one last thing

I forgot to write this in my last post about the book, Good-Bye, Mr.Chips by James Hilton. There are a lot of latin phrases in the book, many centered around punch lines of jokes. I don't know about you guys but my latin could use some work. I think the book would have been half way funny if I knew latin and could understand the jokes!

One down 3 to go

I finished my first book... like two weeks ago and I am just now blogging about it. I am an over achiever!!! Well I read Good-Bye, Mr. Chips and it was an alright book. It read really fast which was a plus, but some parts of it were very boring... At the beginning it goes backward in time then in the middle it starts going forwards in time again so it gets a little confusing. The annoying part about it though is that the main character Mr. Chips' dialogue is bursting at the seems with "um's", "er's" and "umph's". It also has a ton of dashes in it to show pauses. This is a short passage from the book so you can see what I am talking about, " You know-umph-Linford-you'll like Brookfield-when you get used to it.It's not half such an awful place-as you imagine. You're a bit afraid of it-um,yes-eh? So was I,my dear boy- at first. But that was- um- a long time ago. Sixty-three years ago-umph- to be precise. When I- um- first went into the Big Hall and - um- I saw all those boys- I tell you- I was quite scared. Indeed- umph-I don't think I've ever been so scared in my life." (116-117) So yea that's how all the dialogue is and it is really annoying after about the first chapter. I have started my second book which is Tess of the D'Ubervilles. It is a bit long and written in older writing forms so it is kind of hard to understand but so far I have got a good grip on it.