand

Krakens are actually only about an inch large. Apparently, sailors overestimated their size a little…

The Morrigan’s tears turn into small feathers

Dee is very susceptible to seasicknes

Nereus is responsible for the Bermuda Triangle dissappearances

Scatty and Aoife were the first of the Next Generation

The Codex has twenty-one pages

Hel imprisoned Joan in her shadowrealm once

Virginia and her flute are bonded

Billy has cold hands

Virginia doesn’t speak Latin, and neither does Billy

Mars has a coal black tongue

Sophie is afraid of spiders

Aten is a history nerd

Isis is older than Osiris

Virginia Dare is a Vegetarian

Virginia didn’t know how to speak until she was ten or eleven

Billy read Machiavelli’s The Prince

Josh looks up to Billy as a legend

Black Hawk dislikes spicy food

It’s possible to summon Elders by praying to them

Virginia was besties with Albert Einstein and her tales about shadowrealms inspired his theory of relativity

Prometheus is the self-proclaimed finest vimana flier in Danu Talis

Will abhors weapons and has never fired a gun in his life

The first humani created by Prometheus all had his facial features

Perenelle hates coffee

Tsagaglalal has no fingerprints

Josh suffers from claustrophobia

Perenelle once knocked out one of Quetzalcoatl’s back molars

Prometheus hates parrots

Prometheus read Niten’s book

Mars disagrees with just about everything in Niten’s book

There are rumors that Leonardo da Vinci was immortal

Hel loves raw pork

The only place in the world Dee hasn’t been to is Denmark

Aoife considers Khutulun, a prominent immortal warrior and niece of Kublai Khan as the “daughter she always wanted”. She is currently breeding horses in Kentucky

Isis and Osiris paint their nails black

Quetzalcoatl is a loner

Quetzalcoatl is responsible for The great Northeast blackout

Billy and Black Hawk are Star Trek fans

Machiavelli is a Star Wars fan

Machiavelli actually liked Napoleon

Tor Ri in which lives Abraham has exactly 248 steps

Marethyu doesn’t breathe or have a heartbeat

Isis and Osiris have dark purple tongues

One of the reasons Elders don’t like congregating in the same place is the risk that their auras could cause a natural disaster

Zephaniah is allergic to cats

Cookie-dough ice cream gives Virginia a rash

Dee’s favorite ice cream flavor is cookie-dough

Billy loves eating crab legs

Scathach and Aoife were trained by Tsagaglalal

Prometheus doesn’t have a pulse

#sinf #sotinf #not gonna lie i mostly made this list for myself #i think of it as a useful reference sheet

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susangbarber · 6 years

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Here are the books from the final quarter of 2017 that I read. My thoughts on 2017 as a whole will be posted on January 2nd with my top five favorites from 2017, observations on my reading as a whole from 2017, and goals for 2018. But for now, I am off to finish Just Mercy and do some food prep for tonight and tomorrow. Happy New Year!

October

A Land More Kind than Home ★★★★★ (Cash, 2012, fiction)

This Appalachian writer explores life in a rural North Carolina mixing themes of family and religion in a class good vs. evil story. I give it only four stars (really 4.5) because the ending was more violent than I anticipated. Well-written and very accessible, this is a must-read.

Small Great Things ★★★★★ (Picoult, 2016, fiction)

I read this book with high expectations and it did not disappoint. Ruth, an African-American labor and delivery nurse, is accused of killing a newborn after a white supremacist couple specifies for her to not care for their child. This books reads quickly, has believable characters, and deals with current issues.

Talk Like Ted ★★★★★ (Gallo, 2014, nonfiction)

If you do any type of public speaking, this book is a must read. My friend Adrian and I read this and discussed together as we prepared to speak this fall at a couple of English conferences. I loved this book so much that I ordered a class set for my seniors to use as part of their end-of-the-year project.

The Thirteenth Tale (Setterfeld, 2006, fiction) –

This is the one book of the year that I abandoned and is therefore not counted in this year’s list. I went into it with such high expectations, and this book is in my preferred genre. I’m not sure why I didn’t click with this book, but I do think it’s less about the book and more about me. I read it in October which was a particularly busy and stressful month for me. I will give this another try this year because I don’t want to give up on this completely.

November

Little Fires Everywhere ★★★★★ (Ng, 2017, fiction)

YES, YES, YES! This is one of my top five books of the year; I loved everything about it. The characters are believable and well-developed, the story pulls the reader in from the beginning and holds interest throughout, and the content made me think on some difficult issues. I read this book as part of an online book club (#APBKCHAT) which has been a great place for me to find and talk about new books. I can’t recommend this book enough.

