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Why must all good things come to an end? Like this blogging business.

I enjoyed this unit because without it, I wouldn't have read nearly this much in 12 school weeks. I read 4 books, totalling 34.6 hours of reading. The books I read were Sarah's Key, Two-way street, The Testament, and Forget you. The most challenging book was The Testament. It was very long and during the busy school year it was sometimes hard to find the tme to read it. Both Two-way street and Forget you were girly teen books and i loved both of them. I found that i read those books much faster than The Testament. Sarah's Key was also very good and I did a book review on that one so here comes easy test points coming my way. How's your wife?

The Theme of My Book

The theme of the Testament is that money can't buy love. Mr. Phelen had so much money he didn't know what to do with it all. But when he died, he had no support from his family, and and a daughter that no one knew about, and who was in no contact with Mr. Phelen. Even with all that money, Mr. Phelen felt incomplete because there was no love in his family. So there you go...you can't take a u-haul to heaven. Don't get wrapped up in material posessions.
Total reading time = 23.5 hours

BIBLE PASSAGE!!!

1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

This passage fits my book well because Mr. Phelen's entire adult life had been about the money that he'd made. With all that money came all sorts of family issues. It is surely a root of all kinds of evil.

Total reading time = 21 hours :)

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Money!


 the Briazilian jungles

 Mr. Phelen before he committed suicide

 Mr. Phelen's Will

 The importance of family love

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hey! my goal was to keep up with you mr. strusz, but i'm fallin apart, barely breathing, with a broken heart, that's still beating...okay those are lyrics from a lighthouse song. so i'm not being as faithful to reading as i thought i would be...but nonetheless, i'm still plucking away. My total reading time is approximately 18.5 hours.

Whatever I Want.

Since this week we can talk about whatever we want, i will talk a little bit about Nate O'Riley. He is the newest character in my book, "The Testament". Nate used to work in a wing of the Phelen building, but after numerous drug and alcohol incidents, he was sent to Walnut Hill, which seemed to be like his own rehabilitaion center. Neither T.V nor magazines were allowed there, since they promote alcohol and drugs. Therefore, Nate spent his time working out and eating healthy, losing 14 pounds. Mr. Phelen's right hand man, Josh Stafford, went to visit Nate to tell him the news about Mr. Phelen's passing.
Let's go back in time a couple days shall we? Mr. Phelen's will stated that his estate (11billion dollars) would go to his illegitimate daughter named Rachel Lane, who apparently is in the jungles of Brazil doing missionary work. Josh could find very little information on her. But that would not stop him from following Mr. Phelen's wishes.
Ok, so back to where Josh visits Nate. Josh asks Nate to go to Brazil, find Rachel, and tell her about the large sum of money she has received. Nate is hesitant at first, but then agrees to go.
If I had been in solitary for a while, I would jump at the opportunity to go on an adventure to a different country. So Nate should be pretty excited! And I'm also excited to read more of this book to find out what happens next. Time read this week 45 min. (sad, i know Mr. strusz, I'm sorry)

THEME SONG BABY

So this week we need to pick a theme song that would go with our book. Well, i recently started a new book on Monday called The Testament, by John Grisham. I'm only on page 68 out of 500, and therefore havent gotten very in depth with it. The book starts off being narrated by Troy Phelen, a very rich, old man worth around 11 billion dollars. He's had numerous marriages, children, and divorces. He has tried many times to write an appropriate will that would divide his estate evenly to his scattered family members. On the day that he plans to sign his will at a press conference type thing, he pulls out a different will that cancels everything his previous will says. After that, he gets up from his wheel chair and jumps off the railing of the balcony of his building, falling to his death. I know...crazy right?!
The song that i've decided to pick is "Can't Buy Me Love" by the Beatles. Troy Phelen was so filthy rich, but he felt so repulsive inside because no one in his family loved him. He could buy them pretty much anything in the world that they could've wanted and it wouldnt matter one bit. In the famous words of Paul McCartney, "I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love."