The Pillars of the Earth, written by Ken Follet

It is a book that I really liked, because it tells three stories that started independently but finished together and you can learn a lot about this society and how to life in this time. Each of them relates a kind of life in that time.

The story set in the Medieval Age, with a society divided in levels, in the unequal Great Britain, where there’s a big Civil War to become the successor of the king, who was assassinated. One of these stories narrates the story about a monk and the corruption, the lies and the illegal agreements in the clergy. Another one tells about a noble family, with their help to the king in the war (changing always to who seems it’s going to win), their control of the crowd and the familiar agreements. The last story tells how an artisan family’s life is, in which the father is an architect and his dream is to build a cathedral.

All the stories focus around to village (called by the author “Kingsbridge”) where there’s an abbey, to its cathedral and to a noble family which is the antagonist (they try to destroy Kingsbridge and became powerful join forces with a corrupted bishop. In the book the years pass by quickly, even generations.

I liked this book a lot, and I recommend it to every one. I know it’s very big, but when you start it, you’re trapped by it.

Laro del Río, 4º C

Odette Toulemonde

Odette Toulemonde par Eric-Emanuel Schmitt

Odette Toulemonde est une femme qui est un grand fan de l’écrivain Balthazar Balsan. Ella a lu tous ses livres. Un beau jour, c’est un grand jour pour elle parce que Balthazar Balsan est à Bruxelles pour signer son dernier livre pour ses fans. Alors Odette profite de la possibilité de se faire signer un de ses livres. Et c’est la raison pour laquelle elle est très excitée et à cause de ça, elle n’arrive pas à lui dire son prénom. Elle dit seulement « Dette ». En conséquence, Balthazar Balsan écrit « Dette » dans le livre d’Odette. Pour elle, c’est horrible et elle très déçue d’elle même. A la maison, elle écrit une lettre pour Balthazar. Dans le même temps, Balthazar a une affaire sexuelle avec Florence, son attaché de presse en Belgique, et après Balthazar voit une critique détruisante d’Olaf Pims à la télé. A cause de cette critique, Balthasar devient dépressif. Lorsqu’il voit que sa femme a une affaire avec Olaf Pims, il veut mourir et il essaie de se suicider. Après les séjours à l’hôpital, il lit par hasard la lettre d’Odette. A cause de la lettre et parce qu’il ne veut pas rentrer à la maison à cause de sa femme, il va chez Odette. Il lui demande s’il peut vivre quelques jours chez elle. N’étant pas réticente, elle dit oui. Il essaie de coucher avec elle, mais Odette ne veut pas coucher avec lui, parce qu’elle aime encore son mari Antoine qui est mort. En conséquence, Balthazar ne veut pas rester plus longtemps et quitte l’appartement. Mais il donne un peu d’argent à Rudy, le fils d’Odette, afin de conduire à la mer avec sa mère et sa sœur, ce qui était son rêve depuis longtemps. Alors la famille Toulemonde conduit à la mer et Balthazar cueillit son fils de son voyage dans les Alpes. A la mer ils ont rendez-vous à la plage. Odette est très heureuse parce que Balthazar est là. Le soir, ils dansent ensemble dans l’appartement de vacances. Le jour suivant, la femme de Balthazar et son éditeur arrivent aussi dans l’appartement de vacances. Isabelle, la femme de Balthazar et lui parlent ensemble pour oublier ses problèmes. Le soir, Balthazar veut rentrer à la maison avec son famille et l’éditeur. Odette est très blessé parce qu’il veut la quitter. Et pour ça elle a une crise cardiaque. Alors elle doit aller à l’hôpital. D’abord, seulement son fils Rudy et sa fille Sue Helen sont dans la chambre d’hôpital. Mais Balthazar aussi attend devant la chambre d’Odette. Quand Odette éprouve qu’il soit devant la chambre elle veut qu’il entre. Balthazar Balsan dit à Odette qu’il a parlé avec Antoine et il a dit que c’est d’accord qu’Odette a une nouvelle relation avec un autre homme. Et alors Balthazar Balsan et Odette ont une belle vie ensemble.

