Windows of the Wind

Windows of the Wind is an highly entertaining fiction. We meet a well-known broadcaster whose blindness is her power, a war hero who hates noise and wants silence, a wine-taster who has an accident, a university lecturer who learns Tai Chi, and a magazine jouralist who smells scandal and will do anything for an interesting story. I like the wine-taster whose name was Daniel Appleby. He was a wine expert who was famous in a television show. One day he met a car accident so that he lose his sence of taste abilities. He was afraid of lossing his job. He looked for an old men Monsieur Colvert who sold the finest wine to him to help him. He tried his best to stop everyone realising he losed his taste ability. Finally, he was found the fact in front of the writers and photographers on television. Daniel Appleby was brave and smart and successful on his career.

OLIVER TWIST

This book was written by Charles Dickens, and it is a classical literature book. I enjoyed reading it, even if is about the miserabile life in England and it talks about the lower blankets of people who lived in Enland around the year 1837.It shows how easily , poor orfan children entered into a life of crime of adults who took advanteage of them. The book is full of unexpected events, and it gives the reader a unic feeling. Oliver's mother died giving birth to him and he is brouth up in a work house, always hungry and cruelly treated.After working there for some time, Oliver runs away to London, where he meets a clique of thieves. They were pickpocketing, and they tried to use Oliver in their detriments, but after he finds out waht they are doing he tries to escape. Then the thieves hired a criminal to bring the boy back, but he had made some friends of himself, that want to protect him.It is a very ecxiting and dramatic adventure, which i recomended highly. Enjoy!

The fruitcake special and other stories.

The book included five seperate stories. These stories about selective thinking. It means that it gives good and interesting stories to you , and you need to think about that again.

1st- The Fruitcake Special.

Anna was a chemist who made perfume. One day she made a perfume"Intrigu" accidently. After that time, when she used it, everymen loved her. She tried to find the secret.

2nd- The Real Aunt Molly

Aunt Molly was calm and silent woman. After her hushand, Dalton, was died, she had twins. She was scary about going out. So, the children gave chance to her. One day, they went to broadcast and aunt Molly got hyponosis by an expert hypnotist, Maxell Marrel. The important thing was that the hypnotist was died before he had released his order to aunt Molly. What should others do?

3rd- Brains

A smart scientist, Gina Capaldi, had been studying a monkey, Max, about being smarter. She had made a medicine and wanted to support from Mr. Theodora Dimitre. She got suggestion from him and she became happy. But How is the Max?

4th- The book of Thoghts

One man, who was very smart and became junior manager at a big company. Chester, his name, bought a book in one day and he was known about people's thinking while he was seeing the book. What is his future?

5th - Finder Keepers.

Harry Chen was a professor of archaeology and also a thief. He found a small whistle in historical place. He took it by himself. It gave him to small but big chance. What happened?

I read these five stories and thought about if I do that, what should I do? Something was a fairy tail and something was a normal life. It made me diverse thinking.

the man from now here ( BOOK 2 )

Modern, original fiction for learners of English. A plane crashes in the middle of the desert in Oman leaving a pilot and his family hurt and stranded. The pilot begins a journey across the desert to get help but collapses from exhaustion. He is found and taken to a nearby hospital but he is unconscious and no one has any idea who he is or where he has come from. Meanwhile time is running out for his wife and son who are waiting in the desert for help to arrive.

In order to save his family, Morern struggled for long time. he dont think he will die in the desert. He tried to walk twenty kilometers to find some one to help them. Finaly, some people save Modern's life, and sent him to the hospital. The other think that his wife and his son will die in the desert, but Morern never give up. He think that there should have someone will save his family. Luckily, his wife and son were saved by some one else. Consequently, Moreren and his family have been saved.

I enjoyed to read this story. It was easy to understuand for me. This story was so exciting. it can touch me so much. I can immagine that situation. It is very terrible. Anyway, there is something else i need to learn freom Modern. Life is hard for me too. Just the strong man can live in the world. Work hard!!!

Trumpet Voluntary (Book 2)

The book is talking about an ordinariness person’s unordinariness life. The main character Derek Armstrong (a viola player) found her wife (Malgosia Armstrong) was gone when he back home. Then, he tried his best to find out where’s his wife like a detective. From his memory, Malgosia should hang out with any gay Tibor. They met when they were in college. Malgosia love Tibor a lot, but Tibor is not a single-mind person, and she knew that. Because Malgosia got hurt from Tibor, so Malgosia left Tibor. Later, Derek and Malgosia got marry. And now, he found out that Malgosia was gone to meet Tibor many times a year. This time, Malgosia disappear without leave a message. Then, Derek used all the information he got and go to find his wife. He went to the city that he thought his wife will be, and try to find her out. Luckily, he met some powerful people there, and he paid them to find out Malgosia and Tibor for him. When those people found Tibor, Derek wants to go there with them and try to find his wife. Unfortunately, he was shot by Tibor’s man. When Derek waked up, he’s in hospital, but Malgosia was sent back to Poland---Malgosia’s home country, and she dead. After Derek went back to England, he was asked a lot of questions by the policeman. With Derek’s friend’s (Rachel) mother’s (a lawyer) help, he got rid of the policeman. Because Rachel help Derek recover for his health or mental, they fall in love with each other (they have relationship few years ago). Because Derek can’t forget his past, he tried find out what’s going on with his wife. Then, he met the dangerous man Tibor and use trick to get some information for Tibor and tell the policeman. He found out that Tibor used Malgosia to transport the drug for him. Because Malgosia open the box (with drug) by herself without allowed, they poison Malgosia. Finally, Derek got married with Rachel.

It’s a romantic story. I don’t like this book a lot because it’s easy to predict the ending at the beginning.

Jane Eyre ( Book 2)

Jane Eyre is an novel by Charlotte Brontë, 1847 published London. It is one of the most famous of British novels. The novel was an immediate critical and popular success.

Jane Eyre is a poor young teacher who works fo the rich Mr Rochester. She loves him and wants to marry him. He also loves her too, but he has a secret which bring them great sadness. They were planing for a wedding to get marriage. And the wedding never happen because during the ceremony in the church, Mr. Mason declare that Rochester cannot marry Jane because his own wife is still alive. Rochester admits this fact, explaining that his wife is a violent mad woman whom he keeps imprisoned in the atticof his house. The wedding is cancelled, and Jane is heartbroken. So, Jane left Rochester and Thornfield Hall to travel as far away.

Finally, one day Jane went back to Thornfield to look for Mr Rochester. But she only saw a terrible house burned down in the midlde of night by Rochester's mad wife set the fire and then committed suicide by jumping from the roof. Rochester rescued the servants then he lost a hand and his eyesight in the process. Then, he lives in an isolated house called Ferndean. Going to Ferndean, Jane reunites with Rochester. At first, he fears that she will refuse to marry a blind cripple, but Jane accepts him without hesitation. Jane describes their married life as blissful.

It's a great love story and a special novel. I also watched a movie of this book few years ago. I would reccomend this book to my other friends.

Oliver Twist

This story is about Oliver 's life. His mother died when he was born and he was brought up in a workhouse. His first year are cold and lonely. Then he run away to London.

Unlcukly, he fell into the hands of the bad guys. They try to turned Oliver into a crimina.

His life is very hard and lot of things happened to him.

This is a sad story, after i finished this book, I felt I was very lucky. I hope no more children like Oliver's life. Also, I will try to save all the children who are no parents after I read this.

