returning to the world of YA lit…

so i guess it was about time that i started reading books that you all might actually find in your own local library – can’t promise i’ll do it for too long though… ๐Ÿ™‚

“the pigman” – i forgot this one last week – garrison reminded me about it – so anyway, i read “the pigman” – and promptly threw the book in the trash at vestavia hills high school when i finished – and then returned to school and trashed the rest of the books i had – for those of you that read it in a book group, my apologies – definitely a better read in 1968 than today – lots that doesn’t translate to a current generation (some of the more troubling things: alcohol seems okay and people are constantly called “retarded”)

“chickamauga” – battlefield in northern georgia – the current plan is to go run a marathon up there this november (when alabama is undefeated:) anyway, i found the book in the county library and read through it – lots of pictures to help me maybe appreciate the course that i’ll be running through in the fall

“mount pleasant” – story about a california businessman who jumped into education after becoming a billionaire – i could relate:) anyway, the book was interesting just for the novel ideas the guy had – too bad he lost in a primary for governor last year in california

“inkheart” – i’m not a fan of 1,500 page series books, but book no. 1 was good – i’ll admit that – looking forward to now seeing the movie – i guess what i liked about inkheart was that it seemed to be an author who loves books writing about loving books – and that’s something i can relate to

“usain bolt” – bolt released this book back in the fall – or rather his press group did – great photos – decent story line – you can’t expect great literature from current superstars so i was hoping for much – and i wasn’t disappointed

finished the new testament this week while on the treadmill – took about a month – the old testament is just too long so i have no real interest in going there…

happy reading!

maf

26 thoughts on “returning to the world of YA lit…”

  1. ok, song of the day is superman by eminem (see, i do remember some things) read midnight for charlie bone, sounds about as good as pigman, but its a book. relation to harry potter 6 : both have talents, but charlie cant force a guy do go mad with the flick of the wrist, although he can hear whats going on in pictures (handy *wink*) both have a female and male associate (is that a cliche or what?) both have REALLY mean relatives, but charlie only has to put up with one (most of the time). they both are searching for someone, but harry’s is a evil genius, and charlie’s person is an orphan. finally, they both go to a weird school, yet hogwarts is infinetly more interesting.

    ok, now we shall preform an author’s purpose. its to entertain, but it is very boring, and to make money, but apparently not a lot.

    hmm, a summary? yeah, so charlie wants a picture to make a card for a friend. his mom comes back with a weird photo, from which charlie hears voices. his angreh relative tests him with other pictures, from which he attempts to avoid hearing, but finally succumbs to the voices and admits he can hear them. they say he has to go to a cheap hogwarts spinoff… ahem, bloors academy. he gets a pretty blue cape, because he’s abnormal, so he has to be a musician. he must train to play an instrument. he attemps the piano, only to realive he has to play only a few simple notes, and to bang away on the ivory keys like a demented monkey.

    finally, another comparison. charlie bone is like artemis fowl, because they both have a male and female assistant, but artemis has an insanely built bodyguard and a fairy lep officer with a firey temper, instead of a weird girl and a musician. charlie and artemis are both gifted, but artemis is gifted intelligence-wise, and charlie, amazingly, can hear pictures. they both attempt to save someone in their first adventure (technically 2nd for artemis, time paradox), and they both try to same their mom, artemis from a delirious haze, and charlie from a unknown as of my knowlegde on the date of 1/30/2011.

    Thats my makeup blog from last week- be back tommorrow.

  2. i am readeing the 3rd book of the unfortunate events series. i am going to do a character story. violet’s story.
    they all are very sad b/c captain sham threw her out of the window. all three kids just couldn’t stand to think of poor aunt josephine falling into the dark lake that she feared so much. after they found her note they all sat down at the kitchen table and called Mr.Poe. then in about 90 minutes mr. poe cam eto pick them up. at first they didn’t know who was at the door, so violet led thge three kids down thye hall to the door and when they opened it very carfully, they noticed it was mr. poe. But where do you think the three kids will go next.

  3. Bone:Pov of possums lost brother- Grrr they ditched me again! They are always doing that just to spend time with some stranger they dont even know! I wish they would spend some time with me, and read Moby Dick. But sadly, they laughed at the title and ran off. I hope those rat creatures get the possums. Wait umm, possi, no um possum? Oh my…i dont know but whatever it is, i hope they get it good!

