Edward carries Bella through the forest to the vampire/werewolf meeting, which is taking place in the clearing where the Cullen baseball games are played. Because if you're going to have a top secret monster meeting, it's best to do it out in the open where the world, and Google Earth, can see. (Sarcasm hand is raised.) While looking at the clearing, Bella feels a tinge of nostalgia for the old baseball field, and remembers that the first game was interrupted by James, Laurent, and Victoria back in book one.
Bella, the world's greatest detective, suddenly realizes that Victoria is probably behind the vampire army. She tells Edward this revelation, and at first he doubts there's a connection, because even after a century of life experience and education, he's still as dumb as a salt shaker, and twice as dull.
He thinks the Victoria thing through, and finally says to Bella, "It's possible."
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I picked up The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks a few weeks ago because the movie, starring Miley Cyrus, is coming out soon. Since my friends will probably drag me to see it, I felt compelled to read the book beforehand.
"Beast from Water" earned its title from hapless Percival's suggestion that the monster comes out of the ocean. What terrifying revelations will "Beast from Air" hold? Pterodactyls? No, but read on anyway!
Jon is reading Lord of the Flies and blogging about it. His posts are collected here.
Chapter 5 introduces us to a new and updated Ralph—Ralph 2.0, as it were—who has been reborn out of last chapter's lack of a fire like some sort of reverse phoenix.
There's a reason "missed the boat" is an apt analogy for failing to seize opportunity, and now that Ralph has done this actual thing, it's made him all grim and thoughtful. As this new Ralph prepares for the meeting he called at the end of the last chapter, he's woefully aware of how little the boys have accomplished, and how everything they have managed to throw together is a piece of junk.
Jon is blogging Lord of the Flies. For a list of his posts, go here.
Welcome to Chapter 4, Painted Faces and Long Hair, aka The Boys Finally Kill Something On Purpose, And Also Are Jerks.
We start with a description of how the boys are coping with life on the island. Most of the kids (particularly the littluns) basically just goof off and eat and get confused by nature, unless bad things are happening to them. The littluns are filthy, careless, and either treated like crap or ignored entirely. One of them (Percival) had a total breakdown, which everyone considers hilarious.
For your amusement and edification, Jon is reading Lord of the Flies and blogging about it. A complete list of posts is here.
It's hard to come up with an image more placid than huts on a beach, so from the chapter title, you might guess everyone will soon kick back and drink lemonade or something. But wait—what if the huts are a metaphor for one side of an awesome conflict that will soon get all crazy? Because they are, and it will. But first, hide whatever pigs you might have lying around, because it's Jack o' Clock on LotF Island.
We've already arrived at the last Blogging The Scarlet Letter post! Stay tuned for Ramsey's next blog on a classic book.
Chapter 23 – The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
Well, apparently Hawthorne named his chapters backwards, because as we all know, the scarlet letter was revelated (a word I just made up) all the way back in the second chapter, after that terrible part about the prison door (this is my last chance to complain about that, and I have to make the most of it). So, if you ask me, I would have to say it’s pretty dumb to have a chapter about the revelation of the scarlet letter in the second to last chapter of a book called The Scarlet Let—what’s that? I should read the chapter before I start complaining? Well, I hardly see what good that will do, but if you insist…
Jon is blogging Lord of the Flies! Did you miss the first installment? Here it is.
Chapter 2 begins with Ralph holding a meeting back on the beach, shortly after the non-piglet-killing expedition to the mountain. Surrounded by the now mostly-dressed children, Ralph reveals that the island is uninhabited, except apparently for some pigs, which of course reminds Jack of violence (as will many things throughout this chapter). Jack once again stabs a tree to reiterate that he will stab the next piglet so hard that he's not even kidding.
Ramsey is reading The Scarlet Letter and blogging about his experiences. Catch up on past posts here.
Chapter 21 – The New England Holiday
I knew from the last chapter that there was a state holiday coming up, but I keep thinking Hawthorne is using “holiday” in the British sense of “vacation.” Maybe it’s all the talk of Dimmesdale and Hester’s European Vacation. Hang on—that sounds like an awesome movie title.
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