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Outside Reading-Blades of Glory 2

I have continued to read my outside reading book, Blades of Glory. The more and more i read it the better and better it gets but some of it i do not really agree with. I mean i no that older hockey players chew and stuff but i did not think that high school kids did? especially ones that were that good. That stuff just ruins your skill and in the book it talks about how on the way back from one of there games all the players throw in chews and none of them get caught doing it. I thought wow how can a team that good do such a stupid thing like that. But i suppose it was just a bad decision. In the book i also love how it mentions Edina and in the book one of my hockey coaches is named in it so that was pretty cool. A lot of these players i recognize because they are either in the NHL or they are nationally recognized and because we live in Minnesota it is even bigger. Also it is pretty cool to know that i skate on the same ice as some of the NHL players do. Like Braemar arena or Bloomington Ice Gardens. Any of those rinks. I love reading a book that i can relate to and say that is a neighbor town of the one that i live in today and that ya i no who so and so is. It is just a really cool feeling for me.

Outside Reading-Blades of Glory 1

For the second quarter I am reading Blades of Glory by John Rosengren. It is about the 00-01 Jefferson Jaguars (from Minnesota) who are one of the most winning high school hockey teams in the nation and it tells there story of one of there most memorable years ever. The author was given full access to the team that year and could go with them wherever they go and he wrote this book about the team and how they struggle and strive to there ultimate goal, to win the state high school hockey tournament and hopefully play college hockey and maybe even the pros. But in Minnesota hockey is more than a game it is life. Every 1 in 113 Minnesotans play hockey and we produce the best hockey players there is in the game right now. When people think of Texas they think of football, when people think of Mexico they think of soccer, when people think of California they think of basketball and when people think of Minnesota it is hockey. Always has been and always will be. If you ask me I think it is because it is one of the coldest places in the US but until next blog. Peace

The Road Soundtrack

I think a good addition to the Road soundtrack would be “You can’t always get what you want” by the Rolling Stones because it kind of tells the story of the man and little boy. Also the tone kind of fits the one in the story and makes it sad because the man and boy just want to live in peace but can not because of the post-apocalyptic world. A Quote from the song is “you can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need”. I believe that is very true and that they are not getting what they want but that they are getting what they need to survive pretty much. A quote from the book is when “He went through the plywood lockers overhead but they were empty. There were drawers under the bunk and he pulled them out and looked through the trash”. This describes that they are trying to find things that possibly need or just things they might want. I think that “You can’t always get want you want” by the Rolling Stones would be a great addition to the soundtrack cause it goes with the book very well.

The Road-first thoughts

My thoughts on the road are that it seems like a pretty good book. It seems a lot like I Am Legend though just like Mrs.B said. I do like it is very descriptive about everything though. It is very interesting on some of the things being talked about and described to the fullest extent. Like a Raw pig. You could just say that there was a raw pig in the barn but not in this book. In this book it explained to the fullest extent. Like how the pig is bloody and its eyes have blood coming out of them and is hung upside down....I do not need to know that kind of stuff. Also it explains a lot of the same things over and over again. It kind of sees that everyday is pretty much the same thing. They wake up go through peoples houses or barns or stuff like that then they make dinner then go to bed. Same thing over and over again. But aside from gruesomeness and the repeating of everything, it is a pretty good book so far. A lot better than Siddhartha and the Odyssey so far...Hopefully it will be better because I can not stand another terrible book like the others we have read.