hey!!
so...
more people are using the blog again, yay! 'tis good indeed!
anyway, i have a book to review. i just read "gifts" by ursela leguin. It was about a boy and a girl who live in a place called the uplands. each family line there has a different "gift" some can make you deaf, some can see into your mind, some can call animals and some can kill you with a glance. The families are often feuding with each other using their gifts as weapons.
The bot, Orrec and the girl, Gry decide that they aren't going to use their gifts to hurt others. Gry won't call animals to be hunted and Orrec is blind folded so that he won't be able to kill with a glance. The story tells what happens in the Uplands because the two, Orrec in particular have refused to use their gifts.
twas a cool book indeed!
-Eleanor
p.s. there used to be links to other peoples blogs (ida, mine and matty's) and now i can't find them... (did the blogs die?) if not i think that the links should come back, because i want to read the rest of ida's story and i don't know how to get there. (i should try to finish... and by finish i mean restart... what i started on my blog...)
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
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Hey, Eleanor, you're right. Whatever happened to the blog links?
I will have to investigate. How are you? I am working on a new Summer Reading List now so am open to suggestions...!
I, too, enjoyed "Gifts." I have been reading a bunch of stuff... I thought the new Michael Printz YA award winner was god, called, "How I Live Now." It's about an American girl who goes to England to visit distant relatives and gets caught there during an invasion. She and her cousins have to fend for themselves to survive.
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