Carina Weidner et Julia Kaschek, K1

Odette Toulemonde
Vergleich Film und Buch

Der Film Odette Toulemonde ist vor dem Buch entstanden. Der Autor Eric Emanuel Schmitt hat in seinem Buch einige Dinge weggelassen, die er im Film jedoch verarbeitet hat. Da wir im Unterricht zuerst das Buch gelesen hatten, hatten wir uns die Figuren anders vorgestellt, als sie im Film dargestellt wurden. Doch nicht nur die Darstellung der einzelnen Personen, auch die Musik und das Umfeld hätten wir uns, durch das Vorwissen des Buches, anders gedacht. Außerdem wurde im Film eine weitere Person namens Jésus eingeführt, die im Buch nicht vorkommt. Es war seltsam, dass dieser Jésus auch die Person des wahren Jesus Christus verkörpert und sein Lebensweg darstellt. Durch diese Einschübe wurde die Handlung um Odette Toulemonde und Balthasar Balsan häufig unterbrochen. Ebenso hat der Autor den Schluss im Film komplett anders gestaltet als im Buch.
Carina Weidner, 17 ans, Julia Kaschek, 18 ans

The joy of reading

Reading broadens your knowledge by opening up the whole world to you. It can powerfully strengthen your imagination and your own ability to communicate.
I love reading. I have been reading since I can remember. I can´t live without a good book before going bed. While I´m reading, I´m visiting another country, a different period of time, or travelling across space.
Books have always been an inspiration for me. When I have a good book, I´m feeling like having a good friend. I´ve learned about different professions, grammar, geography and history from reading. I developed, also, my vocabulary.
Sometimes I re-read my favorite books. Reading them twice gives me chance to pay attention to different sections and experience them differently.
Even after a long day of reading difficult stuff for school, I can pick a good book and read it for fun and relaxation.
Sadly, nowadays, reading has plunged down. Dramatically. Books are not as popular as they were in the past. Most of people find reading a book boring or maybe even a work. They prefer getting entertainment from computer, TV, iPods…etc… I´m not trying to say that those things are bad, because they are useful and nowadays we can´t live without them. But a book is always a good break, and it can slowly become a good inspiration, or even a good friend. I think that reading takes us away from bad things that happen in our lives, and the joys of reading have to be experienced.
Doina Bectaras, 4 ´C´

Carlos Ruíz Zafón by Oscar Sierra

Biography

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Barcelona, 1964) is one of the European writers with more projection in the World. He started in 1993 with El Principe de la Niebla and after he publiced three novels more, for the young people: “El Palacio de la Medianoche”, “Las Luces de Septiembre” and “Marina”. In 2001 he publiced books for adults, “La Sombra del Viento”,etc.”La Sombra del Viento”, it has been in the best exit of the Spanish novels. His books was traduced at 40 lenguages and publiced in more of 50 countries. He won a lot of International prizes and he conquisted a loto f people, young and adults.

My favourite book of Carlos Ruiz Zafon is “El Palacio de la Medianoche”. This book is an interesting book , because is an extrange and amusing book, this book is more fascinate. I read “El Principe de la Niebla”, and this book is more fascinate and striking. I like Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

The Shiva’s tears

The Shiva’s tears is one of my favorite books. I recommend it to all the people who like the romantic books. The book was written by César Mallorquí.

It is a book that presents a problem of love.
Javier, the protagonist of this story is going to spend the summer in Santander, the town where his uncles have a mansion called Villa Candelaria. His father is ill. Villa Candelaria is boring until he meets his cousins: Rosa, Margarita, Violeta y Azucena. One day his Javier asks Violeta what the tears of Shiva were and who Beatriz Obregon was. Her cousin told him, the tears of Shiva was a necklace that the Mendoza family gave to Beatriz.

She escaped from the marriage with the Mendoza family and they claimed the necklace, but the Obregon’s family didn’t know about it. Javier feel the presence of a ghost. He told Violeta, and she told him that she saw it too. She thought it was a ghost, a female harmless ghost. They began researching in the library of Beatirz. One day that they began to learn from clues from the ghost. They found many things about her. Until one day Javier came up with the idea of going to the storeroom to find the Beatriz furniture because he thought that the necklace could be there. They searched, searched and searched but they didn’t find anything. Until they found a letter signed by her. It was addressed to his dear Simon Cienfuegos, a black captain who had the Savanna, a ship that, long ago, departed to America.

