Kalypso The Odyssey

I have, once again conquered another boring book on the summer reading list and will be wonderfly happy to cross this book off the list. My Brother Sam is Dead is a book about the little brother of a soldier in the Revolutionary War. I personally just don’t seem to like American history so I didn’t find the book that interesting or exciting but it might be better for you if you find that history is just a bit more than names, places, battles, and dates. My dad says I will like history more when I get older. So now I shall start the more known rumored-for-being and supposedly good read, The Count of Monte Cristo. Today I also went to the beach with Kesem, Mike and Sharon’s (the people that run the Bistro on the kibutz) daughter. We had a good time. The waves were extrordinairily strong and the beach was amazingly clean (well, at least compaired to the ones in NOLA.) It was a good day swimming in the Mediterranean.

I have crossed off 2 more books from my summer reading list. Their names are A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’engle and Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam Jr. The first book is a story about a girl named Meg, her brother, Charles Walace, and their friends. They all try to save the world from evil Echthros as they try to push all reality into oblivion. Open the book and at the same time open the door to a world where size and space don’t matter because no matter how small or large, we are all important and we all need each other. The other book, Rocket Boys, is the memoir of Homer Hickam Jr. and his part in the space race of 1960.

Tomorrow, me and my dad are going on a six week trip to the Middle East on an archaeological excavation (my dad gets his trip for free, but I have to pay to spend six weeks in the dirt digging up broken pots and dead bodies from 3,000 years ago). But don’t get me wrong, it’s a great experiance and a chance to meet nice, fun new people. But anyways, I have this summer reading list that I have to finish and we couldn’t find one of the books that we needed at book stores so we had to get it at a library. It’s called, Dovey Coe by Frances O’Roark Dowell, and it is about a little girl named Dovey from North Carolina who gets accused of murdering her older sister’s evil sutor. Her brother Amos is deaf and because of this, everyone thinks that he is crazy. Amos has two dogs, Huck and Tom, an older sister named Caroline, and mother and father who are called Mama and Daddy throghout the book. Caroline’s sutor, Parnell Caraway, is a bratty rich kid, who has never worked a day in his life. He grows up being spoiled by his parents and comes to think that the world and everything in it is his to buy and sell. The only thing that he can’t have is Caroline Coe. So, to get his way, he comes into the family and tries to ruin her plans to go to college and become a teacher by making him fall in love with her. His cruel plan fails miserably as she turnes him down again and again, humiliating him and causing him to become bent on revenge. The thing that I liked best about this book was how it was a murder mystery book, because I like those. The thing that I liked least about it was the southern accents, I don’t know why I don’t like that accent, especially because I live in the south. The problem with reading is that the book is due back before we return, so I am stuck on the last evening before that long trip, reading when I could be doing stuff online. Maybe this is my reward for getting all As on my report card. I don’t get why people usually reward a great feat with more work. Like one of my many friend’s relitives says ,” No good deed goes unpunished.”

I have read 2 more fascinating books that I still can’t get over. Eragon and the last book in the Series of Unfortunate Events, The End. Eragon is an amazing book and I cannot wait until I get my hands on the next book in the series, Eldest. A Series of Unfortunate Events has become one of my favorit series if not my favorite (its competeders being Eragon, Harry Potter, and The Chronicles of Narnia). While I am waiting to get my hands on Eldest I will be reading Tuck Everlasting which I will finish in 1 if not 2 days tops. There is also supposed to be an Eragon movie comming out in December. My original goal with these books was to finish Eragon by the time the movie came out but now I want to finish the second book in the series and if possible the third. I LOVE BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I finally finished Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince! I am so glad to finaly be done with it. Well I can’t tell you much but I can tell you this. You probably already know this but somebody does die although I cannot tell you who or how. He is very important especially to Harry. Other than that Harry is given a book that was once used by the half blood prince. He had scribbled all over it. And always next to the scribbling he wrote how to do the potion the correct way since the book somehow always messed it up. He turns out helping Harry a lot with not only potions but also other things because he had scribbled spells in the margins of the pages. After a while he turns out being someone Harry hates which is sort of weird. Well that is really all I can tell you. So now I am caught up with the series. Every book ever published in the series I have read.

I just finished reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, number five in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Now I am going to read The Silver Chair.

I haven’t had much to write for a while, therefore I have not written in my journal for a while. Today we went down to the farm and I saw some cows. We went to close to the baby cows and we triggered an alarm, but we got out OK. I buried Harey the rabbit a few days ago. I lost my trowel and my swimming goggles, but I found my trowel in a big container on the sight. Unfortunately, I never found my goggles, but I’m sure they will show up. And I finished The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, and now I will start the third book. I can’t wait. Today Sy Gitin, the director of the Albright visited Tel Zeitah. He seemed happy to see me. I’ll post pictures sometime soon. We found something living in our house today. It had four legs, and I think it was orange and with a tail, so it might be a lizard. We got new air conditioners in our room. Unfortunately for me I am colder than I usually am so I get more goosebumps.

Dear J. K. Rowlings,
I’m now reading your fith book. Its great so far, like all your other books. I am at the spot where Harry is at Number 12 Grimwould place. I love your books, I heard that someone dies in it as well as upcoming books. Why is it so dramatic? Will you make more people die. I can’t wait to read and find out who dies. Will you please make more books. I love reading them. If you will make more books, how many will you make? Have you started writing a sixth book? I also have started writing like you, though I only have a blog site, not a book.

A Huge Fan,
Kalypso Homan