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 have never had trouble reading before, so i liked this assignment. I usually read every night before i go to bed. Sometimes its not a good thing especially if its a really good book cause then i dont want to go to bed. Reading for this class, i usually read during study hall and at night in bed. sometimes if i was behind on reading or it was a really good book i would read in my happy room which is really our sun room but my family and everyone else that knows about it calls it the happy room. When i read then it was easy to not get distracted because i dont have music, a computer, or my phone by me during class or in bed. my phone is off when im in bed so thats helpful. One time i was reading a really good book during study hall and it was at a really intense part so when i got to the next class i felt like i was in the book and i was really paranoid because thats how the book was. so it was kinda weird but at least that means that the book was really good. i tell my friends about the books im reading especially if im reading during a free time in a class and someone asks me about the book that im reading. someone even asked to borrow the book when i was done because it sounded really good.

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Pages read this week: 150
Books reading: Her Mother's Hope By: Francine Rivers

Favorite Sentences:

I walked home by myself, gazing up at the great beyond, thinking about how love never really dies. It’s always out there, leaving a twinkling trail to another place where you can go and rest when you need to forget that things really do happen when you least expect them. And sometimes, those things can change your life forever.  ~Whistling in the Dark

My arms were covered in scratches and had bled a little so I licked my finger and cleaned them off and thought God would have done a better job if he had made blood taste like Three Musketeer bars.  ~Whistling in the Dark

)Marta was about to have her baby and she had her daughter, Hildemara, go get their mean neighbor for help.) "Did you talk to Mrs. Miller?" "Yes Mama." "What did she say, Hildemara?" "Congratulations." ~Her Mother's Hope

her mothers hope

this is a good book. marta finally married a guy. his name is weird and i dont have my book close to me so im not gonna tell you his name. her dad always told her that she would be alone for the rest of her life cause she was ugly but she showed him!! sometimes i dont really like the guy though. he doesnt want her to get a job even though she could probably get a better one then him...but this takes place in the early 1900s so he is very prideful and not many women had jobs at that time. i hope when i get older i can meet a guy that is not like him...he doesnt seem very nice or helpful. but she finally has kids and she is trying to raise them better than what she was raised. which is good.

Her Mother's Hope

I started a new book this week. My mom actually just finished it. So far it is really good. It takes place in Germany and there are a lot of German words that they use and i dont know what they are talking about sometimes. But it starts out with a girl named Marta being beaten by her father. Its really sad. I keep wondering why her family doesnt just leave him. But, her mother says that she still loves him. Thats kind of dumb to do but i still like the mom in this story. She is really sweet and is there for her kids. Im happy that Marta finally left there but i have a feeling that she is gonna go back for some reason.

Common Weakness

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Common mistake number 9.

Common mistake number 3.

I think this is the best one i found.

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Books Reading:
Whislting in the Dark
All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost

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Style Mapping

Whistling in the Dark-
The book is from the point of view of Sally. She is a young girl, so the elevation is very low. She is very blunt with her language and everything is mostly common. She sometimes says thinks that arent correct but she doesnt know any better. Also, the sound is more harsh. Her sister likes words that start with the letter f. whether is it good or not. Sally is with kids a lot so lots of the language is from kids. The book itself is denotative, but the title is connotative. It explains in the book that Sally and her sister, Troo, whistle in the dark. It means that the try to make things not seem so bad when it is dark and scary.
Stardust-
The elevation for this book is mostly low. the words are not very exciting and it mostly common language and familiar to most people. Also, it is denotative. It just is telling us about the city in not any special way. Just straightfoward and says exactly what it means. The sound i think isnt either. it is middle diction.
The Mud Below-
\This is another one of Mr. Hills excerpts from yesterday that im stealing. The elevation is low. It seems like this is taking place in the south which is known for their slang and terse language. The sound of the story is harsh. The words are noisy and hard sounding. Lastly, the story is denotative. It has no expressive voice in it and just says it how it is.

Quarterly

This quarter i have read 5 books so far. Although i read i usually dont read that much. also i have picked out books that i usually wouldnt have picked out. The most difficult book i think ive read was the memoirs of a geisha. it was more boring than the other books that i have read. but it wasnt too bad. it was interesting at the same time to learn about this girl and her life style. i first book i read was by my favorite author. but after that i tried to not read her anymore just to read some new things. my sister let me read one of her books called before i go to sleep which was really weird and creepy at the same time. the ending was really good! but i think the ending of all the books that i didnt see coming the most was the spellman files. my head just screamed what?! and laughed a little when i finished that book. but its been a good quarter.

