Hey! I'm in emglish right now. it is 10:26 in the morning, and the last day of the semester. our portfolio's are due, and i am done so i am blogging! ha ha. i am really bored right now. i should go to media and get a new book or something. maybe i should read Pride and Prejudice. i am in the middle of it, at the 25th chapter. we watched the BBC version of the movie. it is really good, but really long it has two discs, and is like four hours long! but it is really good too. jillian is reading a book right now and julie and jenna were just on looking at twilight stuff. it is realy quiet. maybe we shoud go play apples to apples...
10:29-nothing to report.
10:32-nothing to report. well, i am looking @ stephan poff's flickr photostream, if that is anything. otherwise really bored.
10:35-still nothing. okay, you get the idea. i am really hungry. lunch in 34 min!!!!!!!! yay!! i should probs be done right now. more later!!!!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
More books to Wisconsin
Hey everyone! Sorry I haven’t been blogging lately. We went to Lake Mills, Wisconsin on Friday for Grandpa’s funeral. It was really sad, and on top of that I missed school. (I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I happen to like my education very much.) Oh well. I have a math test to make up, and I didn’t get to race my C02 car, but other that that, I suppose it is okay. I did miss my friends though.
I have read a lot lately. The first book is called Reaching For Sun. it is about a girl with cerebral palsy who has no friends until this boy moves in nearby. It is written completely in poetry form, and I liked it quite a bit.
I also reread Anne of Green Gables. It is such a good book, and funny to. I love reading books like that and can’t wait to reread Anne of Avonlea, the sequel. I think those books are positively enchanting.
Well, I should go. I will tell more about the other books I’ve read lately, (including Maximum Ride books) later. So until then, I bid you all adieu. (sorry, I was listening to the sound of music soundtrack)
well, bye!
I have read a lot lately. The first book is called Reaching For Sun. it is about a girl with cerebral palsy who has no friends until this boy moves in nearby. It is written completely in poetry form, and I liked it quite a bit.
I also reread Anne of Green Gables. It is such a good book, and funny to. I love reading books like that and can’t wait to reread Anne of Avonlea, the sequel. I think those books are positively enchanting.
Well, I should go. I will tell more about the other books I’ve read lately, (including Maximum Ride books) later. So until then, I bid you all adieu. (sorry, I was listening to the sound of music soundtrack)
well, bye!
Sunday, January 4, 2009
It's my Birthday!!!
Sorry i haven't posted all weekend. we were gone to Atchison, KS and then Topeka KS, and then Kansas City (to see the plaza lights) and then St. Louis since Friday, and we got back today. But today is my birthday!!!!! yay!!!!!
we had to go to Atchison to see my granparents on my dads side, then Topeka to see his brother, my cousin and my cousins sons who are like 2 and a couple months old, and then St Louis to see my Grandma. its sad though, because my Grandpa (in St. Louis) died on New Years. :( so yeah. tears. anyway, i did a lot of reading on the trip (of course). one of the books i read part of was Pride and Prejudice. really good book. Me and my sister also watched the movie, the one w/ Kiera Knightly in it. and if you dont know what Pride and Prejudice is about (or who Kiera Knightly is) that's just kind of sad. so anyway, if you havent read the book, READ IT NOW! i mean it. i mean, who cant love Jane and Charles (Bingly), or of course Lizzie and Fitzwilliam Darcy. now that is an odd name. Fitzwilliam. i suppose it was common back then, but nowadays...
so if you want a good, old fashioned love story, read Pride and Predjudice. Or anyting by Jane Austin...
well, happy new year again. i hope i can do something fun for my birthday soon. all we did today was ride in the car...
:)
we had to go to Atchison to see my granparents on my dads side, then Topeka to see his brother, my cousin and my cousins sons who are like 2 and a couple months old, and then St Louis to see my Grandma. its sad though, because my Grandpa (in St. Louis) died on New Years. :( so yeah. tears. anyway, i did a lot of reading on the trip (of course). one of the books i read part of was Pride and Prejudice. really good book. Me and my sister also watched the movie, the one w/ Kiera Knightly in it. and if you dont know what Pride and Prejudice is about (or who Kiera Knightly is) that's just kind of sad. so anyway, if you havent read the book, READ IT NOW! i mean it. i mean, who cant love Jane and Charles (Bingly), or of course Lizzie and Fitzwilliam Darcy. now that is an odd name. Fitzwilliam. i suppose it was common back then, but nowadays...
so if you want a good, old fashioned love story, read Pride and Predjudice. Or anyting by Jane Austin...
well, happy new year again. i hope i can do something fun for my birthday soon. all we did today was ride in the car...
:)
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Happy New Year.
So, it’s a new year. The old has gone, the new has come. Sorry, that just popped into my mind. Don’t remember what bible verse its from. I know it isn’t referring to new years, though! ☺
I just finished reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. It was way good. It is about a young girl named Francie Nolan who lives in Brooklyn New York in the early 1900’s. The back describes it as “a book about the coming of age.” Or something like that. It is very long, and many things happen. Her father is a part time waiter who cant get a real job because he is drunk a lot, but Fancie loves him very much. The story tells of her life, from before she was born until she is 16 or so, with five different ‘books’. I liked it a lot, but find it is kind of hard to write a shot summary on this particular book. But I do recommend the book very highly. It is really good.
I find that the more I read classics such as this on, the more I am inspired to write my own novels. Many good writers of the past are often overlooked these days because no one is interested any more. They don’t want to read these great works of art. And so the books of the past become something that is pushed away and forgotten. But these works shouldn’t be forgotten. We should occasionally take them out and read them again. Because what a lot of people don’t realize is that even writing a book, let alone publishing it, is very hard work. If you want to so much as change one little thing, it completely changes the entire work, and you have to make a bunch of changes here and there. And these are some of the greatest works ever. They should not be forgotten.
Well, I should go.
bye, and again, Happy New Year
I just finished reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. It was way good. It is about a young girl named Francie Nolan who lives in Brooklyn New York in the early 1900’s. The back describes it as “a book about the coming of age.” Or something like that. It is very long, and many things happen. Her father is a part time waiter who cant get a real job because he is drunk a lot, but Fancie loves him very much. The story tells of her life, from before she was born until she is 16 or so, with five different ‘books’. I liked it a lot, but find it is kind of hard to write a shot summary on this particular book. But I do recommend the book very highly. It is really good.
I find that the more I read classics such as this on, the more I am inspired to write my own novels. Many good writers of the past are often overlooked these days because no one is interested any more. They don’t want to read these great works of art. And so the books of the past become something that is pushed away and forgotten. But these works shouldn’t be forgotten. We should occasionally take them out and read them again. Because what a lot of people don’t realize is that even writing a book, let alone publishing it, is very hard work. If you want to so much as change one little thing, it completely changes the entire work, and you have to make a bunch of changes here and there. And these are some of the greatest works ever. They should not be forgotten.
Well, I should go.
bye, and again, Happy New Year
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