Maus: Part III (Final)

     I have just finished Maus and I must say, it's a pretty great read. A lot of what happens in the last chapters are very reminiscent of Night. It goes into great detail to explain how hard the Jews had to struggle in order to avoid death by the Gestapo. In 1943, Jews in the Sosnowiec Ghettos are evacuated and sent to Srodula. Since the children are believed to no longer be safe staying in the area, Valdek and Anja, send their son, Richieu to go live in Zowierice with his aunt, Tosha. The other children in the family, Bibi and Lonia go along to live with Tosha. Soon after the children start living in Zowierice, Tosha hears news that the Gestapo will be sending the residents of the ghetto to Auschwitz. In response to this, Tosha poisons the children along with herself. She does this to avoid death at the hands of the Gestapo.

     Vladek and Anja travel for miles and miles, hiding in the barns and basements of kindhearted Poles they encounter on along the way. They are later put on a train to Auschwitz after they are caught and arrested by the Gestapo. Upon arrival at Auschwitz, the men and the women are separated. As a result, Vladek and Anja don't see each other again until after the war. The story then switches back to present day. After hearing about his mother having a personal journal she kept during the war, Art begs Vladek to reveal where it is kept. Vladek, after much hesitation, reveals that that he destroyed the journal along with other items she kept during the war. Art angrily responds by yelling and called Vladek a "murderer." Vladek explains to Art that he only did it because it reminded him too much of Anja. After further discussion, Art apologizes and departs. While walking home, Art repeats with resentment, "murderer."


I thoroughly enjoyed Maus. The pictures really helped emphasize the meaning of the story. I definitely recommend this to anyone whose enjoys learning about the Holocaust and WWII or anyone who simply likes comic books.

Catching Fire: Finale Blog

:WARNING SPOILER ALERT: 

The Catching Fire ending Holy ….  That is what second book in the trilogy should be.  Not one person starts a revolution without some alliance or friend.   Katniss, Peeta, Finnick, Beetee and Johanna (this cat has claws... meow) set the Capitol on fire.   Part 1 is Katniss and Johanna going to the beach with Beetee’s wire to electrocute the water to kill off the career and the sea food.   Johanna then strikes Katniss to remove the tracker in Katniss and to save her from Brutus and Enobaria.  10-15 minutes later Katniss finds Beetee out cold on ground.  Katniss grabs an arrow and shoots up to the force field Then……….. BOOM THE DOME LIGHTS UP THE SKY and Haymitch , Gale and the head game maker Plautarch Heavensbees, say “Katniss is the Mocking jay”  and Gale says “Katniss there is no district 12.”

My one Question I will ask Suzanne Collins is the Origin of President Snow?  It doesn’t tell how President Snow got powers in first two books.  Maybe it will be in the third book.  But in typing this blog, I have not read the third book.  How did President Snow get in to turn the power on?   Did the start of the Games begin 75 year ago?   Is he still alive after all these years?  That is my Question. 

Maus: Part II

The main character of Maus is Valdek Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman's father. His story of his experiences during World War II and The Holocaust is the inspiration for the book that Art is writing. Vladek is depicted as a stubborn stereotypical "grumpy old man". Much of his stubbornness that he exhibits is probably a result of his past struggles. Although he is an aging veteran, he seems to remember a great deal of The Holocaust. As the book goes back and forth in between the past and the present, Vladek's opinions and views don't seem have a significant change. He is also a very hard working and loyal man as he is shown to go to great lengths in order make money and provide for his family in the most desperate of times. His relationship with his current wife, Mala, is very dysfunctional. He constantly criticizes her and makes her feel inferior to his first wife, Anja. His relationship with Art is a typical father-and-son relationship as Vladek is always giving advice and sharing his opinion even if Art isn't asking for it.

Really I am not satisfy with the end of the book. If I am in the writer position and law person that justice is my message, I will defend her until the announcement of guilelessness and readers will be surprised that when she is outside the walls of the prison it will be the last meeting between us.

If I meet the writer I will ask him: Is this justice you studied? You know she was innocent, but out of fear of the people that know your relationship with her, you preferred silence. And I will ask about why he behaved like that, Could have had reasons unclear in the novel.

