Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Reaction
I loved this book! Every time I opened the book there was something new...something exciting. I enjoyed the fact that every time I thought I knew how it was going to end something happened to completely change the situation. I saw myself in both Elinor and Marianne, because at times I'm very sensible...I do things because it makes sense. But then there are times that I do thing because my heart wants me to. My head might be screaming at me telling me it would be better to do something else but my heart thinks differently.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Sense and Sensibility
Full of romance, drama, truth, sisterhood, and family affairs Sense and Sensibility is a story that covers ever aspect of life. As the Dashwood family has just lost their father, Mrs. Dashwood, and her two daughters, Elinor and Marianne, are unsure of what they're going to do. Since Mrs. John Dashwood, Elinor and Marianne's sister-in-law, does not want to deprive her own son of any of this wealth she convinces her husband to give only a small amount of money to his family.
Before Mrs. Dashwood, Elinor and Marianne, move to Barton Cottage Elinor starts to fall in love with Edward Ferrars, Mrs. John Dashwood's brother. Not long after the ladies move to Barton Cottage Marianne fall and hurts her ankle and is rescued by Willoughby. Willoughby is everything Marianne had ever hoped for. He loved the same things she did and most of all loved her. Then one day he asks to speak to Marianne a lone. Marianne agrees thinking that he is going to propose to her, but ends up telling her that he is leaving and won't be back for a very long time. Marianne is crushed and heartbroken.
This whole time sitting on the side lines is a very well minored gentlemen named Colonel Brandon who has fallen for Marianne. But he never pushes anything because he realizes that she is in love with Willoughby.
It wasn't long before Mrs. Jennings offered to take Elinor, Marianne and Lucy to go to London. Marianne is excited because she knows Willoughby is there. But Elinor isn't has excited about going. For she has just found out that Edward Ferrars, the man she is still in love with is secretly engaged to Lucy. Knowing that she is going to have see Edward Ferrars knowing what she did just made the trip uninviting.
After they arrive in London Marianne finds out that her dear Willoughby is engaged to someone. Completely heartbroken she doesn't seem to enjoy her self the rest of the time. Mrs. John Dashwood falls in love with Lucy and invites her to come stay with them, but has soon as she finds out that Lucy is engaged to her brother, she tells her mother and her mother tells Edward Ferrars that she is going to take away all of his wealth if he marries her. Being the that he is a man of his word he decides not to break off his engagement.
On the way back the Barton Cottage Marianne gets very sick and they have to stop. Then one day Willoughby shows up at the house where Marianne is resting. Elinor tells him it's not a good idea for him to see her so he tells Elinor that he was sorry for what he had done. He really did love her but right before he was about to ask for her hand in marriage he found out that he had no more money. So he had to leave and marry rich.
This whole time Colonel Brandon has been such a big help in every way possible. And he has even offered to give Edward Ferrars a place to live. And in the end Lucy leaves Edward Ferrars for his brother, who has money, and he comes and tells Elinor that he still loves her and wants to marry her and Colonel Brandon wins Marianne over and they fall in love.
Before Mrs. Dashwood, Elinor and Marianne, move to Barton Cottage Elinor starts to fall in love with Edward Ferrars, Mrs. John Dashwood's brother. Not long after the ladies move to Barton Cottage Marianne fall and hurts her ankle and is rescued by Willoughby. Willoughby is everything Marianne had ever hoped for. He loved the same things she did and most of all loved her. Then one day he asks to speak to Marianne a lone. Marianne agrees thinking that he is going to propose to her, but ends up telling her that he is leaving and won't be back for a very long time. Marianne is crushed and heartbroken.
This whole time sitting on the side lines is a very well minored gentlemen named Colonel Brandon who has fallen for Marianne. But he never pushes anything because he realizes that she is in love with Willoughby.
It wasn't long before Mrs. Jennings offered to take Elinor, Marianne and Lucy to go to London. Marianne is excited because she knows Willoughby is there. But Elinor isn't has excited about going. For she has just found out that Edward Ferrars, the man she is still in love with is secretly engaged to Lucy. Knowing that she is going to have see Edward Ferrars knowing what she did just made the trip uninviting.