THE AMSTERDAM CONNECTION (BOOK 2)

I read the book was written by Sue Leather. This story is about the reporter Kate Jensen travels to Amsterdam when a friend is found dead there. Her search the murderer takes her to parts of the city that tourists never see, and to a man prepared to kill to hide the truth.
Max Carson is Kate’s friend and ex-boss. Max’s brother, Tom, was the owner and manager of Rotterdam City Football Club and the Carson Football School. When Max left the Manchester Evening News he had joined his brother, to help him with his business. Max now had about twenty-five per cent of the shares and a nice income for his “retirement”. He asked Kate to take a holiday to Amsterdam. But before Kate go to, he was killed.
When Kate’s friend Elly van Praage who is a policewoman in the Amsterdam police told Kate that “De Vries’s men picked someone up. They are fairly sure he killed Max.” but Kate did not think that. She still to find the truth. What will she find at the end?

The Man From Nowhere(book Club 2)

This story is talking about a The Man From Nowhere
pilot and his wife and son coming home from a holiday in Bombay. They were flying the Wahiba Sands –a soft sand desert in the northeast Oman. When they saw the desert, the pilot went down to show it to his wife. A few minutes later the plane hit some birds. So their plane fell down on the desert. They got hurt and their plane broken. But they only brought enough food to eat two days . Nobody is in the desert. The pilot thought east of the coast may be have small village. He didn’t want his family death. He tried to walk twenty kilometers to find some one to help them. So he was walking slowing in the desert. He was not wearing a shirt. The sun is on his back, which is burnt red. He was coma on the coast. Some people saved him on the coast and send him to the hospital. He had been coma four days in the hospital. But no one knew him and no body knew what happen. When he was awake, he asked people to save his wife and his son. But people thought that his wife and his sun might be dead in the desert. Finally, people save his family.
The story is easy to understand and very exciting. I very enjoy this story. It reminds me of about vacation accident. When I go to somewhere, I should contract my friends first. I should bring enough food with me. And I should bring ID cards in my bag. When I have accident, people easy to help me.

He Knows Too Much

Dick Sterling is an England general manager of Trakton’s factory in India. He works for the factory over his entire his life. The company is going will at the market, by the time. One day, Keith Lennox, who is the Dick’s boss recommended his take retirement early. Why? In the sometimes, some of the co-workers also get lay-off, include accountant manager. Finally, Dick retires which he hasn’t chosen, and he returns to London. His marriage breaks up. What is mean he knows too much? What does he know for the company? Does he found out why? When he returns to India to found out the answer, by that time, he fall love on other woman. If you want to know in the end story, read the book. The title is interesting but the story isn’t. However, it is good to read the book. The language isn’t hard to pick up.

The Phantom of the Opera

The second book I read is story about a man living underground of a opera house in Paris.No one has ever seen the guy and they think of him as a ghost.He sends out letters to the managers of the opera house to reserve the room number 5 for him when ever there is a show and if they don't obey his order he would kill or do something bad to people.Between all the singers he full in love one particular voice which belonged to Christine Daae, the ghost man found him self madly full in love with her and he wanted to marry the girl and have her for him for ever.He wanted her to sing for him only so he kidnapped the girl one night while she was perfuming on the stage.He took her to his place were nobody knew were it was, he had built a place for himself under the opera house.But one thing he did not know that Christine was already in love with someone else and he would do anything to save her........
I choose to read this book because I have seen the move a few times and its always interesting to read some thing which you can visualize in the same time.

The count of Monte Cristo

Dante was a sail man from French, when his captain fells ill, they stop for help in the nearest island, which happens to be where Napoleon was. He asks Dante to deliver a letter to a fiend in Marseile, France. While, all this happened the captain of the ship did, and Dante took the charge of being in front to the crew. Once, he is on Marseile, he looks for Mercedes. He wants to get married with her before he left to France to give to latter to Napoleon’s friend. In the day Dante and Mercedes were getting married he got arrested, and sent it to the tribunals. The judges send Dante to a cell, which it was famous because who ever prisoner get in won’t ever come out alive. For 13 years Edmond is hide in Chateau D’if . Edmond escaped from D’it thanks to the help of the priest who died and latter Edmond took his place, so he can escape. What it happens latter it seems to be more interesting that what it happens in the beginning of the story.

I truly recommend this book to read! Le lecture is easy to understand, If you have the opportunity to watch to movie do it, is also good.

"Different Worlds" (Book 2)

This second story was written by Margaret Johnson, it took place in Norwich-England.It was about a girl named Sam, who was deaf since she was born,and even though her desability she was able to do anything as other girls of her age.When she felt in love with Jim, a guy who had a band and loved to play the drums,her world change, and she descover the happines and the sad face of love. Her mother and her best friend Ron encouraged her to not give up in her relationship with Jim because of her desability,that made her feel ungry, and think that she wasn't the right person for Jim because she couldn't heard his music. After a difficult time she decided to stay with Jim because she realized how much he loved her.

Romeo and Juliet (Book 2)

I read the book Romeo and Juliet. It’s one of the most famous love stories in the world. Romeo and Juliet set in a modern-day city of Verona Beach. The Montagues and Capulets are two feuding families. Them Romeo, the only son of the Montagues, falls in love with Juliet, the only daughter of the Capulets. They have to hide their love because they know that their parents will not allow them to be together. But anyway, their love ends their families’ hate – but only with their deaths. Is there worthwhile that two feuding families become reconciled after some of their family member died?
It’s difficult from silent reading to read Romeo and Juliet, because the author wrote it as a theatre stage. Some times I play the characters when I reading. There are wonderful love scenes, and fighting scenes.
It is wonderful to play Romeo and Juliet. People can act it while they read. It’s very fun to enjoy it.

The book review of Hamlet

I think this is a very good story and also a very good movie. This story was talking about the a young prince of Denmark his father was killed by his brother but they want to find the truth. His father the king of the Denmark was died, but his ghost was returned to his country and want to tell the truth. The young prince was very brave and find his father's ghost. At the end he knew his uncle killed his father and married his mother. He also had a lover named ophelia, but after his father died he never talk with anybody. Because he felt alone and thought his life was nothing. But he love her, so does she.What he will decide to do? Will he ever be happy again? I won't to tell you these answer, because I want to everyone to see this book byherself. This is a really good book for us, I love it.

The Way Home(book2)

This book is authorized by Sue Leather. The name is "The Way Home". I was attracted by the when I had seen. There were some questions produced in my mind, such like how does the way to go home? What are the problems lead the major to leave home before he/she go home? what things were happened cause the major to change his/her mind to go home? All of the questions occured in my head curiously.
Surprisingly, there is not just one story in the book. There has about eight inconnecting stories in the book. A New York fashion buyer to her English home, a successful author meet an old friend, a reporter travels to an execution, a lorry driver gives an escaped prisoner a lift, a taxi driver picks up 'Bruce Lee', a bus ride home changes a film writer's life and work, a man's love for a tram driver leads him to follow her, and four strangers meet at motel for the first and last time. The backgrounds of stories are happened in America, and some of them in England.
They all are interesting story. The most drawn attention story is the story which a lorry driver helps an escaped prisoner. It contains a deep concept about emotion. It tells you that once, a man who was walking on a afternoon desert somehow. He felt hangry and thirsty. He thought that he might die overthere. fortunately, there was a turck coming toward to him in the same road. Unluckyly, the driver was a woman because she would not let him get on the truck, he would be considered a danger man. Eventually, she stoped the truck in front of him and asked him for help. As we all known, the man earned a trip ticket by helping the woman. The man seemed like the woman, such as hair color, eye color, and even her skin. They exchanged their name, and talked about everything even private things. The woman said that she had escaped from her hasband because he was not a good hasband. One day, her hasband was killed during a fighting in a bar four years ago, but now she felt free, it is real free. Shortly, the woman heard a news from radio about a prisoner who had killed a bar four years ago escaped from prison. The news reporter warned drivers do not pick up any people in the same place where they had met. They became silencce. Shortly, the man said that he is innocence because he killed him just for defence and tried to ask for forgiveness. Finally, the woman used her finger to stop his talking and kissed him.
The real thing is the woman has ever loved her hasband but he treated her really bad, so she really wanted to escape from her hasband even he was die. She wanted someone could fix her heart injury. You might not be really clear what I am talking about. That is why you have to read this book.

