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Podcast over 1st book: Watership Down

November 1. Ok, I know I'm really late with this blog, but I had it up before and it had gotten deleted somehow. Well anyway, the book I am now reading is called __A Clockwork Orange__ by Anthony Burgess. Before I started reading this book, I had gotten a lot of feedback from other people who have read it. Most of this feedback included warnings of how disturbing the book can be. After hearing these warnings I, sadly, got more interested in the book. Upon opening it I was immediately confused. A lot of the words in the book are made up and I'm having trouble trying to decipher their true meanings. One word I know for sure its meaning, is the word rot, which he uses for the word mouth. I am now on Chapter 2 page 21.
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BLOG 1 The book I am reading is __Watership Down__ by Richard Adams. This book is based on a human like society but, through the life of rabbits. In my book there are two main characters. Fiver, the runt of his litter, and his brother Hazel. Fiver and Hazel are both outcasts in their little society and live on the brink of their warren. Fiver ends up having this ability that allows him to sense danger. One day while eating, Fiver senses a massive threat to the warren. Hazel and Fiver try to convince the leader of this danger, only to fail. They end up leaving on this journey to get away from the danger while taking 6 other rabbits with them. I am currently on page 53 of my book and am finding this story quite interesting so far. I predict that one of the rabbits will get into trouble or that one of the 6 they brought with them will turn traitor.

BLOG 2 Sep. 20 I continued reading this great book on this society of rabbits. I am now on pg 176 Chapter 24. Fiver and the group have gone on this long journey to find a safe place to set up a new warren. They face many problems along the way. One major problem they faced was this warren of rabbits that seemed perfect. They had no leader, an unlimited amount of food, and there were no enemies around. The group decided to join this warren and became happy. But, Fiver wouldn't have anything to do with this warren. He kept saying there was something dangerous about them. Sure enough, the group comes to find out that the area is surrounded by traps. The warren knows of this but if anyone mentions them they are shunned or killed. The group decides to leave the warren and a new rabbit by the name of Strawberry decides to join them wanting to escape the evil warren. The group continues looking for a safe place and come upon a hill in which they can create a new warren. While setting up there, Holly, a rabbit from their home warren, finds them. He is damaged with a torn ear and exhausted. He tells the group that the home warren was destroyed by humans. Later on Hazel comes to mention the problem of them being a male only group. He sends a small group of rabbits to find females. The book has begun to get get very exciting and I can't wait to read more. I think the group will fail in bringing back females. By this time Hazel seems to have become the leader of the group. He has this strict yet friendly feel about him that seems to make the others rabbits call him their leader. Though the fact that they wouldn't be this far without Fiver's insight never seems to leave my mind. The image of Fiver in my head is one of this little gray bunny with ears that flop over the sides of his head. He tends to have this scared look on his face so he has wide black and dark brown eyes. The image of him never leaves my mind. He is just soo cute! The fact that he has helped to get the group this far leaves the feeling that deep down he could actually be a great leader and he is really brave. Since Hazel and Fiver seem to be such a big team throughout the entire story so far, it would be horrible if something were to happen to one of them.

BLOG 3 Sep. 27 As I continue reading this book, I have come to find myself recently having troubles putting it down. The last time I was able to force myself to put it down and finally go to bed, resulted in me stopping on page 235, chapter 30, Part |||: Efrafa. Okay, so before I go on getting ahead of myself in telling what has continued to happen, I would like to say that the prediction I made in my second blog came true, but it also didn't. Now, I know this may sound confusing to those who haven't read this A-MAZ-ING book, but trust me when I say that all will come to light later in this blog. When I ended my last blog, I had explained that a group of rabbits had gone off to bring back some females from a nearby warren. The leader of this group was Captain Holly since Hazel found him to be a great leader from their old warren. This is where it starts to get interesting. While the small group of rabbits is gone, Hazel gets this idea to go to a nearby farm that Khaar, a bird they helped out, told him about, that houses rabbits in a cage. Hazel wants to make this a surprise to Holly when he comes back with the other females. Hazel decides to head off and bring Pipkin with him to keep watch for cats. They meet 4 rabbits in a cage. One of them that stands out to me is Clover, a female. She seems to have this air around her that says she wants to go on an adventure. Hazel eventually comes back and gets them out only to get shot by a human. During this time Holly comes back with his group all beaten up and no females. See? Like I said the prediction came true but it didn't since Holly failed in bringing home females but Hazel was able to get 2. Hazel is later found and healed. After hearing Holly's story of how the other warren was like a prison and Holly's group had become their prisoners, Hazel gets the idea to infiltrate the warren named Efrafa. This warren is run by a seemingly rude rabbit named Wormwood. Also known as General Wormwood. This is all for now, but it seems things are starting to get pretty entertaining. I have this weird feeling that things are going to start becoming more like a human society here pretty fast. Well ta ta for now!

BLOG 4 Oct. 4th Okay now I know this is later than October 4th, but that's only because my stupid computer wouldn't let me log in for a while. I am now on chapter 34 around page 254. I am unsure since I don't have my book with me. I was unable to get the chance to read much this last week due to work, but from what I was able to read, things are starting to get a little more exciting. Hazel has headed out from Watership Down with a group of rabbits to infiltrate Efrafa and get females. During this long trek, Hazel keeps his plan unknown in order to keep the group curious and willing to follow him. After an encounter with a fox, the group has come to a river that they had to cross using a man-made bridge. After getting across, Hazel sends one of his main rabbits to infiltrate the enemy's burrow and get some females. I get the feeling that either the plan will go wrong, or there will be some complications in which they will have to mix things up.