Classics

The engrossing epic tale of murder, mysteries and an orphan boy's promise of wealth. As a small boy at Joe Gargery's forge, Pip meets two people who will affect his whole life - an escaped convict he is forced to help, and the eccentric Miss Havisham, whose beautiful, cold ward Estella young Pip adores.

But when a secret benefactor pays for him to go to London to become a gentleman, Pip never dreams he will meet the dreadful Magwitch again, nor just how wrong his expectations are . . .

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skill fully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow worker, Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.

The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath is a semi-autobiographical novel which follows the breakdown of an American girl, Esther Greenwood. She is trapped in a 'bell jar' of depression and despair with seemingly no way out...

Starts superbly with a clanking iron giant toppling from a cliff, lying smashed on the rocks below. Then his various parts get up and search for each other.

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality. 

Anna is too busy with schoolwork and tobogganing to listen to the talk of Hitler. But one day she and her brother are rushed out of Germany in alarming secrecy, away from everything they know. Their father is wanted by the Nazis - dead or alive. This is the start of a huge adventure, sometimes frightening, very often funny, and always, always exciting.

My thoughts on  movie Midnight In Paris of  woody allen dvd collection is incomplete. The hero said to the woman: "If you stay here, it is you now. Soon after, you will begin to imagine another era is the best. This is the reality, but incomplete; because life is always incomplete. I am impressed in  "Life  Elsewhere" from Milan Kundera's,it is very good . Then I found "elsewhere" is always unattainable.

This story does not begin on a boat. Nor does it contain anything about swans or falling leaves.

It is a wonderland called Footscray, and a girl named Alice and her Chinese-Cambodian family pursue the Australia Dream, Asian style.

Unpolished Gem is a book rich in comedy, a loving and irreverent portrait of a family, its everyday struggles and bittersweet triumphs. With it, Australian writing gains an unforgettable new voice.

The land is all-important to the Logan family. But it takes awhile for Cassie and her three brothers to understand just how lucky they are to have it. They must learn the hard way that having a place they can call their own in rural Mississippi permits the Logans the luxuries of pride and courage that their poor black sharecropper neighbor can't afford.

LARA ZANY is PottsCourt Primary School's oficial FRIENDSHIP MATCHMAKER. She is certain her her Friendship Rules work. She can take the Lonliest Loser (LL) and help them make a best friend. Until Emily Wong shows up and BREAKS ALL THE RULES. Now Emily has challenged Lara to a  competition and Lara's Rules are about to be tested.