Currently for the Book, After

Devon stares at him standing there, remembering the only other guy had ever opened a car door for her.

She can paint a pretty picture but this story has a twist. The paintbrush is a razor and the canvas is her wrist.

Pages 175-350

After

She could have gotten away with it....she did get away with it. But she didn't want too, she wanted to take blame for what she did. She messed up...she took away a life, and she wants to do the time for it.

After

I remember my cousin having the hardest time getting pregnant, but then one day it just happened, and then we had Charlie. I fell so in love. I couldn't imagine anyone ever hurting him. When Devon just let her baby die...and not even try to save the baby, I felt so sick. The baby didn't do anything to her. Why kill it?

Bingo...

http://jimmehftw.blogspot.com/ You didn't do one, therefore violating all of the rules. K.

http://thinking-anonymous.blogspot.com/ You didn't do one either....

http://morgan-happygolucky.blogspot.com/ Yours was my favorite, because it was just amazing. Do ya thing gurrrrllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll.

http://estella-havisham.blogspot.com/ Common mistake #2!

BINGO! smh.

Favvv quotes

“So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a littel mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls.”

“That's what people do. Kill the things they're afraid of.”

Suicide Notes

This book is so intresting, and so relatable to the life of many teenagers. Jeff has a huge issue with facing things and a problem with lying to himself. I feel like so many people have a hard time facing things that we don't want to face in our life. Like when someone dies, we're in denial about it, because it doesn't seem real, but when we're in denial, we aren't facing something. This book reminds me about when my best friends parents died. I knew they were gone, but I didn't want to let myself believe it. I felt like I could just show up to their house, and they would be there. I was in full denial, and one day it was like I woke up from a nightmare, and it was all true. We all have to face denial in life and beat it down.

The Mezzanine

In the excerpt from Nicholson Baker’s novel, The Mezzanine, Baker’s literal tone, but relaxed voiced allows the reader to get inside the mind of the speaker, to be able to really understand what he is thinking. Baker is very precise when he starts to describe the things he’s currently carrying around with him, and also when he describes his surroundings. He compares the way view from the escalator on sunny days, and on dark days. Throughout the excerpt Baker uses a very elegant tone when speaking about everything he is seeing.