So we had to read a whole bunch of really depressing books all in one semester one time. we had to read 'a day in the life ivan denosavich' or w/e his name is by that alexander sholshanistken or w/e. yeah my spelling is awesome on russian names. and we had to read 'night' by elie weisal and the 'the hiding place' by corrie ten boom and 'all quiet on the western front' by some guy' and i think that's the semester we read lord of the flies too. we always had to read like 30+ books each school year for lit, a few were for history, but most for lit.

we also had to read perelandra. Perelandra is an awesome book. it's by C.S. Lewis and it is the sequal to 'out of the silent planet' and is followed by 'that hideous strength.' it is about a man named Ransom who lives on earth and...i guess i'll tell about the silent planet one first. Ok. so he goes on this voyage into space with these men...I don't remember why, but they travel to another planet and he gets to know the creatures there, and the men he travelled with are really bad but he doesn't know it, so he has to like save the creatures on the planet, and he learns their language and lives there for a long time, and he loves it there...and there's this king and queen and there are these angel like creatures, one rules over every planet. their called elindel. And yeah. I loved that book but i can't remember it anymore.

So yeah, Perelandra. In Perelandra, he travels in a coffin like thing to another planet, and on this planet, there are only islands and they all float are wierd, like the land rolls like the sea and there's this green woman and she's the queen and the King is on another island, and she' s perfect. She rules over all the animals, and their all wierd and different. There's like, some land that is fixed land, it never moves. She can talk to the Great One or something, like he can just talk to her in her head, and he has told her that she shouldn't stay on the fixed land, so she doesn't. And she meets Ransom and thinks he's the king at first, but he's not. So they're there, and then Watson, the bad guy who Ransom took the first trip with shows up and he's all like being weird, and he starts trying to convince the green lady to stay on the land and like tells her that it will be good for her and she will be able to keep her stuff safe and that the Great One really wants her too and that its a test for her that she has to pass and stuff, and Ransom is trying to talk her out of all this and she's all confuzed, and Watson tells her all these stories about heroic women on earth that have done all this stuff and triumphed under difficult cirucumstances and stuff.

So Ransom and Watson are like both trying to get her to do different things. And Watson is like possessed. And they end up fighting, and they start calling Watson the Un-Man and its wierd but Ransom wins and the kind and queen are reunited and the elindil are all there and ransom has a cut on his foot from Watson that won't heal and he goes home and he looks all young again, like twenty years younger and its just really cool.