Book review2-18: Emil and the Detectives

I read Emil and the Detectives. Emil is traveling alone to his grandmother’s house in the city. He is carrying money to her from this mother. Then a man on the train steals the money Emil follows the thief and an exciting adventure begins, with lots of detectives, a lift boy, and a fight in a bank! I thought this story was very interested me, but it was difficult for me to understand this story.

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Book review2-17: American Life

　I read American Life. I have never been to foreign countries, but I want to go to many foreign countries. Especially, I want to go to America. The United States is a very big country. I like American movies. American movie-makers about 570 movies each year. Other countries make more movies- there are 850 new movies every year in India. But many people watch American movies around the world. Of course, movie-makers know this. Some American movies do not make a lot of money in the US, but people in other countries love them. I think that America has a lot of things which Japan does not have. I understood to read this book.

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Book review2-16: Matilda

I read Matilda. I introduce this book. Matilda is 5 years old. Matilda read all the library books of a village at 5 years old. She is genius. But her parents were not going to recognize her genius. She has a great time giving them what they deserve. But at school things are different. At school there's Miss Trunchbull: two hundred pounds of kid-hating headmistress. Giving Miss Trunchbull what she deserves will take more than a genius.....it will take a superhuman genius! This book is very interesting and funny. But I had a poor vocabulary, so it was difficult for me to read it. But I recommend this book.

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Book review2-15: SURVIVE!

I read SURVIVE! This book's hero or heroine is yourself. I think this book is very unique. Person who read it judges many choices. If I get lost in the mountain..... What should I do?? I read while thinking it.

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Book review2-14: British life

I read British life. British and tea interested me.

The British population (over the age of ten) drinks about 200,000,000 cups of tea a day. That is an average of nearly 1,040 cups of tea a year for each person. Tea- mostly green tea from China- came to Britain in the late 1500s, but it was only for the very rich. It became cheaper about three hundred years later, when it was planted in India and later in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). People from all classes started drinking it. But some people thought that too much tea was bad for your health. So they started putting milk in it, to make it healthier!

Afternoon tea, high tea, lunch and dinner

Afternoon tea is a small meal, not a drink. Now most ordinary British families do not have time for afternoon tea at home, but in the past it was a tradition. It became popular about a hundred and fifty years ago, when rich ladies invented their friends to their houses for an afternoon cup of tea. They started offering their visitors sandwiches and cakes too. Soon everybody was enjoying this exciting new meal. But the British working population did not have afternoon tea. They had a meal at about midday, and a meal after work, between five and seven o’clock. This meal was called ‘high tea’, or just ‘tea’. Some families in Scotland and the north of England still have ‘high tea’ and some restaurants in these areas offer it too. High tea is a big meal with a main dish – meat for fish – followed by bread and butter and cakes. You drink lots of cups of tea with tea. Today most people have a meal between 12 and 2 p.m. In the past, this meal was called ‘dinner’ in working families. But now most people call it ‘lunch’. ‘Dinner’ has become a bigger meal in the evenings.

Reading this book, I thought it is important for British to drink tea. I like tea very much, so I understood British feelings.

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Book review-2-13: little women

I read Little women. In Japan, Little women is called Wakakusa story. This story is famous story, but I have never read it. 　

Little Women is a novel published in 1868 and written by American author Louisa May Alcott. The story concerns the lives and loves of four sisters growing up during the American Civil War. It was based on Alcott's own experiences as a child in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts, with her three sisters, Anna, May, and Elizabeth.

The four March sisters- Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They have problems. Their father is away in the war and they don’t have much money, but the girls have happy times too! Read this story of family love in a difficult year for the March. I thought they are massive. Especially, Meg, I thought. I think I want to become her.

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Book review2-12: Leonardo DiCaprio

I read Leonardo DiCaprio. He is a very big movie star. His blue eyes are famous and teenage girls love his smile. I like him too. He has fans in every country, and his movies, Titanic and Romeo and Juliet, are big hits. I watched both Titanic and Romeo and Juliet. I have a DVD of Titanic. I think it very good movie. I watched American movie for the first time. I was well impressed by his performance. Reading this book, I want his to make a lot of good movies.

