Book Review 2-18 ☆ DEAD MAN'S RIVER

One day, a man Jonas went to bank to see and make a proposal to his girl friend. The girl friend is Hetty. He said her "I love you. Marry me."
Hetty looks like embarrassing.
Mr. Gray came out of his office and said Jonas.
"Oh, Jonas! My daughter is not for you. She can't marry a poor man. Go away and get some money."
Jonas was sad and sit down in the bar. Old Harry was sitting near Jonas, Old Harry had a

bag of gold. He quarreled with two men. Bernie and Pete asked Old Harry "Where does this gold come from?". He answered "It's from Dead Man's River". Pete was surprised because it is possible to appear ghosts in Dead Man's River.
Then two men and Old Harry started to go there.Jonas stalked them and tried to find any gold. When they arrived there, they started to find gold in the river. Take sands and wash it.
Jonas was detected by Bernie. Bernie is a tall man. Jonas thinks maybe he has a gun...
He ran away from Bernie. The sun is going down. Jonas heard the voice "Help!".
There is Old Harry behind the rock. His leg is bad so he wants to help running away from two men.
Old Harry told him yo secret where he found gold. Old Harry has some other gold bags. Then two men came near them. Jonas puts his shirt on his head and disguised a ghost.
It was night and moon was bright.
It was succeed to disguise a ghost. Two men were very surprised and ran away quickly. Old Harry and Jonas laughed and laughed.
Old Harry gave 2 gold bags to Harry in honor of being good friends.
The next day, Jonas tried to propose Hetty again. Then Mr Gray appeared but he has a nerve any more.
He showed two gold bags to Hetty's father Mr Gray.
Finally Mr Gray accepted and celebrated the marriage.

(329 words)

Book Review 2-17 ☆ HAMLET

I read "HAMLET" this is a very famous story. Hamlet is written by Shakespeare.


This book is easy to read because they have many pictures and constructed like a magazine.

One day two guards see a ghost at the Elsinore Castle. The ghost is the old king who is already dead.
When the old king's son Hamlet met the ghost, the ghost spoke to him.
He told the truth"I was killed by his brother Claudius."
Claudius is a king and the queen is Hamlet's mother. Hamlet's mother married next king!

Hamlet tried to investigate the truth.
He suspected his girl friend and his friends. He wondered there is any reason that he lives at that time.

(116 words)

Book Review 2-16 ☆ Ali and his CAMERA

I read "Ali and his CAMERA". This is a story about a way to get his camera.
He and his family are poor. He has been wanted to get his own camera. He always takes pictures in his mind. He corrects his photograph in his mind.
One day, he saw an old lady at market. He helped carring her heavy bag to her house. He took picture at the stature near her house.
An old lady invited to her house and gave him an old camera. Her son had the camera before but he doesn't need the camera any more. He had many other new cameras.
So Ali was given a camera from the old lady. He can't say and forgot how to say "Thank you".
He got new camera but he doesn't have films to take pictures. He worked very hard to buy some films and got it! First picture he got films, he took a picture of the old lady who gave his a camera and her son.
He showed his picture to her son. Her son works at news paper company now. He said to Ali "Your pictures are not so bad. You need to learn more about photography". Ali was very surprised, "Not so bad!?".
Ali asked him "Why his picture is not so bad".
He answered "Some of your pictures are good, some of your pictures are not so bad.". Ali got anger and got out the room quickly.
He told the story what happened in the day to his mother.
His mother told him you're wrong. He studied about camera in the photo shop. The owner teaches him about camera.
He tried to show his pictures Old lady's son. One day the camera shop's owner showed him a newspaper. There is a picture that Ali took! He is very surprised to see that. The newspaper company is worked by the Old lady's son.

(319 words)

Book Review 2-15 ☆ THE FIFTENNTH CHARACTER

Sally Brown is a student to be a teacher. She works at Happy Hills that is an amusement park in her holidays. The workers usually work making tea or helping in the children's house or wearing the costumes. Happy Hill has 15 characters. The day Sally had to wear the most tired character. She had to be "Conny Cat". Conny Cat can only say miaow to the children.
Her co- worker William said her "Zapp's coming today".
Zapp is a famous singer. Sally loves listening to his songs and she has all his CD.