In Beatriz surely went with him. The next day went to the house of Amalia, an old woman who told the news. But the old woman knew everything. Next day they returned home but did not say anything new. The search began again in the attic and the next day Javier got up early and again he went to the house of Amalia. Amalia seemed angry already. At the end Amalia got fed up and said, ‘take, take the necklace, Keep it and do not come here anymore’. Javier went away from home with a very old metal box and, without opening it. When he arrived at Villa Candelaria he showed the necklace to his cousins and quickly to their parents. They dressed up very quickly and they went to give it to the Mendoza family. The Mendoza and Obregon were at peace since then. Javier went to Madrid because his father had improved and Javier and Violeta fell in love.

Carmen Frechoso 4ºA IES. La Marina

Daniel Fernández Muñoz 4ºB

My favourite book is “The murder”. A boy lives in North American, in Florida. He always says Florida is a very beutiful and interesting country . In Florida he was pursued because manu peolple thought he was a criminal. The police looked around the country and the police finally found out who the criminal in the North the Florida was. The criminal spent forty years old in jail. He was twenty eight and finished when he was old.

“The murder” is a book very interesting, very emotional and very nice. In my opinion this book is very popular around the planet and very interesting for all the people.

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Gerry Durrell talks about his life alter moving to Corfu. Here starts for him a new life very different than in the rainy England. He moves with his mother and his brothers, and all of them are very happy, specially his big brother Chris, who is the one who had the idea of moving, and persuaded the others. They were bought a new big house near the sea, and there are many fields to explore for Gerry, who is very fan of the zoology and a lover of the wildlife. He is going to become a great explorer. He is going to start a collection of animals which are going to have to coexist with his family.

I liked this book very much because is so funny and interesting. There are a lot of adventures in Gerry’s life that catch you.

Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell, OBE (January 7, 1925 – January 30, 1995) was a naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter. He founded what is now called the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo (now renamed Durrell Wildlife) on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1958, but is perhaps best remembered for writing a number of books based on his life as an animal collector and enthusiast. He was the brother of the novelist Lawrence Durrell.

By Jaime Lucaç 4º A

Reading, by Maria Fernández

READING:
I’m not really interested on the reading at the school. It’s very interesting, entertaining… But I prefer to read my own books. I like fantasy and action book I hate history and war books, they are very boring.
Normally, I choose the book, if I like the cover, though I always read the blurb because sometimes they are horrible and looks very boring.
When I like the summary, this means that it’s going to be an entertaining book. When I have free time, when I finish my homework, and before going to bed, I spend some time to read. I’m not a fanatic of reading, and it isn’t the best thing that I like doing but, sometimes it’s very relaxing, because it is the only time of the day, that you can be quiet, and with out any stressful thing around you, since you are open minded.
My favourite writer is Federico Moccia. He is an Italian writer. My favourite book is “ A tres metros sobre el cielo”. The book it’s about a boy and a girl that fall in love, but they come from very different worlds. The girl it’s a brilliant student, and the perfect daughter. On the other hand, the boy, Step, it’s an aggressive teenager, and he didn’t care about the studies, regardless, they fight for their love. She managed to make Step change, and they live a love story. I have already read all the book of that collection.
María Fernández García 4ºA

Harry Potter

I have read all the Harry Potter´s books, and the story is absolutely fantastic. There´re seven books. I think the numbers four, five, six and seven are better than the others, because the other books were more childish, but the latter story becames for adults.
The plot is not complicated: Harry, Ron and Hermione are wizards and they study in Howarts. The story starts when they arrive to the school for the first time. They live exciting and curious adventures while they´re becaming adults. Everybody at the school knows who Harry is. In the most of the books, Harry and his friends fight versus Lord Voldemort and his people. Voldemort is the antagonist of the story, he is an evil person. He killed Harry´s parents when he was a baby, and Voldemort wanted to kill Harry too, but strangely he survived and Voldemort remained weak for a long time. Only Harry can kill him.
At the moment there´re six films about the story. Recently, the number seven part one was released in the spanish cinemas. I´m thrilled about it because I´m a crazy fan. The book number seven, ``Harry Potter and the Dealthy Hallows´´, is probably the best, and there are a lot of things about it. So, Disney has done two films for this book. I prefer two parts, because I love Harry Potter´s world, though the films don´t reflect the story very good.
Those books are the best that I have read, and I read a lot.
Thanks for J.K. Rowling for writing them.