Emergercy Murder

Last week, I read a book which name was Emergency Murder. This book is a detective book. I prefer like this kind of book, so I read it so clearly. This story was happened at emergency room of Mercy Hospital at Milwaukee Wisconsin USA. Dr Maxine worked at hospital on that night. Nanette who was Dr Hank’s wife was died at emergency room. She was killed by heart disease. However, Nanette had not had any sick and heart disease before she died. This was a strange reason for dieing. Thereby, Maxine and Nanette’s husband make an autopsy, and finally they found reason why Nanette died-Poison. Maxine suspected a lot of people when he detective this strange murder. He never gave up even he was attacked by murderer. I am confused that he was a doctor, not a detective. Why did he do these things? What did he look for? The truth? This was not his business. Finally, he found the killer who was Nanette’s friend-Virginia. Because Nanette found her unreal report, so Virginia killed Nanette. Virginia worked in Marquette University, and she knew how to use poison to kill people.

I think this book is a good book because the events are cliffhanging. Many things are tying together. I know that most people like some detective books, so I think this book is worth to read because it is not hard to understand, and clews are cliffhanging.

In the Extensive Reading, I chose Wuthering heights for my second book. This book is told a story about the set on the Yorkshire moors of England. The book is an imaginative and moving story, but was not well received when it first appeared. Wuthering Heights is the name of an old house, set high up on the wind-swept Yorkshire moors. At the end of the eighteenth century it is home to the Earnshaw family. Anther family, the Lintons, live in the valley at the more comfortable Thrushcross Grange. Mr. Earnshaw, father of Catherine and Hindley, goes to Liverpool one day on business and brings home with him a child who has been living on the street in the worst part of the city. Mr. Earnshaw takes the child as his son, giving him the name of Heathcliff. Nothing is the same again. A chain of events begins which splits both families apart. Heathcliff’s influences on the family and particularly his emotional relationship with Catherine, the strong- willed daughter of the household, drive this beautiful and powerful story. If you interesting at this you can choose for your next book. I like this book because this reading level is good for me.

Jungle Love (Book 2)

This story is told by two girls alternately, Jennifer and Lisa. They are in holiday tour in Belize. Although they share one room during the tour, their characters are completely different. Jennifer is a quiet artistic person, who loves reading, nature and history, so she is interested in tropical birds in rain forest and the Mayan history. On the other hand, Lisa is a talkative person, who loves fashion, and she keens to fall in love with a great guy, so she is interested only in men in the tour. Because they are opposite type of character, they cannot understand each other, even hate.
Jennifer and Lisa both have secrets. Jennifer has a fiancé, Pete in London, but she would not like to get married with him actually because she is afraid that she has to live in country side giving up her current enjoyable life in London. Her waver made her spend one night with the other guy. As a result she has a trouble with Pete and the guy, and she come to this holiday in order to escape from that problem. Lisa’s life is far from perfect, too. She lives in countryside with her old sick mother and has a boring work in restaurant. She feels as if her life had no hope in future. Since she would like to forget about that, she acts and tells others as if she had a much better life than hers.
Others in that tour were all couples, but one day one of them was broken up. Ian who is very attractive man argued with his girlfriend, and then she left the tour. Both Jennifer and Lisa are attracted by Ian since he is kind to both of them.
One night Ian kissed Lisa only just a few hours later he kissed Jennifer. Lisa and Jennifer both think “Ian loves “me”, and then their fight for love begins.
Whom does Ian love actually? Which of Jennifer and Lisa get happiness? The result is influenced by their secrets, Jennifer’s fiancé Pete and Lisa’s old mother.
I enjoyed this story. Although these two girls have extreme strong character, I identify myself with the point that they are searching their “happier life”. I think every girl has same eternal question “where is my prince who makes me perfect?”

(Book 2) Tales from Shakespeare

The book was written by Charles and Mary Lamb. There are seven stories in this book. The stories were used to teach people the difference between right and wrong. The characters are shown as good or bad, and they are very clear in each story. All stories were from Shakespeare.
“The Tempest” is the first story. The story happened in Milan in early seventeenth century. Prospero, the true Duke of Milon, was robbed of his position by his false brother, Antonio, with the help of the King of Naples. Antonio forced Prospero and his daughter into a small boat for them to die. But a Kind Lord, Gonzalo secretly placed some water, food, clothing, and books in the boat. The food lasted until they landed on an island in the sea. Prospero lived in a cave with his daughter. He kept his books, dealt with magic, and set spirits. Ariel was the chief of the spirits. After twelve years, Ariel obeyed him, and Caliban, a monster, also obeyed him as a servant. Prospero ordered to start a great storm because the King, his son Ferdinand, and his cruel brother were driving on to the island. Ferdinand was the first jumping into the sea. Prospero ordered Ariel to make Ferdinand safe to meet Miranda, his daughter. Then they fell in love. Next, Ariel brought the King, Antonio, and old Gonzalo for Prospero who first called Gonzalo, his life-saver. Antonio begged to get forgiveness. The King said too was sorry. Prospero forgave them, and they promised to give back his title and property. Antonio was filled with such shame and sorrow that he cried and was unable to speak.
I like this story because it shows power struggle, magic powers, and funny love. Prospero had power struggles for twelve years to set spirit powers. His magic power made things so well. The love story between the King’s son and Prospero’s daughter were very funny and sweet. The King said they should celebrate the happy marriage of Prince Ferdinand and Miranda after their retuned to Naples. I enjoyed the story end in the happiness. I liked that Prospero forgave his enemies. His enemies were so ashamed and sorrowful. I learned how to forgive from Prospero. I should forgive anyone even if they are wrong. Give a chance to them. Maybe enemies will become friends.

The Man from Nowhere ( Book 2 )

A man who called Bardis had a vacation with his family; however, his plane hit a bird and fell into a desert. Everyone was hurt… In order to save his family, Bardis tried his best to find people to save his family. He walked slowly in the desert without wearing a shirt. He cannot see and think. He only knew that he must keep moving, keep putting one foot in front of other, keep moving or die. The environment around him was so bad that he swooned. He was saved by local residents; however, when he woke up, he cannot remember anything…

What happened next? Could his family stay together again? Read it!!!

Er… Actually, I think this book is Ok; I do not like it. When I read it, I always can guess what will happen later. Therefore, the story becomes not exciting for me. (Maybe, I am too smart*^.^*, =_=!!!...Sorry, I think everyone can guess what happen later. )

Whatever, it just what I think…

Death In The Dojo (Book 2)

The story was about the deaths of a Karate Masters (Kawaguchi) and his No 2 man (Ito)in a Karate Training Center (Dojo). Both deaths were caused by a single deadly punch. Kate Jensen, a reporter and karateka, and also daughter of an ex boxer and Journalist, like his father she followed her dad's foot step. Kate was assigned by her Boss the Editor of "The Daily Echo" to cover the story. With the help of her police contact at Scotland Yard, her Indian Karateka friend (Sanjay) and her father she tried to obtained information.

