Finally

Where and when did you find yourself sitting down to read? Do you tend to read with music on, or in silence? By the computer? Did you find yourself checking your phone a lot, or do you ever lose yourself in the reading? Do you ever talk about the books you read with your family or friends or teachers?


  I found myself reading usually while at my boyfriends house, he tends to loose himself in the computer and I would loose myself in my book. I usually read in silence just for the fact if I'm listening to music and a song I don't like comes on then I'll stop reading until I find a book I like, or I'll get lost in the music vs. the book. There would be sometimes I'd check my phone a lot but most the time I try to get lost in my book but that also depends on how much I actually enjoy the book I'm reading.I really hate trying to read books that you don't like because it is so hard to get into them. The book I just finished reading, I talked about a lot with my boyfriend, just for the matter of him getting me the book, plus it was an amazing book, so I couldn't help but gush about it. Sometimes I'd talk about books with my mom, but usually I'd just read and most of the time it went by unnoticed because after I finish a book, I start a new one. I hope that I'll start to read more like I used to, I used to read almost every chance I get but I'm constantly working so that can be just a little bit of an issue sometimes but hopefully once the winter comes and I get new books, I can finally sit down and read as much as I used to because to me books are an outlet. If you're feeling a certain emotion and you can find a book to feel the same way then it's great because then you feel as if you aren't the only one going through that problem. Also, they give you an insight on different things in the world especially if you know you'd never experience something like that in your life. My sister is a really big book worm and I'd try to talk with her about books but her and I like different books so it's hard to relate with her on books because she thinks the books I like are weird and I feel pretty much to same with the books she reads, yeah maybe i should give the books she reads a chance but i don't know because if I can't get into the book within the first 5 pages, I won't read it.

Dead End, week 4

I've been reading the book Dead End by Jason Myers and I don't wanna give too much detail because it's the book I choose to do for my project. This book was extremely interesting and heart breaking. It's about two high school sweethearts whom want nothing but to runaway with one another and live happily ever after, which is what we all want, right? Till the tables turn and decides to take a bad turn rather than a good one. Anyways, something really bad happens to Gina, the main character, and her boyfriend, Dru, goes crazy because of it. The two lovers decide the best thing to do to keep their love together would be to finally run away, well let's just say they get into a bit of a pickle. They end up at the random house after many days of running and something yet again happens to Gina, well she decides she's done with her life, and Dru whom had been asleep finds her in the bathtub, lifeless. Dru is so madly in love with Gina that he also decides he can't live any longer. This book reminded me of a modern day Romeo and Juliet. This book made me cry, just because (personal but oh well) my boyfriend and I aren't exactly together and the fact that these two are willing to kill each other just to be happy with one another in another life, it made me wish my relationship would work and be almost like theirs, just without the killing and the bad details in between. Also, my boyfriend happened to get me this book as a gift, so it was just a sad experience reading this romantic love story that any girl would wish to have while I'm having my own relationship problems lol.

Currently, week three

Currently reading: Dead End by Jason Myers
I've basically finished the book, so # of pages: 81
Weeks two and three combined: 181, I started the book "Leaving Dirty Jersey"


1. "You're an angel" he said to her,
"You're beautiful" she said back


2. "..-the forever-had been struck by a lighting bolt and a fire had started. There was smoke everywhere"


3. "Me and you. I want you to be my boyfriend. Is that okay?"


My favorite one has to be the 2nd one, just because it can relate to so many things and the fact that something I had thought to be my forever is "up in flames" I guess I can just relate myself to it.

current week 6

Currently reading : Perfect by Ellen Hopkins and Hole In My Life by (can't remember at the moment)

Pages this week: 205

Favorite lines: "No, Connor was tired of the pressure. Sick of trying to find the equation that would lighten the weight of the expectations not his own." - Cara, Perfect by Ellen Hopkins

“...what good would it
do to
shutter your windows, never
dream of rainbows or find hope
in promises? Why choose to
walk away
rather than hold your ground
and fight for love?”  

"why cant i just a be a regular seventeen-year-old trying to make sense of life?"

All from Perfect by Ellen Hopkins ^

Blog of the day: Claims

http://blogswithfriends.blogspot.com/2011/09/close-read.html

I think this one is my favorite just because I really like the picture, plus everyone seems to be doing the videos for their favorite so I figured something other than those videos( which are really cool also) would be a good idea. :

"In this photo it seems that a group friends are marking the end of an era or the start of something new, the arms outstretched are either reaching for something that's gone or welcoming something that is coming."

