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English-2007

  • Harry Potter

    Posted: June 25th, 2007, 9:59pm GMT by gabitonus

    Well, this time the post will not be so long. I will talk about Harry Potter but everyone knows this history, so I want to talk about my opinion about all the success of this book. The new and last book will be market in July, 21, in English. I am completely fanatic when we talk about Harry Potter. I think I should start telling how I knew this book.             The first time I saw this book was when I was in CM1. I saw others students holding a colorful book called Harry Potter, and I noted that there were two different books of the same type that had the same name. Now I know that those books were simply the first book of the series and the second one. I was interested by the book because I saw more than one person if it and I always liked to read but I didn’t know what this was. Finally, my mother read the first book in French and told me about the history. I started the book in French but my mother bought me the same in Portuguese and I finished the reading quickly. After this I fell in love with the history and at the same time I bought the second and the third book.                         When I am reading Harry Potter no one can stop me. I open the book and I pass all the day reading without stopping to do anything else, even eating. That is one of the reasons my mother always forbid me from reading during some days.  Even if I know the history by heart I passed more than one holiday rereading all the books. I like Happy Potter not because I think J.K Rolling is a great writer, but when I am reading I can enter in the history like I was part of this magic world.  It could be so amazing if this world existed in reality, which is why when I am in the reading people can call me and I even don’t heard their voice.  This is the magic of Harry Potter: making me forget about all my problems and entering in the history.              Now I am waiting for the new and last book. I am really disappointed when I think this will be the last book and there will never be new adventures, which means that I will never return to this magic world. At the same time I can not control myself and wait until the book is traduced. My aunt will bring me the English version in August and I will try to understand it. Even if it is in English, it will not be the first book I read in this language and Harry Potter worth the effort. The movie can be good, but once you have read the book, the film seems to be just, worst.

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  • Yellowcard

    Posted: June 20th, 2007, 10:03pm GMT by gabitonus

    I will talk about a band that is called Yellowcard. Most people may think Yellowcard is write “emo” (see link to definition of emo in Urbain dictionary) songs, but I consider this band’s songs greats because they make a mix of letters and melodies that is capable to make you feel like the person that is living the song’s experience. There are great letters; even thought you are not in love for example, you will recognize how much beautiful is love listening to one of Yellowcard’s love songs.

    The band is composed by Ryan Key in the vocals and guitar, Peter Mosely in the bass, Sean Mackin in the violin and vocals, Ryan Mendez in the guitar, and Longineu Parsons III in the drums. First Yellowcard is original because in punk rock songs they have introduced the violin from classic music. It makes a new effect in their songs that touch even more the public’s feelings. 

     

     

    The band was formed in 1997 but quickly had changes. The present vocal, Ryan key, was a friend of the band in academy’s time in Jacksonville. More particularly, Sean Mackin and Ryan were best friends and studied together in university. Key abandoned the university after 6 months moving to Santa Cruz to continue with his real dream that was music. He played in some punk rock bands in Florida and California but didn’t make success. The guitarist Benjamin Harper saw Ryan training and invited him to his band that had just lost her vocal.

    Yellowcard was now a completed band, and Ryan persuaded the others that they had to move to Florida to have a real chance of success. They moved and soon became know playing many of the songs Ryan had composed lonely before entering the group. The majority of those songs had been recorded in their first album One for the kids spear in 2001 and in the next one The underdogs. The two albums received favorable critical about the honest music and the band’s optimism.

    Like I said in the start Yellowcard in an original band that make more success even day because it treats serious problems mixing great letters and beautiful melodies. The first time Yellowcard came to Brazil was last year in august and I went to the concert in Via Funchal. The second time was last year too in September, in the festival organized by the radio Mix that brings all the years international bands. Last year  Mix brought too Fall out boy but unfortunately, in this period I didn’t new yet this band and I leaved the festival just after Yellowcard’s passage and didn’t listened to Fall out boy.  I regretted it until now, because I started to now that band in the same month and it became another passion to me.

    The first time I listened to Yellowcard was in the middle of last year when the band wasn’t known yet at the radio. The first song I listened to was “Only one” that, like is said by the name, talks about someone that is completely in love and consider his lover his “only one”. Then I started to download more songs of the band and now I know about 30 songs from Yellowcard or more. I expect Yellowcard will return soon to Brazil because I like almost all their songs and it is definitely one of my favorite’s bands.  

     

    Broken this fragile thing now And I can't, I can't pick up the pieces I've thrown my words all around But I can't, I can't give you a reason  I feel so broken up (so broken up) And I give up (I give up) I just want to tell you so you know  Here I go, scream my lungs out and try to get to you You are my only one I let go but there's just no one that gets me like you do You are my only, my only one  Made my mistakes, let you down And I can't, I can't hold on for too long Ran my whole life in the ground And I can't, I can't get up when you're gone  something's breaking up (breaking up) I feel like giving up (like giving up) I won't walk out until you know  Here I go, scream my lungs out and try to get to you You are my only one I let go, there's just no one who gets me like you do You are my only my only one  Here I go so dishonestly Leave a note for you my only one And I know you can see right through me So let me go and you will find someone  Here I go, scream my lungs out and try to get to you You are my only one I let go but there's just no one, no one like you You are my only, my only one My only one My only one My only one You are my only, my only one

     

    Sources:          -http://www.yellowcardrock.com/bio.aspx

    -http://vagalume.uol.com.br/yellowcard/biografia/

  • The Mediator

    Posted: May 21st, 2007, 1:23pm GMT by gabitonus

    I will talk about a book in series that I’ve read and that I liked very much. It is The Mediator by Jenny Carroll, called Meg Cabot. She was born in 1967 and grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. After six years in a University at Indiana, a college to which she was only accepted because her father taught there, she moved to New York City to pursue a career as an illustrator but she failed miserably. Meg was forced to turn to her favorite hobby, writing novels, for emotional succor. She worked various jobs to pay the rent but she is now the author of more that forty books for both adults and teens. Many of these books have been bestsellers like The Princess Diaries series which have been published in over 37 countries and have sold more that five million copies worldwide.

               

    But I am interested in The Mediator. This book is not so well-known, it is the only one I have read from Meg Cabot but I want to read her others books, I just need time. In fact a friend introduced me the series’ first book one or two years ago. It was in Portuguese and the reading was very easy and pleasant. I finished reading the first book in some yours. She lent me the other four books she has but I needed to know how the history would finish. Unfortunately my friend bought the books in Rio de Janeiro and didn’t find the number six many times she looked for it. I try to find the book here in Sao Paulo but no one knew about The Mediator.  I called my aunt that lives in London and last Christmas she brought me the book six in English.

    The history’s heroine is a sixteen years old girl called Susanna Simon that has the incredible power of seen and talking to ghosts: she is a mediator. Her father dies when she a kid and she live in New York but moves to California to live with her mother’s new husband. At the beginning, Suze doesn’t want to move to California but her mother seems to be so happy with her new husband that she decides do agree and move on to. Moreover she had only one friend in her old school and wasn’t really popular between boys. Quickly her word is completely changed because she discovers other people that can see ghosts like her and she knows a beautiful and charming young ghost that lives in her bedroom. During the other books of the series she becomes popular and starts to have a real life.

    I liked these books because it is a history of a girl that has to face problems commons of a teenager, but she has other problems like hide from her mother the fact that a ghost is trying to kill her. Moreover I had to read the book six in English during holidays so I could train the language learning new words, and my speed reading improved a lot. 

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