Reading journal 6,

Last week in English class, each of us had to read a story (some chapters of a story) and that's what I'm going to write about in this journal.

The title is "holes" and it's about a boy who has overweight and is arrested for a murder he didn't do (for so far that I could read, I don't think that the boy did it).

The boy, called Stanley, is arrested and now transferred to a place called 'Camp Green Lake' but there is no green and there is no lake because it's somewhere in a desert. Every day, he has to dig 1 hole which is 5 feet deep and 5 feet across in every direction. when he has done that he has the rest of the day to do what he wants.

I feel sad for him because the boy can't do anything about the thing that he's arrested. He was in the wrong place in the wrong time. Now he has to work very hard, sleep in tents, doesn't get enough water, and has to live a very uncomfortable life.
I wouldn't want to be in his place because it is just such a big change in your life, he didn't do anything wrong and he doesn't have friends.

I don't really want to read the book because it doesn't sound so interesting to me.

Reading journal 5,



The book is called Scorpia and is the fifth book of a series of six books.

It is a really exciting book and not only the bok is but whole the series is.



I give it a rating of 4.5 out of 5



my two new words are ( I translated them in English as best as I could but the book is written in Dutch, you can buy it in English)
- binocular (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/binocular)
- hermetic (http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=hermetic)

The main character is a boy of 14 who against his own will has to operate as a secret agent for MI6. She is really good at being a spy but he wants a normal life and make friends instead of risking his life whole the time.
I can't really place me in the situations he gets in and out alive. It is interesting to read about just because it is so extreme. A bit like James Bond but then with a teenager spy.

Hi,

For homework, I had to read 2 blogs of another person in the class.
I choose Joy's blog (http://joyie09.blogspot.com/) and Dreanne's blog (http://draeanneie09.blogspot.com/).

Joy's blog:

Dream land:

• This journal entry of Joy really touched me.
• She wrote clearly and with a good expression of her feelings.
• Her describtion of where your home is, mainly corresponds with my thoughts about this book.

Dreanne's blog: Language Incident In Hongkong:

• I really found this a funny story about her language misunderstanding.
• She wrote it in a style so that any person can read it and still understand it and laugh with it.

I read these blogs because they were the first ones that I entered and read.

Hi,

This book is the fifth book of an Anthony Horowitz series.
It is named Necropolis.
I read the other books when I was in middle school but last week I went to buy the last book because I suddenly remembered that there still was a fifth book of that series.
I rapidly read some chapters of the four other books so I remembered what the story was about again and than started with this book.
I read it in 3 days. It was a really good book.

I give it a rating of 4 out of 5

My new words are:

• Abbrevation (wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)
• Gargling (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargling)

The setting is in the daily world of now but 5 children spread over the whole world have a magical power and when they are all together, they can defeat the black things that are preparing to destroy the world. Their journey leads them to the dying city of Hong Kong where the children find the last person. They try to defeat the black power but they first have to cope with a huge hurricane. The setting is important because of the people who live there, the companies which are described in the book, and it has to be situated next to the sea. It has the effect of having a strange tension that is woven into the story.

Reading journal 3

Hi,

I told you once before that I love reading series of books where you have like 3 or more books of the same series. It's the same with this one.
There are 4 books of this series and 2 books are more fun and interesting to read than the other two.
The names are:
-City of Masks
- City of Stars
- City of Flowers
- City of Secrets
They are really nice but sometimes a bit tricky to read.
I give it a rating of 4 out of 5.

My 2 new/tricky words are:
- contemplating (http:wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=contemplation/)
- pathetic (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pathetic/)

In every book, a person from our daily world finds a talisman and goes with it to the past.
The story happens in early Italy. You read a lot of details where out you can make that it is in Italy.
In one of the first books, a girl called Georgia is being bullied by her step-brother whole the time. She is so desperate because she can't do anything against it because her parents don't believe her. They think that she's doing it on purpose so that her brother gets punished so they don't do anything. So it keeps going on and on.
I think this is really sad. If your (step-) brother is like that and you have to live with it.
I hope it never happens to me and I wish that it will not happen to other people.
I think lots of people get bullied by someone else and that they really don't like it.

Yannick

Reading journal 2

Hi,

I often just want to read and because I'm to lazy to go to a library and search for one, I go to a bookshop like Borders or Kinokuniya bookshop. There I just walk around till I find something that I like. Sometimes I don't find anything and go back home but often, I find really good books. Mostly I search for books were you have bigger series like 3 or more books from the same story.

This series are really nice and I only can recommend them to others if you like reading fiction.
I read the whole series of 3 books and I give it a rating of 4.2 over 5.

I'll give you the titles for when you might be interested:
- The Magicians Guild
- The Novice
- The High Lord

I don't exactly know the place and time were it's playing itself but it has some connection points through the books that are related to our daily world.

My 2 vocabulary words are:
- scarf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarf/)
- beckoning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckon/)

The main character is a slum girl that on day finds out that she has magical powers. The magical powers, however, are not controlled and she destroys a lot of things e.g. buildings set on fire, people die, etc. There is a guild that has all the magicians with them and they train them so they're not happy to hear that a slum girl has magical powers which they and the girl can't control. She's a danger for the city so the magicians go and look for her. They only have to follow the trace of broken, burned and destroyed things to find her.
She's captured and they try to persuade her to stay with them.
She's interesting to read about because you find a lot of things that you would do exactly the same if you were in that time and place.

Yannick