Blogging

I didn't enjoy blogging because of other people i was blogging with. I would always get done WAY before everyone else and then i couldn't comment until they were done, and then i wouldn't be able to get all my comments in. Also, some people (not naming names) would not even comment on your actual post, they would just say it was great, without even reading it, or not even that, they'd just complain about how it was"too long" and they didn't want to take the time to read it. But besides that, i like blogging and i like sharing my opinions with other people and getting responses back from them.

Book Review of Elsewhere

The book elsewhere was quite enjoyable to read, that's why I would recommend it to everyone (especially teen girls) due to the fact that they are able to relate to the main charcter Liz and her feelings about her family and other relationships she gets caught up in better. Another reason I would recommend this book is the author has tons of creativity. She creates a completely different world (or after world, I geuss) The last reason i would recommend this book is because the author shows you many points that you could either agree with or disagree with.
The main idea of this book is Liz dies by getting hit by a car and having some sort of head trauma (riding bike without helmet.) And on the boat to Elsewhere she meets Thandi who died by getting shot in the head with a gun. She also meets Curtis, a former rock band member that Liz used to like back on earth, and her grandma Betty, and last but not least, Owen, a police officer, that gets Liz in trouble, but ends up getting himself in some trouble too. The book is mainly about her traumas of afterlife and dealing with being dead and not understanding it and not enjoying it. There is no heaven and hell, just Elsewhere.

Quotes for Twilight

Quote #1 On page one sixty-seven Stephenie Meyer writes in Twilight: "You really shouldn't do that to people," I criticized. "It's hardly fair." "Do what?" "Dazzle them like that-she's probably hyperventalating in the kitchen right now." --Bella is blaming Edward for being too awesome. He's so pretty eveyone stares at him, and he doesn't even pay attention to them, or even care that he's the center of attention. I'm so jealous of Bella, it's not even funny.
Quote #2 On page two fourteen Stephenie Meyer writes in Twilight: "To give me some small incentive to bring you back."--Edward offers to drive Bella to Port Angeles and she doesn't want to tell her dad, but Edward insists due to the fact that is said in the quote. I love this quote because of all this seriousness of him wanting to kill her, she can still not be afraid and he can joke around with wordsthat would scare ordinary people, but not Bella.
Quote #3 In biology Edward and Bella sit next to eachother and they watched a movie in class with the lights off and they both had this unbeleivable crazy impulse to reach out and taouch eachother's faces. When it was all over, and the lights were back on, on page two twenty Stephenie Meyer writes in Twilight "Well, that was interesting." I respect Edward alot according to this page because I've seen alot of people all over eachother in the middle of the hallway, and I don't want to picture what it would be like in the dark. It takes alot of self control, and I'm very proud of Edward.

Addition to Elsewhere

One thing I would change in this book would be adding something similar to Heaven and Hell. I want to change this because that's what everyone knows on earth. An afterlife of either Heaven or Hell, or no afterlife at all. This book goes directly against this becasue there is an afterlife, but not like Heaven or Hell. More like the earth the people just came from. Specifically, I would have people in Hell be able to veiw Heaven or Elsewhere and visa versa, just like there's the observation decks and the Well where people of Elsewhere can see people on earth that are still alive. I think this would make the book better, due to the fact that readers could connect to with what they think about Heaven and Hell to what the book says, but if there is no Heaven or Hell in the book, they have nothing to connect with.

Connection

Liz rethinking whether she is happy or not reminds me alot of myself, because I sometimes rethink if I'm happy or not. When Liz was asked whether or not she was happy in her old life or not, she thought that she wasn't happy before, when she was still alive, because of her mean brother, average grades, and parents. But, in reality, in her afterlife, she realized that she really was happy before, because her brother really wasn't that mean, and she had had a very sweet boyfriend. I sometimes think my life suks because my parents do alot of evil things to me (from my perspective) and I don't have a say when they bribe me into doing things, that I REALLY don't want to do. Also, my brother is majorly annoying. But really, my parents love me, and I have many many friends that care about me and are really nice and I"m more fortunate than many people. This connection helps me understand what's giong on, because I know how Liz feels. When I"m in the similar situation, I always try to tell myself the good things in my life, and that usually helps, just like Liz did when she first came to Elsewhere.