Inside the O’Briens ★★★★★ (Genova, 2015, fiction)

A close friend gave me this book after one of her family member’s was diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease (a neurodegenerative disease with no cure of treatment and has a 50% chance to be passed to children) in order to help me understand what her family was facing. I would encourage anyone who either has a family member or knows someone suffering from a neurological disease or works in the medical or counseling profession with patients to read this book. Hearing the disease through the patient and his family’s point of view is both sad and heartwarming.

The Hate U Give ★★★★★ (Thomas, 2017, young adult)

Young adult literature is not my genre of choice but sign me up for the Angie Thomas fan club. Often paired with All-American Boys which I read earlier this year and like, this book is THE YA book to read this year, and I couldn’t agree more. Sixteen-year-old Starr navigates her way through adolescence after witnessing a lifelong friend shot by the police. I love having books like this in my classroom library giving students options outside of the canon for reading.

December

Braving the Wilderness ★★★★★ (Brown, 2017, nonfiction)

Hello, Brene Brown; where have you been all of my life? After hearing Brene Brown speak at Catalyst this fall, I immediately ordered this book and was not disappointed. I have finally found someone who thinks like me – someone who can’t be categorized as conservative or liberal (nor wants to be), a person of faith who is open-minded, and someone who works hard but laughs a lot. This book explores having the courage to be yourself and living in community.

Murder on the Orient Express ★★★☆☆ (Christie, 1934, mystery)

I wanted to read this book before I saw the movie which I decided not to see after I read the book. For the record, I like Agatha Christie, and maybe this book was just bad timing since I read it in December, a busy month at school. I didn’t find the stock characters enjoyable or even likable, and the plot didn’t pull me forward while reading. This was one of my biggest reading disappointments of the year.

Comfort and Joy ★★★★☆ (Hannah, 2005, holiday fiction)

I bought this for a dollar at Goodwill this summer and held it to read over the holidays since I’m usually ready for some light reading then. When we dismissed school early for snow on a Friday afternoon in early December, I promptly went home, made hot chocolate, sat by the fire, and read this book. This is a Hallmark Christmas movie in novel format – predictable, heartwarming, and sets the mood for the holidays.

Their Eyes Were Watching God ★★★★☆ (Hurston, 1937, fiction)

This was one of my “I haven’t read this class yet” books for the year. There is so much in this book that I know I will reread it next year. I only give it 4 stars because the dialogue weighed me down and again – reading in December – made me have to work harder than I wanted on a book for this time of year. I suspect when I reread it, I will enjoy it even more. I love Janie, the strong female protagonist, and her story.

A Redbird Christmas ★★★★☆ (Flagg, 2005, holiday fiction)

This novella was on sale for $1.99, and I decided that a Southern holiday story would be a good way to spend a couple of early December mornings. I was right. There’s nothing earth shattering about this book or story, but it’s heartwarming and set in Alabama which makes it a perfect holiday read for me.

Peace Like a River ★★★★★ (Enger, 2000, fiction)

Wow – how have I not read this novel before now? This book is so beautifully written that it should be read for style alone, but then the story of a family’s love, loyalty, and faith as they endure hardship is beautiful as well. This definitely deserves to be on your TBR list.

pic from susangbarber on Instagram where I record my reading with #bookstagram

Just Mercy ★★★★★ (Stevenson, 2015, nonfiction)

I am not quite done with this book but should finish tomorrow so I’m including it in this year’s list. This book was on my 2017 list, and I just kept putting it off because I am saddened to read about injustices in my much loved home state of Alabama. While I didn’t want to end the year with a heavy book like this, I knew I simply had to read this book this year. This ended up being the perfect time to read Just Mercy because while I am enjoying family, friends, and an abundance of material blessings, others face unfair hardships. This book about the criminal justice system in Alabama is a must read.

This fall’s rereads included Frankenstein, The Importance of Being Earnest, Harry Potter and the Sorcer’s Stone, and A Christmas Carol. I never get tired of introducing students to good literture!

An English Teacher’s Reading Life, Fall 2017 Here are the books from the final quarter of 2017 that I read. My thoughts on 2017 as a whole will be posted on January 2nd with my top five favorites from 2017, observations on my reading as a whole from 2017, and goals for 2018.

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