She really wants to meet him, but she tried to do only her job: being Conny Cat.
Zapp sang some songs and everyone sang songs too.
At last Zapp show a CD that is recorded new song. TV show man asked him to please sing the song. But Zapp smiled and said. "No. no you must come to my bug concert next Saturday."
He only did advertisement of his next concert.
After that Zapp enjoyed Happy Hills. Shaking hands with fan and taking pictures with Happy Hill's characters.
When Sally started to rest canteen, suddenly Mr Parry, a boss and a lot of people come into the canteen.
They are looking for Zapp's CD that recorded new song. Zapp is very anger and call police to find his CD.
All the visitors and workers are asked and checked their pocket.
But it's difficult to find CD.
But Sally noticed the Jobs list. Today there are fourteen characters on the list. But there are fifteen characters here. She reads the list again.
Finally she found unexpected character! Police asked the character who are you. The woman who wears costume began to run away.
But police caught her. She has Zapp's CD. The singer smiles again.
The other day (next Saturday) Sally and William are in London because they are going to Zapp's concert. They don't have any ticket but they have invitation ticket from Zapp.

(328 words)

Book Review 2-14 ☆ GIRL against the JUNGLE

I read "GIRL against the JUNGLE".
This is the story that only survivor of terrible plan accident.
She is still a girl. After she accepts what happened to her, she knew her mother was already dead. For a short time, she tried to find where her mother is. But she stopped look for her mother.
She remembered her father is still waiting their coming back to their house.
She decided to try to coma her home by own. Fortunately she knows about rules of jungle. Her mother had taught her dangerous of jungle and how step to next. She sticks with stick to avoid any enemies like snake and other dangerous insects. If they hit the stick, they bit the stick and get away after biting.
She pointed to find the river. If people live in the jungle, they live near the river. So if she lost in the jungle, she must find the river at first.
Her mother taught how she can avoid the danger of jungle.

She went on trying to go home. In the dangerous journey, she met alligator and beautiful berries (maybe they have poisos) and mosquito.

After 10 days from she met a terrible plan accident, she found a small hat at last. She tried to sleep to forget terrible pain and rest her body.
But she thought maybe there were some Indians hunters, but they were maybe already leaving. If they were already leaving the hat, they won't come back to there 3 days at least.
When she avoid mosquito, someone spoke to her. A Indian hunter found her and he conveyed her safety place and show her doctor.
She thought I'm in good but my father is still waiting. I had no time to rest there.
Suddenly she thought that, the ring was calling. A man entered to the room. He is her father, he moved he could meet her again and she cried at the first time during the jungle trip.

(329 words)

Book Review 2-13 ☆ Animal Hospital

I read "Animal Hospital". This is a story around 2 boys. They are brothers. One day, they found a injured goose. It looks like very painful. They call their father and he took the goose to animal hospital. The 2 boys watched what the bet say about the goose.


They sometimes came and see the goose.
The bed mended the crach of the born.

They are sometimes see to the goose and they and their mother go to return the goose to nature.

The place is a farm. If they want, they can meet the goose again.

(97 words)

Book Review 2-12 ☆ ROBBIN HOOD

I read the story of ROBBIN HOOD. This is a story to wait returning of King Richard.

Robbin Hood is a leader of the group. He is a nice archer and has fighting spirit. He become sometimes kind to poor. He know what is the justice and what is the bad.
He tried to take his land and never gave up to bad King John. King John is greedy king. He has wealth so he divide wealth to sheriff. Sheriff swore royalty to him and take lands and nation's wealth.
The nation of this country is suffered from King John's collection.
Robin gathered his companion and lived Sherwood Forest as outlaws. They became outlaw to achieve the big aim. When the rich across the forest, they take only from rich merchants, nobleman and fat churchman. Robbin hood planed; when they come into this forest, they have to pay the fee (robin and his outlaws invite them a supper). The rich must give them half of everything they have. Outlaws give this money to the poor.
he poor, the old, women and children.

They continued the plan, the sheriff and army invaded their forest.
But there is no chance to win outlaws because outlaws know forest's detail. They can hide and fight easily against them.

After Robbin married with Marian, they still continued fighting against the bad. He invite a knight who looks very tired to supper. The knight really thank and enjoy the meal with Robbin and his outlaws. When they enjoy drinking the knight said "I must tell you a truth. I'm not a knight. I'm a King Richard!"
Everyone except King Richard are surprised and cheered and cried.
They became free men not outlaws.
The next morning, King Richard and Robbin and his friends of Sherwood's went to Nottingham. Everyone except sheriff are excited by the return of King Richard. Everyone remember the day as a beautiful memory.