  4. hey mr. mayfeild i will blog for ten minutes on the book last dog on earth the one you gave me. i am going to blog on the authors purpose. it is about this guy named logan moore and he hates everybody except for his dog i think the author included that because sometimes you dog is you best friend. all the dogs get hit by a virus and go nuts and then eat their owners i think the author included this because he knows that there is a bad side of a dog too so he shows it. he goes to a summer kickoff party and he said it stinks because he couldnt bring his dog i think he included this because he loved his dog alot. well thats it for tonight ill blog again tommorow see you later peoples.

  5. Hey. I’m on hunger games and i just finished it last week. A very well written book and i cant wait to read Catching Fire. I left off when Katniss adn every other child in district 12 between the ages of 12-18 gathered in the center of the district and Effie Trinket read the names of the 2 people going to the hunger games. Effie puts her hand in the first ball which contains the girls names. She pulls one name out and reads it……. Primrose Everdeen. That is Katniss’s sister! Priim starts to walk to the front of the stage and before she steps onto the stage, Katniss yells out that she wants to take Prim’s place. She volunteered in the Hunger Games. Everybody looks shocked as Katniss walks to the frontof the stage as Gale pulls Prim off the back of Katniss. Katniss stands at the front of the stage and while everything is silent the rest of the town gives her a silent thank you by placing 3 fingers on their lips and holding them out to Katniss. Effie then proceeds to pull out the boys name.

  6. Okay I just finished rereading the Sorcerer of the North. Will is traveling to his first assignment as a fully fledged ranger. During his travel to his assigned fief, he finds a female dog bleeding to death from by the roadside. Will takes her home, heals her, and she becomes his pet. After spending a few weeks at Seacliff, the fief to which Will is assigned, Will realizes that this fief has grown slack in the training of its knights and a little lazy in its responsibilities. Just before the month is up, a Skandian raiding party consisting of around thirty men arrive at this lazy town. The soldiers are unprepared from the lack of practice and would certainly not stand a chance against the raiding party. Will rides out alone to meet them and they come to an agreement. The Skandian party had little choice but to raid the town because they would have starved otherwise; however, if they attacked, Will would have killed at least half of them with his new longbow before they even reached the town. Will had a better idea and forced the baron and battlemaster to supply a certain number of animals and food for the Skandians. By this, Will did two things: he taught the baron and battlemaster a lesson and protected Seacliff from being raided.

    After a few days, Alyss, Will’s lifelong friend, arrived at Seacliff on a courier mission. While sitting in Will’s cabin, Alyss mentioned Halt, Will’s former master, and Crowley, the Ranger Corp Commandant, had a task for him, unfortunately their conversation was overheard by John Buttle the brutal man who had injured Will’s dog earlier and was connected to a string of murders in the area. Will knocked him out cold, but Alyss wanted him dead. Will had a better solution and gave him to the Skandian raiders as a slave.

    Will traveled to Halt and Crowley as Alyss had instructed him. His master told him to go undercover as a jongleaur (a sort of traveling jester or minstrel) and gather information in Norgate, a northern fief, at the castle Macindaw. Lord Syron, the master at castle Macindaw, had fallen sick from some strange illness. Rumors had spread that a sorcerer was responsible for the illness and they wanted Will to investigate what was happening.

    At Macindaw, Will met Orman, the temporary lord of the castle as he is the son of Lord Syron. A bibliophile, he is always wearing black. Orman is an unpopular ruler due to the fact of his lack of skill in battle. Will also met Keren, Orman’s cousin and a more popular man among the subjects in the castle.

    Will was immediately suspicious of Orman and so was Alyss, who just so happened to be his contact sent by Halt and Crowley. Alyss was undercover as Lady Gwendolyn, a pompous and superficial woman on her way to her fiance’s castle in the next fief. Later as the plot unwrapped Orman summons Will to his quarters and it is revealed that the guise of a simple jongleaur failed and Orman knows Will to be a Ranger. Orman tells Will that Keren was planning a take over of the castle and that Keren had poisoned Lord Syron and has managed to do the same to him self. So Will escapes from the castle with Orman and his assistant to Grimsdell Woods where the “sorcerer” lived. Once there, they found Malcolm the “sorcerer” and asked him to heal Orman.

