The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

I watched the Narnia movie when it first came out and I absolutely fell in love with Aslan, so I thought, "I want to read the books!!!"
Well, I have owned the books The Magician's Nephew and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe sense elementary school, but I had only ever read The Magician's Nephew because when I was younger I was very discouraged from reading...
This year I have started to go through all the books I own and read them all the way through. Books have always fascinated me, even though I never really read when I was young. So I found these two books and I re-read The Magician's Nephew and I read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for the first time. I love it! It is different from the movie, but then again all books are different from their movie counterparts.
Anyways, I'm not going to write a review or anything for Lion Witch Wardrobe, but I will say that it was a good book and I recommend it to everyone. When I can afford it, I will buy and read the rest of the Narnia books because they are interesting and full of adventure so far!
So, that's all... I have a stack (actually a bookcase full) of books I will be reading soon, so look foreword to more random talkings about books! Of course it'll be random because this is Unlimited Random! Bye!~

DragonFlight

This post contains spoilers. :D

DragonFlight by Anne McCaffrey

The book DragonFlight by Anne McCaffrey has two main characters, but centers mostly on the girl Lessa. In the beginning, the reader is introduced to Lessa as a dredge in Ruath Hold who has woken in uneasiness, sensing danger. She cannot sense where the danger is coming from though. Then the reader meets F'lar, a dragonrider and wingleader from Benden Weyr.

F'lar and his wing, which includes his half brother F'nor, are on Search looking for a girl to Impress the gold egg that the queen dragon Nemorth has laid. His wing comes to the High Reaches, which is the area that the overlord Fax controlled. Fax had conquered many holds in this area and had inherited or married into others; Ruatha was an area that he had conquered, brutally killing anyone of the Ruathian blood that he could find. (He didn't kill them all! Later on we discover that Lessa is of Ruathian blood and the only reason she survived the attack from Fax is because she hid in the watch-wher's den where no one would look.) F'lar and his wing search multiple Holds that Fax controls and they find no one that F'lar is satisfied with, but when they enter Ruatha all the dragonriders sense a power somewhere nearby.

As Ruath Hold discovers that Fax is coming, they panic because the Hold has deteriorated so much in the past ten Turns and they are not prepared to have their overlord there. Lessa, while others are trying to prepare, is sabotaging everything she can, hoping that Fax will renounce the Hold and she will be able to take her place as the holder of Ruatha.

Due to Lessa's sabotage, Fax says that if his wife gives birth to a healthy son, he will give up his claim to the Hold. When Lady Gamma does give birth to a healthy boy, Fax is furious and explodes in anger and hits the drudge who bore the news. This drudge happens to be Lessa and the dragonriders happened to feel power come from her, so when she does not move after being hit by Fax, F'lar is angry. Just when he finds a girl that they can take for the search, she may be dead!

So F'lar fights with and kills Fax. He then makes sure that the girl is still alive and he discoverers that she is of Ruathian blood. He coaxes her into coming to the Weyr because she has a chance to become Weyrwoman.

Lessa in fact does Impress the golden egg and dragon, Ramoth, and she becomes Weyrwoman. She then learns to fly with Ramoth as well as go between.

As the threat of Threads, the things that fall from the Red Star that kill off everything that is living, becomes a bigger issue, the riders at the Weyr are worried that they will not have enough dragons to fight the foes. The last time that Threads fell was 400 Turns ago with six Weyrs to fight them and full support of the Holds. Now there is but one Weyr and the Lords of the holds do not fully support the dragonriders anymore. They think that no more Threads will come.

Lessa discovers that one can travel back and forth in time through between just as you can travel from place to place through it, but it takes a terrible toll on the body. She decides to travel to 400 Turns ago when the riders and their dragons of five of the six Weyrs just disappeared without a trace. She survives the journey and brings the riders of the Weyrs to her present time so that they can help fight the new threat of Threads!

In the battle where all the riders come together to fight the Threads, Lessa is finally allowed to fight alongside the men because in the past, there was a whole wing for the queens! (a tradition long forgotten.)

The last thought is F'lar thinking on the extent of between and if someday they will be able to go to the Red Star and destroy the Threads once and for all, but if he told Lessa, with her nature she would definitely try it without a thought.

I loved this book! It's been in my bookshelf for years and I never managed to finish reading it... But I started reading three days ago (I read really slowly!) and I couldn't put it down even for ten minutes to get a drink! I finished half of it that day and didn't get back to it till today and I finished it earlier today! I liked the courage and strength of Lessa and the companionship of the rider and the dragon. I do recommend this book to anyone!

Um, back again and a book

Long time no see... um, sorry. I won't get into much of why I didn't post. The most I'll say is that I had to take care of school stuff, but you don't wanna hear my excuses, you wanna hear about books!

I tend to include spoilers. Not many, but they slip out.

So, I read this short little book by J. R. R. Tolkien the other day called Smith of Wootton Major. This book is about 62 pages long; very short! It is about a village named Wootton Major and the happenings that go on there to cause Smith to be able to travel to the land of Faery and what he finds in this land. I thought the story was interesting and I wanted to know what would happen to Smith in Faery and what would ever happen if he lost the star that let him enter the land. I think it's a very good story, and it's short enough to finish in a limited amount of time.