(320 words)

Book Review 2-11 ☆ Fishy Tales

I read "Fishy Tale".

This book is about fish. It introduce about the fish's and their body's name.

The pictures are very beautiful and cute. I can learn how some of fish say in English.

Coral reef is said "Sangoshow" in Japanese.
Flipper means the arm and hand of turtles and dolphins and seals.

Snout is a nose of animals that shape is like a tube. For example, dragonflies.

Crawl means moving with lying on the belly.

Suckers mean is the protuberance of octopus's arms. They help to stick somethings.

Claw means crab's arm.

Eels is said "Unagi" in Japanese. Eels have long long tail.

Ray is said "Ei" in Japanese. The word of "ray" has some different meanings. I never known sometimes ray means "Ei".

(126 words)

Book Review 2-10 ☆SIX Sketches

I read "SIX Sketches".
This book is constructed 6 short stories. All of the stories have the point of the joke.
When I found this book, I thought it maybe love story...because the man looks like a bridegroom.
But it was not love story.

I recommend one of the stories is "Cheese". This story is very funny.
Mr. Smith who works at a shop is very cute! One day, he is said by the young man who buys a cheese every day.
The young man said
"I buy a cheese from you every day. But I don't like cheese and eat cheese. Do you know why I buy cheese every day?"
Mr. Smith is thinking that answer. But he doesn't have the answer.
The young man told the answer to him.

After that he always said to customers "Cheese!".
Customers felt strange. But he still keeps to saying "Cheese".
Why he told customers to "Cheese" is a secret (*>v<*) Please let read the book!

(164 words)

Book Review 2-9 ☆ U.F.O.S

I read "U.F.O.s".
This book is divided some parts.
Those sections are some stories who saw the UFOs and what government said about UFOs and aliens and doubts for pictures of UFOs.

This is a kind of mystery. Either UFOs are really exist or not is doubtful, but some of people couldn't believe that existent.

We have some images to aliens.
Those images reflected by movies.
Maybe the main causes are "independence day" and "E.T." and "X-files" and so on. An alien in E.T. is small and very kind alien. But aliens in X files are very frightened.

(98 words)

Book Review 2-8 ☆ Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!

I read "Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!" today.
This book is written bug's particular features.
They have some particular features and abilities. They have features for living. The other aim is easy to live. Some bugs can hide from enemies by changing their body colour and pretending a part of the natures.
Some bugs have a strong body to fight other bugs. One of the most surprised things for me is dragonflies.
They can eat their own body weight in only half of the hour. That's like we eating 250 sandwiches!

.....I can't eat so much (><)

(95 words)

Book Review 2-7 ☆Trip To the Zoo

I read "A trip To the Zoo".
This story is written about a family (2 boys and their mother) goes to the zoo. This is the first time for 2 boys to go to the zoo.
Their mother planed it with surprising.
Two boys are exciting to meet animals not in books. They saw many animals.
Those are elephants and rhinos and giraffes zebras and tigers and gorilla and koalas and wallabies.

This book is used many cute and funny pictures. When I was reading this book, I saw unknown words. Those are clumsy, chomp and staring and nostril and gobbled.
Chomp is a kind of sounds.

(107 words)

Book review 2-6☆Another World

I read this book. The name is "Another World". This story is about another world that we are living. People who live in another world are very happy. They always sing a song "We are happy. Tomorrow will be a happier day than today". The students go to school are very young and beautiful. They never seen any adult more that 25 years. If they become 25 years old, they slept in a very long dream forever.

The teacher told them that is other shape of happy.

Students believe it too.

One day, a boy student who is very smart met a girl. He doesn't meet her ever. He felt she is different. I don't know her. She has gray eyes. Other students including the boy student have blue eyes.

He met her at garden in lunch time. The girl talked to her about another world. He felt it's strange. I can't believe there is an another world.

He went to another world with other girl. He showed him homeless and family and busy traffic. He felt uncomfortable to know the new things.
He wants to stay the happy life. He doesn't want free.

He decided to get back to Eden.
After he got beck to Eden, he didn't meet her again.

In fact the girl is the researcher from the central of Eden. He tested him whether he is the best person to enter the center or not.
And he pass the exam and he decided to enter the center of Eden.