After a long search and fact finding, Kate decided to fly to Tokyo to meet Kawaguchi's daughter (Naoko) who was victim of a murder attempt thirty years earlier. She hoped that the event had connection with her father murder case. From Naoko, Kate found out that thirty years ago, her father was trying to separate her from her boyfriend (Blakeston) by hiring a murderer to just scare her boyfriend. Unfortunately Blakeston made a move that made the murderer accidentally kill him and injured Naoko. She had to be in wheel chair for the rest of her life. Things got complicated when the police arrested the wrong guy (Brendan Murphy) and had him hanged to death.

Actually when Brendan was still waiting for his case to be brought to justice, Tony Jensen (Kate's father) and the real murderer (Peter Benson who was a psychopath) made attempts to tell the truth about who killed Naoko's boyfriend. However nobody believed them. The death of this innocent man (Brendan Murphy) meant someone had to pay back for his death. And Kate's guess was right; the murder case of thirty years ago actually had connection with the murder of Kawaguchi and Ito recently. Who was the avenger ?

I like this story because the ending is unpredictable.

Blog 4

Book 2

Write a short summary and reaction to your second book. Be sure to include a picture of the book and/or a picture of you reading the book.

Due Tuesday, April 1st

EMMA

SUMMARY:

The book "EMMA" was written by Jane Austen. The story mainly talks about a girl named Emma Woodhouse, who is beautiful, clever and rich. She always thinks her life is perfect. She likes to arrange marriages between her friends and neighbours in the village of highbury near London. However, she makes a lot of mistakes and causes more problems than happy marriages. Since she always thinks she is right, few people point out her mistakes. Mr. Knightly, who is one of her friends, criticizes her each time when she does wrong. She hates him at the beginning for a long time. When she realizes that her best girl friend always lost marriage because of her wrong match, she starts to think maybe Mr. Knightly is right. Luckly, her friend Harriet finds the love and get married with the man really perfect matches with her. And Emma, marries Mr. Knightly and starts a happy honeymoon.

Personal Reaction:

It is a happy ending I am expected. Love stories always attracts me to read. I am happy for the two lovers finally get together. For the first part of reading, I am mad at Emma. I thought she was such a self-partial firl. She almost distory the life of her best friend by separating two lovers just because fo her whole mind of being high society. The more I read, the more I felt she was nice. She was trying all her best to make it up, and almost lost her own chance of love. Happily, they all found their true love and ended with happy marrige. I like this story, and best wishes for the writer.

The Man With Two Shadows

The Man With Two Shadows is the books title name, but this is only one part of story in this book.
In this book, there have a lot of story and all of them are single. Each title are different story, but all of them are ghost story.
The most I remembers story in this book is "The Dream". The story is talking about the priest who try to tell someone god before the other man who almost die. That man was a really bad man. He always stole and drank. When the priest arrived his house, the doctor looked at the priest and told him that he come late. But suddenly, that bad guys woke up and looked like a health man. Every thing looked normal, and he told the priest that he got a dream before he woke up. He told the priest that in the dream, he fell and fell for a long time through the blackness and when he stopped he was at a big table. Sitting at the table were lots of men. There was a smell of fire all around and the light was red. It felt like a hell. He tried to stand up and run away but a man sitting next to him put his hand on his shoulder. "Sit down. Then at the end of the table the tallest of men stood up. He felt that he was able to control him. Suddenly that guy told him, he can leave now, but he must promise to go back in three months time.

After he told to the priest that all the dream, he cried and said that he didn't want to go back.
The priest told him if he started to be a good man, he won't go back.
Two weeks after, the bad guy changed to be a good guy. He didn't drink any alcohol. But in the third weeks, his old friends called him to the club, then he drank at that day.
In the second day, he was dead....

Finally, after I read this book, I think a lot for the hell...and after this book, I think I won't read anymore ghost stroy because I don't love it.

Oliver Twist

This book is talking about a yong boy who lived by himself . In this stroy this young boy's parents were all died, he is also very poor and homeless. He had met two people Artful Dodger and Charley Bates were honest boys, and were kind to Oliver. He become to a hardened criminal like other kids as same as his age, because he want alive. They even killed each other at the end. After I read this book I felt very sad and terrible. I think this kind of feeling will keep in a long time, because this is a sad story. These kids all the good kids but they can't control their lifes. In that moment, the social can not protect them also. They had never see their parents and nobody love them. I even felt I am a very lucky guy because I was born in this age. I would like to tell everyone who was not read this book before: use your two hands and protect the kid who is no parents in our world!

Emergency Murder

“Emergency Murder” is an exciting book. The setting of this book was one midnight on a hot July Sunday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The characters are Dr. Maxine Cassidy who worked at Mercy Hospital Emergency Room and Nanette Myer who was a wife of Dr. Maxine Cassidy’s friend, DR. Hank Myer. On that night, Nanette suddenly at the Emergency Room and felt sick and died. Maxine was her Doctor. Nanette was healthy, young and had no heart diseases history, but the reason of her death was a heart attack. Maxine was a researcher at Marquette University and was doing a medical research that was related with poison. Maxine and Nanette’s husband ordered an autopsy for Nanette to look for the real reason of her death. The autopsy showed that Nanette was poisoned. A detective doubted many friends who around Nanette, even her husband, especially Maxine. Finally, Maxine and the detective found the person who killed Nanette through a period. Nanette was killed by her friend, Virginia who worked in Marquette University, because Nanette found that Virginia lied about her new drug report.
I like this book so much because every chapter attracted me. I could not stop reading for a second before I did not finish this book, it was so interesting. I strongly recommend reading this book. There are few new vocabularies in this book. It is easy to understand this book.

But was It Murder?

Alex,he is rich,affluent, and handsome man lives in the beauitiful house at London.He has atractive girlfriend and a close group of friends. Now, he is dead in his house, and the police find out a lot of cash in the house. Does someone kill he or he kill himself? But why? His girlfriend? his nebighbor or his doctorter? Every one can be the killer.
The book is interested, and the language are easy to read.

THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON（BOOK CLUB）

This story is talks about how a family live in a small island. The family does not die at sea; they find their way to a small island. The father and mother have useful skills and they can teach their children. They have four children. The oldest boy is Fritz, the second son is Ernest, the third son is Jack and the youngest son is Franz. First day, they walk around the island and pick up many food and tools from the ship. The baby monkey helped them to get some gourds. Father and a son went back to the ship, and bring the animals to the land. Mother and the other sons found a place where is perfect to build a house. They built a house on the tree, and they made many what they needed in their live by themselves.

How they fact the difficulties? How long will they be there? Will they be save at the end?

"The Counte Of Monte Christo"

This is the title of the first book , that i had to read and is about a very young sailor, that after a series of unplesant events, will autointitulate himself:"The Counte of Monte Christo".This whole story takes place around the year 1860-1870 and it happens in France. The action takes place at the same time , when Napoleon, The King of France was exilated to the island of Elba.The main character is involved,without his knoledge ,in a very promiscuous situation . He is asked to deliver a letter, that he brought with him from Elba, to a different person from Paris.When the authorities fund out about that , he was immediatlly arrested for interogation. He is released, but after few days, right in the day of his wedding , he is arrested again. He is sent to a high security prison , with very limited chances of escape, because the prison is located on the highest peak of an unpopulated island.
The years had passed, and somehow he is making friends with another convict. That man was preatty sure that he is in the possesion of a map, of a treasure that is hidden on the island of Monte Christo, only that the map was half missing! Now the question is ,if our character will ever make it out of the prison and if he will ever find the treasure?