"I'll never be your hero" by Carlos Beltrán

I read the book “I’ll never be your hero” two tears ago. The book is about a boy called Andres who has a lot of problems.
Her girlfriend Sara left him, he always argued with her parents, he failed five subjects in his school…
But he likes drawing. He is a good artist and he would like to dedicate it.
Later, he spoke with the new Sara’s boyfriend, Jaime to do a work of class. Jaime told him that he could study better if he used the art. Andres paid attention to him and he passed all of his exams.

I recommend this book for other teenagers because I think that someone can be in the same situation and this book can help them.

CARLOS BELTRÁN SAIZ 4ºA

I’ll never be your hero

One of my favourite books at the moment it’s called “Nunca seré tu héroe” (I will never be you hero) by María Menéndez Ponte, a presently famous writer.

The Reading turns out to me very amusing, because it tells the youngster life of a boy and he talk about his problems everyday, every daily situation, and I identify with the character. and happy with him.

Andrés, the main character of this story, is a fifteen-year old boy. He doesn’t study anything and he never does his homework. Then, his teachers are really angry with him.

His friends have unhealthy habits, they go out, drink a lot, and they smoke too. His girlfriend left him too. But later he realised that, if he studies and does his homework, he will pass his exams, and her parents will be more tolerant.

If he fights hard to get on in life, his friends will help him and he will be happier with himself.

The book shows you that if you want to change your life you will be a better person.

María Menéndez Ponte writes novels about teenagers’ problems and she has also other books like “El poso amargo del café”, “El dilema de Bea”.

FALSE MOVEMENT

The book `` false movement´´ tells the story of a family made of a father, a mother and a daughter.
One day the father leaves her to go out of holidays with the boyfriend. The story focuses on the daughter because it turns out that she does not find the boyfriend and they go to look for him. It turns out that the one that they were looking was not his boyfriend it was different with the same nickname. The father thinks that he is a bad person and does not really on the daughter. In the end, they return to the bar to which they have been with Chapi and find it, after an accident the father of the daughter dies.

In my opinion it is a good book and I recommend it because it is entertaining and until the end you do not guess what is going to happen.

Cristian Menéndez Garrido 4ºA IES LA MARINA

The girl on the other platform

The girl on the other platform, written by Jorge Gómez Soto, is a realistic novel, addressed towards young readers. It shows the major problems of teenagers: friendship, love, Saturday nights, and it is told in first person.

PLOT:

It tells the story about two twins, who are physically the same, but their behaviours are completely different and they only talk about important things. Miguel enjoys going out to parties with friends, getting drunk, meeting girls. He is an spontaneous and open boy. However he hates studying, writing, reading… Unlike his brother Edward, who is a responsible, student, a shy guy, who doesn’t go out on weekends with friends and because he is very bad at flirting with girls.

In the novel the two brothers will discover that they have in common much more than they believed. Two girls: Irene and Yolanda, who are smart, beautiful and fun, and they don’t know each other, come into the life of these so different twin brothers. Miguel will meet Yolanda in a drinking night. She is a young journalist. Miguel tries to impress her with tales that his brother writes. Miguel gets them rubbing the stories. Yolanda was angry with Miguel because she discovered the truth and he, who is in love with her, writes a story called: the girl on the other platform. Yolanda finally forgave him. Meanwhile, Edward knew a girl called Irene on the Internet and he finally decided to meet her for a walk through the streets of Madrid. Edward, who didn’t know the streets of Madrid, pretended to be his brother to impress the girl.

