Second Book

I don't know if anyone is going to read the book or not, but the next one I want to do is:

The Giver

By Lois Lowry

I know a lot of people have read that recently so I'll just give you a couple weeks in case you want to re-read it or anything.

~Kluane

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Okay, so I don't know who of you out there that said you wanted to do this book finished it...but I'm tired of waiting so I'm starting this...I've never done book club questions before, so if they sound kind of boring just hang in there=o) I'll just do a few, and we can talk about anything else that anyone wants too.



1.Had you read the book before this time?
2.Who’s your favorite character?
3.What was your favorite part in the book?
4.What did you most dislike about the book? (if anything)
5.The first time you read it how long did it take you to figure out who the Scarlet Pimpernel was?

I'll be waiting impatiently for comments=o)

Book Club...

So Mom kind of gave me the idea...but I've been trying to figure something out...I want to start a blog book club...so I'll tell you a book to read and then about a month later I'll ask questions and find out what you thought of it and stuff...=o) but this way anyone who want's too can be in it...
I'll "learn" some of you guys the good classics yet=o) hehehe
~Kluane

Christmas Presents...

So here's all my Christmas loot...I think I was a little spoiled....=o}

I got two new outfits for my dolls...and Kirsten's table and chairs..but you can't see them very good....sorry...

I got two head lamps and a few different books. I got the Kit movie and us kids got The Cisco Kid...they are really funny westerns...we also got some very corny Christmas movies...the only reason they are any good is because they are corny=o)
I got two blouses, and two skirts, and those horse books that I can't wait to read....

Krista got me this really nice water bottle with a splash guard...which is really nice especially if you are on a road trip. Thanks Kriss!

Mom made all of us kids little crocheted animals, this is mine. It's a seal and it is sooooo cute!


Mom and Dad also got us the.....Star Wars movies! We've been wanting to watch them forever and we didn't expect to actually own them...so that was neat=o)

Aimee gave me this Willow Tree Statue...it's very cute!

and Mom and Dad also gave Cadence and me an MP3 player. but...since Cadence probably won't be interested in it for a little bit...I'll probably use it more=o)

and of course we got tons of candy...=o)

Well that was fun=o)

~Kluane

"Too Read...or Not Too Read...."

I read this book for school when I was about 9 or 10....I absolutely DESPISED it! it was sooooo boring and there was no action or battles or princess or horses or any of that kind of stuff that makes a book, good...I read this book again, it is one of the BEST books ever, it's exciting and suspenseful and amazing and kind of embarrassing because it makes you feel stupid, and it's a true story.

"Carry on Mr. Bowditch"

by Jean Lee Latham

This is a story about a boy named Nathaniel Bowditch, he has two brothers and two sisters and a grandmother that lives with his family. He comes from a looooong line of sea captains, and his father has just lost his ship. He's nine when the book starts and is just getting ready to start school, he had always like numbers, and had pretty much taught himself math, so when he got to school he asked his teacher for a long math problem, his teacher got really mad because he thought he was just a annoying little boy, and gave him one of the longest problems he could. Nat got it done so fast the teacher thought he was cheating or had someone help him or something and he threatened to beat him and tell his father if he didn't tell who had helped him. Nat didn't know what to do so he told his older brother and the next day his older brother told the teacher that if he didn't believe that Nat had done the problem, to give him another one and stand over him and watch him do it, so that's what the teacher did, he gave an even harder problem then the one before, and was amazed when a 9 year old boy did a math problem that would have baffled a 14 or 15 year old.

When Nat was 12 everybody told him if he knew as much Latin as he did math he could go to Harvard right then! So, he started learning Latin. He got a Latin dictionary and a Bible in Latin and a Bible in English and he learned Latin. About that time his mother died and his father was very "out of it" I guess you could call it, and he was so devastated from loosing his ship that he wasn't taking very good care of his family, so he indentured Nat for nine years to a ship chandlery, which is a store that sells stuff for ships. Nat lived and worked there for nine years, and every time he would learn something, he would buy a notebook and fill the whole notebook with just that one subject, he also learned Spanish and French the same way he learned Latin.

When his endenturship was up he started sailing and he discovered a new way to read lunars. He was really good at navigation and would teach all the ships crew to navigate and read lunars, and the captains always said that these were the best behaved crews, (that was because they felt like they were worth something). There's loooooooooots more AMAZING stuff in that book, like at the end when he navigated and got through an area in the ocean during a fog, that nobody could do at all much less in a fog, and like going through the most respected and well used navigation book in the world at that time and finding over 8,000 mistakes, and then getting so frustrated he went and wrote his own navigation book. And getting a degree from Harvard even though he never even went!!!! I would highly, Highly recomend this book, and if you've read it before, and didn't like it...go back and read it again.

Sorry it's not the best written thing, but I had to make myself stop writing it or I would have told all the best parts=o) I really hope you all go and read it and enjoy it as much as I did. There's another book by Jean Lee Latham that I got that I'm going to read to, and I'm hoping it's just as good=o)

~Kluane