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.

We All Fall Down

So I've been reading the book We All Fall Down by Nic Sheff.  I thought I had done a blog before this on the first 100 pgs of the book- I don't think it saved lol. But this book is seriously my favorite book; for the time being. This book is the following book of TWEAK which is also by Nic Sheff. I'll do a different blog over TWEAK. But in this book, We All Fall Down, he gives even more interesting stories of his life; such as success and failures he just recently had to deal with. In the begining you learn he's in a detox center or you could just call it rehab..He was got caught when he broke into his mom's house when he was trying to steal her old computer to sell--needed $$ for drugs. His mom and dad told him that he either went to jail or went BACK into rehab for the thousandth time. He's been there for awhile now and supposdly had make really good progress, until Sue Ellen shows up. Sue Ellen isn't there because of drugs, she's there because she's basically mentally unwell, she's had serious issues with her parents and her eating disorders that came from it and all kinds of other things. At first, I thought nothing would come of this but now that I'm as far into the book that I am, I'm realzing- I was wrong! Soon the staff at the rehab takes notice and Nic has to sign a contract agreeing to have no contact whatsoever with Sue Ellen, inlcuding being in the same room, of course Nic agrees; he's VERY good at minipulating the system there. Once he leaves the meeting with his councler, he writes a letter to Sue Ellen explaining the situtation and saying that if she has the same feelings he does to meet under a tree after curfew; this is 2 of the things he had agreed not to do with Sue Ellen. Anyways, she meets him and now im just waiting to see how things evolve from here.

I think I find this book so interesting because it's so different than the lifestyle most people, including myself, live. I mean I know one person who went to rehab but she's my cousin and maybe I just have a different outlook on it because of that. But anyways, I think it's so, uhhh..I don't know how to explain this but its strange almost that someone could let theirself take such a downfall and not want to get back up until they've got no choice (well besides dying I guess)  and be able to look back and write a book on it. I can't believe his parents were able to deal with all the stuff Nic had put himself and them into. I give them credit on being that strong. I plan on finishing this book soon because I REALLLLLLLLLLLLY wanna know whats gonna happen! This book for sure has my reccomendation.

Current, week 2

Still reading We All Fall Down by Nic Sheff

pages this week: 300

total pages: 620

“It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. ” 

“I feel just, you know, defeated. ”