    Alyss was puzzled seeing Will help Orman and fantasized many conclusions none of which were right. Then Keren entered her room to tell her about the recent events, but as they were talking, John Buttle walks in. He recognises Alyss and she is captured. Will later went back to Macindaw in an attempt to save her. He climbed the tower wall and attempted to dissolve the bars protecting the window with a special acid he received from Malcolm. Will fails in rescue attempt and just barely escapes from the castle with his life. The book ends with Will determined to get Alyss back. ๐Ÿ˜‰ ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿ˜€

  7. hey, i had first comment! sweet! anyway, song of today is No more sorrow by linkin park. kinda tired so ill do authors purpose for swine not by jimmy buffet (mom likes buffet…. i inherited it) its to entertain. k bye!

  8. Hey, I’m on the Hunger Games and I left off as Katnis sacrificed herself so her sister, Prim, wouldn’t. Then the rest of the town blessed her before Effie called out the boy’s name. Effie took a deep breath in and said the next name…… Peeta Mellark. He is one of the baker’s sons. They had some past tohether. it started 4 years ago right after Katniss’s dad died in the explosion. Her mom wasn’t doing anything for her family because of the depression and this was before Katniss provided for there family and before she learned to hunt. She was going down the backs of the rich peoples houses and going through their trash cans looking for scraps. When she came up behind the Baker’s house ishe noticed the trash truck has just come so none of the trash cans had anything. Katniss felt like she was about to die and she wanted to because she couldn’t bare seeing Prim starve and her family go hungry. She sat underneath the baker’s apple tree getting ready to give up on life when Peet Mellark came outside with a huge bruise on the side of his face.

  9. Wow John Daniel writes the LONGEST BLOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Ok, So I went on my wonderfully awesome church trip to cook Springs and I climbed a mountain… It was pretty amazing but I will NEVER Do that again.. I caused myself too much pain sliding down it I bled…. A LOT! So Because I was at Cook Springs over the weekend and was living for three days off of 5 hours of sleep I didnt read at all!
    But I am here to blog my wonderful little heart out (Metaphorically Speaking) For 10 Whole Minutes! Woo….
    Alright so we have left off with Caspian running away Cause his stupid no good Uncle has decided to murder him… (Man, I hate it when that happens) Oh Well… So Caspian runs away…. Which is the best thing to do in this situation And ends up out in the Woods all alone!!! So he blows a horn type thing and that is what Dragged Peter, Susan, edmund, And Lucy back into Narnia.. So all this stuff is going on and somewhere along the lines Caspian ends up in the home of two talking dwarfs and a talking Badger…. They have Crazy names so I will not type them.. I just dont feel like it… But They decide that they need to go and find all the old narnians and they are going to take them to Aslan so they can take down the telamarines.. So then the good Dwarf named Trumpkin sets out to find Susan, Peter, Edmund, and Lucy.. Where he is then captured by the Telamarines and almost killed but then Peter Susan Edmund and Lucy find him and Save him

    Alright thats all! -Julie

  10. Bloggin for Monday and Tuesday on “The Boy who Harnessed The Wind” a true story (and autobiography ๐Ÿ™‚ about this teenager in a country called Malawi in Southeast Africa.

    Monday-
    The story starts out with William Kamkwamba, the author, describing his village that is called Maistala. He describes who the chief is and who his father is. His father was nicknamed the “Pope” because of reasons when he was a trader. His father started out as a traveling trader who made enough to feed him and his family but not much else. His brother who is a farmer in the village makes a much better living than the “Pope”. The “pope” eventually is talked into moving back to the village and farming.

    Tuesday-
    When the “pope” and his family move back to the village his father is making a much better living and can build a two-room house for the family to live in. The father’s brother comes to live in the village and farm after he lost his job as a welder at on of the large estates. Their Uncle comes to the village and brings with him his seven daughters. They also bring their dog who likes William and follows him hunting when he goes down to the marsh to trap geese and bring meat home.

    ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ˜‰ ๐Ÿ˜› ๐Ÿ˜€ ๐Ÿ˜ฎ 9)

  11. whats up mr mayfield
    ok this week i am reading the book a look at life from a deer stand and i found a new saying that i had never even heard before the saying was that there is an amazing and mystiriouse longing that most children have that makes them want to go where they see there dads go and it is true and in this book he talks abput that this could be good or bad thing depending on the dad is and what he does. usually it is on thing like hunting with there son because usually the son looks up to his father to see what he should and should not do so then the son sees hunting as a cool thing so then he wants to be cool like his dad so he goes hunting and just because his dad wnjoys it, it makes him ebjoy it and even if he does not like it he is not going to say that he does not like it becasue then they think they are going to heart there fathers feeling and this book relates a lot to my life just not the hunting aspect because i love to hunt . well that is all that i have this week so i will talk to you tommorrow. BYE!!!!