One morning, the two brothers, skipped classes together and shared their experiences, discovering that they are more similar than they believed. They even planed to spend the summer together with their respective girlfriends.

OPINION:

I recommend this book for teens because they could feel identified with one of the two brothers, and for parents who don’t understand the difficult behaviour and ‘’the ups and downs’’ of their children.

Irene Vada Cano 4ºA. IES.La Marina.

Sorry if I call you darling

My favourite book is "Sorry if I call you darling”. It's a love story that happens in Rome, Italy. There are two main characters. Niki is a mature and responsible girl who is in her final year at high school. The second main character is Alessandro, he's a thirty-seven years old publisher. His girlfriend has just left him.

They met, one day, when Niki was going to high school and she had a car accident with Alex. On the next days, despite their age difference, they fell in love. Alex and Niki lived a romantic story that never ends.

I like this book because it's atypical love story, and i like it because it has a happy ending. I like other books such as "Twilight" and "Three metres above heaven".

THE LORD OF RINGS

My favourite book is The Lord of Rings. It´s about a war among humans, dwarves against the Dark Power.

In the begining the action happened in a village. A hobbit found a ring which belonged to ´´Sauron´´. Sauron is the king of the Dark Power. He wanted to destroy the world of the middle age. The name of the hobbit is Frodo Bolson. When he found the ring the war of the Middle Ages started. After that the Dark Power wanted to recover it because this ring could make back Sauron to live . When the war started, a lot of humans and dwarves wanted to fight against Sauron and destroy the ring but this could be possible if the ring fell from the Tower of Lava because it was the only way of destroy this ring. Frodo Bolson protected this ring with a little help of humans, dwarves and his best friend ´´Sam´´.

In the end, Frodo Bolson and his friends trew the ring down the Tower of Lava and Sauron didn´t return because the ring was destroyed and the Dark Power dissappeared.

I like this book because it is very very interesting and striking. It is an exciting story and I enyoyed it because it reflects the wars two millions years ago. This story is also dramatic because in the story there are a lot of people who die. The story is very exciting and this book is also very popular in other regions. My favourite science ficcion book is the Lord of Rings.

ÓSCAR GÓMEZ VALENCIA

Da vichu code

The last book I’ve read is The Da Vinci Code. It was written by Dan Brown. No se leer pero me esfuerzo.It’s a very long book and it’s very confusing because a lot of things happen at the same time.
This book is about a murder at the Louvre museum, Paris. A member of the Opus Dei was killing all the important members of an important sect called “Priorate of Sion”. This sect had to protect some documents about the origin of the Catholic Church. A criptologier Sophie and an expert about symbols, tried to find out the paper, but the police and the Opus Dei didn’t make thing easy. They followed all the clues. Eventually the end of the book isn’t very clear because the book continues. It’s a part of a trilogy.
I like this book because it’s interesting and you enjoy reading it. It isn’t boring and it has a lot of mysteries.

Pablo Fernández 4ºA

BOOKS

I love reading all kinas of books. I enjoy all the different styles. Reading is amazing. You can feel that you are in a part of our world or you can fly to another planet where people are green, blue, with two heads, all anything you can imagine. You may be he happiest person in the world with a humour book or the saddest with an emotional book.

The last book that I have read is `El parque prohibido´ Andrés Ibáñez wrote this book in 2005. It’s an adventure book. The plat is about a park which is very dangerous and none dares to enter. A group of kids tried to enter and inside are many strange things and they have to look for `wishes tree`. Then they escaped.

It’s a very good book. I recommend it anyone. In the book, you have to think what the things are more important for you, and choose one. This book is great and you have to read it.

Javier Cuadrado Garcia 4ºA

“3 metres above heaven”

My favourite book is “3 metres above heaven”. It is a romantic story, and it takes place in Rome, Italy. There are two main characters. Babi is a good girl who has a perfect life and family. The second main character is Step, a really rebel boy who doesn´t go to school and lives with his older brother.
One day, Babi was in a birthday party when, suddenly, Step and his friends arrive and destroyed everything. The owner´s house called to the police. Babi and Step had to escape on the Step´s motor bike.
On the following days, they started to spend same time together and slowly, they feel in love. Babi and Step live a romantic story, and they had to bring face to Babi´s parents, because they don´t accept Step.
I like this book because it isn´t an ordinary love story. I like other books of this writer like: “Perdona sit e llamo amor”. “3 metres above heaven” is a beautiful story but, it has got a dramatic final.

