Silence

I'm reading the book speak and I'm telling you, the other night I was reading it and I got a headache because it was that depressing. Seriously I felt sick because it was so depressing. Speak is about a girl named Melinda and I'm not quite sure why but she can't talk to people and she is a social outcast. What I do know is that something happened at an end of the year party in the end of the school year the previous year. But she called the cops for some reason and now all of her previous friends hate and don't Speak to Mel. She has one friend but they are very different people. Her lack of speech has caused her throat to be messed up and she bites her lips and has scabs all over her lips.

Melinda is going through the sort of typical figuring out who I am type of phase in her life. She feels very lonely and she can't even talk to her parents about what happened at the party. I think that this book is called speak because she simply has told no one what happened, yet everyone will hate her until she comes out with the truth on why she called the police that faithful night.

To add fuel to the fire, Melinda's parents constantly fight and that adds bars to her phycological cell. She feels trapped and she is not brave enough to own what happened to the people that resent her. She tries to channel her emotions through artwork but that doesnt work out to well. In fact two of her old friends have said good things about her in a sort of broad way. On of them complimented her artwork and the other said she should join the basketball team. But I don't know what's going on in her head because her best piece of artwork was made out of turkey bones...

I hope the feel on my book lightens up because if it doesn't I am going to put it down. I feel like she is going to tell everybody and all of her friends will love her once again and everything will be happy and her parents will stop fighting. Prove me wrong, book.

Finishing the City of Dreaming Books

So I am just wrapping up my reading of the City of Dreaming Books and since my last post, my opinion has changed drastically. I now think that my current book...is...the...most...epic...thing...ever. Granted I predicted the rest of the entire story but I guess that's what happens when you've been reading for as long as I have. :)
My entire view of this changed when the book actually got very interesting. Walter Morris totally made a different spin off the rest of the book it's almost as if the weave of his word were making a sock, now they are making a very cool hat or something. But the captivation of his writing totally changed at a certain point, though I couldn't exactly tell when! At one point you just sort of get this epic feel to his writing and you don't want to put it down. All I did was read during the time that we visited the book fair during project R.E.A.L.

City of Dreaming Books

Though I am not quite finished with this book, it is still fun to write a blogpost about. So this is a first that I've read from Walter Morris's collection, and so far I'm enjoying it. In a way it sort of reminds me as a roller coaster that has yet to be finished. That said it works in two contexts. The actual story where the reader is interested in the book, is very bumpy. I think one of the books few flaws so far is that at some points it isn't just very interesting.

I would say that the majority of the beginning of the book is quite boring. That is all to say on the type of reader you are. I personally am the type of reader who is seeking captivating contents from beginning to end. And what may be boring for me, might be interesting for someone else.

As for the rest of the book, it sort of smoothes out on a high note. The concept of the City of Dreaming Books is very outgoing and very unique. I mean the main character is a high class dinosaur who reads a lot of books! I know that sounds pretty silly but you have to read the book to really comprehend it. At some points it is a very emotional book as well, it sort of seems that everything he touches tumbles down metaphorically speaking. I would definitely recommend it.

Well I guess it's time to wrap this up, but seriously you gottsta read this book. Just sort of skim past the first bit and you'll be on a fantastical adventure. Remember kids, it's called constructive criticism so don't hate.

Romague and Montalet

So in this blog post, I am going to write about Rome and Juliet. The movie. The modern one with Leonardo DiCaprio. Yeah you get the point. So I think that this movie is really good, I just can't understand why they made it all modern with guns and stuff. It's like if it was made in the sixteen hundreds, keep it there. Make it look like it took place a long time ago. It annoyed me that you could see a coke billboard in the background and you had all these people not talking in pros. Its like the people of Verona were stuck in a time bubble. Time just sort of stopped when Shakespeare died. Oh that was deep.
But it just sort of seemed like it was annoying to see cars when you see Romeo talking like Shakespeare. Maybe that's just me, but it pissed me off. Another thing that I observed was I saw a lot of violence on the Capulet's side of the family. I made that inference because I always saw the Capulet boys looking for trouble, and Tybles was at the head. Whereas the Montague's are usually trying to avoid something. I think that Shakespeare is showing that one family wants all the power and the other is fine with the way things are.
Altogether, this is an impressive movie. It is well directed, and I'm sure some people love the fact that it is set in a modern society. For some people I'm sure that its the best part. But the acting was great even though in the movie, Juliet seemed to be a little out of it. And did Chris Rock play Mercutio, it kind of seemed like it.

The Mysterious Blogpost Society

I think that I will start this post by telling you that if you have never read the Mysterious Benedict Society, you need to read it immediately. Like right now. Seriously go out and buy yourself a copy right now. I'm not even kidding. Ok but really this is a fabulous book. And its about something that you might not expect. It is about misfit heroes. What I mean by that is there are some kids, unlike the rest who don't fit in. It may because they are smarter than the rest, or maybe its the fact that their parents are dead and they act stranger than they would if they were still alive. And yet in this book, they save the day.

Our three young heroes start with Reynie Muldoon an extraordinary bright eleven year old boy who decides a test which promises "special opportunities."While taking the test, Stick Washington and Kate Weatherall join Reynie. He grew up in an orphanage where all the kids made fun of him for being bright. He decides to put his skills to the test and ends up meeting adults, including Mr. Benedict himself and is given a top secret mission with Kate, Sticky, a girl named Constance whom he did not meet at the test.

This mission bonds our four characters and they develop a powerful friendship which is tested by Mr. Benedict's twin brother and his machine. These kids really show an affection for each other, which is probably because they have never really had true friends considering that they were all runaways or orphans.

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http://me-blog-explosion.blogspot.com/2011/01/camel-im-on-camel-as-happy-as-can-be.html?showComment=1297121090399#c4224627619721878752

Ok, so this was written by Louie, and I liked this poem so much just because I could really hear his voice as if he were actually talking to me. He does a great job of expressing his voice, just because you can tell that he was laughing(I was crying) when he wrote this poem. Its really a funny poem, great job Louie.

http://epiceyebrows.blogspot.com/2011/01/cloudless.html

So, this is Mollies blog, and unlike Louie's poem hers is more serious, and it made me feel like i was laying in a field cloud watching. Now that may sound cheesy and cleched but that's what it got me thinking about. She did a great job of giving and image, and even though the post is called cloudless,, I still thought it was like watching the big puffs of imagination float by.

http://kegflog.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-super-deep-rhyming-poem.html?showComment=1297120682036#c5973784945433858806

This last one is Eddies, and I really like it. It seems like I am watching a movie when I read this because I can see the scene shift from every stanza to a different location, like in the first one i see a graffiti artist spraying on a wall, then I see him jumping from one backyard to the next trying to escape the police. Then you can see him staring vat scratched in tallies on the wall.

Poetry Art Response

An explosion of color

swirling swooping and diving

a dead soldier

blood pooling

Red brown and pink

the fallen angel

shot down by grief

griefs barrel still smoking

Yellow green and orange

the dead father

saying his last words

a fallen man

Purple black and blue

the silent woman

beaten by her husband

a broken widow

An explosion of feelings

blood swirling swooping diving

all of these people

fallen heros