I have fund the book very interesting and easy to read.I enjoyed the story and i couldn't let the book out of my hands.I recomend it highly, as an afternoon book, even though, the original script contains few hundreds of pages.Its a lovely book.

But Was it Murder?

This book was about solving a murder of a man which at first the police thought that he had committed a suicide, but when the two detective went to the scene and started looking at the evidence and questioning the neighbors the started doubting that he had not had a motive to commit a suicide .
The detectives found out that Alex the victim was a kind, loving, and also a rich man. And everyone seemed to love him so much, so they asked themselves why was he killed?
After investigating the people how were close to Alex, they found out that he was very worried about his health.The fact that a few years ago he had lose his mother to a Brian cancer was making him think that his headaches might be the cause of the same thing his mother had .In fact a month before his death he had gone to his family doctor and had asked for a full checkup to make sure he wasn't sick.
The detectives find out the Alex was upset about another thing too which only a few people had known about it and that was he had an affair with his doctors wife
and he had tried to end the relationship but the doctors wife was in love with him
and she had told her husband about the affair and had told him that she wanted to live him.So the detectives started thinking about the doctor motive for killing Alex since he was very in love with his wife and did not wanted to lose her...........

I love to read books which are related to mysteries murders and I like to guess what has happened, or what was the motive for killing a person and this book was some exciting to read. So I do recommend reading this book to you if you are in to guessing and trying to solve a murder like me.

Two Lives

Two lives is a romantic story that happens in a small village in England,where the young Megan and Huw were friends for long time,then they felt in love even though they come from a different social class,but their love were strong enough to continue seen each other. Because of many events in Huw's family hapenned he and his father had to go to live in Canada, Huw promised Megan to come back with money and be always together,from that moment many things hapenned,and their dream culden't be true after fifty years because for a strange reason they could meet againg, and this time was forever.


Definitively this was a good story to read, and I recomend to read this book. It was written clearly and was easy to understand, also the vocabulary that the author used is simple,and the way she explained the events were precised which made me feel almost there.

This Time it's Personal(Book 1)

This is a dective story. It tells about how the private investigator to prove, and to crake all of supects in a case. The major is a man, named Marley, but the comes with a interesting introduction. He tells you that there is a long from the truth, which is what you imgaine about a private investigator and his job. Firstly, he is not a good-looking man with bald, overweight body, and on the wrong side of forty. The background city of the story is New York that the time is during spring. He also has an assistant, named Stella, who is a girl. Once they were informed about the assistant's younger brother, named Jose, had been arrested for a murder. The polices doubted that he is murderer with some evidences. All things againt him directly without any reason in his own view. Base on Stella, Marley thought that is a responsibility to help Jose. Marley was a police officer of New York. He has a good helper inside police department who was a collogue of Marley, named Oldenberg. All the time, under helps whatever Marley wanted from Oldenberg. Marley was easy to get recover of the case grudually. He met had met dager and something harm to his life. Finally, he used his genius to slove any problems he had met and reached the truth. Every sence leads you to follow the story and makes you feel excited. this is a interesting book to read.

Pride and Prejudice (Book Club)

Pride and Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. In Georgian England, Mr Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife. The Bennets have five daughters; the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Mrs. Bennet raises her five daughters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia with the purpose of getting married with a rich husband that can support the family. They are not from the upper class, and their house in Hartfordshire will be inherited by a distant cousin if Mr. Bennet dies. When the wealthy bachelor Mr. Bingley and his best friend Mr. Darcy arrive in town to spend the summer in a mansion nearby their property, the shy and beautiful Jane falls in love for Mr. Bingley, and Lizzie finds Mr. Darcy a snobbish and proud man, and she swears to loathe him forever. This is the beginning of their wonderful love story.
I like to read this novel, because the conversation between Mr Bennet and Mrs Bennet is enjoyable. I would like to list the characters or their habit that may help other readers to read.
Mr Bennet vs Mrs Bennet
Jane vs Mr Bingley
Elizabeth vs Mr Darcy
Mary (habit – books)
Kitty (habit – dressing)
Lydia vs Mr Wickham

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Book Club)

A Midsummer Night's Dream
' 'A Midsummer Night's Dream" is one of Shakespeare's earlier plays. This book has twenty people in the play. But his main idea is talking about that two pairs of lovers-Lysander and Hermia, Demetrius and Helena. The king wants his daughter (Hermia) to marry with Demetriu. If Hermia does not marry with Demetriu, She will die. However, Hermia doesn't love Demetriu. She loves Lysander. So She decide to run away to escape from Demetriu with Lysander.They run into a fairyland wood outside Athens. Demetrius loves Hermia also. Helena loves Demetrius, but Demetrius does not love Helena. Helena tells Demetrius that Hermia escapes with Lysander in the fairyland wood outside Athens. So Demetrius catch them. Hermia and Lysander sleep in the wood when they tired. The puck put love juice in Lysander's eyes. The love juice has image power. When the person wake up, He see someone first. He will fall in love with this person. When Lysander wakes up, he sees Helena first, so Lysander falls in lover with Helena. The Puck put love juice in Demetrius' eye also, when he sleeps in the wood. When he wakes up, he sees Helena first also, so both of Lysander and Demetrius love Helena. That makes Helena confuse, and makes Hermia upset. Finally, Puck helps Hermia and Lysander again. Lysander marries with Hermia, and Demetrius marries with Helena. They find their really lover.
I like this story. This book is easy to read. When I read this book, it remind of me about women's marry looks like this story. The parents control daughter’s marriage in China one hundred years ago. I admire Hermia that She can escape his father. Now women can control their marriage. People can find their really lover.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. During the nineteenth century, transport systems all over the world were developing rapidly, so Verne imagined this crazy and colorful trip.
The story starts in London October 2, 1872. Phileas Fogg is a rich, quiet, unmarried gentleman, and he loves his regular habits. He makes a bet with his friends of Reform Club, which is one of a number of London clubs for gentlemen, that he can travel around the world in eighty days. His plan is as follows;
London to Suez rail and steamer 7days
Suez to Bombay steamer 13days
Bombay to Calcutta rail 3days
Hong Kong to Yokohama s steamer 6days
Yokohama to San Francisco steamer 22days
San Francisco to New York rail 7days
New York to London steamer 9days
Total 80days
Mr. Fogg starts his trip on the day when he made bet with his servant, Jean Passepartout in order to win twenty thousand pounds (equal to 2,500,000 pounds today).
On the other hand, Mr. Fix, a British detective is searching the bank robber, and he mistakes Mr. Fogg for the criminal. Mr. Fix chases Mr. Fogg and tries to slow down him at every opportunity so that he can arrest him.
The travelers come across a lot of unexpected dangers and happenings, like rescuing a girl who is being killed for ritual ceremony, the storm in the ocean, and Fix’s tricks. Can Mr. Fogg return to Reform Club in London in eighty days…?
Since the writher, Verne have not traveled the world actually, he describes culture and people of other countries as he imagined. I think that the expressions are stereo type at some points, for instance, he described that the religion in India is savage and American loves fights, but I enjoyed reading this book. The travel without planes is full of interesting story. I think inconvenience helps our imagination expanded.

