All 4 Love: 8400 words: 20240 words in total

From now on, I will try to write in English.
Please see my funny English, laugh, and kindly give me any correction.

I had bought four new books of Yohhan Ladder.
One for today, one for tomorrow, and two others for the weekend!
Now I'm really in love with reading! :)

Today, I read the book titled All 4 Love.
4 is the abbreviation of the word FOR.
The young people may use such words for SMS or Short Message Service.
As you see it, this is the modern story of young people.

The first book I had read for this series was The Fjord Murder.
I suppose that it was the story of England about 30 years ago or so,
and the main people in the books was two kids.

The second was The Great Stone Face.
It was story of early America about 200 years ago or so,
and the main person was an American man.

And All 4 Love...
How various books this series have!
I don't think I will be tired of reading soon! :)

The book All 4 Love has 8000 words.
I had a short trip from Yokohama to Shinjuku,
so I had read in the train.
I had read the first half on the way Shinjuku,
and the second half on the way back.

The main person is a middle teanaged girl in love.
I myself is a middleaged man and not in love.
So I didn't feel so much sympathy with her ;)
But I enjoyed it.

This is rather sweet story, so I recommend it to the ladies.

Here I sort the books in order of my favor;
1) The Fjord Murder
2) The Great Stone Face
3) All 4 Love
All 4 Love is the last one in the list, but I liked it very much!

Here I write down some sentences from the book.
Some of them I liked them so much.
Some of them include the words and/or phrases that I didn't know.
The others I didn't understand so well.

The sentences in question are marked with ???.
Please give me any advices.

*

rode
乗った

I'm coming!
すぐ行くよ！

She wanted to say 'have a good time in Bristol',
but Bristol is not a very exciting town.
ブリストルで楽しく過ごしてね、と言いそうになったが、
ブリストルはそんなに面白い町というわけではない。

I don't want any accidents
事故は絶対にいやだよ

In thirty five minutes! Let's go!
あと３５分しかないよ！ 行こう！

Later, they went to find Tom in the snack bar
スナックバーに行くと、トムがいた。
※この do A to B というのがよく出てくる

Don't forget to stay on the right!
It's very easy to forget!
右側通行を忘れずにね！
すぐ忘れちゃうからね！

All traffic
全車両通行可（？？？）
※交通標識なのだが

The wind was behind them.
風は追い風だった

They arranged to meet in the morning
次の日の朝に合うことに決めた

You're nor as stupid as you look.
見た目ほどバカじゃないんだね。

luv is a feeling in yr &heart;, U will know it when U feel it.
愛は&heartで感じるものだよ。感じてきたらすぐに分かるよ。
※これがメールの文章

Come on sleepyhead
起きろ、ねぼすけ

Just like your mother, you talk in your sleep.
君は寝言を言うんだよ。お母さんそっくりだよ。

It was a lovely city centre with no cars.
市の中心部は車がなくてすてきだった。
※be〜with〜というのもよく出てくる

steal a television and a DVD player
どこかからテレビと DVD プレイヤーを持ってきて
※みたいなニュアンスらしい。必ずしも泥棒ではないらしい

History is always like a big jigsaw puzzle.
Emily now had a few more pieces to put in her picture.
歴史とは常に巨大なジグソーパズルのようなものだ。
エミリーは今、彼女の絵にはめ込むべきいくつかのピースを手に入れた。

listen to yr &heart;.Yr &heart will speak 2U.
心に耳を傾けてごらんよ。心は君に語りかけるよ。

Emily listened.
Hear heart was speaking but she couldn't understand the language.
エミリーは耳を傾けた。
心はたしかになにかを語りかけていたが、彼女にはその言葉が理解できなかった。
※泣ける

They were fit now from all their cycling
サイクリングを続けた結果、彼らは全員前より引き締まっていた。
※be〜from〜

It's like a stobe but it comes from trees.
それは石のようだけど、木でできてるんだよ。
※amber（琥珀）のこと

Special Chemistry...
特別な化学反応...
※恋愛のこと

Something good had come from something terrible.
不幸の後によいことがめぐってきたようだ。

How? By taxi, train, taxi, plane, taxi, train and taxi...
どうやってだって？ タクシーに乗って、汽車に乗って、タクシーに乗って、
飛行機に乗って、タクシーに乗って、汽車に乗って、そしてタクシーに乗って来たのさ。
※こんな文を読むと、カンタンな英語ってすばらしいと思う

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