  12. Okay, well this week is completely unexciting.
    I don’t think anything is going on, and I am rereading The Hunger Games for the 4th time. Yep, I actually know what words will come next, hence I’ve read it one-two-many times.

    Okay so for The Hunger Games (Peeta and Katniss rock.)

    Mon.- Okay, so at the beginning of the book Katniss is all laying in the bed and she is like, it’s the day of the reaping and everyone is all sad and depressed. So she meets Gale in the woods and she’s all happy (Bleh, too bad she doesn’t know her future) but then she starts talking about Gale yelling in the woods and I’m like, what? Yep, another reason why we don’t like Gale. He yells at tree and scares away food.
    Tues.- The whole time Gale is yelling at trees, we learn that on the day of the reaping children are picked to be in The Hunger Games, to ultimate fight-to-the-death. Yup. And Katniss is like, there’s no way Prim is gonna get her name drawn. But then she does, and Katniss freaks out and volunteers, and Gale almost cries. Well, they draw Peeta’s name.

    That is truly all I read, but it was freezing in my house, and the rain was scary, so I decided to go cuddle under a warm blanket so I could shield myself from the single-digit temp. and the scary rain.
    I guess I could blog about what happens next, but by the time I get done writing this, I have to go edit my paper Maf gave me, and write 1,000 words in my story. See how much time I just wasted?

    -St. K
    -When the moon is blue the clock strikes noon-idiom

  13. hey, I’m on Hunger Games and i let off with the story of Peeta and Katniss. Katniss’ father just died and her mom wasn’t doing anything, soKatniss had to provide for her family. She didn’t know how to hunt and gather then so she was stuck gathering scraps from the trashcans of the rich people. She came behind the Baker’s house and started to go through the trash can. She heard screaming above her and saw the bake’s wife shooing katniss off with a broom. Behind her was peeta watching. When Katnissfled she sat under an apple tree and prpared for death. She was awoken by the yelling in the baker’s house and a large yelp. Peeta came out a minute later carrying 2 loaves of burnt bread and on the side of his face was a huge bruiise. He threw the loaves to Katniss without looking and walked back inside. She looked around and realized that Peeta probally saw she was strarving so he burn bread on purpose so he could throw it out to her and from the looks of it his om beat him over it. so Peeta took a beating for Katniss. After that she noticed Peeta alot more in school and always caught eachother staring at eachother. Then one day she was walking home from school she noticed peeta staring at her from across the yard and they quickly looked away. When she looked away she noticed a dandelion coming through the ground and she realized that she needed to provide for her family by hunting and gathering.

  14. Well, my post is posted from last night. Tonight was equally boring. nothing going on, well, there is a Super Bowl Party, but I don’t care about NFL stuff. I just like commercials, new ones, that is. The Steelers are who I will be rooting for, because the man with poofy hair plays for them.

    Alright- The Hinger Games

    Wed.- Tonight the glorious Peeta and Katniss travel to the Capitol to see everyone and wave, and maybe even-as Katniss says, they might be naked! So everybody is like naked people look cool in the capitol of Panem. Weird. Anyway, Katniss tries to stab Haymitch and Peeta gets smacked in the jaw. (*Runs into scene* I’ll save you Peeta!) Haymitch is like vomiting all over the place, and yah, Typical HG material.

    I have to go. Bye.
    -St. K
    -When the moon is blue, the clock strikes noon.-idiom

  15. Hey mr. Mayfield I’m ahead of my game so im gonna finish my last journal with : book:Facts About Cars :Journal: Dielectical

    Fact: Ford Gt’s Are Muscle Cars In A Exotic Body/Opinion: Wow! So You Take An Old Fashioned Big Torqued Powerful Engine Into A Trunk-Engine LONG low Car??? That’s Creative

    Fact:Back in the 1940’s-60’s VW Beetles (PUNCH BUGS) Had The Highest Gas per gallon/Opinion:If You Ask Me, They Still Have the most gas Per Gallon in Todays Modern High-Economic Times
    Thats all for today Bye,
    Timothy

  16. hey mr mayfield. trey said you are allowed to do summaries online. so dont get mad at me blame him.

    mon.- im have about fifty pages left in halo. captain keyes is fighting covenant ships all by himself. its about three on one. he fires his mac guns (magnetic accelorator cannons) and detroys the covenant shields. after that he fires infared missles and blows up the biggest ship. he tells his navigator to plot a course for the next biggest ship.

    tues.- he hits the ship and completely ruins the bottom decks of his ship. that ship crashes into the last ship and they both blow up. well i got to go to fourth period.

