Done Done Done

I read:
Isle of Swords 334 pages
Scoop 336 pages
The Centurion's Wife 378 pages
The Screwtape Letters 209 pages
Ben Hur 560 pages
The Captive Bride 296 pages
Mansfield Park 472 pages
For a grand total of 85 hours!

This really didn't change my reading habits much because I am already a book addict and have always prefered reading to most other forms of entertainment with many specific exceptions. This did though, help make reading a more regular thing rather than just a random activity. I quite enjoyed this assignment!

More books

This week I read The Screwtape Letters and Mansfield Park. Now I'm reading through books that I got at the amazing booksale and really just want to get back to that so this is a short post. bye!
Time Read: 21 hours
Total 73 hours

Done!

I don't know if we still have to do this or not, but i am just in case :) I finished Ben Hur, and it was incredible! The entire story was just extremely well put together-it was awesome!

Time read:15

Total: 52

Still Ben Hur

I'm still reading Ben Hur! He is searching for his mother and sister, entering a chariot race to shame an enemy, and meeting with one of the wise men who saw Jesus when he was born! Yay! I've just gotten to the half way point so I'm sure I will be posting more than I already have about this :)
Time Read: 6hours
Total: 37 hours

Ben Hur part III

Ben Hur is actually pretty exciting-and i thought it would just be a lot of old fancy english! I actually find it pretty funny that Ben Hur is a slave because he was leaning over the edge of his roof and a tile fell off and almost killed someone. Now he just survived a battle with pirates and is going to get his freedom! Yay freedom is coming freedom is coming freedom is coming oh yes i know...

Time read: 3 hours

Total: 31 hours

Another Ben Hur

This week I continued to read Ben Hur. It has many cool descriptions of things that I like when I'm not half asleep. At this point the plot is still developing, but it is still interesting.
Time Read 4 hours
Total Time 28 hours

Ben Hur!

This week I began to read the book Ben Hur which I got at a book sale last year for twenty-five cents! I decided to read a classic just to see if i would like it or not. So far, I really like it and think its it very interesting and clever.
Time read: 3 hours
Total time: 24 hours

Flying Wafer

Communion wafer went flying into Christmas tree
during church service
While members were taking communion on New Year’s Eve at Faith Lutheran Church, a communion wafer was seen spinning through the air and flying into a nearby Christmas tree.

“I just wanted to change the way I ate my wafer,” Hannah Schermerhorn said, “but I didn’t know that the result would be a bouncing biscuit!”

Apparently Hannah normally receives the wafer with her left hand, and then takes it and puts it into her mouth with her right hand. But this time, she received it with her right hand, put it into her left hand, and then took it back with her right hand to put it in her mouth. It is suspected that while she was bringing the wafer up with her right hand it chipped off of a nail on her left nail which caused the wafer to fly through the air.

Few members of Faith Lutheran Church actually witnessed this event. Maggie Schermerhorn, who was standing next to Hannah burst out laughing when the incident happened, and Chris Schermerhorn began to cry. When asked about their contradictory reactions Maggie could give no answer because she was laughing too hard, but Chris said, “Like all loving mothers I have extreme agony over seeing my daughter cry, which is what I thought she was doing, but it turns out she was just laughing.”

After returning to the pews, the girls tried not to look at one another, but their bodies were still shaking from trying to contain their laughter. Eventually they settled down and were able to continue participating in the worship service.

The communion wafer has not yet been recovered, but it is only a matter of time before it will be.

The Centurion's Wife

This week I read The Centurion's Wife, and it was excellent. It's basically about two people working for the Roman government trying to find out what the deal-y-o with Jesus is. It was very interesting and made me wonder if I lived during Jesus' time what would I do? I normally need everything proven to me so I feel like if i saw Jesus perform a miracle I would believe, but if i just heard a bunch of people saying that a guy rose from the dead I would probably think that they were on drugs. The book was 378 pages long.

Time Read: 10 hours

Total: 21 hours

Scoop III

Whoot! I finished Scoop today! It was not very good. It had funny little lines in it but otherwise it didn't really hold any suspense for me. It was 336 pages.
Time read: 4 hours
Total: 15 hours

Scoop II

So I'm almost done with Scoop now, I have a little less than a hundred pages. Basically what's happening is a anchor woman has gone missing, and thats all part of a way bigger story that the reporters are uncovering.
Time read:4 hours
Total time: 11 hours

Scoop is another book I recently got for Christmas, and I saw it had to do with journalism which we are now studying so I decided to read it. At first it kind of scared me because everyone was in a clown business, but now the business is done and the book is getting into a story about behind-the-scenes stuff on the news which is interesting.

Time Read: 1 hour

Total: 7 hours

Quotes

Some Quotes about Reading

-Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultra. Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man. -Seneca

-I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. -Groucho Marx

-The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. -Dr. Seus

I read the Isle of Swords by Wayne Thomas Batson this week. It was a book that I asked for for Christmas because I loved the three other books I read by the author entitled The Door Within Trilogy. The trilogy was amazing Christian fiction that seemed like the Bible symbolized in a Lord of the Rings style. Although Isle of Swords did not have the same strong messages as the Door Within Trilogy, it was still full of pirate adventure and had a good message at the end. I give it three scrolls because it was entertaining but not always a I-can't-put-it-down type of book. I read it in six hours, and it was three hundred and forty-four pages.