_BRIAN'S RETURN_

my opinion of Brian's Return was that is was one of the best GARY PAULSEN books I've ever red. It had action and adventure in it and I think that every one should at leased read part of it.

More on Hard Times

I’m in Part 2 of Hard Times. It’s getting slightly confusing. Part 2 is set a year after Part 1. Now, Louisa Gradgrind, Thomas Gradgrind’s oldest daughter, is married to Mr. Bounderby. Young Tom Gradgrind, Louisa’s little brother, has financial issues or something (I’m not quite sure. I said the book’s getting slightly confusing, remember?). So, okay, what do Mrs. Sparsit (Mr. Bounderby’s old housekeeper) and this new guy, Mr. James Harthouse, want? Well, I’m not sure, but I think Mrs. Sparsit wants influence over Mr. Bounderby, and Mr. Harthouse wants influence over Louisa? The bank was robbed, and Stephen Blackpool (who was fired, and is also an outcast among his fellow Hands) was suspected? What? Mrs. Gradgrind, Louisa’s mother, just died?! Huh?

I’m just going to keep reading, in the hope that the mist clears later on, and the book gets interesting later on. I want to hear more about the Coketown factories and the Gradgrind model school, not about people using each other as pawns in a confusing game of sorts, like in a soap opera. (Not to say it’s bad writing or that I dislike Dickens’ works, but I’m just not into watching relational issues in people’s lives.)

_BRIAN'S RETURN_

So far Brian's Return is very interesting Brian has bought a lot of equipment and is spending the night in a cabin waiting for morning so he can start his journey back to the wilderness.

Star trek the next generation starfleet academy Worfs first adventure

I just started this book and I think it is good sofar. Why I like this book is becuse I like star trek. And I needed a new book.And I like action packed stuff. Much beter than Talking and mystorys.

DRAGON SPELL

I am near the end of Dragon spell. The author is Donita K. Paul and the main character is Kale. Kale and the other meet wizard fenwork and they went over the plan to get the meech egg back from risto. Wizard fenwork helped Leetu bend get better when she was in a coma.

star wars X-wing rogue squadron

the captain Aril nunb from XO squadron is being transferred to rogue squadron

_BRIAN'S RETURN_

I am reading another book by Gary Paulsen this book is called BRIAN'S RETURN it's the next book in the hatchet series Brian he is tyring to figure out were he wants to live in the wilderness or in a city.

Revenge of the Spellmans

In the book "Revenge Of The Spellmans" by Lisa Lutz the are certain parts that make me feel sneaky, hungry, motivated, sleepy, and scared. Isabel Spellman and her family have a Investigation program. Isabel has to sneak around to find out DIRT on other people. Thats someone why it makes me feel sneaky. When ever they are eating something, they elaborate and explain every detail about what they are eating. Like the icing on the yellow cake is 3 inches thick, and tastes like vanilla with sprinkles. Now if you tell me you don't get hungry after you have a description like that, then you are crazy. Anyways, I fell motivated when everyone if up and moving and doing things but feel down, sad and not motivated when they are sick or sleeping or something like that. The scary parts in this book are when she is snooping around and getting information/dirt about people and she gets caught. Anyway if you want to know more just ask or read the book. It is the third book in the series. You will not understand whats going on if you don't read the first and second. They are pretty good.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

For history, I had to read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, written by Fredrick Douglass himself. He was born into slavery, but later escaped and joined the Abolitionist movement. He wrote this in 1845, I think. It is an exposé of the cruelity of slavery. It shows how the slaveholders tried to degrade and brainwash their slaves so that all they knew was work, happy, work some more, life is okay. They wanted the slaves to either not know of freedom or not want freedom. And they didn’t want their slaves to read. In the words of one of Douglass’s masters, quoted in the book, “A n---er should know nothing but to obey his master – to do as he is told to do. Learning will spoil the best n---er in the world.” (The book used the actual “word,” in its complete spelling.)

While not on the level of IT (the book Hunter is reading), this book does contain some gory details. These details are presented here not to scare the reader, but to accurately portray the evils of slavery. I cannot stand any sort of cruelity, as in I get furious reading about it. This reminds me of when I studied the Holocaust in seventh grade. Of course, the Holocaust didn’t last as long as slavery, but the object there was to exterminate people, while slavery was really about cheap labor. But I digress. Both were great evils, scars on humanity’s face – scars that still have yet to heal.

