Write about the story you enjoyed most, describing what it is about and why you liked it

      The story that I enjoyed most was "Lost Hearts". In September of 1811 a little boy called Stephen arrived at Aswarby Hall, where he went to live with his elder cousin Mr Abney. Mr Abney was very kind to him and Mrs Bunch (his servant) said  only good about him. She said that he was especially kind with children and that he had taken years before one boy and a girl into his house to live, because those children didn' have a home. But the both of them disappeared or just left the house.
      After that Stephen started to see strange dreams at night. One day Mr Abney asked him to come to his library at eleven o'clock. While there was a bit time, Stephen was in his room and was looking out of the window, when he suddenly heard strange cries and then he saw two children standing under a tree and looking towards to him. They both had a hole on the left sides of their chests. Then the children disappeared. Stephen went to Mr Abney's library, but he found him dead there with a large black hole on the left side of his chest. The book in front of him was open and there was written that Mr Abney had killed both of those children and had taken out their hearts in order to do magic. Stephen suppose to be the next one. But fortunately he was saved.
      I liked the story because it was very catching and interesting from the beginning and it wasn't predictable. It wasn't hard to imagine all of this and scared me quite a lot. But I'm afraid that if I had read it at night I wouldn't have been able to fall asleep.

"The Locked Room and Other Horror Stories" . M. R. James

      The seventh and last book this term I read was "The Locked Room and Other Horror Stories". All the stories in that book are written by M. R. James. The book's publisher is Addiosn Wesley Longman Limited & Penguin Books Ltd. The book's reading level is 4 (intermediate) and it has 1700 words.

      As the title of the book says, there are 9 horror stories in it. They have all been written by Montague Rhodes James. I liked all the nine stories although I'm not a fan of these kind of stories, but these ones were very interesting. My favourite story was the very first one in this book. The title of it is "The Ash-Tree". It talked about a man, who were killed probably because one witch was killed because of him. His bedroom was very close to the ash-tree and a few days after the hanging of that witch, he was found dead in his bed and he was all over black. The same happened to his grandson when he wanted to cut the tree down. Later, when that tree accidentally burned down, the creepy creatures came out of it (they looked liked very furry spiders)  and inside that tree were a bones of the witch...

      Even though this book was quite scary it was very interesting and excited to read. I'd definitely recommend this book to my classmates! 

Which character of the book do you feel most sorry for?

      This book is quite complicated due to it's story. There are many characters to feel sorry for. But I feel most sorry the main character- Elizabeth.
      Bell had a psychical disorder, because during the book it came out that, when she was 12 she had murdered her baby sister. When she was older she murdered her husband and later her lover too. She didn't plan her murders ahead, not more than 5 minutes. But she also didn't regret, when she had accomplished them. Some way I even feel sorry for her, because she had to be sick when she did those thing, but otherwise there's no apologizes to her actions. There was also a good-hearted woman called Cosette. I feel definitely sorry for her, because she was very kind and people took advantages of that. For example they all lived in her house for free. And Bell and his lover Mark wanted first to get rid of her, so that they could get her money. But fortunately they didn't manage to do that. Later I felt sorry for Mark too because he later actually fell in love with Cosette and when he told that to Bell, she murdered her.
      But the most sorry I feel for the innocent sufferer- Elizabeth. Because it was kind of her fault that all this happened, because when she hadn't told the story from the book "The Wings of the Dove" to Bell, then Bell wouldn't have got all of her "great" ideas. But she suffered very much for that. At first she had loved Bell, but she couldn't accept her past and Bell's present acts were cruel. Later she just had to stay with her, because everyone she had loved and who had been close to her, had died and though she was rich she had nobody else to devise her legacy than Bell. So she was unfortunately stuck with her.

"The House of Stairs" . Barbara Vine

      The sixth book that I read was "The House of Stairs" by Barbara Vine. Publisher is Addison Wesley Longman Limited and Penguin Books Ltd. The book's reading level is four (intermediate). The book has 53 pages and 1700 words.
      This book is mostly about woman called Elizabeth. She's a writer. She meets a woman named Bell and they fell in love. She tells her a story from the book "The Wings of a Dove", where a woman is in love with a man, but they don't have any money. The girl suggests her lover to marry one ill and rich woman. When that woman dies, the two lovers get all of her money and merry. And that gives Bell a great idea...
      I wouldn't recommend this book very much to others to read, because it was quite shocking book. But if someone has interest, then he/she should definitely read it, because the story was interesting, though it was a bit difficult to read.