Sweetness & Light

So The blogger website keeps me typing these over and over again. This was already supposed to be posted.

Well Culture and Anarchy is a book for the argument of one side vs. another. There must be some kind of purpose. He want's us to understand in the first chapter how being good is so important, and that it's better to be good. People need good poeple to keep the world going.

OK well I'll be reading and rereading the book to understand it.

I'm Done!

I finished reading Kidnapped! It was just the exciting coming of age story that I promised. David and Alen make it back finally to David's Uncle's house and they trick him and get rid of him and now David has his father's inheritance again! Yay David! And Yay being done with this book. David has grown up he has friends and money and morals and what more could anyone ask for. So that is done with!
Now I'm begining Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold... I'm not too excited but we shall see how it goes.

We Haven't heard about this in a while...

So I'm done with Heart of Mid-Lothian! It was a sappy end. The two girls marry their boys. They are happy and finally the bad boy dies fighting for a good cause and is wept over by dear Effie! How romantic. it is romantic, everything works out too well for it to seem quite real. In real life this would never happen and there is no happily ever! it just doesn't work that way but yay being done with that book. I'm starting to regret taking this class, I am not enjoying the readings... Oh well again life is nothing like the book that I just read.

My Head Hurts!

So the book Kidnapped looks small but it is taking forever to read! I don't think the title is well chosen at all. I believe it would better be titled The Adventures of David or something like that becuase he was Kidnapped for one chapter and now he's just been on the run.
So Alen and David have been running, it's really boring. He has met a new character who didn't like him. he was sick and recovered twice and now they are still running. I had to put it down though because my bunny was throwing a fit to come out and be petted so he came first over this silly book that is making my head hurt.
I do think it may be good for children though because they are just learning to read and understand and it's a slow book that talks about the same concepts over and over again so a child may enjoy it.

You Guessed it!

More about Kidnapped!
So David is on the run with Alen! They are suspect of murdering Red Fox and they have spoken with a friend of Alen's and now they are getting out of Scotland. They are in big trouble if they get caught and I just don't trust these friends of Alen's they seem like they are ready to betray them and not even care.
Well I'll keep reading, and you do the same to find out what happens next!

More about Kidnapped

So our poor little David who was last seen stranded on the island, has been helped. The poor thing spent about 4 days on an island that can be left during low tide, twice a day! How silly! A fisherman had to tell him that. I found that funny. Thus far he has met 2 very bad people who have fleeced him and then he met a nice minister who helped him out. Now he has seen the Red Fox, who is the enemy of Alen, get shot in the street while David was talking to him. Alen just happened to be in the bushes and saved David because the police thought David to be an accomplice! But now David thinks Alen shot the man but Alen convinces him otherwise and they are together at this point in the story.
David has a lot of growing up to do and I am pretty sure he'll be doing that soon. And this Alen character seems pretty shady to me so we'll have to see what happens.

Kidnapped the More

Now our poor lad who has been through all of the troubles before mentioned, as brave as he could be. David was part of a fight. The boat ran over another boat and saved one man, who had lots of gold and wished to go to France. The captain who is David's captor, has promised this man a ride to France for 60 dollars. But they are planning a double cross and David being a good lad and in his coming of age story, tells the rich man, Alen of his peril. So David and Alen stand off to the men on the ship from in the round house! It's quite impressive. But they killed the navigator and they have no maps so they are now in a bad way. Amidst this peril of the ship David is thrown over board and he is washed up on dry land! How lucky for him, at least I hope that this is good luck to him. He is in Scotland again and that must be better. I can't wait to see what next befalls our young man.

Kidnapped

Kidnapped by R. L. Stevenson is the book that I'm reading for my Scottish Literature class now. I got sick of Heart of Mid-Lothian and I'm not even done with it but I'll finish it some day.

Kidnapped so far is about a boy who is on his way to becoming a man. It really feels like a coming of age story anyway. I'm 1/4 of the way into the book and he has visited a very nasty uncle who sold him to the owner of a ship who is going to sell him into slavery in England. So this little scottish lad has lost his father, discoverd that his uncle is a murderer, then realized that his uncle is in posetion of his own inheritance and with the help a of a lawyer he'd be rich by the next day. But then he's put on a boat, or tricked on to this boat and now he is in company with a rough crowd but he's being treated OK. But the end of his journy is slavary.

So far it is very good and after I read the next 50 pages I will up date you on my progress.

SPRING BREAK!

Well I have not been reading anything at all, not the text books for school not my required readings, I have not been reading. So I'm truely looking forward to spending my spring break reading a book of poetry. I'm also going to read a novel for enjoyment! I'm not too sure which one yet, I'm really looking forward to having a little time to sit down and read something.
I do hope that all of my loyal readers are finding their days a little less stressful and that they are able to read.

I Have No Time!!!

I have not lately had any time to read anything that I'm even generally interested in! I'm not happy about it myself and I wish that I had more time to relax and enjoy and good book. What are some of the things that we can do to relax and have less stuff in the way that has to get done all the time.

1. Throw the TV out the window, or at least shut it off, maybe put a blanket over it.
2. Don't let the house cleaning keep you away for too many hours at a time.
3. Don't bother cooking real meals, eat something from a can or box.
4. Tell your significant other that they are on their own, you are not cleaning up after them, cooking for them, nothing!
5. Be sure that you are only getting between 6 and 8 hours of sleep each night, don't over sleep!

These 5 tips seem like that would help me to have more time to read an enjoyable book and relax. I don't know about you all but I'm going to apply them to my life immediatly!

The Heart of Mid-Lothian II

The book is begun by a riot which involves kidnapping a priest, breaking into a jail and hanging a man that has been pardoned by the King. Jeanie Deans is the main character. Her sister Effie has been put in jail for infantacide, she was in the jail that was liberated but instead of running away she stayed. When her trial starts she is a little unsure that this was a good choice, she knows she didn't kill her child, but she can't prove it.

One white lie from Jeanie Deans and this trial would be over and Effie would be free of all the charges. But she will not lie, not even to a currupt court for the sake of her sisters life. So Effie is convicted of infanticide, and she is sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead in six weeks time.

Jeanie is going to go off to the Queen and beg her pardon. So she gets some advice from the ex theif who is now the turnkey for the jail that she should go to someone a little lower down then the Queen first and try to get their help and then go with them to the Queen. She is getting ready to set out on this quest at the place that I have read up to. I can't wait to know how things pan out for poor, beautiful young Effie Deans.