My life with the chimpanzees

Jane Goodall
135/156
I have been reading a book called My life with the chimpanzees sometimes by myself but we do it more of a class thing. This is one of the books we are reading in class. I did not choose the book our teacher did. But i am glad she did. I like the book. Its very interesting.  I have read a book that had to
o with her and the chimpanzees. It was awesome.  There was this one word that i absolutely did not know: Insecticide, its a substance used to kill insects. Makes sense. :)
HN

My Life With Chimpanzees

I am about to finish this the most fascinating book entitled My Life With Chimpanzees written by the amazing Jane Goodall.  I have read 135 pages out of the 155 in the book.  I have read 10 chapters out of the 11.  I did not chose to read this book because it is a book we are reading in class but I would have read it anyway.   One word I did not know was Bush-meat.  The definition of Bush-meat is the meat of African wild animals.

No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency

Hi everybody! I am reading a book called the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, actually I just finished the book! This book is about a woman named Mma (Ms.) Ramotswe, her full name is Precious Ramotswe. She was born in Botswana, in a small village known as Mochudi. Her Father died and he had lots of cattle, which Mma Ramotswe sold, and she got a lot of money for them. Enough to start a business, which was what her father wanted her to do. She bought a building and hired a secretary, she bought some furniture and renovated the house a bit (it was old and unwanted by the previous owners). The business she decided to start was a detective agency, which she thought might not be the most successful business but she enjoyed the job. She had a lot of customers with various cases I will explain to you the two most serious ones:

#1 Mma Ramotswe is good friends with a man named Mr. JLB Matekoni, he owns a car repair shop and is very successful in this business. He is asked to fix a car that was crashed, the owner was a very rich man and well known businessman, and while he is taking out all the belongings so that they won't be lost when he cleans and fixes the car; he comes upon a little sack with bones in it. This is from a witch doctor, someone who works with medicine made from humans and kills or hurts these humans himself/herself. Mma Ramotswe wasn't asked to take on the case, she was actually asked to stay out of it so that no one would get in trouble with the well known businessman, but there was a recent disappearance of a young boy who was scouting around for rocks and he was driven away. Mma Ramotswe has a horrible sinking suspicion that these bones were the boy's bones. She wants to have this doctor arrested and avenge the boy and his parents. She sets up a meeting with this businessman and acts like she wants to know this witch doctor so she could use his services. He gives her the address and she visits the place but the witch doctor's not there, only his wife. Mma Ramotswe tricks her into telling her where the boy's body is, but the woman says that he is alive and working for them at the cattle post. He never left because there are cruel people watching him and they would catch him and torture him if he ran away. Mma Ramostwe drives out to the post and takes the boy who his many cuts and scars from being whipped, she takes him home and gets the witch doctor and his wife arrested.

#2 This case is about a doctor in a hospital. Another good friend is a doctor there and helped her father when he was sick and in old age; so she does his case for free. He has hired a new doctor and he sometimes is very smart and good at his job then other times he is horrible and clueless. Her friend is worried that he is taking or handling drugs in some way, so Mma Ramotswe follows hims and he goes across the border to South Africa. She follows him to his house and she sees that there are to of him. She later finds out that one of them is a renowned doctor and has earned his degree, the other is just hopeless in medicine. That is why there are different amounts of knowledge, the one who was clueless didn't have a job so they have a fraud where one of them works at one hospital then one works at the other. They were fired. :)

A word I didn't know was Mma (pronounced 'ma'), which is possibly an abbreviation for Madam, or it just means Ms. Another one would be Rra (pronouced 'rar') , which is Mr.

A sentence in which Mma was used is "Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale hill." (the first sentence of the book, actually)

I chose this book because my godmother had sent it to me for Christmas and I really enjoyed the first chapter and it interested my a lot, so why not read something that you enjoy!

KF

Dumb Fan-Fiction Moments

Hello Everyone!

So, yet again I have been reading on Wattpad.com but this time instead of something sad, depressing, and happy, I read something really funny. The title is Dumb Fan-Fiction Moments, the author on wattpad is Theoreoninja. I choose this because I was at a restaurant and I was really bored and they had Wi-Fi so I wanted something funny to read so I just read that.

My favorite chapter was "Hopping and Deodorant" I laughed my head off. And I still can't stop laughing! Do me a favor and go read it. Here is the link.
http://www.wattpad.com/23302695-dumb-fanfic-moments-hopping-and-deodorant

Unknown Word( or phrase) -  Hipster Bunny
Sentence it was in- "I hopped into the shower, then quickly hopped out because I am a hipster bunny and walking out of a shower like a normal person is too mainstream for me."
Definition- A crazy bunny and also a Bunny that wears glasses like in this picture

The House of Hades

Hello all, I stopped reading 'Great Expectations' (sorry... just that I have been waiting for like a month for reading 'The House of Hades') and started on the 'House of Hades' by Rick Riordan. I read 276 pages out of 583.

(Picture source: www.goodreads.com)

      This book is a fantasy book based on Greek Mythology (as you can (maybe) see from the title), so it has all of the Greek gods, monsters, creatures, etc. But its setting is in modern times, so it is like the 2010 or more in the book. 