After they arrive in London Marianne finds out that her dear Willoughby is engaged to someone. Completely heartbroken she doesn't seem to enjoy her self the rest of the time. Mrs. John Dashwood falls in love with Lucy and invites her to come stay with them, but has soon as she finds out that Lucy is engaged to her brother, she tells her mother and her mother tells Edward Ferrars that she is going to take away all of his wealth if he marries her. Being the that he is a man of his word he decides not to break off his engagement.
On the way back the Barton Cottage Marianne gets very sick and they have to stop. Then one day Willoughby shows up at the house where Marianne is resting. Elinor tells him it's not a good idea for him to see her so he tells Elinor that he was sorry for what he had done. He really did love her but right before he was about to ask for her hand in marriage he found out that he had no more money. So he had to leave and marry rich.
This whole time Colonel Brandon has been such a big help in every way possible. And he has even offered to give Edward Ferrars a place to live. And in the end Lucy leaves Edward Ferrars for his brother, who has money, and he comes and tells Elinor that he still loves her and wants to marry her and Colonel Brandon wins Marianne over and they fall in love.
Friday, April 3, 2009
For Pete's Sake
After staying up every night till 1 o'clock in the morning reading...I finished For Pete's Sake! It was an amazing book, full of emotion, suspense, laughs, and a great ending. Just when I thought I knew everything that was going to happen, the unexpected happened. The book was quit prodictable but still good...it was just the kind of book I was wanting to read. I wasn't very happy with the ending, because I thought it wasn't as realalistic as it could have been, and with the rest of the book being quit realalistic I thought the ending should have followed suit.
So if you're ever looking for a light read, I say you read For Pete's Sake.
So if you're ever looking for a light read, I say you read For Pete's Sake.
Monday, March 30, 2009
A New Book!
Last night I finally was able to start a new book. This one is for my pure enjoyment, and not one I'm told I have to read for class. It's called For Pete's Sake by Linda Windsor. I haven't read every far but the little bit I've read is pretty good :)
...It starts out with Ellen is riding her new Harley-Davidson when a beautiful Cororvette speeds past her. She figures it's some young college graduate that has just received his graduation present. But because she is completely infatuated with the car she speeds up to get a better look. Yet to her surprise the man driving the 'Vette hadn't just graduated but looked to be about her age. Smiles are exchanged and she drives on.
...Adrian has never been attracted to the biker chick, but he just wanted to admire her bike and so he speeds up to get a better look. It wasn't long though before he had to exit, but to his surprise the biker chick had exited to. They both continued to dive on when Adrian hit a piece of wood, cringing at the sound of it scrape up his car he stopped paying attention for one second. Then before he knew it there was a hard snake turn right a head. So he down shifted and hit the break, but the pedal went straight to the floor. Speeding off into a corn field, and finally coming to a stop the biker chick comes and rescues him. He was quit surprised at how dainty she was. She wasn't your tattoo hard biker chick, she was more of your outdoorsy biker chick.
...Come to find out Ellen and Adrian are soon to become neighbors. Adrian is a very successful man who's a widower with a 12 year old son who takes to Ellen quit well, and he is also engaged to "Miss Barbie." While Ellen is a landscaping designer who lives a very simple life. Her mom and friends all think she has a chance with her new neighbor but she keeps trying to remind them that he is ENGAGED!
...It starts out with Ellen is riding her new Harley-Davidson when a beautiful Cororvette speeds past her. She figures it's some young college graduate that has just received his graduation present. But because she is completely infatuated with the car she speeds up to get a better look. Yet to her surprise the man driving the 'Vette hadn't just graduated but looked to be about her age. Smiles are exchanged and she drives on.
...Adrian has never been attracted to the biker chick, but he just wanted to admire her bike and so he speeds up to get a better look. It wasn't long though before he had to exit, but to his surprise the biker chick had exited to. They both continued to dive on when Adrian hit a piece of wood, cringing at the sound of it scrape up his car he stopped paying attention for one second. Then before he knew it there was a hard snake turn right a head. So he down shifted and hit the break, but the pedal went straight to the floor. Speeding off into a corn field, and finally coming to a stop the biker chick comes and rescues him. He was quit surprised at how dainty she was. She wasn't your tattoo hard biker chick, she was more of your outdoorsy biker chick.
