Spring Break!

I am so sorry that it has been so long since I have written to all my people. It is Spring Break so I have a good chance to be writing more and reading. It's a rainy day in Texas and my mama, my sister, and I will be heading to the library right after this to check out books for the week. This is heaven. I love the library because it smells of nice old books. They also have some comfy nooks where I like to sit on the animal bean bags and read forever.

I must tell you something hilarious. Last night, my sister fell asleep while playing with her silly putty. So, this morning she found a treasure in her hair. She woke up my parents telling them she had an emergency. My mom looked up on the computer all different ways to get it out. **Just in case you ever need to know how to get silly putty out of your hair, here it is. My dad put rubbing alcohol in my sisters hair and it melted the silly putty out. Then you put olive oil all over the hair and comb it out. This takes the most time. After you do this add some more olive oil to the hair (because the alcohol makes it very dry) and put a shower cap on for a few hours. When you wash it out, wash it well, and ta da! The hair is finished.

Last Saturday I competed in Y10 Womens Foil. For those of you who don't know what this is, it's fencing. I love poking people. It's so fun. A funny thing happened while I was waiting to fence. A bigger girl, Mary, came up to me and said to her mom, "Look mom, there is a little person." (PS, I am not that little!) Then she kept talking about how cute I was. It really made me as mad as a hornet, but I held my temper and just smiled. Then she told me that she was going to poke me. Since I was mad, I told her that I was going to poke her. So then I became known as "The Cute Girl who Pokes". I took third place in the tournament out of seven girls. Mary ended up in first place, but she is 12 years old and taller and has long arms. Next time, she should be prepared to be killed.

Lastly, I want to tell you about "The Pagemaster". I like fantasy worlds. The book is about a boy who is scared of everything until he goes into the library and begins to read. His life changes through "talking books" and the adventures with his new "book buddies". It was a great book and the illustrations are the best. I have included a picture of these illustrations for you to see.

Did you see that I finished book 29? Can you believe it? I am over a quarter of the way there. I am wondering what the bottom of my blog will look like when I am finished with my 100 books. Please keep suggesting books. I would also like to hear about what you are reading. You are reading aren't you? Don't stop reading just because you have nothing to read. I bet there is a library in your town too.

The Lightning Thief part 2

This weekend my family went to Austin and my dad and I saw "The Lightning Thief" which was renamed "Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief". I liked the movie. I liked how Grover, Anna Beth and Percy worked as a team when they found the pearls and had to get out of the Underworld. The liar of the lotus flower part of the movie I thought looked like lots of fun because they were in Las Vegas which looks like a very cool place. (I would not like to live there though.) When Percy first got the flying shoes, I was thrilled because they looked like regular sneakers but they had little wings attached. I would like a pair!
Do you remember what I said about books and movies? This movie was not as good as the book. There was not as much action, for example they missed blowing up the bus. In this movie Luke was the Lightning Thief but in the book Aries was and he and Percy had a sword fight that I thought would have been good in the movie. Anna Beth was different too. In the movie she had red hair and blue eyes and in the book she had blond hair and grey eyes. Why would they have changed that? Anna Beth is supposed to be the daughter of Athena and everyone knows that Athena has gray eyes. They could have given her gray contacts or changed it on the computer. In the end of the book, Percy is betrayed by his friend and almost dies with a poisonous bug, but not in the movie. In the movie, Percy starts fighting for fun with Anna Beth (because they were training) and then the camera goes up and that's the end of the movie. That's a big ole difference. I still think it was a good movie and I would go see the next one, but I enjoyed the book more and it was way longer.
Did you see that I am on book 20? It's going good, I think. I have 30 more books until I reach half of my goal and get a beautiful blue blazer for school. I can't wait!

A few busy weeks.

What a busy few weeks it has been. I am sorry that I haven't responded to all of the people who have been sending me comments. The comments have been very nice from everyone and I have enjoyed reading them. Thank you for taking the time to write to me. The last couple of weeks I celebrated my dad's birthday, went to school, went to fencing, and on the weekend, to tell you the truth, I have been lazy. Some of the time, I have been reading.
One of the books that I read, was "Alanna, The first Adventure". It is about a girl who wants to be a page and her brother wants to be a sorcerer. So Alanna cuts her hair, dresses up like a boy and heads to a different palace with her servant Corm. In the first couple chapters I was reading, she got into a couple fights with a squire. The book has a lot of action, is very gory in some parts and is set in the Middle Ages. I loved the book because I thought the things that she did were interesting and humorous. My dad asked me if Alanna was worth emulating. (A fancy word for modeling yourself after.) I think not. Alanna tells a lot of lies to get through things, but lies are always bad. She seems to get into fights for no reason because of her bad temper. I have, on a scale from 1 to 10, a temper that is a 4. I would like to change that down to a 0 so, I think I would not want to hang around Alanna. She might get me into trouble.
I started Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator today. I know that Mr. Willey Wonka is going to be crazy, the story will funny like all of Roald Dahl's books, and I am going to like every millisecond. I am going to go and get started on reading it, right after I make a few Valentines.