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Book review2-11: Romeo and Juliet

I read Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous love stories in the world. But it is more than a great love story. It is also about life and death, happiness and sadness, and the terrible hate between two great families.

I like Juliet’s line, 'Oh Romeo, Romeo- why are you called Romeo? It is only your name that is my enemy. You are yourself, not a Montague. What is a Montague? It isn’t hand, or a foot, or an arm, or face'. I understand that Juliet likes Romeo from these lines.

They loved each other. But there was an invisible barrier between people. The Romeo family and Juliet family was enemy. But they had made a match of it. It was secret. He left from her. He heard she was killed. But it was not true. But he didn’t know that thing. So, he was very sad. She thought if a rumor was going about that she was dead, he must be come back. She had drunk the strong sleeping pill. He saw her. He thought she was dead. So, he killed himself. She woke up him side. She saw him body. She were determined she killed herself too. They died.

I think I can't do like them. If I have a lover, maybe I can't die for my lover.

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Book review2-10: The Beatles

I read The Beatles. I like Beatles. My favorite their song is Let it be. Their song is very cool and makes all over the world people happy. I often sing their song in karaoke.

The year was 1963, and Beatlemania was only just beginning. Soon the Beatles had fans all around the world. For the rest of the 1960s their music led the way and they changed modern music forever. This book tells the story of the greatest band in the world from the early days in Liverpool to the Beatles’ music in the world today. I think they are great band all over the world.

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Book review2-09: Audrey Hepburn

I read Audrey Hepburn. Audrey Hepburn was a beautiful and great actress. I have never watched her movies, but I know Roman Holiday. She was very cute and beautiful. I like her smile. I think she great actress. The world loved her, and people love her now….I think. She was born in Brussels on May 4, 1929. She liked dancing. Especially, she liked ballet dancing. I have been surprised about her. It is that she can speak 5 languages- English, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch. I was surprised. I want to watch her movies. She died, but I think that she continue shining forever.

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Book review2-08: Who wants to be a star?

I read Who wants to be a star? A main character of this book is Tina Daniels. She is a famous TV star. She is 13 years old. She can sing and dance. Everyone knows her.

Her mother is very strict her because I think her mother expects too much of her. Therefore, she is unhappy, so she wants to get away from it all, and she ‘disappears’ to the countryside to learn another way of life.

She spent in a house of the grandmother of the friend foe a week. The grandmother of the friend is Mrs. White. Mrs. White was very kind. She doesn’t know that Tina is famous star, but Mrs. White knew it with a newspaper. She called her mother.

I think Tina want to rid herself of her trouble. I understand little her feelings, but I thought it is important to have the courage that does not escape from there.

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Book reveiw2-07: Newspaper Chase

I read Newspaper Chase. This story was interesting to me.

A character of this story is Harry. He is thief. He could steal the picture from art gallery. When he out there, he fell the blue glass vase and broken a hundred pieces. Then he went to home. He hid the picture in the newspaper. Next day was newspaper recycling day, so his roommate take out his newspaper. Two policemen arrested him as theft. I thought he is fool because he should have obscured it.

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Book review2-06: Police TV

I read “Police TV”. This story kept me suspense.
Dan and Sue are police officers in London. ‘Every day someone steals money from people near the shops. We must stop this’, says Dan. Dan suspects runner, near the shops because every day he runs near the shops, so Dan thinks runner steals the money.

One day, Old woman’s purse has been stolen. There was young woman the long and that runner. Young woman just helps old woman. Dan and Sue asked runner. ‘Why do you go running past the shops every day?’ He said, ‘I like running’. So, he hasn’t stolen old woman’s purse.