Review

I am very disapointed with the parental guidance in this book. Yes, they are eighteen, (some of them) but they still need parents by what I have seen. They've been given too many things previously to know what's right to have, and what isn't. They go to parties with fake rapper dudes, naked ladies dancing on stage, and dance at bars where some people use that area as their strip club. That might just be what Beverly Hills is like, but I'm not familiar to that, and I don't think those places and things are apropriate for them to be associating themselves with. They are too young, and their minds are getting trashed. This is an unbelievable book because in real life, parents would be there telling thier kids not to do those things. and punishing then, if they do them again.

Setting of Blonde Ambition

As I get into this book, the author is beginning to annoy me with all her detail. Detail is good, but I like being able to make my own picture and infer what the setting is, or what it looks like, instead of having a forced image inside my head. This book takes place in Beverly Hills, California. Rich, blonde snobs and palm trees line the streets. All of them wearing dark sunglasses and driving convertables. This takes place in the present, where there is an internship office on the set of Hermosa Beach (hot new tv show) and the Palm Springs Desert. I am also very envious of Cammie's bathroom. It's extreme to the point where I don't even thing I would call it a bathroom anymore. There's a pale pink sucken Jacuzzi tub, a seperate stall shower with twelve jets at various levels, and pale pink fluffy rugs to dry your feet on. I'm not big on pink, but it still sounds luxurious.
I also got a perfect picture of the perfect boy's room.(Ben's) There's blue carpet covering the floor, and the twin sized bed is made of mahogony wood. One wall has a plasma screen tv. One wall is lined with slots of c.d.s. The last wall has a desk and studying area complete with PC, color printer, fax machines and answering machines. There's also a bookcase full of photos of Ben in plays and other activities when he was little.

BLONDE AMBITION

I just started reading Blonde Ambition this week, and it's not a book with quality text, more of a fluff book, that's really easy to read and you don't have to think about what's happening very much at all. But I'm enjoying having a break after reading the depression of "Give a Boy a Gun."
Like I said, I haven't read very much of this book, so I haven't really gotton to know much about the characters. But here's what I know. Anna is the intern and Ben's girlfriend. She snuck off to a hotel with him, but she says she wants the best for herself and her sister, Susan, who is off to rehab and hates her dad for breaking her and her boyfriend up. Anna had also previously had another relationship with Ben, but it ended one night on his boat, where they spent the night together, but before Anna could wake up, Ben had left her. Right now, they're on the boat again,"making new memories" and Anna just woke up, Ben was gone again, so Anna got really freaked out, but as soon as she got up to leave, Ben came down the stairs with breakfast.
Ben thinks he's in love for the first time with Anna and never wants to be away from her. But, he's a rule breaker, so i don't know how long this relationship is going to last for them. I also think that he loves Anna and other girls because of their physical apperence, and not their real character.
Cammie is the daughter of the producer of the show that Anna is interning at and is the powerful one of the story. She's a snob and thinks that everything revolves around her, and she has an evil stepmother, that she deserves. Anna is also high matinence just like Cammie but she's a better person at heart.

Myself as a reader

One of my earliest memories as a reader was when I was in a reading group, seperated by level, in our classes in elementary school. I would go hours at a time, sneaking in chapters during class, when I was supposed to be doing something else. Even when we had indoor recess on rainy days, you could always find me at my desk devouring a different book evey day. I also joined the summer reading program at the public library and really enjoyed being involved in many activities with other children my own age, who loved to read. Now as a reader, all I want to do on rainy days, like today, is stay home and read. Just sit at home and fall away into another world. I also really enjoy reading at the public library. There's an area upstairs where there are chairs looking out huge windows above downtown, and there are heaters by your feet. The perfect place to be on a snowy Saturday. Right now, I'm really hooked on the Twilight books. The vampire teenage romance that takes place in Forks, Oregon. The first adition to the series, Twilight, written by Stephanie Meyer, is coming out as a movie on November 21st, 2008. I can't wait to see it. My friends are all planning to go to the midnight showing. Even though I'll be really tired during classt the next day, it'll be worth it.