Whistling in the Dark!!

so im only on like the 4th chapter in this book but its pretty good. it was kinda sad in the beginning. it is from the point of view of Sally. and in the beginning her dad dies in a car crash. soon after that her mom is desprate and marries a jerk. they move out of their farm and into a new neighborhood and meet some new people. that is kind like me! and less than 2 weeks til my house will be finished! i cannot wait. it will be my 4th house of the year. i cant wait to be somewhere and be able to just stay there. it looks really nice so far. i went there on sunday and a lot was done. the only things left seem to be the carpet, toilets and sinks and stuff like that, and the lights which was half way done when we were there sunday. my room is kinda bright. i like it because its bright and happy in there and i like happy things. but its almost too bright. but i dont want to tell my mom because she painted the happy room (sun room) the same color and i dont want her to be stressed about anything else. but i really dont care all that much. i just want my own room where i can finally unpack my boxes. living in a rental house is no fun. especially when you live out of boxes.

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"'We can't waste our time thinking about such things,' she said. 'Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past.'"

This is what we Japanese called the 'onion life'-peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.
I like these quotes from my book. They are more thinkers than the others that i had before. but they are from memoirs of a geisha and that book wasnt what you would call a funny book. She went through a lot of struggles and things she didnt want to do but she was okay in the end.

Before i go to sleep

this book is kinda creepy almost. she forgets everything everytime she goes to sleep. she doesnt even know that shes married, old, and has a son. her husband doesnt tell her everything. but its probably because he doesnt want to go through sad things everyday. he has to tell her everyday that she was in an accident and cant remember anything. i think if that was me i would not be as calm as her. shes crazy!
i wrote that a few days ago but i never finished it. but i have finished the book since then. the ending was not anything i was expecting. i finished it one night in bed and i was really tired and wanted to go to sleep but i couldn't! i had to know what happened. it was very intense. i think that the book was good but it was kinda boring until the end. it wasnt like really boring but i just didnt think it was exciting until the end. but now its time for my next book! i picked out a book from mr. hills room. its called Whistling in the dark. it sounds creepy but good.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Yesterday i finished the book Memoirs of a Geisha. This took me like 3 weeks to finish but it was a long book. It was a much interesting book than i thought it was going to be. She talked about things that she had to go through. The creepy men and even WWII. She finally got rid of her rival but she lost a good friend on the way. In the end, everything worked out like she hoped and it was only because she kept on hoping even when no one else would have. She knew she wouldnt be able to live without holding on to the little hope she had in finding her destiny in life. This book was a good thinker and made me be thankful that i have the life that i do. She had to go through doing things that she didnt want to do. Also she talked about how she would have liked being a mother and a wife, but she didnt have a choice on whether to do that or not. Everything was taken away and she had to work hard to get something in her life that she wanted. This was a good book but i already know what book im going to read next. My sister read it and she said that its like 50 first dates but not really. The girl forgets everything when she goes to sleep but its more creepy. She is married but she doesnt even know her own name. Im excited to see how it goes.

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Pages this week: 128
Book read this week: Memoirs of a Geisha

Favorite Sentences of the week:
"'We can't waste our time thinking about such things,' she said. 'Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past.'"

This is what we Japanese called the 'onion life'-peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

"You must take him out onto the street and walk him around a bit to wake him up. The cold will do him good." "He's lying in the snow. Isn't that cold enough?"

Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

All from Memoirs of a Geisha by: Arthur Golden.

Favs

My favorite sentences:

“You can’t break up with me right after I take a nap” “Why not?” “Because if you do, I will forever associate naps with being broken up with.” ~The Spellman Files

This one is one of my favorites because i just think its funny.

But still I owed it to myself not to be kind to him, not to pour his sake into his cup if I could spill it on his leg instead. ~Memoirs of a Geisha

I think this one is funny too. She doesnt really like this man all that much and she is supposed to be super proper with everyone, but she doesnt want to be with this guy.

"Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories." ~Love is a Mix Tape (Frances's sentence)
I stole this one from Frances's blog. I just think this one is cute.

 

Pages this week: 100

Books this week: Memoirs of a Geisha

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Bleeding Love

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Mark and Chelsie's dance to Bleeding Love uses facial expressions of hurt and purposeful use of their arms and legs shows painful brokeness and intense hostility.


Second favorite dance I almost did...
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But still I owed it to myself not to be kind to him, not to pour his sake into his cup if I could spillit on his leg instead. ~Memoirs of a Geisha

She is saying this about the guy who sold her to become a Geisha. She thought that she was about to see him and was planning her revenge.

Then I realized what was really the matter. The teapot was empty. What was more, it had been empty even when I'd picked it up. ~Memoirs of a Geisha

There is a man that makes her really nervous whenever hes around. She was pouring him a drink and she thought that he was staring at her beautiful arm, but he was just staring because the pot was empty.

"Go take a bath," she said to me. "You've been perspiring a good deal, and your makeup hasn't held up." It was a warm day, you see, and I'd been working very hard. ~Momoirs of a Geisha

Give Thanks!