...Come to find out Ellen and Adrian are soon to become neighbors. Adrian is a very successful man who's a widower with a 12 year old son who takes to Ellen quit well, and he is also engaged to "Miss Barbie." While Ellen is a landscaping designer who lives a very simple life. Her mom and friends all think she has a chance with her new neighbor but she keeps trying to remind them that he is ENGAGED!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
My Reaction... (27- The End)
The ending completely took me by surprise. I really wasn't expecting Madame Bonacieux to die or for the Duke of Buckingham to die. But to tell you the truth I was happy to read that Milady was executed. Even though she didn't receive a "fair" trial, she had done so much evil in her life that all sympathy towards her was gone.
I unexpectedly really enjoyed reading this book. It had a little bit of everything in it, and it didn't give you the ending you wanted...or at least the one I wanted. But when you've read book after book after book where you can see the ending before it's even close is more of a disappointment then reading something that I didn't expect at all. I love how in just the last few chapters Alexander Drumas drops there "bombs" and completely change what you think might happen.
I unexpectedly really enjoyed reading this book. It had a little bit of everything in it, and it didn't give you the ending you wanted...or at least the one I wanted. But when you've read book after book after book where you can see the ending before it's even close is more of a disappointment then reading something that I didn't expect at all. I love how in just the last few chapters Alexander Drumas drops there "bombs" and completely change what you think might happen.
The Three Musketeers Ch. 27-The End
...The three musketeers are enlisted to be the Cardinals personal body guards, after running into him at dinner in an inn. They wait for him while he enters a meeting, and then Athos realizes he can hear what is being said. He hears Milady's voice also and the Cardinal telling her to go find the Duke of Buckingham and tell him to either desist in his war against France or the Cardinal was going to expose his affair with the Queen.
Athos tells his friends he has to leave, and for them to tell the Cardinal that he has gone on ahead. He then goes and confronts Milady. Confused and unsure of why Athos is there, Milady becomes as pale as a ghost. When Milady asks Athos why he is there, he pulls out a pistol points it at her head, and demands that she turn over the order the Cardinal signed for her. This order said that anything she did was does with the Cardinals promotion. Knowing he would kill her she pulled out the order and gave it to him.
...Athos tells his three friends what he has done. They then decided to send two letters, one to Lord de Winter telling him of Milady's plan, and of her criminal past, and a second to Aramis's mysterious mistress, a close friend of the Queens warning her of the plot against the Duke. The three musketeers and d'Artagnan fight many more times and the Cardinal hears of their bravery and goes to Monsieur de Treville congratulating him on his great solders and tells him he must make d'Artagnan a musketeer, so he does.
...When Milady arrives in England she is taken to jail, where Lord de Winter informs her that he knows everything and that it was his doing, and she is to be banished to an island far far away. Mean while the musketeers have received a letter from Aramis's mistress saying that the Queen has figured that Madame Bonacieux is being kept in a Carmelite Convent in Bethune.
...Milady tells John Felton, Lord de Winter's right hand man, a fake story about her life in hopes that he will find some sympathy for her and let her free. And it works. Milady and John Felton go to where the Duke of Buckingham is and demands that he sign Milady's release, but when he refuses John Felton stabs him fatally. Right before the Duke dies a messenger from the Queen arrives begging him to call off his war, and that she still loves him.
...Before the musketeers can get to the place where Madame Bonacieux is being kept, Milady arrives. She then befriends Madame Bonacieux. Milady then tells Madame Bonacieux that the Cardinalist agents have come to get her and that they have to go. But because she is so scared, Madame Bonacieux freezes and can not move. Frustrated Milady gives her poisoned wine and leaves. Just as the poison is started to work, the musketeers arrive. Madame Bonacieux tells them that her "good friend" Milady has just left, and that's when they realize what's happened. The shortly Madame Bonacieux died in d'Artagnan's arms. The men then went after Milady. It didn't take long for them to find her. They then all convicted her of all the crimes she had committed over her lifetime and agreed she should be executed. So she was executed with out a real trial. Then d'Artagnan is arrested by the Cardinal and again has to talk to him alone. The Cardinal proceeded to tell d'Artagnan of the crimes he has committed, but before he can finish d'Artagnan cuts him off. He then goes on to tell the Cardinal that the women who accused him of these things is a criminal herself and is not dead. He then tells the Cardinal Milady's whole life story and presents the order that the Cardinal had signed. And even though the Cardinal could have over ruled what he had signed he didn't and told d'Artagnan to consider himself one of the Cardinal's friends.
