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.

Pater Noster

Our Father who art in heaven
Stay there
And we'll stay here on earth
Which is sometimes so pretty
With its mysteries of New York
And its mysteries of Paris
At least as good as that of the Trinity
With its little canal at Ourcq
Its great wall of China
Its river at Morlaix
Its candy canes
With its Pacific Ocean
And its two basins in the Tuileries
With its good children and bad people
With all the wonders of the world
Which are here
Simply on the earth
Offered to everyone
Strewn about
Wondering at the wonder of themselves
And daring not avow it
As a naked pretty girl dares not show herself
With the world's outrageous misfortunes
Which are legion
With legionaries
With torturers
With the masters of this world
The masters with their priests their traitors and their troops
With the seasons
With the years
With the pretty girls and with the old bastards
With the straw of misery rotting in the steel of cannons.

Currently for Such a Pretty Girl

“A victim soul is a pious individual chosen to absorb the pain and suffering of others.”

“So I leave proof of my existence behind me like a snail trail with the small hope that years of talking at me will someday soften her enough to talk with me, that she'll finally pull the knife from my chest and say yes, we are better off without him. That what happened wasn't my fault and from now on she will thrust herself between me and danger, and shout NO.”

“The ache starts in my chest and spreads through my veins. The abuse I can handle; it's the happiness that cripples.”

Style Mapping.

In all of Jodi Picoult's book somebody is being struck with tragedy. In her books, My Sisters Keeper, A Change of Heart, and 19 Minutes, Picoult's sets up a devastating scene at the begining of each book. In each book somebody is dealing with a death or someone fighting death, weather it be a high school shooting, a young girl fighting cancer, or an innocent man getting convicted of a murder that he didn't commit. Picoult's use of straightforward language gives off a sense that she doesn't care about the norm of our society and what they will think. In all of her books she is very blunt, and at sometimes very vulgar, but she almost has to be in order to get the point across. Her books deal with very controversial things that are going on in our society, but also things that make us think.

Such a Pretty Girl

I was watching Law and Order SVU last night, and I saw an episoide that was exactly like this book. A girl getting kidnapped and raped, but then once she started to get to old for her kidnapper, he wanted to find another girl for him, so she killed him instead. She killed him to save any other girl from being hurt by him. The girl has such confused feelings...at first she's so scared, but then after awhile she isn't sure if it's love that she's feeling. But the reader knows she's been brainwashed. I've read so many books this year already about women that are being brainwashed and ultimatly can't make their own decision. They appear so crazy to the people reading about them, but then again all the readers want to do is jump into the book and save them from this horrible world they are living in. I wish I could save all these girls in my books.

Quarterly

I enjoyed the books I read this 9 weeks, I didn't read as many as I would have liked because the books were so long. All of my books were all very interesting and different. I learned things, and I opened my eyes because of many of these books. My favorite book this nine weeks though would have to have been the Choosen One, I'm still thinking about it all the time.

Currently (Memories of Summer)

Pg. 100

Fav sentencesssss:

"She'll grow up just a'sparklin' with warmth and laughter, and the world will be a brighter place with her in it."

"Summer always did have funny ways about her, but I got so used to them, they seemed normal to me."

"‘I'll not lie to you, Lyric,' Dr. Solomon said seriously. ‘You won't ever again see that pretty, vivacious teenager who was your sister.' He didn't have to take away all of my hope. At least he could have said, ‘Hang on.' So I didn't like Dr. Solomon after that, 'cause he was the man with the watch on, and he had told me the right time."

Memories of Summer

Memories of Summer is such a powerful book about a girl and her family struggling with the disease of schizophrenia. Summer is in a constant struggle with the voices in her head. All Summer has is her sister Lyric, who's telling the story, and her father. After Summer pulls many stunts they finally decide that it's time that she gets put into an institute. Once I got to that part in the story I started to think about my friend Caity and how when she gets older she wants to work with people like Summer. This book made me think a lot about the people Caity would be dealing with, it's kind of scary, but it's her passion. But then again it's kind of cool in a way that Caity is going to be helping all of these medically insane people. She's going to see a lot of really intresting things in life.