So I have not blogged in a while. We don't have internet at our house so I find it difficult to do homework. Only one more month until our house is finished and we can move in! But I can use this time to be grateful. I started a new book this week. It is called Memoirs of a Geisha. I had no idea what a geisha was. I even asked my mom. So we googled it. Good old google. I pretty much learned that it is an asain that preforms for men. Kind of weird to me. But this girl in the book didn't get into it on her own. Her mother was very sick and dying and her father was much older. Some man found out about this and decided to buy her and sell her to a place to train her. Lots of times in this book people metion her eyes. There is something about them that people find amazing. They are like a mix of grey and blue. But anyway she has to live in this home and is pretty much a servant and has to do everything they tell her to. They are very strick and if she does something wrong she gets beaten. Also her sister was sold at the same time. They went to separate places and have not seen each other. When she finally did find her she had found out that she became something like a prostitute. When she tried running away with her she got caught and was beaten. Although I am living in a house that isn't my home and it isn't the most comfortable place to be at right now, I am grateful that I don't have to live like her. She doesn't have a family or any real kind of life. It kind of reminds me of my favorite place. I have gone to Haiti three times and I love it there. I can see similarities of the book and that place. Both places are not the best places to live. Everytime I come home from Haiti, I feel grateful for what I have. This book is making be happy that I live here and have a family that loves me. Everyone should be thankful!

This week!!

Pages this week: 200
Pages last week: 217
Total: 417

izzy spellman

During the whole book Izzy wasn’t very happy with her life. She wanted to quit being a private investigator so that she could be herself. But, she tries quitting and finds out that she was being herself. She just had a weird life. She will always have a different family than everyone else.  But, I think everybody has to deal with that. There is always that person in the family that is crazy! If you don’t know who it is, it’s probably you.

favorite sentences

All I’m saying is that it’s Saturday night and I got a fourteen-year-old in my bar and I want her out of here. (she goes there to drink ginger ale)

“You can’t break up with me right after I take a nap” “Why not?” “Because if you do, I will forever associate naps with being broken up with.”

David adjusted the bandage on his tattoo. “If she asks, tell her I was brave.” “Sure,” I said. “What’s another lie?”

the spellman files

I finished the book this week! The ending was definitely not what I expected. During the whole book every once in while it would go back to an interview with Izzy and a detective.  They were trying to figure out what happened to her sister. But Izzy was pretty much telling her whole life story. She really wanted to quit her family’s business but her parents would only let her if she solved one more case. So they gave her a case. The case turns out to be really weird. She keeps coming up with more questions than answers. But, when she finally comes up with the final answer to all of her questions, I was surprised. But I’m not giving anything away! I’m not sure I would be very good at her job. She has to be sneaky and questions people about their personal life which is just weird. Her family even does that to her. They put a listening device in her room to listen to her. I would not like that at all if my family did that to me. I’m fine with telling them anything, but they have to ask me about it. That family has a privacy issue that really needs to be taken care of.

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Take Three By Karen Kingsbury
The Spellman Files By Lisa Lutz

THIS WEEK: 261 pages

Sentence of the Week

1. "At the moment, it's not even clear that you are human."
~The Spellman Files

2. It began when Rae was eight and discovered that her uncle had dipped into her well-catalogued Halloween stash.
~The Spellman Files

3. Her leather pants paid for themselves, she used to say. More like the leather pants paid her mortgage.
~The Spellman Files

The Spellman Files

This book is quite interesting. Izzy is a girl who has never really had a childhood. She acts like she has a great life but I kind of feel sorry for her. She is forced to work for her parents as a PI. Its kind of creepy the way she figures things out about people. It kind of makes me wonder what they would be able to find out about me. But to me my life seems kind of boring. Izzy is a crazy girl. She does drugs and drinks a lot. She seems like a wild child, which is what my mom like to call people like that. During the book she is interviewing someone who is trying to find her sister that went missing. She is reliving her life to try to figure out why she is the way she is and how this all happened. She doesn't really seem like she gets to close with anyone. She had one friend all through high school and after. Her family knows how to get other people to do what they want. It is kind of sad that her sister learned it when she was so young. She was about 8 when she started working for their parents along with Izzy and her brother. I'm hoping by the end of the book she will be able to fix her life a little better or at least quit her job with her parents.

This week I finished the book Take Four. Bailey and Cody finally started dating. I knew she should have broken up with Tim a long time ago. She knew that too but she didn't want to things to change. He was good, but they weren't in love. Sometimes that happens with people in life too. They date people who they know just aren't good for them and they know that there is someone better for them. Sometimes it is just because they are comfortable and don't want to have to hurt anyone. When things are over and they find someone else who is better for them. That is what happened to Bailey, but of course Cody knew it the whole time. She finally took the chance and her best friend became her boyfriend.