I hope those who read Smith of Wootton Major enjoy it as much as I did. This is all for now! The book I am reading currently is DragonFlight by Anne McCaffrey! Expect that soon!

Wow...

That's all I have to say. Wow. It's been over a month! I'm really sorry guys...

OK. So this is the situation: We finished moving into our nice little home filled with sawdust and tools and concrete flooring. I have nothing against this at all other than the spiders. All of our stuff is in our new house, but the house is not finished yet. We're still working on it. (Painting, installing flooring, laying out carpet, building closets, fixing the stairs... Not in that order though.) So, add in school and homework and it gets pretty hectic. 0.o
So, that's my situation. We just had Internet installed today and I was rejoicing earlier because of it. I haven't had Internet in quite a while.

So! That's about all I can tell right now other than I haven't found much time for reading lately.

Thanks to Stella (again) for posting for me a while back!

(Off topic: If anyone knows anything about E-bay, please tell me in a comment. I'm kind of curious.)

From the Archives

Hey there, Unlimited Random readers! I, Stella, have hijacked my dear friend Joy's blog to bring you some Randomness from the archives.

As you know from the previous post, Joy's a little busy right now, so I thought I'd help a little by posting for her.

And now, I present: From the Archives

"Did he just say something about a leprechaun?"
"No... he said 'eggroll'"

I guess you had to be there...

It is unacceptable to read Tolkien in anything but a British accent.

To solve a problem, sometimes all it takes is just to smack your head on the keyboard. Though, I would not advise that method...

Side affects include: headache, nausea, indigestion, upset stomach, bloody nose, black eyes, and in rare occasions, insanity.

Thanks for joining me for From the Archives.

All moved and... well, not quite.

Hello! So I am mostly where I am supposed to be right now. The problem at hand now is that we are renovating the house I'm going to be living in. Renovating is a lot of work. On top of all that, school for me will be starting in the upcoming week.
"Yes, yes, this is all well and good, but what about the book?" Well, right now I'm looking at the books. As I have said before, I will tell everyone when I have chosen a book. Thank you all for waiting and reading all my completely random posts that are not as scheduled as I had hoped! :)
Well, things need to be done today, so that's all for now. Ciao!

Traveling for the time being

Hello all.
Well, as I have finished Sarah's Garden, I should be getting a new book from my friend Book Sneeze. The fact is that I may not get another book for a week or two. You see, I am moving my place of residence, and I have refrained from getting a new book because I don't want it to go to the wrong address. When I decide to get a book I will tell you.
In the meantime, I will be writing. I have many stories that I have started and intend to finish. One of which is a short story that I have been rewriting lately. I will keep anyone who's interested updated with weekly (or semi weekly depending) posts.
Thank you for reading all my random posts because, you know, this is Unlimited Random.

Sarah's Garden

Sarah's Garden
by Kelly Long

Sarah King lives in an Amish community in Pine Creek, Pennsylvania. Here she lives among her Mamm, her father, and her three unmarried older brothers. The story begins at the table on the King Farm where Sarah's family has gathered for the evening meal. At grace, her father brings good news that Chelsea, her older sister, is with child! Everyone is excited, and Sarah is asked to make a quilt for the child and also run the family's roadside stand in Chelsea's place. Shy Sarah reluctantly agrees.
Around the time that Sarah begins to work at the stand, a new neighbor moves into the Fisher farm across the way from the Kings. He is an Englischer, and also a veterinarian. Grant Williams hopes that he will be accepted into this Amish community because all his life he has felt the urge to serve the Amish people just as his father had.
On her first day at the roadside stand, Sarah met Grant. After that, they met frequently. As their friendship grew, Grant realizes that he loves Sarah, but his love will never work because he is an Englischer and Sarah is Amish. At Christmas time, Sarah realizes that she loves Grant as well and goes to tell him, but he stops her because their love will cause much grief. Shortly after this, Grant leaves without a trace, even his house-keepers don't know where he has gone, and Sarah finds herself heartsick.
During this time of heartsickness, Sarah finds creativity in quilt making and painting. She also helps Mathew Fisher, who had been abused and hurt as a child, to find a way to make a new life for himself.
Sarah turns to Der Herr, the Lord, for wisdom and guidance when Grant is gone, and she finds great peace in telling Him all that she has held inside her. The Lord gives her peace on the day she begins another year working on the roadside stand again. Peace in more ways than one.
I really enjoyed reading this book. Sarah's Garden is very realistic. It seems like Kelly Long took real people and put them in her story. When I was reading, I felt like Sarah was one of my real friends. When they held a quilting, I felt like I was there with them, sitting around the quilt with it's iridescent patches, and listening to Chelsea's story. Kelly Long has done a very good job of writing this book. It shows how much effort was put into it in the research and language. I really enjoyed it!

Book from Book Sneeze.

It's here!

My book finally came! So be ready for a review sometime next week hopefully! Sorry this post is so short, gotta go read!

The book!

It's finally coming! From what I understand, UPS couldn't get into the apartment building that I live in, so I used a different address and I should get the book soon now! I'm excited, however I currently have a stack of books in my room that a friend lent me. I guess I'll have to read pretty fast then, won't I!