symbolism for Spinners

The book that I am reading right now is Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli & Richard Tchen. The symbol that is in the book is a spinning wheel. I believe that because both the characters in the book sacrifaced something in order to spin for their loved ones.
For the first character, a tailor, he was very much in love with a young woman. They both thought that they were meant to be together forever. The tailor wants to marry the woman. However, the young woman's father wanted his daughter to marry a miller who was twice the age of the woman because the tailor was too poor for the father's standards. The tailor insisted that the father let the tailor and his "darling" get marry. The father finally proposes a plan. The tailor was to make a gold dress for his daughter before the next full moon. The tailor was frantic because he doesn't have enough money to buy golden threads. So he settled for spinning straw. He hoped that the straw will turn into gold. When he finally spinned a golden dress from straw, he was crippled because of sewing nonstop all the time and not sleeping. When the young woman saw what the tailor had become, she rejected him and married the miller. So the spinner sacrifaced his leg and his profession for his beloved... and lost her.
For the second character, Saskia, the tailor's daughter (because the young woman from before was pregnant with the child from the tailor when she married the miller) was living with the miller. The miller, because Saskia and her friend shaved his hair, was ashamed and would never go outside. He stopped milling grains from people and is losing money fast. Saskia and the miller became poor and Saskia decides to spin in order to live. So she learned how to spin and to sell her wares in the market. I believe that she will sacriface something in order to spin and to feed her family (the miller). Just like the tailor, I believe that she will lose her "father', the miller and will eventually meet her real father, the crippled tailor.
That is why I believe that the spinning wheel is the symbol for this book.

2nd book finished!~

I finished the book Beka Cooper: Terrier; A Tortall Legend yesterday but I got home late so I couldn't do a blog.

Terrier, Terrier
Bites and never lets go
Fishpuppy no more
Grown big and now you're a
Terrier
Sharp wits
with your baton
Attacks, Bites,
Never lets go
Beka Cooper,
Fishpuppy no more
True Dog
True Terrier

Well, that was a little poem that I thought up of in my head. It connected to the main character, Beka Cooper. She is training to be a Provost's Guard , or more commoly known as "the Provost's Dogs". You can say that Provost's Guard is like police in the real world. Anyway,Beka is a trainee so she is called a puppy. When you have completed your training, you become a guard, or a dog. On the first day of Beka's job, she crashed into a fish barrel and thus she was named Fishpuppy by the older Dogs. However, she proved to others and herself that she is not a puppy but a true Dog, a Terrier because she never gives up. When she was working on cases that other Dogs had given up on because it was too hard to handle or too dangerous, Beka kept on investigating and never gave up on the cases. So she became known as Terrier.
Oh and I'm starting on Howl's Moving Castle~

another book finished and another book started

Well, I finished the book The Royal Diaries: Catherine; The Great Journey, Russia, 1764 or something like that because I can't remember the title right now because I returned it to the library just 1 hour ago.
But I have a new book now! It's Beka Cooper: Terrier (A Tortall Legend) by Tamora Pierce. Tamora Pierce is one of my favorite authors! My other favorite author is Lurlene McDaniel but I'll tell you about her when I read one of her books.
The books is 563 pages! -shock- Then again, I've read bigger books than that so it's fine! If I spped- read like usual I'll probably finish it over the weekends or so... maybe less if the book is very good which it probably is. But if I was to read it 100 pages a week... it'll take around 1 month to finish it... or 1 and a half months... well you get my point.
Well, I'll do the actual blog on saturday or sunday... but if I have time, I'll do my blog tonight when I have time to actually read the book.
Oh and one interesting fact about Tamora Pierce is that her mother wanted to name her "Tamara: but the nurse who filled out the her birth certificate misspelled it as "Tamora".

book of my spare time

The Royal Diaries: Chaterine; The Grat Journey Russia, 1743
That's the book that I'm reading in my spare time. I got it from the library with some other books and this is the second to last book ithat I have to read until I have to go to the library again. *signs* I really need to stop speed reading library books when I borrow them.
Anyway, The book is pretty good. It's about a little known princess named Catherine who marries the heir to the Russia throne. The book is pretty amazing because it has these facts but then some of the characters are fictional... at the same time... yea...
Well, I found out that Catherine's mother is one of the most unencouraging mothers in the whole entire world. She's so selfish and greedy. She always calls Catherine ugly and poor even though the mom herself is just a princess from a small royal family. That's so mean!
That's about all. I just started but that's what I got from the few pages that I read. Think I'll be finished by tonight or tomorrow.
So here it is, the book of my spare time!

finished!!