The ending of the book "my Forbidden face" was satisfying to me. the book bring me to the reality of the Middle Eastern life. My favorite part about the ending was its sad ending. The book ends in the current state that kabul is in now. It begains with  the author and her family eventually reaching the point of complete boredom. Her mother gets sick and her father begains to lose the hope that both him and the author shared.The ending of the book tells of the author boldest and most courageous act. She messaged the Afghan Embassy in paris. Her courage allows her to pursue despite the Taliban wrath. Moreover, when they reached paris she is not allowed to go back to Afghanistan because the Tailban found out that they escaped the country.

If I was to ask the author a question, I could ask weather her dreamed of becoming a journalist, and her interest in fashion, movies, and friends were acheieved after she and her family escaped Afghanistan. I could asked this question because the beginning of the book tells of these dreams.

The main character in my book is Nikki Sixx.  My character is a rock star because he loves music.  He also does drugs because he is in Motley Crue, and they are said to be the drug lords of america.  His actions are justified by all the dumb things he does when he is around drugs.  The dynamics between his band members and him are strong.  They care about him so much and he doesn't care.  He does care about himself what so ever.  His past had influenced his drug addiction and has hurt him and others while doing so.  I admire him because he is an amazing musician but disprove him because of all the drugs.  He does remind me of the people I know but the people I know don't do drugs.

The main character of my book is called LATIFA. Her personality trait was her dreamed of one day becoming a journalist: she was interested in fashion, movies, and friends.  Her motivation was to describe the way things were falling apart in her country, in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehend. The inner qualities of the author were her voice capturing a lost innocence, but also echoes her determination to live in freedom and hope.   I admire the author. She stood for a cause. Her cause was to let the world know of the cure tale of many violations of human rights towards women in her country by the Taliban. The author reminded me about the people of Sudan, where women and children have been maltreated by gun men.

the main character in my books name is Darin, right now in the book he is facing a "murder" in his mindset...even though he did not murder this girl he accidentally hit her with his car because she crossed at the wrong point on a street and he hit and killed her. this book is a memoir so the feeling are true and real he feels so bad for what he did because he sees all that she was doing at school and how many friends she had and then going to her funeral and meeting her parents really got to him. he knows that he is alive and she is dead and he hasn't been acting right since the accident. i think he gets some sort of closure because at the funeral the girl who he hit and killed's dad told him to "live twice the life" one her him and one for her, so he realized that not everybody was mad at him but felt bad for him to because he didn't really mean to do it. he is still facing the everyday struggle of how he killed a girl and how he continues to live on, even though he wished he would have died instead of her.

13 Reasons Why- 2nd blog post

My main character in my book is Hannah Baker, Hannah committed suicide and I really haven't got to the point of why exactly she did it yet. Hannah sends tapes to each person who made her kill herself though, I feel this is Hannah's way of getting back at these people for making her commit suicide. Even though Hannah is gone she makes sure to tell each person that if they don't listen to these tapes themselves they will be made public and everyone will be able to hear them. So far Hannah seems to get her point across, she definitely has freaked each person out in a different way, they  had no idea that Hannah even didn't like them so they were just very confused. Now that Hannah has committed suicide nobody can take it back, and everyone is paying for it now, she's changing each persons lives one at a time. I'm not really sure if I admire or disapprove of Hannah yet. Like she seemed like an amazing person but I just can't believe of going to the extent of sending tapes to the people who made you kill yourself in a way I believe it but then again I don't. But maybe people shouldn't treat others to the point of having to have receive tapes like these ones.  Hannah doesn't really remind me of anyone I know, I know a few people who have committed suicide but never sent tapes or anything like that. Hannah seemed like too good of a person to have killed herself, everyone's lives are too precious for that.

There are a few main characters in this book, but the one I'm going to write about is Anna. The youngest child who was "made" so that she was able to help her sister survive leukemia and donate her lymphocytes, kidney, etc. Anna ends up taking her parents to court because of all the medical treatments they have put her through to try to help Kate and because they want her to donate her kidney to her, but she doesn't want too. The reason she does this is because she feels hurt, betrayed, and not loved. She always thinks about how her parents made sure her genetics matched up perfectly with Kate's and that if Kate wasn't sick she wouldn't even be here. They never pay attention, listen or do anything with her. Its always all about Kate. She felt like a ghost.