...D'Artagnan get promoted to become the head of the musketeers, while Porthos is getting married, Aramis is joining the Church, and Athos remained a Musketeer under d'Artagnan's leadership but then soon retierd.
Athos tells his friends he has to leave, and for them to tell the Cardinal that he has gone on ahead. He then goes and confronts Milady. Confused and unsure of why Athos is there, Milady becomes as pale as a ghost. When Milady asks Athos why he is there, he pulls out a pistol points it at her head, and demands that she turn over the order the Cardinal signed for her. This order said that anything she did was does with the Cardinals promotion. Knowing he would kill her she pulled out the order and gave it to him.
...Athos tells his three friends what he has done. They then decided to send two letters, one to Lord de Winter telling him of Milady's plan, and of her criminal past, and a second to Aramis's mysterious mistress, a close friend of the Queens warning her of the plot against the Duke. The three musketeers and d'Artagnan fight many more times and the Cardinal hears of their bravery and goes to Monsieur de Treville congratulating him on his great solders and tells him he must make d'Artagnan a musketeer, so he does.
...When Milady arrives in England she is taken to jail, where Lord de Winter informs her that he knows everything and that it was his doing, and she is to be banished to an island far far away. Mean while the musketeers have received a letter from Aramis's mistress saying that the Queen has figured that Madame Bonacieux is being kept in a Carmelite Convent in Bethune.
...Milady tells John Felton, Lord de Winter's right hand man, a fake story about her life in hopes that he will find some sympathy for her and let her free. And it works. Milady and John Felton go to where the Duke of Buckingham is and demands that he sign Milady's release, but when he refuses John Felton stabs him fatally. Right before the Duke dies a messenger from the Queen arrives begging him to call off his war, and that she still loves him.
...Before the musketeers can get to the place where Madame Bonacieux is being kept, Milady arrives. She then befriends Madame Bonacieux. Milady then tells Madame Bonacieux that the Cardinalist agents have come to get her and that they have to go. But because she is so scared, Madame Bonacieux freezes and can not move. Frustrated Milady gives her poisoned wine and leaves. Just as the poison is started to work, the musketeers arrive. Madame Bonacieux tells them that her "good friend" Milady has just left, and that's when they realize what's happened. The shortly Madame Bonacieux died in d'Artagnan's arms. The men then went after Milady. It didn't take long for them to find her. They then all convicted her of all the crimes she had committed over her lifetime and agreed she should be executed. So she was executed with out a real trial. Then d'Artagnan is arrested by the Cardinal and again has to talk to him alone. The Cardinal proceeded to tell d'Artagnan of the crimes he has committed, but before he can finish d'Artagnan cuts him off. He then goes on to tell the Cardinal that the women who accused him of these things is a criminal herself and is not dead. He then tells the Cardinal Milady's whole life story and presents the order that the Cardinal had signed. And even though the Cardinal could have over ruled what he had signed he didn't and told d'Artagnan to consider himself one of the Cardinal's friends.
...D'Artagnan get promoted to become the head of the musketeers, while Porthos is getting married, Aramis is joining the Church, and Athos remained a Musketeer under d'Artagnan's leadership but then soon retierd.
My Reaction... (18-26)
So much goes on in these chapters. I was quit shocked when d'Artagnan said he was "in love" with Milady, and then when she turned out to be Athos' former wife. The story keeps getting messier and messier. I wasn't very impressed with the way d'Artagnan used Kitty, but I was glad that he kept to his word about keeping her safe. I hope d'Artagnan is able to find Madame Bonacieux before it's to late...
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