Welll, I'm finally done with the book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'm glad that I finished the book because I was reading other books at the same time and then I would remember that I still had this book to finish for my english homework. I was sort of reluctant to read this book because I don't really like this book. Even though I finished reading it, I still find it confusing even though people have told me that I should just suck it up and continue reading the book.
But now, I'm finished so yay! I don't really like the book though because in the beggining, the chapters skip around (yes I already told you this but I'm complaining again just for the heck of it) but then later in the book, it evens out again as in like the chapters were choppy at first but then the chapters were even in the end.
I will now be starting a new book but I don't know what book it is yet because I need to go to the library.

Guess What?

Guess what? Many people has said that the book that I'm reading, The Hitchhiker's Guid to the Galaxy, is a very good book. On the cover of it, it said that Douglas Adams, the author of the book was New York Times bestselling author. That's pretty interesting I guess.
On the bus, when I was going home, my friends and I were talking about the books that we were reading for English. I said that the book was very confusing. Noah, however, said that it was a really good book and that I should watch the movie. When I asked him what the book was about because I was so confused... he said that aliens came and destroyed the Earth and that the aliens were dolphins. That's pretty neat I guess. But I didn't find any dolphins in the book yet. Maybe I'll find them later in the story.
At first, I thought that Noah was talking about Ford Perfect becuse he was an alien from "outer space". Ford was a good person, werid but nice.
That's all I got to say for now.

first 100 pages

Well, I read the first 100 pages of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
This books is very confusing. I don't really get the book.
For example, in the first chapter, Arthur Dent (one of the two main characters of the book) woke up and found out that his house was about to be demolished by bulldozers to make way for a bypass. Then all of a sudden Ford Perfect, the other main character of the book, comes and tells Arthur that the world which was Earth was going to end in twenty minutes. Ford takes Arthur to a bar and gets Arthur drunk,
And then all of a sudden in the second chapter, it started talking about the President of the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox, and how he was making some speech in front of cameras... which didn't really make sense to me but never mind that. The chapter ended with Zaphod throwing a bomb in front of the cameras. Does that makes sense to you?
Then the next chapter automatically changed to Arthur's and Ford's perspective and how Earth was about to be destroyed.
The werid thing about this book is that it defines words that I already know. Like for example, Ford needed a towel to get aboard a spaceship. Not only did the author define the word towel, but there was an unneeded 2 pages defining the word towel. I would think I know what a towel is but then it was talking about how you needed a towel to flag a spaceship and get on it. That didn't make sense to me.
Also, I forgot to mention this, there are footnotes in the book. The footnotes take up half the page in the book. I don't really like that. It gets confusing because I would read a passage then look down to this HUGE chunk of footnotes and after I'm finished reading with that, I would then have to look all the way up at the top to reread the sentence then continue on with the book.
All in all, I enjoyed the first 100 pages of the book.

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The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy

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The Hitichhiker's guide to the Galaxy

I choose The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, to read as my English Independent Reading book. I choose to read this book because at first I wasn't really sure which book to read. However, I was discussing it with my friends and they recommended this book to me. They said that it was very interesting and that I w0uld like it. Based on what I now know about this book, I would expect something like a mind- blowing plot or something like that. If not then at least I would get to read something interesting to keep myself busy.
Douglas Adams:: This is the authos of the book. His full name is Douglas Noël Adams. He was born on March 11, 1952 and died surprisingly recent, on May 11, 2001. He was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and a musician. One surprising fact that I like about him is that :: He is a lover of fast cars.
If I was to read 100 pages of this book every week, it would take around 4 weeks before I will finish reading.
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