The City Of Ember

While I waited for DragonFire to come I started to read The City Of Ember. It is really good! It is about an underground city and the people who live there. The people had gone underground for safety and were not allowed to talk about it so that now the present generation does not realize they are living underground and there is the world up here. Will they find their way up when supplies start running out and the lights start going out????????


I'm going to watch the movie when I'm done with the second, and last, book.

They are great books!

Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the Seventh, The Vile Village, By Lemony Snicket

I had started reading this at the same time I was reading DragonKnight, but I put it down so I could finish DragonKnight. But since I finished it last night, I started The Vile Village again. I read the rest of it this morning. I had tried to read this a few years ago but I just couldn't get into it. At the request of a friend, I tried again, and well, he was right. I really liked it. I recommend this book and the rest of the series. The books are:

1. The Bad Beginning
2.The Reptile Room (one of my favorites)
3. The Wide Window
4. The Miserable Mill
5. The Austere Academy (another one of my favorites)
6. The Ersatz Elevator (again, a favorite of mine)
7. The Vile Village

There are 13 in all, but since these are the only ones I've read, (or listened to on tape) I'll only list these. Also, all the books are dedicated to a person named Beatrice. All the dedications are really weird and they are not suppose to be serious. But anyway, in the 7th book, I like the dedication. It says:

For Beatrice-
When we were together I felt breathless.
Now you are.

The books are about three siblings and their lives. A lot of bad (or Unfortunate) things happen to them. Their parents die and they are sent to live with a man named Count Olaf. He tries to kill them to get the fortunes that were left to them. Now, like the dedications, the books are not meant to be serious.

DragonKinght

I finished it!!!!!!!!! It is really, really good! I guess I said this about the other two, but I don't want to say much else because I don't want to ruin it for those who might read it. But I will say this, in the epilogue, I cried two times. Once because I was so sad, and again because I was so happy.

I'm now going to read a few books before the next one comes. They take so long to come because I have to get them from libraries that are far away.

The Best Way to Enjoy a Book

I like to enjoy a book as much as possible. The way to do this is:





1. If something is funny, laugh your heart out. Even if it's not that funny.





2. If something's sad, cry your eyes out, even if it's not that sad.





3. If something surprises you, scream your lungs out, even if it's not that exciting.





Now, you might be wondering how I ever read in a library. I don't. You also may be wondering how my family stands it when I read. They don't. I'll be reading in my room, ( which I share with my sister) and I'll be reading and then I make her jump to the ceiling when I burst out crying, screaming, or laughing. When it is time to turn off the lights at night, I'll be reading and she'll turn them off and I'll scream because I was " just coming to the good part ". She used to jump or scream too, but now she just tells me to be quiet and go to sleep. That's when I get my flashlight.

So if you do this, you might be heartless, eyeless, and lungless, but you'll have enjoyed the book a lot more.

From: The Hobbit...... again

Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold.
The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.
For ancient king and elvish lord
There many a gloaming golden hoard
They shaped and wrought, and light they caught
To hide in gems on hilt of sword.
On silver necklaces they strung
The flowering stars, on crowns they hung
The dragon-fire, in twisted wire
They meshed the light of moon and sun.
Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To claim our long-forgotten gold.
Goblets they carved there for themselves
And harps of gold; where no man delves
There lay they long, and many a song
Was sung unheard by men or elves.
The pines were roaring on the height,
The winds were moaning in the night.
The fire was red, it flaming spread;
The trees like torches biased with light,
The bells were ringing in the dale
And men looked up with faces pale;
The dragon's ire more fierce than fire
Laid low their towers and houses frail.
The mountain smoked beneath the moon;
The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom.
They fled their hall to dying -fall
Beneath his feet, beneath the moon.
Far over the misty mountains grim
To dungeons deep and caverns dim
We must away, ere break of day,
To win our harps and gold from him!


By,
J.R.R. Tolkien

From: The Hobbit

O! What are you doing
, And where are you going?
Your ponies need shoeing!
The river is flowing!
O! tra-la-la-lally
here down in the valley!
O! What are you seeking,
And where are you making?
The faggots are reeking,
The bannocks are baking!
O! tril-lil-lil-lolly
the valley is jolly,
ha! ha!
O! Where are you going
With beards all a-wagging?
No knowing, no knowing
What brings Mister Baggins,
And Balin and Dwalin
down into the valley
in June
ha! ha!
O! Will you be staying,
Or will you be flying?
Your ponies are straying!
The daylight is dying!
To fly would be folly,
To stay would be jolly
And listen and hark
Till the end of the dark
to our tune
ha! ha.'



By,
J.R.R. Tolkien

Princess Academy

As I waited for DragonKnight to come, I read Princess Academy, which I have read before. I remembered how much I liked it and I just had to read it again. It is, like The Goose Girl, written by Shannon Hale. So very wonderfully written.
I recommend it. And, when winter comes, I have a part picked out to posted on this blog.