Alice in Wonderland
Chapters 8-9
Alice goes in the garden and sees three gardeners, shaped like cards and painting roses white roses on trees. She asks why they are painting them red, then (the two) admits they should be red. The procession of the queen arrives. There are soldiers, royal children, the white Rabbit, and various guests. They stop opposite of Alice and the Queen wants to know Alice’s identity. She introduces herself. Her replies are are sassy and refuses to be intimidated. The queen asks who the soldiers are, she demands they be beheaded. The Queen invites Alice to play croquet. She soon learns that croquet in wonderland is is very difficult. The balls are live hedgehogs and mallets are flamingos. The Cheshire cat head appears. Alice admits to the cat that she doesn’t like the Queen very much. She is talking to the King and the Cheshire cat don’t get along, He demands execution of the cat. The executioner says that since he’s just a head he cannot be beheaded. They ask Alice to meditate and Alice says they should get the Duchess. By the time the Duchess is brought, the cat has vanished.

The Idiot
479-511
Narrator starts off by telling how people are divided into 2 groups. The smart and the dumb. Its been a week since they were at the park. Prince an Aglaya are engaged.General Ivolgin stole 400 rubies,
Prince is engaged

Alice in wonderland
92-94
The Gryphon and alice ask the mock turtle about some of his adventures in his life. After, Alice begins to tell them how she got to wonderland and then tells them about her adventure in wonderland. The lobster pops up.
To be Continued….
I think a significant event is all of them telling their stories, it helps them get to know each other.

A Doll’s House pages 55-58
Christine and Krogstad are now together and happy. Nora does not want to return back home and begs Torvald to go back. Christine tells Nora she has to tell Torvald about her secret because if she does not, the letter will. Christine shows herself out. Torvald is talking to Nora in a loving way and Nora tries to reject his advances knowing he will find out about the loan. Torvald talks about how much he is in love and Nora tells him to stop. Helmer is ready to confront Nora on her acting so weird but Dr.Rank comes in. They end up talking about the party.
I can see Nora breaking. I have a feeling she is going to break down and leave. She seems so stressed and concerned I think she can not live her normal life after Torvald opens the letter.

a clockwork orange part 3 ch 2
alex now has nowhere to stay. he goes to but records and a guy plays one for him. he runs out reefing sick out because all the films had music playing in the background. he goes to the library to find ways to kill himself and breakdown after looking at the books talking to someone. he later gets beat up by a few guys, one of them he tormented years before. police show up to stop the fight and he realizes one officer is dim and the other is billyboy. he thinks they are pranking his but they aren’t.

184-192
Fathers and Sons
Madame Odintsova is still unsettled by the events that happened with Bazarov. She tries to avoid being alone with him to avoid awkwardness. Later that night Bazarov tells Arkady that he plans to leave the estate, Arkady tells him he wants to return to his home. The next morning they all pack up and as they’re leaving Arkady changes his mind and asks Bazarov if he can return with him. Madame Odintsova tells Bazarov they need to meet again because of unfinished business. On the ride back home he thinks to himself about what happened and thought no man should allow a woman to get the best of him.

Dracula
259-270
The men obtain keys to Dracula’s houses. They hurry off to sterilize the 12 boxes that are stored in London. Dracula leaves Carfax and the they conclude that he will arrive in Piccadilly soon to get his boxes back. Van Hellsing sets up an ambush for Dracula. Dracula escapes, but van Hellsing believes that Dracula was frightened. Mina gets hypnotized so they can try and track Dracula’s whereabouts.

A Clockwork Orange Part 3 chapters 1-2
Upon being released from prison, Alex goes to eat. Reading the news paper, he discovers he is in it with the minister talking about the treatment. He goes off to home hoping to get in bed and listen to music, only to walk in to a different home. There is a man named Joe with his parents, who has been renting out Alex´s old room and living there. His mother cries and his father explains to him that his stuff has been taken as compensation to his victims and that Alex is no longer accepted into the house. He gets kicked out by Joe, who wishes Alex back to prison. The sickness in him from wanting to revolt is overwhelming him and making him want to commit suicide.

All quiet on the western front pages 170-215

at the start , they talk about how the war is still going strong even though germany is weakining. they say being in the war is like having a deadly disease. their “prewar lives” are no longer valid and everything before the war means nothing. they have been at war so long it has consumed their whole lives and it is their identity. they have all become very close and they rely on each other for survival. one soldier is going crazy. he tries to go home and he is captured and tried as a deserter. Muller is shot and has a painful half an hour death and paul receives his boots. the war continues to go bad for the germans. there weapons are worn , they have terrible and very little food , and terrible conditions. wounded soldiers are fighting. new recruits are not trained at all. leer bleeds to death. there is talk of the war ending and soldiers are very reluctant to return to the front lines. kat gets wounded while returning with scavenged food. paul tries to carry hm to safety. when they get to the dressing station , paul sees he was hit in the head on the way there. kat is dead. we then go into the final chapter of the book. it is autumn of 1918. paul is the only one living from his classmates. the war is raging and the U.S has joined the allies now. it seems to be if the war does not end , there will be a revolt against german leaders. paul inhales poisonous gas and gets 14 days to recuperate. he can not bare the thought of being the only survivor of his generation. he feels his own life has been destroyed by the war.
after years of fighting , paul is killed in october of 1918 , on an extraordinary quiet , peaceful day. the army report that day contains only one phrase: ” all quiet on the western front”. as paul dies , his face is calm, ” as though almost glad the end had come”.

a signigicant scene in todays reading is Paul the narrator of the book has died and the book has ended