ah happy days when it’s not 105 when you out to run…
(thanks for nothing trey on wednesday – would it kill you pace a guy every once in a while??? particularly when he hits iron chairs at bernie’s when left to his own vices – the bruise on my right arm cries out to your lack of help – see if i name my ukrainian orphan after you…)
so i’ve been reading – again – can’t help it – i guess – it helped distract me for the first 57 minutes of alabama’s game yesterday…
“roar” – finished the BOB for the year – when jacobsen stole my book, i went for that one – it was okay – entertaining – kept me guessing where it was going – the book wandered at times – it seemed to be an eco-disaster warning book at times – at others, about political problems (power with the rich) – other times, speaking about disabilities – i guess that’s one way to write your first book – pick about 5,000 things to happen and just put them in there – anyway, not the best book, but okay
“the media relations department of hizbollah wishes you a happy birthday” – funny, funny book about the middle east – never thought i’d write those words:) anyway, a long-time reporter for the ny times in that area wrote a book about the area – really, really good – insights into the mindset of the people – their similarities and differences (like between saudi arabia – very restrictive – and egypt – more open) – the middle east is obviously important so i enjoyed reading about an area that is heavily covered – but not with much depth at all…
as for other readings, i’m almost through second samuel now on my quest to finished the old testament by december – so king david’s just back to his throne after his son absolom failed in his attempt to take over – the life of david pretty well covers both samuels – and then chronicles (up next) is the after-effects – finally ending with israel split – and the remanent in exile
i also read a great story this morning about cuba – a reporter went there to try and live off the $15 a month salary that workers there receive – he basically lost 11 pounds, nearly starving to death – and couldn’t do it without a lot of help (and stealing) – which apparently much of cuba does as their government turns a blind eye – deaf ear – something
i guess those are the highlights – hope your reading is good this week
maf
Monday
This week I’m blogging about The Castaways of the Flying Dutchman. It is by Brian Jaques, the author of the Redwall series. Anywho, I know that he wrote this to entertain the reader. I pretty sure anyways. I think he wrote this to entertain, but he used facts about the countries and myths of the Flying Dutchman to an advantage, because he twists it to a new point of view of a never-before-heard-of-character. At the same time though he creates the image a huge ship where the boy is put in the galley.
Tuesday
Wondering what would have happened if Neb (the boy in Castaways of the Flying Dutchman) would have escaped in Denmark?
My guess is that he would have found the black lab and went to a bench and hid until the pirates were gone. Then he would have made a home and been one of those beggars who sits on the corner of the block in New York. Or maybeif he didn’t like the dog anymore … sell the poor black lab. I mean that’s what I would have to do if I were him, but I’m not so that is all his discision. That is what I think would have happened to Neb if he escaped the ship in Denmark.
Wednesday
After a lot of thought The Castaways of the Flying Dutchman is like the beginning of Peter and the Starcatchers. They both have characters get on ships. Neb got on because he was running from his stepbrothers and one of them hit him and he fell into the ice cold water, then all of a sudden a stringy rope hits his head and he uses all his strength to climb onboard. In the other book orphans get onboard because the are forced to be slaves to an evil king overseas. Well, I mean, they have \the same ideas just different plots.
Thursday
So far the captain of the Flying Dutchmanis making a deal with a chinease merchant who is offering FOUR emeralds for him to deliver emeralds to other high-payng people. On another POV a boy is running from his stepbrothers and runs into a dead-end. His stepbrothers or the ocean?!?!?!?!?!? Which is worse?!?!?!? Well, he doesn’t have a choice because one of his stepbrothers cuffs (hits) him in the jaw and falls into the freezing cold ocean shivering and alone.
