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The Three musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

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I strongly believe that everyone heard about “The three musketeers”. There is no possibility to not know the famous phrase ' All for one   and   one for all , united we stand divided we fall.' The story is about young man who really wanted to be one of the king’s Louis XIII musketeers source . At the beginning, he got into trouble, as a result he had to fight against three musketeers – Atos, Portos and Aramis; with Atos at midday, with Portos at 12:30 and with Aramis at 1 p.m. First duel was interrupted by guard of cardinal Richelieu. In this case D’Artagnan fought in one team with the three mousquetaires. That is how their friendship have started. Every chapter is more and more interesting. We read about their dangerous adventures which are very exciting. In this novel we can find out what friendship is, loyalty, love, but also competition or betrayal. From this story I have learnt a lot – we should follow our dreams and do everything we can to make them happen, w...

Divergent - Veronica Roth

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source Many people say that Veronica Roth copied an idea of The Hunger Games. In my opinion, that’s not true. The fact that everything take place in the future doesn’t mean that she wrote a story based on THG, we have a lot of books which plot happen in future. In “Divergent” future is not important, in fact, what happened in this book, could happen anytime and everywhere. There is a society divided for five fractions: the brave ones called Dauntless, the kind ones – Amity, the honest ones - Candor, the selfless ones – Abnegation and the intelligent ones – Erudite. People think that is safer when everyone has his role, part in society. Perfect civilization, isn’t it? Well, no. Teenagers have to decide if they want to stay in their fraction or switch to another – for the rest of their lives. There is no way to come back, because there is one the most important role – Fraction before blood. Beatrice Prior makes a choice that surprises everyone. Then Tris and her fellow fractio...

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

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I think a lot of people know The Hunger Games not because of the books but because of the films based on story of Suzanne Collins. I saw the 2 nd movie when I was in junior high school. My class wanted to see “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” in the cinema, so I went with them. When I saw “THE END” on the screen, I was very curious what happened next, so I reached for the books. It took source me about a week to read all three books. I was delighted by the story. In Panem, every year children between 12 and 18 years old from have to take part in game which is a punishment for the districts because they rebelled against Capitol and the President. In every district by drawing is decided who will take part in The Hunger Games, it has to be one girl and one boy. When 12 years old Prim is drawn, her sister Katniss reports that she wants to be the tribute and replace Prim. Katniss is almost sure that she will never come back home...

Welcome back and books of Paulina Świst

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source The holidays are over so it’s time to come back, start studying and (of course) write a blog. In this tern I want to focus on books. I really like to read, but unfortunately lately I don’t have much time for that. During the vacations, before I went to work, I had a lot of time to catch up and read some books of polish writer – Paulina Świst. She is a lawyer who write under the pseudonym because she doesn’t want to be recognized. Her books are about lawyers and criminal cases. First volume “Prosecutor” talks about advocate Kinga Błońska who has to defend her half-brother “Szary” in the court because he is suspected of killing three persons. Everyone knows that he actually did that, even Kinga, so her task is really hard. Things are going worst when she sees who the prosecutor is – the guy with whom she spent previous night. What’s more – “Szary” starts threatening her and put her life in danger. The story is full of pl...