Lara Olea González 4ºA

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

‘The Hobbit’ is a fantastic book set in the Middle-Earth. It is about a hobbit (fantastic creature) called Bilbo Bolson who is visited by a wizard and 13 dwarves for do a trip over the Middle-Earth. Then, they live many adventures together.

This book, is for people who like the fantastic and adventure novels. The book isn’t very big but the biggest problem you may find is the very little printing. This book can be considered the previous part of the Lord of the Rings.
I read this book 3 years ago and l loved it. ‘The Hobbit’ is one of the best books that I’ve ever read.
JRR Tolkien I think that Tolkien has been one of the most important fantasy writers in the world. He was born in South Africa but he lived in England when he was young. He wrote other important books like ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Silmarilion’.

Óscar Moreno Saiz - 4º A

chronicles of narnia

I like fantasy books a lot, because i can imagine all kind of magical beings. The films are very good, but if you see them before reading the book it is very difficult to imagine the history in your our way.
Among all the fantasy books, my favourite one is Chronicles of Narnia (the lion, the witch and the wadrobe) This book tells the stay of four brothers thatbecause of war moved to another house far away from their parents. The house had a wardrobe, inside the wardrobe it was a whole world of fantasy "Narnia". In Narnia, many problems arose, but they managed to defeat to the wicked with the help of Aslan, the lion. When they manged to retum to the real world after a few years time had stopped.
Carlos Calzada 4º-A

"LAS LAGRIMAS DE SHIVA" by César Collazo

Is a book which was writting by Cesar Mallorquí. It tells the story of Javier , a boy from Madrid who had to go to Santander , because her parents were sick. When he went to his aunt´s house, he met his four cousins: Violeta, Margarita, Azucena and Rosa.

He stayes in the house for a long time and he found out a lot of strange things , he disacrered in the attic a mistery picture of a woman. His cousin Violeta said that she was an ancestor of the family. They found a lot of people for solvet the mistery. At the end of the book , Javier fell in love with her cousin Violeta , and he returned to his house in Madrid with his Parents and her brother Alberto.

But in the end of the book Javier says that he prefer Santander
In my opinion I think that is a good bool because the istory is very interesting and the transcursed of the characters of the book is amazing.

CESAR COLLAZO 4ºA

The Outsiders report by Carlos Abad

Outsiders - book report

Outsiders is a teenagers` book written by Susan E. Hilton, an American writer who wrote this book at the age of sixteen. The book is about the differences between social classes and the lifestyle of the lower classes in an American city.

Summary

Ponyboy Curtis is a greaser (member of lower-class group) whose parents have died and he lives with his two brothers; Darry and Sodapop. They form a band with Two-Bit Matthew, Winston Dallas, Johnny and Steve Randle.

One day, after returning from the cinema where they had met two girls, their boyfriends (socs, upper-class group and the enemies of the greasers) wanted to hit them. When Johnny saw that the socs were going to drown Ponyboy, he killed one soc and the rest of them fled. They escape from the city with the help of Dallas.

One day, the church where they were hiding caught fire and many children were inside the church. Johnny and Ponyboy rescued the children, but the roof fell above Johnny, and they have to return to the city to take him to hospital.

In the city, socs and greasers had organized a fight. Greasers won the fight, but then Johnny died in the hospital and then, Dallas committed suicide.

I recommend reading this book because it´s entertaining, exciting and very realistic, and it has a powerful history with interesting characters. If you decide to read this book, I´m sure that you will enjoy it.