Murder Maker (Book 1)

This book is talking about the writer how to revenge for her friends. Carla is a single woman who blew up with her boyfriend. Later, she went to the Restart Course--- a special course for people who have experienced a broken relationship. Then, she made three friends there. They are Diane, Gemma, and Cathy. As Carla’s opinion, her friends suffer from broken relationship because her friends’ husbands’ false. So, she wanted to revenge for her friends. She asked her friends’ husbands’ addresses and went there kill them in different way. Of course, she wanted to kill her ex-boyfriend too. Before she went to kill her boyfriend, she killed Cathy’s ex-husband, which a man who Carla love too. So she tried to escape from that event, but she hit an old lady by her car and got caught by the police. When Diane, Gemma, and Cathy went to see her in the police office, they thank her a lot because they benefit from their ex-husbands’ dead (At the beginning, they all sad for their ex-husbands’ dead when they know the news.). The last person she killed left a lot of evidence that a police could find out the person who was the murder, but Diane, Gemma, and Cathy did a thorough clean the evidence before they called the police. Because they want to thank Carla, they want to do something for her. At that time, Carla was in jail for the car accident, she wanted to ask them to kill her ex-boyfriend, but finally she gave to this thought. ------The End.

As my opinion, this book is bad for the children because it may mislead the children to kill the people they hated without punishment. All we know that some bad men done something wrong without caught by the police, we have to face it. However, if a child gets this book and read, they may think the writer’s opinion is great, they may follow this way, then, the crime rate will increase very fast.

Summary and reaction of Stories from Shakespeare

This book was written by Shakespeare who was a famous author in England. This book consists of five small tales. I will introduce the first chapter to you which name is The Merchant of Venice. In this chapter, there are six main mankind which name is Antonio, Bassanio, Shylock, Portia. They lived in Venice. Antonio helps his close friend whose name is Bassanio to see his lovely girl-Portia. However Bassanio is a poor man, and he do not have enough money to see Portia. Therefore Antonio loans three thousand dollars from Shylock who is a usurer. Antonia and Shylock has a deal that if Antonia can not return three thousand dollars back, he will cut one pound of meat from Antonia’s body. Finally, Bassanio gets married to his lovely girl, but Antonia will die because he can not find three thousand dollars to Shylock. Shylock is a very bad guy. He does not want any money, he just wants to one pound of meat which comes from Antonio’s body because he wants him to go to the hell. Bassanio’s wife-Portia makes believe to be a lawyer, and she uses her intelligences to disprove Shylock’s opinion. Eventually, she wins. Shylock can not get his three thousand dollars, and he must give his whole wealth to his girl.

In my opinion, Shylock is a wicked person. To me, cutting one pound of meat from human’s body is a incredible affair because it is too bloody. Shylock doest not want to get money back, he just really want to meat. I think that Shylock retaliates Antonio because he opposes him a lot.

Summary and Reaction of Lorna Doone

The book was written by R. D. Blackmore. The story happened in 1673 in a valley of England. Young John Ridd, a farmer’s son, meets a gentle little girl called Lorna Doone. Seven years later they meet again, and fall in love. But the Doones are a family of robbers and murderers. One of them killed John’s father. John is ordered by the government to help stop a rebellion against the king and destroy the Doones. John did them and saved Lorna. I liked this book because it was interesting, well-written, and mysterious.
Before reading the book, I looked at the front and back cover which were interesting. The picture, pretty Lorna and story line attracted my attention. The main characters and story plot interested me. I wanted to know what John did and whether he can save Lorna. These things kept me interested in the book.
While reading the book, I thought it was easy to understand because it was well-written. I don’t understand many English books because they are difficult for me. This book is good for people who are learning English. It provides a step-by-step approach to the joys of reading for pleasure. Although there were some new words, I could understand the meaning of the word from its context. I really enjoyed reading this book because the author wrote it well.
After reading the book, I became aware of this story’s mystery. Lorna was not a Doone; she was the daughter of Lord Dugal. John stopped the rebellion against the King, destroyed the Doones, and saved Lorna. John and Lorna married and were very happy. I enjoyed this mystery story.
As a result, Lorna Doone was an interesting, well-written, and mysterious book. It kept me on the edge of my seat. I enjoyed the author’s writing and the mystery story. The story tell us: The robbers and murderers are always destroyed; people have rights to beat evil and get happy lives.

Romeo & Juliet

I read a book the name is Romeo & Juliet. Most people know Romeo and Juliet is the sadness love story. When I read this book I agree with that, because Romeo and Juliet are death in the end. It is a sadness ending. Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous love stories in the world today, more than four hundred year. It is more than a great love story. Romeo and Juliet this love story is also about life and death, happiness and sadness, and the terrible hate between two great families. Romeo and Juliet are live in the famous city of Verona in the north of Italy. The story is about two important families of the town, the Capulet and Montague. These families are great enemies. Then Romeo, the only son of the Montague, fall in love with Juliet, the only daughter of the Capulet. At the first Romeo felt sad because Romeo interested at a beautiful lady her name called Rosaline, but this lady isn’t interested at him. Romeo’s cousin Benvolio teach Romeo how to forget Rosaline, and went to theirs enemy’s party together. When Romeo and his cousin arrived the party, Romeo met Juliet and dance with Juliet. After party they both fall in love with each other. When Juliet knows Romeo is the only son of the Montague and Romeo know Juliet is the only daughter of the Capulet. They are the great enemy, and their both families are hate each other, but they still love each other. Their love ends their families’ hate, but only with their deaths.
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Jane Eyre(book club)

　　　　Jane Eyre is an orphan. When she was a little girl, she lived in her evil aunt’s house which in Gateshead. She was much hated her aunt and her whole family except her uncle, but her uncle was died. Every time when Jane and her aunt’s family had arguments, she was the loser always. And after the argument, sometimes she got to lock in a red room which was her uncle death place. Well, she was so sad, didn’t she? So, when she was ten, she wanted to leave the family, and her aunt let her leave. Thus, her school life began, and she thought her life might be changed by left her aunt’s family, but it didn’t. Soon, she grew up with that school, and she became a teacher or something at that school, but it wasn’t the life that she wanted. So, she planed to leave again and went to find her real life. Now on, I think this should be her last stop because she went to a big house to teach a little France girl. And because the job, she found a man that who loved her and she loved him while she was living in that house. But that man was so rich. And many girls who loved there were admired him because he was very intelligence. Anyway, I won’t tell what the end of the story of this couple because you have to find it out. Maybe they married in the end, or they wouldn’t, or they wanted to together but they couldn’t so they suicide. I don’t know. By the way, I can tell you somebody married and the end, but who, you must to read it then you will know!!

