The book I am reading now is about King Arthur and the Round Table. It is another great book like The Three Musketeers. The book has vivid descriptions of fights and other things. It also has a couple of beheadings and I'm only on page 147.

"Good literature substitutes for experience which we have not ourselves lived through" Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The first quote means that in literature you can experience things you have never experienced in real life. This allows you to go where you cannot travel in real life such as the 1600's. This also makes think differently because you're traveling to a place you've never been.This is what the quote means to me.

The applies to my new book (King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table) becuase i cannot experience medeival Britain or have a real sword fight. This also lets me see the way britains thought back then.

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1.You give love a bad name -Bon Jovi- this song works for the three musketeers because D'Artangnan gets betrayed my a lover named milady.

2 We are the Champions- Queen -This song is appropriate because the characters always win their fights. This song as the title suggests is about winning

3 Hound Dog- Elvis this Song represents the character Porthos becuase he is very bold and this was very bold at the time.

4 Twilight Zone - Rush - This song reminds me of the fight scenes which mostly happen around sunset or twlight.

more details

This book is great because there is plenty of doublecrossing and trickery and mystery. Its so good I cant explain it because its that good with plenty of details andyou should read it.

NEW BOOK =)

My new book is The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas. This book is wonderful with lots of action and gore. It also has sword fighting and other good stuff.

Quote answer

"“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” - C. S. Lewis"-From Miss K.'s blog



In that quote C.S. Lewis means that literature can make your life better. He also means that literature can enhance your perception of reality. It also provides food for thought.

The quote has helped me change my perception of the things they do in my new book The Three Musketeers. The quote relates to my book in that I feel like I'm in the book and I have absorbed knowledge from this wonderful book. I also look forward to going home and reading which i used to rarely do.

VOCABULARY Call of the Wild

FIEND- Evil spirt or demon
RUCTION -The act of making a noisey disturbance
CONCILATED-make calm
INTROSPECTIVE-Examining own sensual and peceptual experiences
PLACATIVELY-manner that placates or pacifies
MALINGERER- one who exaggerates or fakes illness
PRIMORDIAL- earliest or original state
SLOVENLY- negilagnat of neatnes
VIRILITY- the trait of being manly

Chapter 3 The dominant Primordal Beast

I wont say much from here on out because the book is starting to get better and I dont want to ruin the plot for you.

Chapter 2 The Law of Club and Fang

In this Chapter Buck begins to learn how to survive in the wild on a sled dog team. He is also very shocked at the way things are done in the north.

This book will challenge me in many ways. One way will be the vocabulary (I will keep a post with all the vocab and definitions)and another will be the plot which I expect will be very exciting and well written with plenty of action.

Chapter 1 Into The Primitive

This chapter is about Buck adog and the main character being kidnapped. He is then send north to seattle. He is from california.

The book I choose is The Call of the Wild. I choose it because the title sounded interesting and the back of the book was also interesting. It is interesting becuase it is about a dog but is told with a humans knowledge and is also very detailed.

MY BLOG

My name is Andy I am an eighth grader from Westmont Hilltop Middle School. I will be picking a book for an indepentant reading project for my english class. I don't know what book I will pick yet.