Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The Amsterdam Connection


is a modern, original fiction for learners of English. That is really good and easy to understand for us. The story of this book is about a girl who wants to find out the truth of her friend's death. Kate Jensen is a reporter. Max is her friend. One day, Max was killed and lied on the street of Amsterdam City. For finding out the truth, Kate goes to Amsterdam. She starts to do some research for her friend's death. She goes into the football clud which is owned by her friend Max. However, there is some one who doesen't want her to find out any answers. Therefore, she becomes very dangerous.

This book is a very great book. It is interesting. When I read the first page, I cant stop to read all of this book. When I was reading this book, I imaged that I was the main character of the book. I was following Kate's steps to find out the answer. <>is the right book for ESL students. It is very good, interesting, and easy to understand.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Eye in the storm


Have you ever been in a hurricane? Or any of your family had been involved in one.

This is a story about Ikemi and Max. Ikemi is a Japanese lady who bond in Florida. Her father is a Japanese man and her mother who died when she was tree years old was an American lady. Ikemi’s father opposed to the relationship between Ikemi and Max because he thought that Max was not good for her. Hiru thought that a good man should be one that is quiet, and keep his feelings by himself. Max was just the opposite, he was brave, an easy person to enjoy, he always demonstrated his feelings. For this reason, Ikemi decides to break up with Max. He refaced at first trying to convince her that she is wrong, but for Ikemi was hard to understand. A hurricane Irene is approaching to the coast of Florida. Hiru went to fish a day before the hurricane arrives in Florida lands, while he was there his boat got off from the engine. He tried to fixed, but unfortunately he couldn’t, the only thing he had left was wait for nothing there was no hope for him. He thought. Ikemi receives a call from Max, who offers to safe her dad. They went out against the strong air that it was 275 km/h they did it. They save Huri’s life.

This book was so easy to understand, there were no difficult words to understand. I don’t really recommend this book to read it. There is not to much to discovered and imagine it.

The Way Home


" The way home " contains actually eight different journeys, of eight different people, at different times.Al of this journeys had , a major impact over the lifes of the main characters. A NY fashion buyer returns to her English home, a successful author meets an old friend, a reporter travels to an execution, a taxi driver picks up Bruce Lee, a bus ride home changes a film's writer's life and his work,four strangers meet at a motel for the first and the last time, and a driver gives alift to an excape prisoner.The book is enjoyable and easy to read.I love this kind of original fiction ,and it makes me to think and look to my own life and wonder; how many people i've randomly met that actually changed my life?

Monday, April 14, 2008

MURDER MAKER


This book is talking about the writer how to revenge for her friends. Carla is a single woman who broke up with her boyfriend because he got another girlfriend. After that, she killed her boyfriend and her friends’ husbands. Carla has three friends, Diane, Gemma, and Cathy. The first seed of murder into her heart was a hot summer Sunday afternoon on August 21, because her boyfriend broke up with her in that afternoon. Step by step, Carla killed three more people in different ways. At the beginning of murdering people, Carla’s friends had depressions about that. They had lots benefices of their husbands’ death so that they thanked for Carla. Carla got an accident when she was killing somebody.
I recommend others classmates to read this book. It is interesting and exciting. Every chapter attracts you to read. The level of English is acceptable.

Madame Bovary ( Book 3)


Madame Bovary is a novel by Gustave Flaubert that was attacked for obscenity by public prosecutors when it was first serialised in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856. It became a bestseller in book form in April 1857, and now stands virtually unchallenged not only as a seminal work of realism but as one of the most influential novels ever written.

The novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary is married to the reliable but uninteresting Charles. She is bored and finds passion in a series of affairs. This exciting life demnads more money then Charles can give her. Soon Emma's dream lead to destruction with some bad things happened.

I enjoyed reading this book and I like it. I think it was an interesting story. I would reccomend this book to other friends.

Round the World in Eighty Days

Introduction:
Phileas Fogg is a quiet, orderly English gentleman, who is also a member of the Reform Club ( one of a number of London clubs in which gentlemen who were voted in as members could spend time for a yearly charge). As he never spoke about himself, nobody knew much else about him. His life is devided between his home and his club, and follows a daily pattern that never changes. His new servant, Passpartout, who has joined his service that same day, is looking forward to a quiet , settled life. Them he makes a bet with his friends that he can travle around the world in eighty days. It is the year 1872, during the nineteenth century, transport systems all over the world were developing rapidly. Still, nobody believe he can make it. As result of the bet he has made, his servant and he are leaving home immediately for a high-speed trip around the world. A crazy and colourful race across Europe, Africa and America follows; while Fogg attempts to travel as quickly as possible, Fix tries to slow him down at every opportunity. The travellers meet with dangers and unexpected delays, and as time goes by it begins to look more and more impossible for them to get back to London before eighty days have passed. Finally, they make it. And for Mr. Fogg, he gains not only the bet from the journey, but also a beautiful and loving lady.
Reaction:
I had watched the movie before read the book. Jacky Chen was the actor in the movie. I enjoyed a lot from it, so I was very glad to read through the book. There were many funny stories from chapters, and it made me can't stop laughing. I finally found the fun what reading brought to us.

Emergency Murder( Book3)

Dr. Maxine Cassidy was work at Mercy Hospital Emergency Room. Nanette Myer is Dr. Hank Myer’s wife. Nanette died after she took a pill that someone gave her. Who is the someone?
That night before Nanette died, Aaron drove her back home from
24th street. Charlie drove her from home to 24th street after Aaron met her. After Nanette died on heart failure, the autopsy said that she died of natural causes. But Dr. Maxine Cassidy suspects murder. The police agree – but they suspect Maxine! Maxine determined to find the killer and starts an investigation of her own. Maxine had gotten some hurt when she found out something. First time she was hit on the head; the second time she was attacked at the tennis club, the third time she was rounded the set belt in her car. The murder still hid in the group of the university lab. Virginia is a professor work in the lab, and she has an assistant named Charlie, who talks the critical detail that can connect the truth. Lavelle, work in the 24th street, friend with Maxine, also she told something to Maxince.
I like to read this book, because the murder hidden very well in the group. When I read Aaron ever drove Nanette, I assume he was the murder, but he didn’t. When talk about Charlie, ever drove Nanette before she died, Finally, I get the real murder from the book. I felt the book is interesting.