Mark Graham
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I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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QPB
In starting a new project I wanted to know a little more about a certain series of novels. The series is 'The Lord of the Rings' and there is a thin companion guide to this series known as 'The QPB Companion to The Lord of the Rings'. This short academic reference book is divided into sections that talks about the author, the critics, and even the readers of the series.
By Mark Graham12 months ago in Critique
What does it mean to be a typist?
Back in my sophomore year in high school I had my first year of typing, which actually we had to take as a graduation requirement. We learned on manual typewriters just like the one in the image. Well, exactly like the image. Before I get too far what made me think of writing this essay was the fact I just finished kind of a funny video on msn.com when I first turned on my computer. The video was from the 1950's and the secretary was a clerk typist that used an IBM Electric typewriter that by no way looked like the one that I had in my senior year course in typing on an IBM Selectric typewriter.
By Mark Graham12 months ago in Journal
More Gross Jokes
'More Gross Jokes' written by Buck Jones is an old joke book for kids who have a weird sense of funny. The jokes range in topic from sick and twisted to Rib Ticklers to Fang-tastically Funny and more like that throughout the book. 'What's a Dentist's favorite ride? A molar-coaster.
By Mark Graham12 months ago in Critique
The Poison Season
'The Poison Season' is a teen or even an adult romance novel written by Maria Rutherford. It is all about family and friends living on the island of Endla that is protected by magic and a wandering forest. It is also surrounded by a poisoned lake. The main characters of Leelo and her cousin Sage are known as watchers for the Endlans believe that the citizens on the mainland are their enemies. The island is self-sustaining as long as the inhabitants give sacrifices to the forest. If any Endlan does not show some sort of magic they are incantu (this means the person does not have magic) and must be banished. Music and singing are the ways that magic is done in most cases on Endla Tate seems not to have magic and Leelo keeps hoping right to the last minute that Tate exhibits something.
By Mark Graham12 months ago in Critique
Washington!
Washington! The Civil War is over and now veterans must figure a way to make a living and now back two famous families start their own business, but there is also a new mission and that is to seek more land in the Montana territory and increase westward expansion now.
By Mark Graham12 months ago in Critique
Nevada!
Nevada! this is the story with the Civil War mounting and one of the founding leaders of the original wagon train makes one last wagon train trip to help the Union secure something very precious and much needed at this time in history. Will they succeed or fail this mission?
By Mark Graham12 months ago in Critique
