So, this week I decided to become an offical Lord of the Rings fan and spend a good three hours in the Appendix of a series I have not yet finished. IT MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE!!! :) But it is very sad about Arwen and Aragorn :( and it took me a while to figure out that King Elessar is Aragorn (son of Arathorn, Isildur's heir, ect.) and they still talk funny. They were talking about their son, and Aragorn was like "he is man-ripe for kingship." Like, really? "Man Ripe"??? NO. That just does NOT sound right. (shudders)
If you scroll down my page a little bit you will see Most Unforgetable Movie Characters. This week, Padme Amidala (Star Wars), Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter), Gollum, Samwise Gamgee (LOTR) and, also from Lord of the Rings, (yes, ladies, you guessed it) LEGOLAS (aka Orlando Bloom/Will Turner)!! (<3 :D <3)
For those of you tuning in for The Odyssey, your part will begin here.
FINALLY!!!! THANK YOU HOMER!
I was getting very bored in the Odyssey...finally it begins to have a brighter future. Maybe not bright, but brighter than it was.
I'll never let go, Jack. (lets go of his hand)
-Jenni ;)
Monday, September 27, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
The Odyssey, Books Two through Four
First off, I'd like to say that I am so sick of Telemachus whining about the suitors I want to teach him to suck it up and be a man. Athena was right; he's not a little kid anymore, so he can't just whine about it and have somebody else follow through. Thankfully, Athena is in the story, so there is some logic and sense. I don't really like Telemachus because he acts too immature to be an adult but is too old to be an adolecent. When he started crying and making himself pitied...and even more childish...I kind of wanted to scream.
Homer confuses me. He just has to put in all this random information that coud be easily taken out. I'd like to have a nice little chat with whoever editied The Odyssey.
Anyways, that's kind of irrelevant. For those of you who aren't avid mythology readers, you will like book three because you finally get to find out more about the Orestes and Agamemnon. If you hadn't already googled it. Athena, the smart goddess, finally decides to reveal herself as who she is, not this guy who was friends with Odysseus.
Telemachus continues on the quest and finds Melanus and Helen. Two of their kids were getting married, so there was a huge party. Melanus finds out that Odysseus is on Calypso's island, tells Telemachus, and then Telemachus goes back home. The suitors want to kill Telemachus for being a whiny guy- or, maybe just so that they can go down in the history books. Penelope finds out, freaks, and then Athena tells her that Telemachus won't die. Of course, Penelope belives her because, after all, she is smart....
So, this is how far I am in the Odyssey. I like Harry Potter better.
-Jenni
Homer confuses me. He just has to put in all this random information that coud be easily taken out. I'd like to have a nice little chat with whoever editied The Odyssey.
Anyways, that's kind of irrelevant. For those of you who aren't avid mythology readers, you will like book three because you finally get to find out more about the Orestes and Agamemnon. If you hadn't already googled it. Athena, the smart goddess, finally decides to reveal herself as who she is, not this guy who was friends with Odysseus.
Telemachus continues on the quest and finds Melanus and Helen. Two of their kids were getting married, so there was a huge party. Melanus finds out that Odysseus is on Calypso's island, tells Telemachus, and then Telemachus goes back home. The suitors want to kill Telemachus for being a whiny guy- or, maybe just so that they can go down in the history books. Penelope finds out, freaks, and then Athena tells her that Telemachus won't die. Of course, Penelope belives her because, after all, she is smart....
So, this is how far I am in the Odyssey. I like Harry Potter better.
-Jenni
Monday, September 13, 2010
The Odyssey, Book One
To read Book One of the Odyessey, click here.
I was so happy because I could follow it. Being a Percy Jackson fan, in the winter/spring months of 2010 I stole my mother's Mythology book and became an avid reader of Greek and Roman myths. I read about Agamemnon and Orestes and how that guy Aegithus convinced Clymnestra to cheat on her husband-it was really weird and inconsistent between sources because of the back stories. I read of Hector and Achillies and how wimpy Aphrodite- or in this case, Venus- was in the Trojan War. So wimpy, in fact, that she went crying to Zeus when she got hurt trying to protect her son (a demigod). But that's not reallly relevant to The Odyssey, so I think I'll start talking about something a little more on topic. So anyways, things weren't looking so great for Ulysses's wife, Penelope, for Calypso was holding Ulysses captive on her island and wanted to marry him, Neptune didn't want Ulysses to get home, and Penelope couldn't decide wether she wanted to remarry or not.
Minerva, who's supposed to be smart, didn't really make much sense when she decided to come down and talk to Telemachus in disguise, because he figured out who she was pretty fast. Or maybe he was just a really smart guy- which would't make much sense either, because he couldn't think about the option of kicking out his mother's suitors.
At least I could follow it. Kind of.
-Jenni
I was so happy because I could follow it. Being a Percy Jackson fan, in the winter/spring months of 2010 I stole my mother's Mythology book and became an avid reader of Greek and Roman myths. I read about Agamemnon and Orestes and how that guy Aegithus convinced Clymnestra to cheat on her husband-it was really weird and inconsistent between sources because of the back stories. I read of Hector and Achillies and how wimpy Aphrodite- or in this case, Venus- was in the Trojan War. So wimpy, in fact, that she went crying to Zeus when she got hurt trying to protect her son (a demigod). But that's not reallly relevant to The Odyssey, so I think I'll start talking about something a little more on topic. So anyways, things weren't looking so great for Ulysses's wife, Penelope, for Calypso was holding Ulysses captive on her island and wanted to marry him, Neptune didn't want Ulysses to get home, and Penelope couldn't decide wether she wanted to remarry or not.