Carlos Abad García 4ºA

A phantasy-story about the influence of brothers Grimm

„Nachts in der Bibliothek“

„Nachts in der Bibliothek“ tells the story of a person who has accepted the job as a cleaner at the local library. Since the protagonist loves reading, she spends yet another hour after working time between the impressive shelves crapped with fantastic books. One night, as she is reading already having finished her labour, she hears a faint sigh from the neighbouring shelf. Curious, our story-teller gets up to find out who or what made this weary sound. As thecharacter turns around the corner she discovers Jakob Grimm, the famous German story teller, slumped down next to some books. The protagonist starts a conversation and comes to know that he doesn’t approve of the new fairytales such as Harry Potter. He feels terribly lonely and forgotten by the whole world. Touched by the aged master’s hurt feelings, our narrator tries to cheer the old man up. So that in the end he realizes that he serves as a source of inspiration to current authors. Glad to have helped him, the person carries on reading.

Sascha Mailänder K1

Nachts in der Bibliothek

Um ein bisschen Taschengeld zu verdienen, nahm ich den Job an, den die Bibliothek unseres Ortes anbot: Abends, nach Betriebsschluss, saubermachen. Das war zwar nicht unbedingt das, was ich mir unter Arbeiten in der Bibliothek vorgestellt hatte, aber immerhin war ich in der Nähe der Bücher. Und da außer mir sich keiner mehr in den Räumen befand, fand sich auch immer eine Möglichkeit zum Lesen. Meistens hängte ich also nach dem Putzen noch ein Stündchen an. So auch letzten Samstagabend.

Als ich es mir gerade neben dem Klassiker-Regal in einem Sitzsack gemütlich gemacht hatte, hörte ich eine Art Seufzer. Ich erstarrte in der Bewegung und lauschte aufmerksam. Ich war ganz sicher, dass ich allein im Raum war. Da! Ich hörte es wieder, es kam vom Nebenregal. Ich schlich auf Zehenspitzen um die Ecke – und da saß er! Er kam mir bekannt vor, das war doch … Jakob Grimm!! Zusammengesunken kauerte er in einem Lesesessel und machte einen jämmerlichen Eindruck. Ich räusperte mich: „Ähem, guten Abend, Herr Grimm. Ich, also, ich bin etwas überrascht, Sie hier zu sehen. Ist alles in Ordnung mit Ihnen?“ „Das sehen Sie doch“, blaffte er mich an, „gar nichts ist in Ordnung! Kein Mensch interessiert sich mehr für Märchen, alle lesen nur noch neumodisches Zeug, Cornelia Funke und Terry Prachett. Viele Kinder lesen nur noch Joanne K. Rowling! Wenn ich nicht schon tot wäre, würde ich glatt an Selbstmord denken.“ „Aber, aber, Herr Grimm, so dürfen Sie das aber nicht sehen. Natürlich gibt es noch viele Leute, die Märchen zu schätzen wissen. Ich persönlich kenne sehr viele Kinder, die vor dem Einschlafen lieber Schneewittchen hören als Harry Potter. Und überhaupt: Sie dürfen nicht vergessen, dass die ganze Fantasyliteratur, die Sie so schmähen, sich doch nur entwickeln konnte, weil Sie und Ihr Bruder vor langer Zeit die Märchen gesammelt und aufgeschrieben haben! Sie sind das ganz große Vorbild!“, versuchte ich ihn zu beruhigen. „Meinen Sie?“, zweifelte er. „ Ich gebe zu, so habe ich das noch nicht betrachtet. Aber haben Sie gesehen, wie Märchen veralbert werden? Es gibt sogar Filme wie „7 Zwerge“ mit Otto und anderen Schwachköpfen!“ „Ach, Herr Grimm, das zeigt doch die Wertschätzung Ihnen gegenüber! Nach so langer Zeit bieten Märchen immer noch die Grundlage für Filme, die viele Leute erfreuen. Und bedenken Sie: Lachen kann man über den Film doch nur, wenn man die Originalmärchen kennt.“ „Also, so wie Sie das alles darstellen, erscheint mir die ganze Sache in einem völlig neuen Licht.“ Auf seinem Gesicht erschien nun sogar ein Lächeln. Und ganz langsam wurde seine Gestalt immer durchsichtiger und löste sich schließlich ganz auf.

Ich ging ich zurück zum Klassikerregal und zog die „Kinder- und Hausmärchen“ der Gebrüder Grimm heraus.

