SawaHiro's Reading Blog

This is in 2522, and the planet Earth is dying The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old. But it is breaking up. Now the sun is burning down on Earth. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die... In a colony under the moon, people wait for news- news from home, news from the planet Earth. And in a spaceship high above Earth, a young man watches numbers on a computer screen. The numbers tell a story, and the young man is afraid. The planet Earth is burning, burning... This is an very interesting story. It was extremely magnificent and wonderful story, and  was easy to imagine. I enjoyed reading. Akinyemi, Rowena (2008) Under the Moon . Oxford University Press

What is your wish? In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry. But one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee. With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Princess Badr-al-Budu? I like this story Aladdin. I had watched the Disney movie many times, and this story is little bit different from the movie. So I could enjoy reading.    Dean, Judith. (2008) Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp . Oxford University Press

I'd rather die tomorrow, than live a hundred years without knowing you . This is North America in 1607, there are a beautiful young girl and a brave Englishman. She has black eyes, and he has blue eyes. They fall in love but the love is not easy. The girl is the daughter of King Powhatan, and the Englishman is a white man. And the Indians of Virginia don't want the white man in their beautiful country. This is a sad love story, and I was moved. After reading, I was little bit sad. I want to watch this movie someday. Vicary, Tim (2008) Pocahontas . Oxford University Press

I must scream or die! And now, aggain, the noise was louder, louder, louder! (p.54) This is a mystery by Edgar Allan Poe. The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it work in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night... is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror is yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never there when you turn round? I like this horror.

Fill the air with music. Fill the house with light. Fill the sleepy lovers' heads With happy dreams tonight. (p.47) This wonderful story of fairlies, dreams and lovers is as popular today as it was in Shakespeare's time. In a wood outside Athens, for young people are following their dreams, while fairlies play strange games with them. Their world seems unreal. I read Shakespeare's book for the first time, and it was an interesting story. I can't believe that fairlies have some problems as humans.   

We didn't have umch money, but that was OK. We were in love .  (p.29) Anna is a new student at Oxford University. When she arrives in OXford, she meets Selim, and they become good friends. But  Selim is not English, and living in a different country is not easy for him. So Anna tries to help him, however she knows that her father isn't going to like foreigners and immigrants. Anna and Selim have known well and love eaach other. Can they find true happiness together? It was an interesting story, including the problem of foreigners and immigrants. And that can happen to me. So I learned how to deal with the problem, if I face the situation. Alan C. McLean. (2002). From the Heart . Oxford University Press.

I think life is going to be good for all of us! (p.41) Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who is a talker. They didn't want a girl, but they can't send a child back. So Anne stays and starts her new life in the quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so quiet after she comes to live there. It was very interesting story. I think Anne has very positive thinking and she is a charming person. L. M. Montgomery. (2000). Anne of Green Gables. Oxford University Press.

I haven't been back to the island. But I know there's a "dead man" living there . (p.39)  Mr Ross lives on an island where no visitors come. He stops people from taking photographs of him. He is young and rich, but he looks sad. And there is one room in his house which is always locked.Carol and her mother come to the island to work for Mr Ross. Carol thinks that there is something very strange about him. One night she watches, listens and knows what is behind the locked door. This is a mystery and very interesteding story. I don't want to work for the mysterious man. John, Escott. (2000) Dead Man's Island . Oxford University Press.