(253words)

Book review 2-5☆NELSON MANDELA

I read this book Nelson Mandela.
He is a fist black president in his dearest country.
This book wrote about his life and how to became a president.
He went to other country to become a his hometown's mayor. He studied hard and elected the chair person of changing group.
But he confused, he wanted only to help their movement. He counseled vice mayor in his country.
He became anger and he said to him.
"You should become a mayor. You should!"
So this is one of the his motivation to become a president.

(94 words)

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Book review 2-4☆Karen and the ARTIST

I read the book "Karen and the ARTIST".

This is a story about pictures which is written by the young artist who is not known much by popular.

A woman went to the Roma because of her job. She works as a flight attendant. So she has a free time to see around Roma.

Then she met a man who is very young and poor.

He often goes a bar, and he ordered some food and drinks. He doesn't much money so he gives some pictures to a barman instead of the calculation.

The bar has very full of pictures. The woman Karen is really like those pictures.

She wants to buy those pictures as great works. She tried to sell those pictures all around the world to give some money to young talented artist. She could sell them as very expensive price. She got much money. 1000 pounds and 10000 francs she earned.
The young artist was really happy, but the most joy is her coming back. He wants to stay with her forever. He said her "Don't go away again, and you're going to stay here".
He paints her picture at last.

(194 words)

Book Review 2-03 ☆ 《RETURN TO EARTH》

I read this book RETURN TO EARTH. This is a story about telepaths. A couple is confusing how they should save their earth. A man Harl decided to go in the space. His girl friend Ellen decided to change the coming babies to be a telepath. If babies will be a telepath, the baby save their parents and relatives and, brother. But Harl really worried about her and her companion's scientist did the experiment that using radiation.

Other problem is if they elected each own decisions, they will go other way. If he travel in space, he can't meet her anymore because they have a very difficult time. In the space, it past slower time than earth. When he return to earth, she is already dead. But he can't ask some questions to her. Does babies really be safe when they did the experiment? Harl only use monkeys because of they are not monkeys. Is it really true?
Then Harl got back to earth, everything looks not much changing!! There are many trees and fresh airs. But it is the place only trees. In the city there were fewer trees, and grass grow only in places, in the cracks in the streets. Most of all the buildings were still standing, but they were silent and empty. There's no one there.Those generators of Project X changes everything on the planet.
The next day since they gathered again after watching around the world, a man appeared in front if them. He said he is about 100 years old and he is the last person to live in the earth. He talked about Project X and generations to them.Children who have telepath can't live so long and be adults. Almost of the telepath children died until they get 10 or 12 years old. Telepath killed the precious children. People who have no telepath like adult hope telepathy to stop one day.
But the scientist explained "we can't do anymore. We can't stop it. It would never stop."
Why so many telepath died? Because they had a bad mind. If someone has a telepath, the man has to look at himself deep down inside. It's not comfortable to think or feel. They want to hide their own minds. Because it's natural to know somone's mind by each thought and feeling.
They notices they are the only persons in the earth.
They know the sad truth of the end of the miracle telepath.

(408words)

Book Review 2-02 ☆ 《Tales from Longpuddle》

I read "Tales from Longpuddle". This story is told to a stranger by a postmistress.
This content is composed by some story.
I like "Tony Kytes Finds a wife".
He is a play boy. He really likes women. He is not so good looking but women like him very much.He is worried about his wife. He can't choose his wife easily. He choose the last one of 3 women.
He stayed those women in the same his wagon.
And he made them hidden it to fear the know a secret that he doesn't still choose one.
But he could get marry a woman.
I can't understand why those women like such a terrible man.

(114words)

Book Review 2-01 ☆ 《The teacher's Secret》

I read this book "The teacher's Secret". This book is composed some different short stories. I was very surprised by those of one. That is "Irka's Well".
The story is about 1 poor woman and 1 prince. Very far village has very strange customs. For example, if you sit down the well, you have to marry master of well.
If you lay down the well, you have to spend in the country in the half of the year.
It's very strange. But more strange custom is made by those 2.
That is "people at weddings always drank wine from the bride's shoe".
A prince did that for his important prince when he arrived in his wedding.
That is changed not a dirty glass to serve him.
UNBELIEVABLE...

(127 words)

Book Review 13☆THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES

I read this book. It is the mistery around the house of the seven gables. This heroine is not so beautiful and is liked by people who lives in same town.
She is so sad.
But a person appeared to help her.
She changed to beoame happy.

That storyis also including love story.