Alexandra von Bargen

"Girl with the Pearl Earring" - Book Review by Echo McNally

Name of Book: Girl with the Pearl Earring

Author: Tracy Chevalier

How long did it take you to read? Two days

Pages in the book: 248

On a scale of 1-10, how much did you enjoy the book? 7.5

What is the book about? Seventeen year old Griet goes to work at the house of the painter, Vermeer, as a maid. She falls in love with him, and at his request begins to assist him with his work. This must be kept a secret from the family. Things change when a particularly lecherous patron of Vermeer's asks him to paint Griet.

Good points: It was very detailed. The reader can feel comfortable in the setting of 17th century Holland.
Bad points: A lack of interesting plot.

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Think of Another Title: "Painting Her"

New words: langendijk; oude; rietveld; koornmarkt

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Echo McNally (2C)

Carndonagh Community School

Link for opinions about books

A very interesting link, where people in Germany are asked on the street, which books they prefer and why.
www.youtube.com/360gradleser

In class 5a everybody is keen on reading: look at these examples

Small girls - big boys - Everybody is made for reading!

class 5a

The Phantom Tollbooth by Elisa-1ºB

Dear readers,

Today I want to talk to you about how I came to love reading. Before I begin, I have to confess something: when I was little, I detested reading. Every time my mother sat me down on her lap to read me a story, I turned my head away stubbornly, on the verge of crying. But my mother, who really enjoys reading, didn’t give up. Now, her hard work paid off, and, I too, am now infatuated by books.

I also want to talk about one of my favourite books, (and hopefully inspire you to read it!): “The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster.

It tells the tale of a young boy called Milo, who is bored by everything and everyone. He comes home one day after school to find an enormous package with a note that read: FOR MILO, WHO HAS PLENTY OF TIME. It contained a toy tollbooth and a map of the Lands of Beyond. Puzzled, and with extra time on his hands, he jumps into his little toy car and rides past the tollbooth. There he sees a small sign which says he must have his destination in mind. Opening the map, he picks a city: Dictionopolis. Suddenly, his surroundings change. He is riding along an unknown road, thinking; “What a strange thing to happen. What started out as a game, but it turns out to be real”.

This is how Milo enters the Kingdom of Wisdom. From them on, wonderfully strange things happen, which help him open his eyes. He is sent on a mission, by the King Azaz, to save the princesses Rhyme and Reason and restore peace among all. I shall not tell you the end, for this would spoil it, but I shall tell you this. After this wonderful and insightful trip, when Milo returns to his own world, he does not find it dull and monotonous; he notices the true beauty of the world’s colours, sounds and peculiarities.

It is a wonderful book, thoroughly entertaining, and extremely insightful. I really recommend that you, my dear reader, search high and low for this book, and read it, and enjoy it, I hope, as much as I have.

One reading experience...

Hello! My name is Alicia, I’m 12 years old and I live in Santander. I’m going to tell you what happened to me years ago when I was so curious about words I found in the street. I wanted to read everything!

One day, when I was 4, I was walking with my mother and I saw the ONCE ( Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles) post, I recognized this word immediately and suddenly read it:

- /uans! /- I shouted.

- What?- my mother asked.

- Over there it is written /uans/- I repeated.

My mother couldn´t understand until she realized I was reading in English.

- Can you read it in Spanish? In Spanish it sounds different.

Now it was me the one who couldn´t understand what my mother was asking me to do, and I kept on saying:

-/uans/- I went on.

I was unable to read that familiar word in a different way.

She insisted a few times but there was no change.

Why couldn’t I read it in my own language?

Why was I so close to this word and so determined about its sound?

Because my mother used to read me English stories at bedtime and all of them started with the well-known: ‘Once upon a time….’ I couldn’t figure out a different way to read it.

In the end, my mother had to give up and tell me what the Spanish pronunciation of this writing is.

She explained me that it is an organisation for blind people.

That’s how I realized that memory has an important role in reading as much as deducing things.

Since then we call this place “el puesto de la uans”!!

Alicia Sukarlan 1ºB

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