My Reading Journals 7 J組 董力文

Dink, Josh and Rose were good friends. One day Dink's uncle, Warren suggested Dink taking his friends to see Warren's apartment and his favorite painting. So, Dink, Josh and Rose were visiting Warren at their holidays. Warren was a kind, friendly, humorous person. He took them to see New York City's night scenery at the balcony. The view was great, Dink felt him just like an eagle up here. After that, Warren led them to see the painting. "This was painted a long time ago by a man named Claude Monet. It's very valuable." He said. "Is the painting yours?" Dink asked. "I wish it were, Donny," his uncle said. But it was his friend Forest Evans' collection, not his.

Latter, Warren looked at his watch and said "It's time to go downstairs," he said. He took the kids to see the circus in New York City. Troupers of the circus were very funny and good, they can perform many amazing act you never seeing before. Both Warren and the kids had fun there. But when they went to Warren's house, they found the painting was stolen. And the tabletop was littered with orange juice and peels. The fruit bowl was overturned. It's a very strange scene.

My Reading Journals 6 J組 董力文

Within few days, Jacob and John didn't talk each other. John also talked little with Cassie, Sarah, and Caleb. Sarah said these man were too stubborn, and Caleb worried they would hurt each other. One day, John was sick seriously, Sarah asked Jacob to take him to see Sam, the doctor of this town. Sam told Jacob that John's body was very bad, and had lots of problems. He needed to be in the hospital, until rehabilitation. Jacob and Anna took care of John, so he became good gradually. In these days, they stated to understand each other. After John recovered, they finally became families.

In this story, I learned the way of dealing with problems. Instead of keeping our hate in mind, we should let past passed way. No matter what happened, families were still families.

And the next book I chosen is ''The Orange Outlaw ''. This book was written by Ron Roy, he is an amazing author of the A to Z mysteries series. His book let people enjoy reading. This story was about three kids' adventure of catching the painting thief. They only had some clues about orange peels and an orange hair. So how could the kids catch the crafty crook?

My Reading Journals 5 J組 董力文

The man only said his name was John, he didn't tell everyone who he was. They talked some things about themselves. Sarah was married with Jacob after his wife dead, Anna and Caleb were her stepdaughter as well as stepson, Cassie was her real daughter. But their relationship were very harmonious. Jacob was unhappy when he lost his wife. Thanked to Sarah's company, he could be free of sad. After talking, Cassie asked John to play the game — hide-and-seek,and they all had fun. That night, Sarah arranged John to sleep in Anna's room. Their cat slept with John, too.

Until the next day, when Caleb's father — Jacob came, they realized that John was their grandfather. They thought John died for a long time, because he left home and abandoned his wife and child — Jacob before. Jacob was very angry and didn't welcome John, but Sarah took care of him well. She didn't ask John any question about himself, but Cassie did a lot. So John called Cassie was the queen of question.

My Reading Journals 4 J組 董力文

Caleb's sister, Anna gave him a journal to write about their daily life. Because she was going to work at town with Sam, he was a doctor and also was her boyfriend - Justin's father. She worked for Sam because she wanted to know more about Justin. But Justin had gone to Europe to fight in the war. She felt lonely, so asked Caleb to write a journal after she left. At first, Caleb refused her request and said he was not a wirter, but Anna replied "Everyone's not a writer, but everyone can write". Caleb cannot but do the job.

One day, When Caleb and his sister Cassie played a game, Cassie told Caleb that she saw a man in their barn. But Caleb thought the man was just her sister's imagined friend. In other words, the man was not existent. But later, he saw the stranger by his eyes in the barn, too. He called their mother, Sarah soon. The man said he just felt cold, but he didn't get fever. At that moment, Sarah made her mind to invite the man to their house for taking a break.

My Reading Journals 3 J組 董力文

I caught a cold this week, I felt uncomfortably and low-spirited, but I still finished my book . This was the first time I finished an english book from beginning to end, and never gave up! At the start, I thought it would be hard for me to read an english book and keep it up. Now, it happend, unconsciously.

I borrowed a new one from library,which were named "CALEB'S STORY". The writer was Patricia Maclachlan, she was the author of many beloved novels for young readers, and several picture books. The story was talking about Caleb and the journal Anna gave him. Anna wanted Caleb to fill the journal, to write down their family's story. Caleb thought it was hard to find things to write, but after his little sister, Cassie saw a mysterious old man in the barn, everything changed.

My Reading Journals 2 J組 董力文

I have read the book "American Short Stories In Special English" for some days. There were lots of stories, but one of them touched my heart deeply. The tale was about a pregnant mother Olive helping their cow to have a baby. It was her husband's job, and he told her to stay at home instead in the barn. Nate was afraid that his wife would be scared when seeing new calf's born. When it happend, Nate could do nothing about the cow, because he didn't have any experience. Olive scared at first, but soon she became calmly, and controlled all the situation. How bravely Olive was! She was fearless to the calf, maybe it was due to the natural duty. Mothers seemed to have the power that can protect their baby very well and safely than Father. And even if how weakness they were first, then they all would be storng enough to face the trouble for their children.

From the story, I learned that we can do many things than we expected before, just to make our mind and do the best for ourselves.

My Reading Journals 1 J組 董力文

I selected the book that named "American Short Stories In Special English".
I have read six stories about the book.
Honestly, my speed was slowly, because at first I chosen another book,
but that one was not suitable to me. So I changed the book later.
This one, I thought could be better for me.
There were kinds of short stories, and stories was indepent each other.
For example, this was a story about a man lost his hair just because he always wore cowboy hat;
the other was talking about a man addicting to his job due to working too long;
And a story about a couple were praying for raining to their farm in long drought.
This American short stories were interest to me, though some of them could be irrational,
but some could be useful of their deeply meaning after the words.
This was the first time to read english book and write down my thought or opinion,
I wish I could keep going all of the books in this semester.