      I will explain the plot of the book. Percy Jackson and Annabeth, two of the 9 (ish) main characters in the book, who are also demigods (half-human, half-god; one of their parents is a god or a goddess), fall into Tartarus, a pit where all the monsters and the Titans go or stay in to reform after they are killed in the mortal world. So it isn't part of the mortal world, and it is sort of like hell (as it is described in the book). They have to survive and try to reach the Doors of Death, the doors which connect the mortal world and Tartarus so the reformed monsters can go out again. The doors have been opened by Gaia, the goddess of Earth, or earth itself (a.k.a. the evil Mother Earth that tries to destroy the world), which is bad, because the monsters would be traveling freely in and out of the two worlds. Percy and Annabeth and their friends outside Tartarus have to close it from both inside and outside, since the doors can be closed that way. But while Percy and Annabeth are traveling to it, they face a lot of problems, since everything there are designed to torture or kill, plus filled with monsters. Once, when they are about to die from the attack of the empousai (vampire-demon creatures), they meet Bob, who is actually the Titan Iapetus who got his memory wiped out by Percy before, and who believes that Percy is a friend. He helps Percy and Annabeth through Tartarus. 

      I chose to read this book because I am obsessed in Greek Myths, and because I am also a Percy Jackson and the Heroes of Olympus fan. I read every other book in both series except for this one, so I chose and wanted to read this book. 

      An unknown word was: haggard. 

      Definition: Looking exhausted and unwell, especially from fatigue, worry, or suffering (source: https://www.google.rs/search?q=definition+of+haggard&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=RBJAU766O8ittAak3YD4BQ&ved=0CAUQ_AUoAA&biw=1360&bih=643&dpr=1 ) 

      The sentence it was in was this: "Bob's face looked haggard and careworn, as if he suddenly felt the weight of all his centuries. 

Samo da smo zajedno, Just as long as we're together

HI Guys, 
I am reading this book in Serbian, It is called Samo da smo zajedno by Judy Blume. I have read all 222/222 pages of it.   The book is actually originally in English but I have a Serbian copy. 
Here is a picture of my Serbian version:                                 Here is the English version: 
I started reading this book on Wednesday and I finished it this morning and I have started reading another book. :)                                                 This book and it is about two girls that are best friends then one of the girls called Stefanie she met a girl called Alison on the beach and they became friends so when they got to know each other a bit better Stefanie introduced Alison to her best friend Rachel. Alison was a new girl and she was going to go to 7th grade in the same school as them in Stefanie's class. The book is basically about boys, and about their friendship and Stefanie's parents have broken up and she did not know till half way in the book and then close to the end of the book she gets in a fight with Rachel but in the last page in the book they are friends again. 
I got this book as a present from my great aunt, I got it because my cousins have been lending me other books similar to this so my great aunt thought that I might enjoy it, and I did. 
The word that I did not know was in Serbian so in English I know what it means. 
In Serbian  it is usklađuju in English it means adjusted. 
Adjusted means: 

verb

past tense: adjusted; past participle: adjusted

1. 1.

   alter or move (something) slightly in order to achieve the desired fit, appearance, or result.

   "he smoothed his hair and adjusted his tie"

   synonyms:

   modify, alter, regulate, tune, fine-tune, calibrate, balance;

So, yeah that is it. Hope you liked my post!!

Anka 

Carrie ♥

I used the movie poster for the picture....

Hi everyone!
This week I was reading an awesome book which was lent to me by Omayma.
I was actually inspired to read it by her blog post last week, so at least there is a good purpose for these blog posts!
There was also the fact that I have wanted to read it for ages, and I have a slight obsession with horror. I have read The Shining, watched The Shining, The Conjuring and Poltergeist....  I want to watch The Purge... and read Doctor Sleep... and I REALLY want to watch/read The Exorcist and Carrie (I'm halfway through this mission).
Anyway, the book that I was reading this week was Carrie! It is a very famous book by Stephen King that has been made into two films, one in 1976 and 2013. I had found out about the book through watching trailers for the 2013 version earlier this year, under the influence of my great friend Shelly.
Well anyway, I think it looks like a pretty terrifying book, both by the cover and the film poster which I have lovingly plopped over there ->
Back to the book. I started reading it on Monday I am currently on page... well, as of this Saturday morning it is page 154/242, so I am about halfway through. I have had a lot of time to read it this week, but I was also reading about ten other books, so I am only only page 154.
There were quite a few words which I didn't understand, but most of them happened to be coming from Carrie's overly religious mother, and so were biblical terms, so I didn't include them. I still looked them up, so I gained a good general understand of the terms.
One of words I didn't understand was the word atonement, which I found on page 97.

a·tone·ment

  [uh-tohn-muhnt]

noun

1.

satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury; amends.

'This was just some strange type of atonement, and she could understand that and respond to it'

I think this means that she thought he was sorry for something that had happened to her, and wanted to make up for it. If you are sorry for something, you may want to atone your crimes.

Thats it for these week!
Goodbye and auf wiedersehen!