  17. hey mr. Mayfeild i am reading last dog on earth and ill do the point of veiw from the dog jack for ten minutes. so they leave him at home while they are gone to the summer kickoff, “Man i wonder when they’ll be back home but lets not worry lets go take a walk around town ill be back in five minutes”. “Hope they dont get home i better head back wait were did i come from?” “O no ill never find home now and if i do they might have got a new dog and forgot me.” I hope they ran behind and i can fid home lets go look.” This may be the house but lets try it is the house hurry see if they are home yet ok good they are not home yet so im going to act like i am asleep and when they pull up ill wake up.” just as he falls asleep he heres people talking outside and they were looking for him the whole day. thats it for this week bye.

  18. Mr. Mayfield We just got a note in the mail and JAKE GOT A FULL RIDE TO MONETVALLO!!!!!!! YAY! Now my mom is a whole lot less stressed!!! Happy Day!! It doesnt matter if we did terrible in Scholars Bowl but what matters is that My Brother is gonna go to college and we wont have to pay any money to get him there!!!!! Now I have to blog for ten minutes so Here I go!
    Wednesday & Thursday
    Alrite so I have left off with Trumpkin the good Dwarf finding Susan, Peter, Edmund, And Lucy. Trumpkin now has to take Them to Prince Caspian where They will then try and find Aslan.. So Trumpkin has to take them back to where Caspian and Everybody else is but Trumpkin has no idea where they are so he wont be able to help lead them.. Lucy is looking and she sees Aslan but when she trys to show the others… they dont see him. Because they dont believe That Lucy is telling the truth in the first place.. So they keep traveling and decide to rest for the night.. So Lucy gets up and she finds Aslan he tells her to wake everyone up and make them follow him so they all get up and one by one they follow Aslan and start to see him.. He takes them right to Caspian where they then decide they need to fight against Miraz and his men. So Edmund has to go and tell Miraz that they want to fight. (MAN, He has a good job)
    Well thats all _Julie

  19. Hey hey hey!!!!! I havebeen reading, *Mockingjay*, by Suzan Collins. I โ™ฅLOVEโ™ฅ her books, almost as much as I love *Twilight*, it might acturally be a tie! Anyways, I agree with the reveiw of the book, that she did improve apon the first book. I tgink *Mockingjay* is like *Eclipse* b/c,
    โ—‹ Katniss & Bella must choose between 2 boys.
    โ—‹ The 2 boys are almost complete opposites.
    โ—‹ The girls are both teenagers. ( No boys, Edward isn’t really a ‘teenager’.
    โ—‹ The girls are both put in life-threatening situations. (But Katniss can acturally fight back without falling over!โ˜บ)

    The are different b/c,
    โ—‹ *Mockingjay* has no vampires or werewolfs:(
    โ—‹ *Eclipes* has no Hunger Games:(
    โ—‹ Katniss is 17 and Bella is 18.
    โ—‹ Peeta is 17 & Jacob is 16.
    โ—‹ Gale is 18-19 & Edward is 90!
    โ—‹ Bella has a Dad and Katness doesn’t.
    โ—‹ Katniss lives in district 13 & Bella lives in the U.S.

    I’m kinda’ disipointed that Peeta is so jacked up in the head. Although I always wanted Katniss to choose Gale. I think the capitol’s a…???? (sigh)

    I think this book was probably written for Middle-High School kids. Possibly parents too. It’s very surprising and things happen that makes you wonder how the author thought of it. It’s really incredable. I think it’s my favorite out of the three. It’s very close though. If anyone sees something by Suzan Collins, TELL ME!!!!! (please?) I hope, want, wish, that everyone will read these books. They are full of adventure, violance, and a little romance. Not as much as the Twilight saga, but still. Times Up! Gotta Go! BYE!