_THE NIGHT THE WHITE DEER DIED_

The Night The White Deer Died is still boring but it has got a little bit more interesting.

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

I am now reading Hard Times by Charles Dickens, of A Christmas Carol fame.

This book is an attack on both the cruelity of the Victorian factories and the learning institutions that destroyed the creativity, imagination, and fancies of the people in favor of “Facts.” Dickens was working in a factory at age twelve, so he knew these industries inside out. He also felt compassion for the victims of these factories – he had been there, he knew what it was like.

So far, the figure pinning this story together (as far as I have read) is Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, who runs a model school and is a friend of Mr. Josiah Bounderby, a wealthy industrialist. There is one character, Cecilia Jupe, called “Sissy,” who was the daughter of a circus clown, who is being cared for by Mr. Gradgrind after her father ran away. You see, she was once a fanciful little girl, growing up in a circus, but Mr. Gradgrid strongly and actively discourages fancy. The book has also told of some of the life of Stephen Blackpool, a worker (Hand, as they are called) in a factory owned by Bounderby. He has a problem. His wife is this nasty drunken woman, and he wishes to be free of her to marry this other woman, but he cannot afford that.

_THE NIGHT THE WHITE DEER DIED_

The Night The White Deer Died is still really boring although it has got more interesting.

RED WALL

Here is one of the charter's that i like from RED WALL. Adopt Mortimer.
He is the leader of RED WALL and very sympathetic.

amistad

in the book Amistad the slaves captured the ship and find a island

DRAGON SPELL

I am in the very end of reading Dragon Spell the author is Donita K Paul. the main character is Kale. Kale and the others rescued lettu bends with the help of the little creatures called Kimens. When the gang was escaping from risto's castle Kale saw six dragons coming near them and riding one was wulder.

IT by Stephen King

IT is really interesting now. I'm now on page 371. Instead of just boring facts King is actually writing about some thing "scary". The way King explains detail is interesting too. He writes about lots of blood and gore in his books. In a regular book the author would just say " he shot the monster three times in the chest " whereas King will tell all the nice details. (I will not mention the exact details)

A Closing Thought on Principles and Practice of Electronic Music

I am finished the book now, and I can honestly say that I learned so much from it. What is interesting is that it began on a rather abstract, philiosophical note, and then it went into technical, preceidural material, and then it ended whith abstract philiosophy, around where it started.

If I were to update the book, I would write it in a similar fashion, but I would omit the parts referring to obsolete technology, relegating them to little paragraphs (at most) in Chapter 10 – A Brief History of Electronic Music. I would also cover current technologies, and I would have at least a whole chapter on digital sound synthesis, not just a section about it. And instead of discussing tape recorders, I might talk about how to do the same things with a computer program.

I can honestly say that I comprehended most of what was written. I was a bit confused on a couple of things, but overall, I got the general idea. I would only suggest this book to those who are interested in both electronics and music, as most other people would have a hard time staying awake while reading it. In other words, it is most definitely not what I would call a “general interest” sort of book, one that many different types of people are able to understand and enjoy. It is for those who are both technical and artistic.

After reading this book, I think that I now know enough to get started in electronic music. I already had some knowledge of electronic sound synthesis, but not that much. I had a background in music, and I don’t think I learned much about music theory from reading this – I didn’t need to! What I needed to know was how to generate sounds with electronics – and that is what I got.

Red wall

Here is a dicription of cluny. from Redwall cluny is evil and wantes to take over all of Redwall. and strong and a strong leader.

star wars X-WING rogue squadron

corran spots a tie bomber squadron and destroys them with proton torpedo's

IT by Stephen King

I'm now on page 329. Being on page 329 kind of confuzled me, I had not checked what page I was on for a while. Anyway IT is kinda of disgusting. ( disgusting as in ' eww the mean clown thingy just ate a person " ) Well at least IT has gotten interesting. Before it was just about peoples lives, but now there is actually something happening. I made a shocking discovery IT is 1087 pages long. So IT should take a while to finish. I thought it's interesting that Stephen King takes things that some people are afraid of, like a clown and turns it into something even more frightening. I think that is a really good idea for writing horror stories.

_THE NIGHT THE WIHTE DEER DIED_

My opinion of The Night The White Deer Died is really boring because there is no action and it just goes on and on but I'm not that far in to it so it could get exciting.