Okay so I got bored and i couldn’t find any other books to read besides non-fiction( 🙁 ), but i jus grabbed the first Pendragon and started reading and now I finished the book. The story starts with Bobby, a normal fourteen year old boy, preparing to leave his home to play in the state basketball semi-finals, then Bobby’s Uncle Press arrives and tells Bobby to come with him. They drive on a motorcycle to a boarded-up subway station in the Bronx, where they meet the main villain, Saint Dane, whose goal is to destroy the barriers between the ten territories of Halla; every territory, person, living thing, and time there ever was and will be. Saint Dane is disguised as a cop, but Uncle Press recognizes him and tells Bobby to run. Then Bobby finds a… well I guess you could call it a subway to a different world. He and Bobby travel to the territory of Denduron, where Bobby learns how he is not an ordinary fourteen-year-old boy, but a Traveler chosen to fight Saint Dane. Bobby meets Loor, the Traveler from Zadaa and Osa, Loor’s mother. Soon after they meet, Osa is attacked and killed by Bedoowan knights while taking Bobby from the mines. They also meet Alder, the Traveler from Denduron, Rellin, the chief miner of the Milago, and Figgis, a strange merchant who attempts to sell anything he can get his hands on.
When Bobby and Press arrive at Denduron, they change their clothing and find a bobsled, along with two spears and a dog whistle, left by the acolyte (a person native to a territory who helps the Travelers by leaving items such as clothing and means for transportation). Bobby and Press start their descent from the mountain, and they are attacked by twelve quigs (animals Saint Dane uses to patrol the gates of the flumes; the appearance of quigs change with the territories). They manage to live through the situation by using the dog whistle and the spears, but the sled crashes, and Press is kidnapped by Bedoowan knights. Bobby, Alder and Loor try to rescue him from the Bedoowan castle, armed with a backpack full of tools brought from Bobby’s home, Second Earth, to make the job of rescuing Uncle Press easier, despite the warning Press gave Bobby that territories are not to be mixed (through items or otherwise). During this time, Bobby realizes that the Bedoowan live a luxurious and lazy life, as they listen to music, relax on pillows, and eat, attended by slaves called Novans. Also, technologically speaking, the Bedoowan are years ahead of the Milago with inventions and devices including dumbwaiters, running water, and artificial light. Bringing items from Second Earth turns out to be a mistake. While Bobby is sleeping in a mine ventilation shaft before the rescue attempt, Figgis had stolen a flashlight from Bobby’s bag. When Bobby, Loor, Alder, and the newly rescued Press return to the Milago village, they discover that Figgis, the native merchant, had been selling tak, an unstable explosive that is to be used as a weapon to free themselves from Bedoowan rule. The final component to build a weapon that will destroy the Bedoowan (and probably all of the Milago village, though the Milago are willing to take that risk) is the battery and the switch from the flashlight, which Bobby accidentally supplied. Their plan was to present the tak bomb to the Bedoowan during the transfer ceremony (where the Bedoowan receive the glaze), disguised as a rather large mine cart of glaze, and destroy the remaining Bedoowan with smaller amounts of tak.
They manage to stop the chief miner Rellin from setting the bomb off, and all the Bedoowan and the Novans evacuate to a field, where the battle between the Milago and the Bedoowan is to take place. In the meantime, Bobby and Loor are faced with the task of getting rid of the bomb. Bobby finds out that tak dissolves in water. Thus, they dissolve the tak and spread the solution over the stadium field so it will not be able to detonate again in the short term, except for one small ball, which Bobby slips into his pocket. At this point, Figgis the merchant lures Bobby and Loor into the mines, where they find an immense supply of tak. They soon realize that Figgis is really Saint Dane. The real Figgis died when one of his own traps backfired. Disguised as Figgis, Saint Dane sold the tak to the Milago, urging them to rebel against the Bedoowan. At the same time, Saint Dane has disguised himself as Mallos, Queen Kagan’s chief adviser, and had turned Bedoowan minds further against their neighbors. The traps that the real Figgis set trap Bobby and Loor with Saint Dane in the mine. Seeing it as the only way out, Bobby throws his small ball of tak at the large supply, which ignites the tak and will cause all of it to explode underground. Saint Dane escapes the destruction by using the flume in the mine to go to the territory of Cloral. By sending a high speed wave of water and a giant shark back through the flume Bobby can’t follow. To make matters worse for Bobby, the water knocked Loor against the wall of the cavern knocking her unconscious. Bobby just manages to escape the explosion by pushing a mine cart that held the unconscious Loor into the ocean through a ventilation shaft. When Bobby swims back to the shore and surveys the damage, they find that although there had been lots of destruction because of the explosion, most of the people are still alive, including Uncle Press and Alder. The castle, symbolic of Bedoowan rule over the Milago, falls into the ocean because of the force of the explosion, most of the Milago huts are destroyed, and the glaze mines are forever closed. becasue of that the two tribes can use their best strengths to rebuild and improve each other’s lives. Okay now that was the book The Merchant of Death. 😉 🙂 😛 😮 😀 8)
Hello everyone! Tonight I’m not blogging on my mom’s phone, but I am on her laptop-and let’s just say that it isn’t exactly the fastest computer in the world- but I am still gonna blog. Okay so I have started another book AGAIN, and you won’t guess what kind of book I started. Another goosebumps book. This one is called “calling all creeps”-sorry about the quotation marks, I don’t know how to underline on the computer- and the reason I haven’t started the second horrorland book is because I don’t have it. I guess I’m going to have to borrow it from someone else. But the funny thing is that I have book 1, 3, and 4, just not 2. Well onto my book.