5 claims: 

CLAIM #1:
In this beautiful beach painting, the sparkling water to the clear gleaming sky, the vast openness of the ocean, and the author’s use of graceful, yet precise lines and textures illustrates the dreamy peacefulness the author attempts to portray.

CLAIM #2 : Team iLuminate’s performance on NBC’s Americas Got Talent the groups [jerky but elegant movements, strange and breath-taking choreography, and rapid roaming use of space]

CLAIM #3:  In this dance from the show America's Best Dance Crew, the [crew's breath-taking yet crazy, loud and exciting choreography, fast paced music, and wide range of use of space] express [a dramatic explosion and loud abstruseness.]

CLAIM #4: Homesteads winter guard performance, Breakbeats Pulse of the Underground, uses bright energetic performance, aggressive clean movement, intensive strong upbeat dance, and confident clean posture to woo the audience watching. 

CLAIM #5: In the beautifully bright movie poster of the Wizard of Oz, the creators use of old fashioned colors, alive and real facials, reverent feelings, and excited attractiveness makes this old fashioned movie a must see movie.

Claim

See: Aggressive, crowded, dark, strange, grotesque
Setting: alive, crazy, wild, deep, curious, helpless, odd, vast
Hear: loud, hissing, harsh, high-pitched, screeching, mute,

Claim:
In this Walton Ford painting, I can see the aggressiveness of the peacock, the craziness of the wild, how helpless the snake is to the curious peacock. The strangeness of the birds tail on fire, how the birds crowd to see the grotesque scene. I can just imagine the loud hissing of the snake, the high-pitched sound of the birds cooing, and the screeching once the peacock decides to become wild and roughly capture his pray.

Poet of the month

I copied the poem "She Looks Into Me" by Paul Eluard His poem we did in class was one of my favorites, i'm not really sure why I just really liked it. Looking at all of his poems now, he definitely is a really good poet and i'll probably copy more of his poems in my moleskine.   "She looks into me" She looks into me  The unknowing heart To see if I love She has confidence she forgets Under the clouds of her eyelids Her head falls asleep in my hands Where we are Together inseparable  Alive Alive He alive She alive And my head rolls through her dreams.

Looking For Alaska

Looking For Alaska by John Green. (This is the 2nd time I've read this book now, and I think i like it better now that i've read it twice rather just one time. This book is about a boy, Miles, who decieds to go away for the summer. His life is compeletely changed when he gets there. He has to learn how to adapt to the southern life and changes his good boy ways to someone who isn't afraid to get introuble. Once he has been there for awhile he's accomplished not only that but he's also thinking he has found "love".
I really hated this book at first, like barely could keep reading it just because it starts out soooo slooooow but my cousin told me it gets better once you fianlly get into it and I think I agree with her although it took me till the 2nd time reading it before I actually began to enjoy it. I suppose I'd reccommened this but only to people who enjoy books, such as HOLES.

The Murderers Daughters

The Murderers Daughters by Randy Susan Myers. Pretty much is one of those books that is good yet so hurtful at the same time. Merry and Lulu are 9 and 5, living in their mother's apartment and doing everything she asks of them considering she blames for her life going to hell. Their father and mother have had a falling out. Their father is head over heels in love with their mother and she wants nothing to do with him considering she only married him because he got her knocked up with Merry at such a young age. One day their father comes over drunk off his behind and their mother has told them everyday, NOT to let their father in--Merry does it anyways, which is going to haunt her for the rest of her life considering her father kills their mother and while she is running to get help, stabs Lulu, her baby sister, in the chest. I believe this book is one of the best hard books to read because most people haven't gone through this and if you let yourself into their lives, your setting yourself up for heartbreak. I recommend this to anyone, especially since my mom told me to read this and we usually have totally different tastes when it comes to books.
"Some crimes are not worthy of forgiveness although some people can forgive the most horrible of crimes."

currently #4

So, recently I've been experiencing a "glitch" with my blog and it hasn't let me post ANYTHING, so that's why I have absolutely nothing on my page. My bad for taking so long to figure it out, but at least i finally got it !! Anyways, I'm currently finishing We All Fall Down and just read the book The Murderers' Daughters, which was very very good. Pages this week: 200. Total this semester: uh, to be honest; I'm not exactly sure.
Quotes:
"So far, so good.
So far, so good.
So far. . .
So good."


"We drive off.
I look over at her, and she stares back curiously.
She stares and stares. She won't break eye contact.
I'm pretty sure I've heard that's a really bad sign.
F**k."
-Both quotes from We All Fall Down, Nic Sheff.