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 Book Review:  Today I read "BLIZZARDS; KILLER SNOWSTORMS". First of all let me share three phrases that I chose. The first one is:  Thirty-six hours was too long for her, and she died. This phrase made me surprise. Russel Cox and her wife, Brenda, went for a walk in the White Mountains in New Hampshire. When they're walking down, the sky became very gray and the weather was freezing cold. They shivered their body and tried get warm, but the wife lastly died. I didn't think that she died, so this scene was so shocking for me. The second one is: Darryl lost five kilos, but he didn't have hypothermia or frostbite. He survived.  The is phrases appeared in the next story. Darryl was driving his car from Organ to Washington State. He drove higher into the mountains, and snow started to fall. He tried to turn around, but the car didn't go. Lastly he survived 15 days in his car. I thought perhaps if the person was other person, he or she couldn't survive.  The la

 Book Review      Today I read “Floods”. This book had few words or sentences, so it was easy to reading. This was consisted from two stories. The first one is “The Bad-Tempered Bandit” and another one is “The Hole in the Sky”.      “The Bad-Tempered Bandit” (A myth from China)  There was a bandit before who was very bad-tempered and his gang of followers were all horrible. They were always fighting and quarreling. One day, the Queen got so fed up that she took her army to fight the bandits. They liked fighting, but they didn’t like the lock of the Queen and her soldiers. Lastly all gang ran away and the bandit fought only himself. “The bandit ran towards it as fast as he could… and butted it with his head.” “it” means a bamboo. Suddenly the bandit hit it with his head and this made me surprising. He did it twice and lastly snapped it off. I felt how hard his head is.      “The Hole in the Sky” ( A myth from North America)   One year, long ago, the water in all the rivers and lakes in