Okay so all I’m going to do tonight is write a short summary on what I have read so far. So first off, the main character’s name is Ricky Beamer and in the begining of the book, it tells that Ricky is going to get revenge on this girl named Tasha. Then in the next couple of chapters, it goes back in time -kind of- and says why he would actually want to get revenge on Tasha. It says that she is an 8th grader and that she picks on 6th graders and she had kicked Ricky off of the newspaper, and she did all of that right in front of Iris, the new girl that Ricky kind of likes. Now I’m at the part where Ricky’s 4 enemies come out of these bushes and begins to grab him and yank him all over the place.
So sadly, that’s all I have for now and my 5-10 minutes are up. I’ll post back next week!!!! Bye!
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i find myself giving up on books very fast. i think i might have actually found a book that i like. i am reading seabiscuit. so far so good. not sure actually about what the first few pages are about because this story is supposed to be a horse racing story. it starts off as just a a description of a man that just goes on and on. his name is charlie howard. well now i will start blogging
i think that the authours purpose for the first 20 pages was to describe the main character or the person who owns the racetrack or horse. but seriously its just about how this guy carries himself in people. how horse racing is better than cars. it is pretty dull to try to read but i do make the prediction that once horse racing starts it will be a page turner.
i believe that the change of what i have read is a literal change. in the beginning the book is talking about charles howard and how he carries himself, how rich he is compared to everyone else he is around, and how he owns a racecar and a racing horse. then it changes into how seabiscuit was the underdog of horse racing and how he accomplised many achievments. now i havent seen the movie in a while but as i read this i can just see the movie in my head.
my comparison of the book seabiscuit is the movie seabiscuit. whenever you compare a book to a movie you usually dont get the same thing. well it doesnt seem like it with this book. the movie as i remember was like 5 hours long. this book is somewhere near 500 pages long with words in it like the words in the bible, small. then, even in the beginning, while i read it i can see the movie going on in my head. it could be just the great imagery that the book uses and i can see it in my head.
im sorry if my blogs arent good tonight. my mind is brain dead and i m very mad. see ya cms blog users
hey mr mayfield and i now this it last moment but i am going to do it anyway because i am a good student
now i am still reading the same book
so far i have read that up in the sick bay rollo finished reading fermalds cryptic message
and tansy narrowed her eyes thoughtfully then slowly repeated the strange little rhyme and having heard it only once
and the hog maid spoke out firm and clear
then martain raised his eyebrows in surprise
bye
Hey Mr. Mayfeild,
Okaayy so I read Breaking Dawn and I am going to do the author’s purpose for wrighting what I read. So here goes!!!
I think the author’s purpose for wrighting it is basically to get out the message no matter how bad it might hurt now it might get better in the end. And plus in Bella’s case she would do anything to save her baby!!!
Another reason I think that she wrote this is to say that rivals can come together to work out their diffrences. No matter how bad they are!!
-Raychel 🙂 8)