Hello Everyone,
It’s Friday, and that means it is Five on Friday (hosted by the fabulous girls April, Darci, Christina and Natasha), which is five times the books and five times the fun! The letter today
is V, a Very Vicious Vocation of a letter that I am Vying to do!
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
This is a beautiful little picture book about, you guessed
it, a very hungry caterpillar. He just eats and eats and eats. And then he
curls up into a cocoon and sleeps for a long time. When he comes out, he is no
longer a caterpillar, but a beautiful butterfly. I remember being read this as
a little girl, and I in turn read it to my little sister. Children all across
the world love it. A simple but very effective story. Did you get read it as a
child, or did you read it to your own, or someone else’s children? What did you
think of it?
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The
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
This was possibly my favourite of the Narnia books, not
funnily enough The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I can’t quite explain why,
it just is. It might be because there is no actual villain to fight, it is the
character’s flaws that cause the problems for the quest. I just loved the character
of Eustace. I know this is not normal, he is presented as a horrible character,
but he changes and learns the most from his time in Narnia, and I love things
like that.
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Venus and Adonis
This is a poem by Shakespeare about two lovers, Venus and
Adonis. Adonis wants to go hunting, but Venus seduces him instead. It is later
revealed that Adonis died in his hunting trip after his time with Venus. I absolutely
adore Shakespeare, his words are just stunning. I especially love his poems and
plays about love. I am a bit of a sap like that, and a bit of a romantic.
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| via: http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/images/big/venus_adonis.jpg |
Valentine Grey
This is a magnificent piece of work about human equality and
the suffering people had to go through to get it. Valentine Grey stays in London
with her cousin Reggie and his lover Frank. When the Boer War and conscription
starts, Valentine takes her cousin’s place, so he can stay with Frank. However,
both of them face persecution for their choices. The army is not a welcoming
place for a woman, nor London for a homosexual.
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Vampire Diaries
I am not a fan of Vampire fiction, although I have read all
the Twilight books. I just think that this genre is a bit overdone and out
dated. However, I have heard that the Vampire Diaries is better than the
Twilight saga (and they were written first), so I will be trying to check them
out at some point.
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Gracexxx
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