Minerva, who's supposed to be smart, didn't really make much sense when she decided to come down and talk to Telemachus in disguise, because he figured out who she was pretty fast. Or maybe he was just a really smart guy- which would't make much sense either, because he couldn't think about the option of kicking out his mother's suitors.
At least I could follow it. Kind of.
-Jenni
Friday, September 10, 2010
My Summer Reading
Hi. I'm Jenni. Welcome to my blog. I get to go on and on and on and on and on and on about my favorite books, so I'm very sorry if I do. I'll try to keep my excitement to a minimum so I won't bore you too much.
For starters, I read some good books this summer and one that I would not have read had I known that I didn't actually have to read it.
I was going to be in Honors English, but...something came up over the summer in the scheduling at my school that got me credit for PATH. We had a summer reading assignment, because it's a 9th grade course. The assignment was one required reading (A Separate Peace by John Knowles) and two books of a reading list, with matching journals. As easy as that seems, it is NOT FUN to have your attempted chew of Lord of the Rings interrupted. I didn't find out about this until I got my schedule about two weeks before school started.
My first read this summer was The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (amazing) off of my Honors reading list. It was definitely something I would recommend. The story itself kept my attention and I couldn't stop reading it.
The second book was A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the required literature. I strongly disliked it because of its lack of climatic events, drama, and overall depressing mood. I was very bored with this book, and I suffered through it to the end. Which was even more depressing than the beginning of the book.
For my third book, I read Cage of Stars by Jacquelin Mitchard. It is from the Honors reading list, but a little more graphic than some teens can handle. I enjoyed this book immensely, and would also recommend it to my friends. I really love how, at the beginning, you think you know what happens. It is also depressing at the beginning, not to mention graphic. In reality, you need to know the whole story. As an added plus, the end is so sweet and it's a happy ending (yay!).
As the highlight of my summer came to a close and the inevitable return to school drew near, i remembered about a very special final installment of an unbelievably awesome trilogy. Yes, for those of you dystopian fans, I am talking about Mockingjay, book three of the Hunger Games trilogy. I waited for it for so long and memorized the release date, and then it comes around and takes me two days to realize that August 24th has come and gone. Anyways, I was satisfied by this book. However, that was also rather depressing. Okay, nearly suicidal. Although there are lots of new characters, and (SPOILER ALERT) about half of the characters die, I loved it.
Finishing off the summer was The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which is the first volume of a very long and more difficult trilogy. I have not finished it yet, so I can't say much about it, other than what I know from watching the movies about ten trillion times. Just so you know, the movies leave a lot more out than one would think.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please leave a comment. Or if you just feel like commenting. I do ask that you keep the comments somewhat constructive so that I can know what to edit.
Best wishes to all libraries and to my fellow Comp and Lit 2s,
-Jenni
For starters, I read some good books this summer and one that I would not have read had I known that I didn't actually have to read it.
I was going to be in Honors English, but...something came up over the summer in the scheduling at my school that got me credit for PATH. We had a summer reading assignment, because it's a 9th grade course. The assignment was one required reading (A Separate Peace by John Knowles) and two books of a reading list, with matching journals. As easy as that seems, it is NOT FUN to have your attempted chew of Lord of the Rings interrupted. I didn't find out about this until I got my schedule about two weeks before school started.
My first read this summer was The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (amazing) off of my Honors reading list. It was definitely something I would recommend. The story itself kept my attention and I couldn't stop reading it.
The second book was A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the required literature. I strongly disliked it because of its lack of climatic events, drama, and overall depressing mood. I was very bored with this book, and I suffered through it to the end. Which was even more depressing than the beginning of the book.
For my third book, I read Cage of Stars by Jacquelin Mitchard. It is from the Honors reading list, but a little more graphic than some teens can handle. I enjoyed this book immensely, and would also recommend it to my friends. I really love how, at the beginning, you think you know what happens. It is also depressing at the beginning, not to mention graphic. In reality, you need to know the whole story. As an added plus, the end is so sweet and it's a happy ending (yay!).
As the highlight of my summer came to a close and the inevitable return to school drew near, i remembered about a very special final installment of an unbelievably awesome trilogy. Yes, for those of you dystopian fans, I am talking about Mockingjay, book three of the Hunger Games trilogy. I waited for it for so long and memorized the release date, and then it comes around and takes me two days to realize that August 24th has come and gone. Anyways, I was satisfied by this book. However, that was also rather depressing. Okay, nearly suicidal. Although there are lots of new characters, and (SPOILER ALERT) about half of the characters die, I loved it.
Finishing off the summer was The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which is the first volume of a very long and more difficult trilogy. I have not finished it yet, so I can't say much about it, other than what I know from watching the movies about ten trillion times. Just so you know, the movies leave a lot more out than one would think.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please leave a comment. Or if you just feel like commenting. I do ask that you keep the comments somewhat constructive so that I can know what to edit.
Best wishes to all libraries and to my fellow Comp and Lit 2s,
-Jenni
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