East 43rd Street

When I saw this book at first, I was interested in the title.This was because I had been visited in New York during the last Christmas so the title was familiar to me. During 10 days, I had gone to the east 43rd street very often so I wondered the contents.
Nat Marley, the main character of this story,saw a beautiful woman at McFadden's Bar, which was his favorite place at night. She looked so elegant and luxurious because she had wavy blonde hair, cold brown eyes and a diamond necklace and earling.Furthermore, she did mysterious gesture and had curiousful memo paper.Afterall, she paid a hundred dollar to bartender. Nat was so curious then followed her.At Grand Central, she disappeared. Nat waited and watched for a while but it was no good. His excitement for that evening was over.
Suprizingly, Nat saw her in his office and she became his client. She said that she was from small town and met her husband. They fell in love and got married but her husband wanted to get contract of their marriage. Some part of their marriage contract was that any gift recieved by Mrs. Angela Lake from Mr.Robert Lake above the value of $10,000 shall be returned to Mr. Robert Lake in the event of a divorce.
Nat was New York private investigater and this one was so excited to him. She gave a small suitecase to him and asked deliverling her jewerly to her husband. However, it was a trap to him. Therefore, he went to police office and he went to the police cell. The couple were crafty and they might be win. On the other hand, who was Nat? He was our main character. Finally, he won the unbalanced game and solved some problem.
Actually, I don't want to write all of the story because you can read and guess the clue and the criminal. I disappointed a little to the ending but the author was not Conan Doyle. I could not finished lately so I read it for 4 days. Reading is not easy for me in English but I did my best. There was another important character in this novel. His name was Tommy Lam. You can guess who he was and what he did.

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

The birth of Oliver twist was a miracle, her mom died after she brought him to life. His first years of life were the most difficult for him, since he was most of the time traveling from one place to another. When he burned the hospital didn’t want to take care of him, not even the church of the little town, so the doctor decided to send to a house were there were twenty or thirty children. There are cared for an elderly woman, called Mrs. Mann. At the age of nine Mrs. Mann decided to take him out of the hospice because hi was to big to still living there. One day Mr. Bumble, decide to take Oliver to work at a funeral. He was treating worse than when he was at the hospice, so he decide to escaped. He travels to London, where he met Dawkins, who decide to take him to his boss, Fagin who was the lieder of a little gang of thefts. He showed him tricks to still people’s wallets, watch and other personal things of value. One time, the little kids decide to robed a store were they captured Oliver, the owner of the store who was Mr. Brownlow felt sorry for him, and decide not to present charges to him. He took Oliver to his house and takes care of him, since hi was sick and wick. Oliver felt the most loved child in the world, while he was living there. Fagin, who heard of Oliver situation living in Mr. Brownlow house didn’t like it at all, so he decided to go and look for him. Oliver felt scared and feinted to the ground once he so Mr. Fagin in Mr. Brownlow house. Mr. Brownlow arrived on time and stopped Fagin from taking Oliver away from him. At the end Mr. Brownlow decided to help Oliver and find out about his family.

Reflection: the lector is trying us to see how life was back them, the poverty that people has to faced and what they have to do in order to survived. Obviously children where the most affected, living in hospices with poor condition. One part of the book that touches my feelings was when Oliver defends her mom, when he not even had nothing of her.

Jungle Love (Book Club No 1)

The story was about competition between two women to win a man’s heart. Jenifer who left her fiancé in London to take group tour to Belize, she met Lisa and they shared the same room during the vacation. Both women had very different characters. Jenifer was calm, interested in nature, and history. Lisa was outgoing, talkative, annoying, and flirty. Lisa lies about many things, her job, family and where she lives in England. She tent to act as if she had a much better life than hers. Unfortunately Ian, the man they were after was a playboy. Actually he was with his girlfriend in the tour, but she left the tour after they have fight. Ian kissed Lisa just a couple hours after he kissed Jenifer earlier in the same night.

As soon as they both found out that Ian had “feeling” for them, Jennifer and Lisa got into love competition. Lisa was the one who aggressive in trying to win Ian’s heart. Jennifer was calmer and had self control. However Jenifer was struggling with her doubtful love for her fiancé . She did not want to get married too soon because she did not like the idea of living in a country side, which was part of Pete’s dream. Jenifer had also ever cheated on Pete by having a date with Gary. As part of Lisa plan in winning the competition was to make Pete to come from London to Belize, telling him lies that Jennifer still loved him. That way Ian would find out that Jenifer had fiancé that loves her, so that Lisa would get full attention from Ian.

Mary the tour leader, she could tell what was going on between Lisa and Jenifer. She tried to entertain Lisa when she was so down, knowing that Jenifer was going out with Ian one night. Mary took Lisa to her Aunt place, and they had a really great time together. Mary’s aunt lived in the same city where Ian and Jenifer were spending the evening. Later that night, Mary and Lisa went to a night club where Ian and Jennifer had a date. The tension began while Jenifer was in the restroom leaving Ian alone, Lisa approached him and asking why he cheated on her. Ian tried to calm her down by saying that He had feeling to Lisa. In the same time Jenifer was quietly coming from behind Ian listened to what Ian said to Lisa. Finally Lisa and Jenifer decided to leave Ian alone.

However at the end, when Pete (Jenifer’s fiancé, arrived in Belize) Jenifer had her own surprising plan. This book is very interesting because Lisa and Jenifer are both main characters. Jenifer and Lisa, in turn, tell us the story of their own version of every event that happen among them.

But Was it murder? (Book Club)

But Was it murder? Alex Forley had everything: good looks, a lot of money, a big beautiful house in London, an attractive girlfriend and a close group of friends. One day it was found that he was dead in his house, and Detective Inspector Rod Eliot wants the answers to two questions: Was it murder? Or was it a suicide? … There were a lot of suspicions about Alex’s death from Detective Eliot’s thinking, as he thought the relationships around Alex like the couple’s neighbor, his girlfriend, his doctor, his employee and his cleaner related with Alex’s death.
If it was a murder, who was be the murderer. If it was a suicide, why he had to kill himself while he had everything? Can you guess!!...
I chose this book to read because of its title. The title made me interested with a lot of curiousness. At first, after I read some chapters I thought that Alex was killed by the neighbor’s husband, as he had a love affair with the neighbor’s beautiful wife. But I totally was wrong … (‘-‘). That is an interesting point of this book, so you guy should read this book and find out the Truth at last. The language of this book is not difficult and clearly, so you actually can read this book enjoyably.

Two Lives (Book Club)

Two lives… In a small village, Megan and Huw grew up together; they were good friend. As they became teenager, the friendship continued and they fall in love with each other. However, many things happened that hindered they stay together; they had to part. Huw moved to Canada with his father, while Megan still stayed at the small village; however, Megan pregnant…

Gone the happy day when they played together. Was their love strong enough to last, after fifty years later? Guess...

After I read this book, I just think that if I was Megan, I would choose other lover because of promise. Maybe, choose other live is also a good choice for me. I also think that fifty years is pretty long. Actually, I am not sure the memory of their love could still clear after fifty years and the feeling of love never disappear between this fifty years.

Whatever, it just what I think, you can read it and enjoy. ~\^.^/~

Family or Job

Living without family is a very serious problem, and perhaps everybody should face it in the future. However if you are an adult, maybe you will be accustomed to be along as soon as quickly because you could not depend on your parents anymore. Nevertheless, if you are a child, especially when you are seven, eight year old, and your mother or father does not live close to you, you will be gloomy and feel unequal when you see someone to play with his family. Unfortunately, I am a one of these unequal people. Because the Chinese government police changed, the Chinese government encouraged people to work outside the country. My father lest my family for five years, and he worked abroad when I was thirteen years old. I think that there are three main influences for my life because my father changed his job and left us.

