Sugar and Other Stories

Antonia Byatt was born in 1936, in Shieffield , England. She was a journalist and wrote novels . Among these acclaimed novels we can find Shadow of a Sun and Still Life.
Sugar and Other Stories contains eleven short stories , which all basically deal with love , fear
and relationships between people . I chose this book because I usually like short stories and the
subject of those seemed interesting . In the story Racine and the Tablecloth the main character is Emily Bray . Emily is a kid who lives in a boarding school , she is a very intelligent girl but has no friends , maybe because she's kind of an early feminist in a catholic school . She grows up there and the headmistess , Mrs. Chrichton-Walker , seems to hate Emily in a way which has no sense because the girl is only fourteen . Emily Bray's character is very interesting because she's complicated and somtimes acts in a weird , almost absurd way .
The July Ghost is a story about a man who was just dumped by his girlfriend and he can't get over it . The man needs another place to live so he rents a room in a woman's house . The weirdness of the woman troubles a little the young man but when he gets to see the husband , he kinda understands it . Noel , the husband, is a journalist who is pretty much never home and when he finally comes he fights with his wife . The young man ,who is a writer , has a lot of work to do therefore he decides to sit in the wonderful garden but children keep bothering him with their screams or their lost balls they'd like to retrieve. By a beautiful summer day , the writer's attention is caught by a kid who lies on the branches of a tree next to the fence of the house , the kid has beautiful blond hair and a smile that illuminates the place . One day the young man sees the boy leaving the kitchen as though it were his home , so the man decides to talk to the woman about it . She says that it must have been a friend of her son who died in a car crash . But when the writer describes the kid an expression of horror appears on the woman's face : it was her lost son he saw on that tree . Since then woman and the young man have a weird relationship because she usually was a strict woman but now she often cries or shouts as if the "ghost" seen by the man had driven her mad . The madness and the grief of the two characters is touching and makes the reader think twice . The characters of each one of the stories are unpleasant ,weird,touching, lovely or shocking.

BLACK BOY

I chose this book because I had never read this book and the title " black boy " understated , it was about racial segregation in America .

I liked this book because it's an autobiography by Richard Wright , and we can feel the fears and fright of an American black child during racial segregacion .

The social relationship between Richard and his family was interesting , the social relationship between the whites and blacks in the south was interesting too , this book was also interesting because we can see how a young child was born in an underprivileged class and how he could manage to take care of his mother who fell ill and of his trip to the north of the country .

Therapy of David Logde

To begin with, when I began to read the first pages I didn't like this because there were many descrpitions which I didn't understand the sense and the worst was, I wasn't able to distinguish if the main character was a man or a woman. And the more I read the passage over and over,the more the novel began to annoy me.
But as I advanced in my reading, I appreciated the book. So, I Knew that the character was a man who presented his life in the form of a persnal diary without any modesty. It was a man who had succeeded in his private life together with his professional life which was going to be upset by may events.
However, this novel finished with a good ending given that Lawrence got up and started from a new. I would like to tell something about this novel , according to me . I think that through the character Lawrence we can find a morality . The morality is even if you have many problems which annoy you, can surmount then and succeed.

Book: Harry Potter and the prizoner of azkaban

I chose this book because I like Harry Potter. I've ever seen Harry Potter's movies but I've never read these books. I like Harry Potter because it's not only a story of witches but we also see love and friendships between the characters. This story of Harry Potter's different from the others because there're a lot of new characters, like Sirius Black, the teacher Lupin..
I also like newthings like the magicbus, there back at the end of the book, different places where the characters are because those places are places that we've never seen before.
But there're several things that I didn't like. For example, the new Hagrid's house and his pet who is big and uggly.
I think this story's interesting but very long, too long. And for the children, I think it can make them scared, even if Voldemort, who's the meanest character, isn't very present in this story. I'd already seen the film Harry Potter and the prizoner of azkaban ,so I wasn't suprised by the story, but I appreciated it though. It's a little bit different from the film and I think I prefered reading the book.

Resume:

Frankenstein is a great novel from an English writer . This novel was written by Mary Shelley ,for a contest of ghost stories when she was nineteen .

The story is related by a see farer called Robert Walton .He met a doctor called Frankenstein , who relates his own story .

He was a brillant student and did some work about death . He withdraws himself in an old and lost house .He begins to create a monster with parts of dead humans . Some months later , Frankeinstein's creature is alive . It is ugly and strange , then it escapes . The narration is told by the monster . he tries to familiarise with humans, but they beat him and reject him. Then he begins to find his creator . Frustrated , he kills the humans and frankeinstein's friends and family , he chases the doctor to the end of the story .

Commentaire :

This was an interesting reading , because all the characters seem really alive and human . Reading in English is long and hard , I need a dictionnary always next to me ,It take me ten mins to read a page . I haven't undertood all the story , like the birth of the monster . I'm going to reread the book. I like this sort of gothic novel , Like Dracula and other ...
But there's one thing that I didn't like , when the doctor gave birth to the monster , we don't know how he did it.