This is a post for all of you who wanted a book review yesterday.....

The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, is a book set in Cuba. An old man, Santiago, is a fisherman by trade and has had bad luck for over two months—not catching any fish. Finally, on the eighty-fifth day of his bad luck streak, he goes out farther than normal and hooks a giant marlin. But he is alone on the open sea, and the fish is nearly as strong as Santiago. Can he get the fish in the end? If he does get it, will he be able to take it back to shore? The fish towed him out of sight of land. Does Santiago have the endurance to catch this fish?

This is a magnificent tale of endurance, courage, and facing the forces of nature. Santiago’s battle with the fish is a skillfully wrought masterpiece. Ernest Hemingway is a poignant writer, although sometimes the book is a little depressing.

It is a book review. That is certain

No, I still do not have the ability to write an extremely short story. Sorry about that. =D

 

Wow I did a lot this took a long time too

It's a grey day, a cloudy day, a day just perfect for sitting inside and reading. And blogging, of course. So.. I am looking at the polls to see what people want to have. And it is quizzes and contests, of course. *sigh* Well, I have a contest going. Click here to go to it. And I am not going to do a quiz until I have a good story to do it with. Maybe I'll do a Burglar quiz after I get the first book or whatever done. But right now The Burglar has only two main characters and I want to have three, at least. So...please wait for that one.

Next in the polls is book reviews...Ok. I will put in a book review. This picture is the first book in The Missing Series, by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Jonah, an adopted thirteen year old kid, and some others he knows, gets a strange letter in the mail. You are one of the missing, it says. Jonah, and his sister Katherine, try to figure out this mystery. In their investigations, they realize that something strange is happening...

I promise that if you start this book, you will not be able to put it down, and when you finish it, you will immediately want to go on to the next one in the series, Sent. This is a very well written book, full of surprising twists and turns in the plot.








And that's the book review.... next in the polls is pictures. So here are some pictures!

Now, normally I don't do horses, but this is one neat picture!

 

This rainbow looks like it belongs in a story book...

 

 

Soooo me!

 

 

this one too

 

 

Alright, I think that's enough pictures... what's next?

 

 I think that's all.

 

Really?

 

Yes.

 

I don't have a story idea right now...

 

So this is the end....

 

Fare well!

 

All pictures from Google 'stack of books' 'running away' 'rainbows'



Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.... and other stuff

Around the world in eighty days is a fantastic story set in the late eighteen hundreds. Phileas Fogg bets twenty thousand pounds that he can go around the world in eighty days. His servant, Passepartout, goes with him. But a detective is on their trail, and he believes that Phileas Fogg is a bank robber. Follow their adventures as they go through France, Egypt, India, China, Japan, and the young United States of America. They travel by train, boat, elephant, and wind-powered sled. It is a very humorous book, especially the part about America, where you have all the stereotypical Yankee ingenuity. But is Phileas Fogg the bank robber? Does he complete his trip in eighty days? Read the book and find out.

There's your book report...and now for pictures!

Ahh... the beauty of the heavens.

 

I like this one too...so pretty!

 

Doesn't this one look like a fairy tale set in North America?

 

And this one looks like it belongs in a fantasy. 

 

 

I want to go over the hill....

 

What deep and dreadful secret does the swamp hide? Or is it a beautiful secret?

 

 

That's all for now!