First of all, my father ignored my family member’s feeling. My father was a famous chef before he went to the United States, so my father participated in the chef’s party which held at Hong Kong. All the chefs were the best. Finally, my father got a Gold Plate. A Chinese ambassador liked my father’s food, so he wanted my father to cook food for him. However, at that time, my father had a good job at my hometown. He had a high salary and high status at the biggest hotel which was still exists right now. This was my father first time to face this quandary. In the period, most people believed that working for their motherland was a very proud thing, and so did my father. Thereby, after two days, my father told the ambassador that he was pleasured to work for him. He did not consider me because I was too young at that time, and I needed a father to surround and watch over me. He did not even think about my family. My father is a male chauvinist, so most time he did not consult with my family. My mother and I did not know that he would work abroad. Although he has changed his bad behavior right now, I still remember this affair because he ignored my family’s feeling.

Secondly, my father made my family too sad because he did not go home for a long time. My father and ambassador had a contract that my father must work for the ambassador for five years. My mother did not complain to her husband because she knew that he did this just for my family. He could earn more money abroad. As you know, if your parents are not close with you, you must be sad and miss them when some important festivals come, such as marriage anniversary, birthday, and New Year and so on. Even though my father called us every weekend, we still hoped that he stayed with us. To me, some times I loathed to see most children were playing with their parents because I did not have father’s love. I hated my father, I was angry to him, and I did not want to talk to him when he called me. However, when I grew up, I realized my father why he did this, and how hard he was. I can excuse him because he is my father, but I can not forget that he did not stay with me for five years.

Finally, after five years, our family was reunified, but I did not have more words to my father because it was a long time that we had not seen each other. When my father came back to home from Cyprus, my mother and I picked him up at the airport. Once we met, he gave me a hug, but I even did not know how to talk with him, or what kind of question I should ask him. We stayed together everyday, and he game me a lot of gifts and other things. I did not say anything except thanks dad. I knew that he really changed himself in front of me because he knew that he owed me a lot. He cooked food everyday, sent me to school, and played games with me, but I did not change my mind. I did not know why. Till now, I still did not want to talk with him to much. There is a very huge generation gap between us. Maybe this generation gap we could not fix forever.

In conclusion, there are three main influences because my father changed his job and lest us. Because I was young at that time and did not see my father for five years. It was a long time, and it changed my love for my father. Even though we are being together at America, I could not forget that he lest me for a long time when I was young. I count that I did not see my father about ten years at least. I know that my father did everything just for my family, but he ignored my mother and his son’s feeling. I could not hate him, but I could not forgive him. If time can return, I really hope that my father would not go to Hong Kong and participated in that party!

An Overpaid Price

Is it a sin to have freedom of speech and freedom of expressing your political ideas? My family and I are originally from Romania, which is situated in the east part of Europe and part of the Eastern Block. My country was under Communist regime for over thirty-five years, from 1960’s to 1989, the year when my countrymen overcame the system. My grandfather was an Orthodox priest and my grandmother was a teacher, which were the most persecuted categories in Communist times. My grandfather made a speech during an evening mass, and that lead to his incarceration. The incarceration of my grandfather brought darkness over my family, and the deleterious effect, was unforgettable.
First of all, my grandfather was send to sixteen years of incarceration and from there, a chain of events generated. In the times of Communist regimen, it was a crime if someone was making political comments in contradictory, or if anybody was practicing religion. Usually priests were used only for funeral purposes, weddings and baptizing ceremonies. Nothing else! They were not allowed to address people in any matter, or to talk about the political time, and how that affected their lives. In the year of 1970 my grandfather, during one of many mass ceremonies he held, made a comment about the fact that the government had no right to take their land, and they should do something about it! By midnight he was arrested and was send to incarceration as a political prisoner for sixteen years. He was incarcerated in a cell, under the ground level where during the day his bed was lifted, so he could not sit. Through his cell the water pipes passed, so there was no possible way of sitting down. He had to live thru inhuman conditions, with no right of visiting.
After that more inhuman treatment followed, and our family had to feel the
consequences of free speech. My grandmother was banned from the Communist Political Group (in order to practice teaching, was mandatory to belong to a Communist Group) and their house was confiscated, but they’ve been allowed to live in it. The entire library that my grandfather owned at that moment became ashes in less than an hour. My mother was forced to leave the university, with no right of further education; they became the pariah of society. Activists were present everywhere, in every meetings or organizations and they had infiltrated every branch of the system. All the members of the family were left with no jobs, and their potential of being hired was very limited.
As a result of that, my family had to adapt to the critical moment of their life and all that they had was hope! Soon after, Masonic organizations start forming and also people started to listen secretly clandestine radio stations. They came in contact with the Romanian Intellectual Diaspora, with people that ran out in other neighboring countries, and they were trying to reach out to a whole nation that was suffering. I don’t have to tell you that if any of this was coming to light all these people, were going to vanish over night and if anyone was going to inquire, they also had to face death.
The incarceration of my grandfather brought darkness over my family, and the deleterious effect was unforgettable. My grandfather did not live the whole sixteen years, and his sentence was never reduced, but for my family and an entire nation, today he is remembered as a pioneer. All that my family can hope for is that none of the next generations, will have to go through the same unfair treatment. Generations before me had to live and tell about the dictatorial regime, and many of the people today still have painful emotional scars.

"Reform and Opening"

History is a word that exists forever in the world. How many things do you know about the world, and how many things do you know about your country? Lots of events have happened in the history of my country. Maybe there are some people do not know the history of their countries, and they think that they don’t need to learn those history. In fact, they should know the history, because the history is affecting them. The history of China is about five thousand years, but China is still a developing country. Thirty years ago, China was a poor country. There was a man changed Chinese people’s life. His name is Deng, Xiao Ping, and the great thing he did was pursued a new policy, “Reform and Opening”. “Reform and Opening” changed the life of China, and it also changed the life of my family.
My father’s family was poor before 1979. My grandmother has seven children-six boys and one girl. For the poor family, more children made more problems. My father is the youngest one of the boys. Moreover all of them could not study in school except my father and his younger sister, for my grandparents did not have enough money to pay for them. In 1970, my grandfather died. The life of my father’s family became worse and worse. My father stopped going to school in 1971, and started to find a job. However, he did not give up his life of study. My father was trying to learn by himself from other people’s books.
“Reform and Opening” was giving my father a chance. In 1979, the Chinese government announced news which was the Chairman of our country; Deng Xiao Ping, would pursue a new policy-“Reform and Opening”. “Reform and Opening” was the way to solve the main problem of China-the poverty, and it was going to give people chances to earn money. My hometown was the first place that the government decided to actualize their new policy. My father was aware that it would be a good chance to change his family’s life. My father decided to have his own business. Therefore, he started to collect money for his business.
“Reform and Opening” helped my father to be succeeded. In 1983, my father was succeeding at his business, and he made his first pot of gold. At the same year, my father met my mother. My mother’s father was a new businessman the same as my father. They met each other in a trade, and my grandfather introduced my mother to my father. Then, they fell in love with each other. In 1986, my father was going to extend his business, and he needed my mother to be with him. They got married in 1986. My mother began to go into business and help my father. Their life became better and better. In 1987, my father bought his first house, and in 1988, I was born. Since I was born, my father has always given me whatever I needed. He has given me good education, good place to live and grow, and good family. 5 years ago, my father wanted me to have a better place to study, and then he started to apply a chance to come and live in the United States. My life is changing since I have born.
As you can see, “Reform and Opening” policy changed the life of China, and it also changed the life of my family. Everyone has their own history which was the other people might not know. Although, the history of a country is opening, it is for all of us, and it belongs all of us. No matter what the history of your country is, your life has been affected by the history. History is very important for us, that also is the reason why we have to study in history. Our ancestors really want us to know what they done for us in the history. Was your life changed by the history?