  20. re-reading going bovine. as “bad” as it was, i am still going to re-read it

    authors purpose
    i do believe that the authors purpose was to entertain the reader, me. What otherr reason would the author have than to entertain me. what author would write a book about a kid who got mad cow disease and goes on a mystical journey to find a cure for him. theres also one other reason the author wrote this. that reason was to never give up. even when you know that there is no chance that you will live, still fight.

    alternate ending
    i think that a good alternate ending would be if the kid was never actually infected with the mad cow disease. just like me to always take the main thing out of the story that the entire book is based on. so if he never got the mad cow disease then he never meats the short person or the punk angel. but what actually happens would be he is never hospitalized and he never has the dream. therefore, he never dies at the end of the book. i havent gotten to the end of the book yet but i actually know what happens

    conflict
    i think that the conflict of the story write now is between the short person, gonzo. the conflict would be between he and himself. he has to battle himself becuz the kid wants him to go with him on the journey with him cuz the angel told him to. gonzo is freaked out cuz he knows that the kid is right but he is a mommas boy and doesnt want to be away from his mom. in the end he does actually decide to go with the kid. they run away and start their journey

  21. Tues.- continued… anyway back on planet reach Spartan 117 a.k.a. john is getting fitted into a new suit. it has alien shield technology. while they are charging the suit john gets an upgrade on his chip in his mind.

    Wends.- when john gets his upgrade he hears a voice in his mind. the voice is the most unique ai in the world. cortana is her name and she was made to protect the chief. the agency run cortana and the chief through some obstacle courses.

    Thurs.- the chief and cortana start out in a dark room with some marines. the chief gets fired at and he attacks. he trips the first one and takes his gun. he puts three rounds into the three remaining marines. after that he moves on to the mine field. it is filled with lotus mines. lotis mines are strong enough to blow up a tank. cortana detects where the mines are and they walk around them. after that they head to a field and an air strike is called in. the pilot drops a missile and cortana does something amazing.

    im going to have to tell what happens next week. bye

  22. Okay, so congrats to Julie for her brother’s sake, and to Matti- those are my favorite books too!
    Anyway, I finished writing my 1,000 words for the day. *Whew*

    Okay, The Hinger Games, like yesterday, and forever and forever. I meant to put Hinger BTW.

    Thurs.- So today Katniss and Peeta meet their stylist, Portia and Cinna. I really think Cinna is cool, because Katniss thinks he is cool. See, Katniss and I can relate because we both do not forgive people and easily find people rude. (You can ask Marjorie about rudeness for clarification) So Katniss thinks they’re gonna be naked, and then they’re in these jumpsuits (Black jumpsuits, oh yeah) and they have capes and headpieces that light on fire. Really awesome, and then Katniss blows kisses to the crowd, and that is really weird and un-Katniss like. So, yeah.

    I read a little more than, but I’m out of time and I want to read more of THG. Good week of blogging.

    -St K
    -When the moon is blue, the clock strikes noon-idiom

  23. Dear Matti,
    It stinks that you are a Gale fan. Peeta is obviously a better choice. I obviously also have a better taste in men. And, Edward is 109, not 90. Silly, silly girl.

    -St K

  24. Monday

    This week Iโ€™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 didnโ€™t like the dog anymore โ€ฆ sell the poor black lab. I mean thatโ€™s what I would have to do if I were him, but Iโ€™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 doesnโ€™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.

  25. k, song of today is inside peanut butter outside jelly (actually about cars…. weird) by cadillac don. now i read swine not by jimmy buffet, an alright book, but he should stick with songs. anyway, cant really compare it to anything (never read anything told from the pov of a pig :/) guess ill do a summary… any ways, it starts with mr bacon on a ledge with someone yelling dont jump. hope someone has a skillet at the bottom. then he pulls a flashback to vertigo, tennessee (vertigo is surrounded by mountains. weird.) the flashback starts with a soccer game, when the goalie is hit upside the head. they bring in the backup, rumpy the piggy *oink* who immediatley blocks some killer shots and wins. at the end of the game, the soccer coach/piggie mom/piggies friends mom sends a final shot… straight into the lower lower torso of the other coach. hes hurt, they laugh and go home, turns out the female twin is a fashionista, the male is a soccer nerd, and the mom is a multi tasker. guess ill do alt pov of lukie (rumpy’s brother in NYC) So, my bro in tennessee is not picking up my scentmails (scents sent waaaaaaaaay far, like texts) but i think hes alright. i guess its a sort of esp or cmt or something. that last one was garbled, but i think his friend/owner was on a date with a football coach, who brought over a pigskin (creep!) which he threw to a soccer player, who slammed it into the woods. rumpy ran after it, found it in the woods, and named it lukie. just got one in yesterday, apparently they’re moving to the big apple because of a job oppertunity at a four star hotel. Yay! rumpy and i can meet up for the fisrt time since birth. ooh, onion skins!

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