In this blog post I am going to be writing about the books I've been reading. I've ready 4 books since I arrived. So I'll do a short little summary of each one.
The first book I read was called America's First World War: General Pershing and the Yanks.
I've already talked about General Pershing in one of my posts so I won't dwell on that book for too long. It was about Pershings life and all his war experiences, both exciting and boring, happy and tragic.
The second book I read was called Lord of the Nutcracker Men. This was a book that I really enjoyed quite a lot! It was about a little boy named Johnny, his father was a toy maker and before he left for the war he gave his son his own little army of nutcracker men. Johnny loves to play with his army and pretend that he is fighting his own little World War. The beginning of every chapter starts with a letter from his father and a new little army man that his father has sent. As the war escalates Johnny begins to think that what he pretends to do at home has an effect on the war in the trenches. He is terrified that he might be killing people by playing with his toy soldiers.
The third book was Warhorse, it's a story told from the perspective of a horse named Joey. (I'd say that's a pretty good name) Joey goes through a lot during the war, he has many different owners over the 4 years he is in the war and has to do very strenuous work. Things that killed many other horses, but he has a drive unlike any other horse, he wants to get home to his real master. I liked this book a lot, and I was very excited to find out that there is a movie version of it too! I will definitely be watching it when I get home.
The fourth book that I have read while in Arizona is The Great Gatsby. I had seen the movie before so I somewhat knew the story already, but it had been a while and I had forgotten a lot of the details. The book takes place in the 1920s and is the story about a young man who moves to New York and is next door neighbors to the popular party thrower, Jay Gatsby. No one knows very much about Gatsby, and what they do know probably isn't true. But as the story goes on Gatsby opens up to his neighbor and we learn Gatsby's backstory and then continue to learn about him in his current situation.
The first book I read was called America's First World War: General Pershing and the Yanks.
I've already talked about General Pershing in one of my posts so I won't dwell on that book for too long. It was about Pershings life and all his war experiences, both exciting and boring, happy and tragic.
The second book I read was called Lord of the Nutcracker Men. This was a book that I really enjoyed quite a lot! It was about a little boy named Johnny, his father was a toy maker and before he left for the war he gave his son his own little army of nutcracker men. Johnny loves to play with his army and pretend that he is fighting his own little World War. The beginning of every chapter starts with a letter from his father and a new little army man that his father has sent. As the war escalates Johnny begins to think that what he pretends to do at home has an effect on the war in the trenches. He is terrified that he might be killing people by playing with his toy soldiers.
The third book was Warhorse, it's a story told from the perspective of a horse named Joey. (I'd say that's a pretty good name) Joey goes through a lot during the war, he has many different owners over the 4 years he is in the war and has to do very strenuous work. Things that killed many other horses, but he has a drive unlike any other horse, he wants to get home to his real master. I liked this book a lot, and I was very excited to find out that there is a movie version of it too! I will definitely be watching it when I get home.
The fourth book that I have read while in Arizona is The Great Gatsby. I had seen the movie before so I somewhat knew the story already, but it had been a while and I had forgotten a lot of the details. The book takes place in the 1920s and is the story about a young man who moves to New York and is next door neighbors to the popular party thrower, Jay Gatsby. No one knows very much about Gatsby, and what they do know probably isn't true. But as the story goes on Gatsby opens up to his neighbor and we learn Gatsby's backstory and then continue to learn about him in his current situation.
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