Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas  by John Escott

Did you know where Santa Claus’s name came from? Are you a Santa or a Scrooge? Answer our questions, and find out! You can make our Yule log chocolate cake in An Great Time for Eating!’ And there are Christmas stories and a play for you to read too. 

There are a lot of stories about Christmas in this book so I could enjoy reading it. Especially, I enjoyed reading how to make Christmas cake because I like eating it. And I would like to make it next Christmas! I think every one like Christmas and Santa Claus so they must like this book.

Princess Diana

Princess Diana by CHERRY GILCHRIST 

Princess Diana, the most famous woman in the world- the People’s Princess. Here you can read about Diana’s short life, about Prince Charles and the Royal Family, her sons, her beautiful clothes and her friends- rich and famous men and women, pop stars and film stars. But most important for us was her work and love for sick and poor people all over the world. 

This story consists of 6 chapters.
Chapter 1 The Girl with a Future
Chapter 2 A Fairy- Tale Wedding
Chapter 3 The Young Princess
Chapter 4 The Woman Inside
Chapter 5 The New Diana
Chapter 6 Her Last Days

I could understand why Princess Diana was loved by a lot of people in the world. She experienced various difficulties and suffering. However, she continued to have a gentle feelings so I would like to be a woman like her. I was very impressed with this book.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

This wonderful story of fairies, dreams and lovers is as popular today as it was in Shakespeare’s time.  In a wood outside Athens, four young people are following their dreams, while fairies play strange games with them. Their world seems unreal - but is it really very different from our own?

Many characters appear in this book so it is a little difficult for me to understand contents of this story. However, there are mysterious magic in the forest and various mischief is done so I can be excited to read this book.

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre by CHARLOTTE BRONTË

Jane Eyre is a poor young teacher who works for the rich Mr Rochester. She loves him and wants to marry him. He loves her too, but he has a secret which brings them great sadness. 

I like reading books of romance so I wanted to read this book. This story was not happy end and made me sad. However, this book was exciting and I enjoyed reading it. This story is also a movie so I want to watch it too!! 

Dangerous Game

     Dangerous Game by William Harris

This book consists of ten chapters.

Chap1 I’ll Begin at the Beginning
Chapter 2 The game
Chapter 3 A Game of Chess
Chapter 4 The Game Goes Wrong
Chapter 5 Good Games and Bad Games
Chapter 6 Monday Night
Chapter 7 The Truth
Chapter 8 Monday Night Continued
Chapter 9 Today is Tuesday
Chapter 10 The End

This book was horror story like mystery so I enjoyed reading this. This book was very long and I took a long time to read this. However, I did my best.

“For a number of years, William Harris plays a game with a ghost before he goes to sleep. The ghost is a poltergeist that William calls ‘Poldy’. At the beginning William and Poldy play a friendly game every night, but then the game begins to change. It becomes a dangerous game. Who will win?”

THE BLACK CAT AND OTHER STORIES

THE BLACK CAT AND OTHER STORIES by EDGAR ALLAN POE

I read “THE BLACK CAT AND OTHER STORIES” this week. I guessed this book would be scary book before I read this book and it was right. This book was very scary story but interesting. I will talk about outline of this book especially “the black cat” of this book. The man who is main character in this story loves animals so he lives in his house with his wife and a lot of animals. Especially, he likes the black cat, Pluto the best in them. However, he drowned in alcohol and violated his wife and animals. At last he killed Pluto and that night his house burned down and all the property burned down. Then, he began to suffer from the illusion of cats. One day, when he found a cat looked like Pluto, he decided to go home and keep it. However, he noticed that the cat doesn’t have one eye so he feared the cat and tried to kill it but his wife stopped it . Then, he tried to kill her...  This story was very exciting so I enjoyed reading it.