Dan and Sue think they investigate use of the TV camera. Various people were reflected in the camera, but Dan and Sue suspect that young woman. They decided sting operation. As one expected, she appeared there. They could catch her, but she has partner. It is her husband.

I think this story excited because we don’t understood a suspect until the last. I recommended this book.

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Book review 2-05: Kim's choice

I read “Kim’s choice”. Kim likes running very much. Kim’s father takes her to the athletics club every week. She runs very fast and she wins competitions. Her father is happy, but sometimes Kim thinks, “I never go out with my friends. I only go to the club with my father”. She didn’t have a freedom because her father was very strict. She had a boyfriend. His name is Curtis. She is very happy.

One day, she promised a date with him, but the day before she must take part in competition, however, she decides to date with him in disco. Her father was very angry, but she went to disco. Therefore her father doesn’t go with her, she doesn’t go home again, and she doesn’t go to the athletics club.

I think that Kim’s father is very, very strict because she didn’t have a freedom. I think her father must have given to Kim a freedom. However, Kim chooses her boy friend.

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Book review 2-04: Dead Man's River

I read Dead Man's River. It is the time of the America Gold Rush. The main character is Jonas Clark. He loves Hetty Gray, but her father opposes to marry because he is too poor. I thought that her father were spiteful to oppose their marriage. Jonas wants to get money, so he went to Dead Man's River.
Two men threaten Harry with gun. Harry is mining engineer. Jonas watched this situation. He followed to help Harry. He helped Harry, get a lot of money from Harry.

They have made a match of it. Her father permits him to marry with her. I think that after all, it proved money.

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Book reveiw 2-03: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

I read Sleepy Hollow. It was very funny story. The main character of this story is Headless horseman, Ichabod Crane, Katrina and Brom Bones. Headless horseman was the soldier long time ago. His head still lies somewhere on the battlefield. Every night, he rides back to the battlefield to look for it.

Ichabod loves Katrina, but Borm loves her, too. Ichabod is schoolmaster in the village. He is not handsome. Borm is very different from Ichabod. He is tall and handsome.

One dark night, Ichabod saw the Headless Horseman. Headless Horseman ran after Ichabod. He was really terrified- he was very, very frightened, so he escapes from the village. The people of Sleepy Hollow worried about him. But he lives in New York.

Actually, Borm impersonated Headless Horseman because he wanted to gain Katrina. I thought it was very, very funny. I have watched movie “ Sleepy Hollow”, so This story was very different from movie. I was surprised, but I was very interested this story.

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Book review2-02: TINKERS ISLAND

I read this book. This book is written by very easy English. So, It was easy for me to read this book. This story was Tinker and her father. It felt enviable that they lived freely.
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Book review2-01: Sally's phone

I read "Sally's phone". It was very good story. Sally always has her phone all the time. She has boyfriends, he is name Andrew. One day, She bought cafe and sitting down. Then a man appeared, and the man has dropped a bag of her. Two mobile phones have been replaced then. It changes her life.

They met to have you return phone. While they met, they were attracted, and she got acquainted with him.

I thought that it was a very good encounter. It was important for us to use the phone in our life.
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Book review1-12: The Three Musketeers

I read this book. I'll explain this story. It is the year 1627, young d'Artagnan comes to Paris with a dream. He becomes a king's Musketeer. He visits the Three Musketeers: Porthos, Athos and Aramis. He made friends with them. d'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers fight against the evil. I thought d'Artagnan is a brave man. I like a brave man because a brave man protects all people and me. If I marry for love, I want to marry d'Artagnan.

Book review1-11: Alice in Wonderland

I read this book. I'll explain this story.
One hot summer day, Alice sees a white rabbit and runs after it. She follows it down a rabbit-hole. Alice arrives in "Wonderland". She finds here, caterpillars can talk, rabbits have watches and the Queen wants to cut off everybody's head.
My favorite character is "rabbit" because I thought it very unique. I thought I want to "rabbit" as a pet because rabbit may inform time for me. (^ ^)