Blogging - The conclusion

In this post i woll talk about blogging as a tool to work with a book.

I don't know if I have learnt anything special from my experience with blogging. There has not been any markable difference in the learning I have done from this blogging period than from just reading the book, but I have noticed that I used a considerable amount of more time than usual. This is the only markable difference that I have noticed because it made the boring parts of the book even more boring because i had to put even more attention what they said and did even if it was boring. That was actually okay, but I was kinda expecting to get more in to the plot and that I would think the really interresting part would be even more rewarding, but unfortunatively this wasn't the case. This is the biggest dissapointment from this reading project.
I don't know if it was my bad attitude to write a blog about my reading project, but if I actually didn't mind blogging about it I think I would have a much more interresting and fun.
Oh well, i guess I read more closely and got even more of the story, but since it wasn't such an exciting book as I had hoped for this blogging project turned out negatively.

Edvard signing out.

Sherryl Jordan

Sherryl Jordan writes: "All my life I have felt a great affinity with deaf people, and have loved sign language. For several years I worked with profoundly deaf children in schools, and spoke with them through signs. Marnie's dealing with Raven -- her difficulties, frustration, despair, joy, and triumph -- are all thins i have experienced."


Sherryl Jordan has written many books primarily fantasy books for teens and young adults and has won many prices for her books.

Here is some of her last works:
1999: The Raging Quiet
1999: Wolf-Woman
2001: Secret Sacrament
2002: The Hunting of The Last Dragon
2007: Time of The Eagle

The setting - The scene

The setting is in a fantasy world and in the great nation in this world, Navora. It is a world with medieval touch where the greatest fortunes are trading and healing. Doctors in this world have usually high rank in the society and they are called healers because they possesses  magical abilities like removing pain (while in a surgery) or interpreting dreams. The setting follows the main character Gabriel on his way to become a great healer that is also written about in ancient prophecies to change the world to the better.

Here is a map that is in one of the first pages of the book:

Analize or report the book?

I think I will write a book analysis because I like the criterias for a analysis better than the ones for a book report. I also like to aim high and especially now after delivering texts that was not so great lately. The choice i have made will hopefully turn out to be the right one.

The Main character of Secret Sacrament is a young boy named Gabriel. The two first pages is just names on important characters and the real sory begins after that. It tells the story which you hear about in the text on the back of the book and gives you a basic understanding of what kind of person Gabriel is. He is a afraid young boy shaped by his father's lack of tenderness and love and all his unconstructive criticism. He is a coward and is looked upon as a great disgrace for his whole family. The only persons who have been nice to Gabriel is his younger brother Myron and his mother Lena, but they never speak against Gabriels father, Jager.

When Jager dies his the responsibility for his great merchant fleet is given to Gabriel as he is the oldest son. This makes one of Jager's brothers take responsibility for teaching Gabriel how to take over and handle his father's great merchant business wether he wants it or not, guess what, he does not want it.

The book does not start happy and in a universe where all is good, but where the whole life of Gabriel is falling apart. The start of the book is quite boring and I hope it gets a bit more exciting.

And by the way, I didn't have any acces to the internet and therefore I am writing this a bit late.

My choice of book

When i had to choose a book my only criteria was that it was fantasy. I really like fantasy because I find these books much more interresting and fun to read than, say crime, for instance. Therefore I looked after a book with a frontpage that looked fantasy-like and this is what i found:

And this was the text at the back of the book(it was translated to norwegian):
"Gabriel er ingen vanlig gutt. Han har krefter ikke han selv en gang forstår rekkevidden av. Han har aldri ønsket å bli som sin far, den rike og mektige sjøfareren som blir hyllet av alle i Navora, men som er kald og distansert overfor sin egen familie. Gabriel blir vitne til en grusom handling utført mot en kvinne fra en primitiv stamme på den andre siden av fjellene. Han fylles med skyldfølelse for ikke å ha grepet inn. Beslutningen han tar om å bruke kreftene han har fått kommer til å volde han mange problemer."

I thought that the cover and the text on the back of the book sounded interesting and thats why I chose this book.

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