Once they started the trial it started to get really interesting. Kate had a lot of thoughts running through her head and many mixed emotions. She didn't know what to think or what was going to happen. They are still in the middle of the trial still so I'm not sure how it will end.

Anna is kind of her own person. Since Kate is sick her family is just a mess. They hardly see her brother Jesse and her parents are always with Kate. She usually has to follow along with them and can't do much. She loves her sister but sometimes it just really gets frustrating for Kate. They all have a lot of good memories though from the past. They always look at pictures and try to remember all the good times that they have had and when Kate wasn't sick. But since Kate has always been sick for Anna's who life so Anna hasn't had that great of a childhood. She started playing hockey and was very good at it. But there were times her parents couldn't make it to her events or Kate got admitted to the hospital so she couldn't go. Anna finally got fed up with it and that's why she took them to court. If I was in the same shoes as Anna I would probably do the same thing. She was sick of having medical procedures done without being asked. She just wanted to have a family that showed her they loved her. She's only 13, she has her whole life ahead of her.

I don't know anyone who has had to go through this or anything like that but Anna has obviously had a rough life and just wants to be happy. She wants the best for her sister but its just hard to keep giving her all of these things and going through procedures she doesn't want to do. Anna has feelings too.

I have the feeling there's more than one way of looking at this book.

Post-war German generation coming to terms with their past, the Nazi crimes and their parents' guilt. Guilt, actually, is a recurring theme in the novel: Hanna is guilty of war crimes, Michael is guilty for disloyalty (plus he feels guilty for having loved Hanna and asks himself if that makes him a criminal as well).

 This book deals with the internal conflicts of Michael. He wants to help Hanna, but he was afraid that people know his relationship with her. She Convicted of a crime did not commit and he knows very well that she was innocent, but he did not defend her, even he did not visit her in prison out of fear that people knew his relationship with her. This is from my point is selfish. When I read this part of the book, jumped into my mind our beloved prophet and how he was proud of his wife Khadija and he was at the age of twenty and she was forty years old; this is the ethics of the prophets.

 I do not blame him on his behavior towards Hanna as I do not know the circumstances in which he lived at that time and other reason could be that I very much enjoyed his writing style and when you love something you do not see the bad side of it.

He is thoughtful about how Hanna affected him and how the sins of the people alive during the Nazi regime affect their children. There are several complex issues about identity, morality, and love in this novel. 

The main character in my books name is Don. He died and went to heaven, then came back to life. He looks at life a little differently. He doesn't some days he doesn't know if he just drempt what had happened or if it really happened. When it first happened he was really struggling and people really helped him out a lot. He may not have wanted the help but he had taken it. When the accident happened, he was often jealous of them. That they could walk, and they didn't need someone constantly to take care of them.

Catching Fire post 2: Analyze Katniss :

Name: Katniss Everdeer

Age: 16 in Hunger Game, 17 in Catching Fire

Height 5’7”

In the Hunger Games (the First book) during the reaping, Prim (Katniss sister) was chosen to be a tribute but Katniss yelled Vouteener.  To take the place of Prim and the first Vouteener in District 12 to have been a tribute. Katniss and a guy name Peeta who is the same age as Katniss, become the Girl on Fire and make Hunger Games history by scoring 11 in a game maker private session. Katniss entered the arena with the Other Tribute. Katniss teams up with Rue from District 11. and reminded Katniss about Prim (Katniss’s Sister) after Rue’s death in District 11 a mini Riot start after Katniss show respect to District 11 and Rue’s Family. After the final kill and a Dog Attack only Katniss and Peeta were left and only one could leave the arena.  Katniss idea was to use the berries and kill herself and Peeta on the Head Game Maker is “ok ok you both win.”

Now in Catching Fire (Book 2 in the Hunger Games Trilogy) Katniss and Peeta are on the Victor tour after winning the 74^th Hunger Games but in District 11 after Katniss give a speech to Rue’s Family all hell broke loose. That brought an uprising in some of the districts, from the berries stunt that Katniss pulled off in the arena. The 75^th Hunger Games is Quarter Quell year and when President Snow said “all past victor who are alive will be going back to the Games” this will flip Katniss out due to a nightmare that she have will have.

Minus all of that there is a love triangle with Peeta and Gale. Gale is the best friend of Katniss.  They go out of the district to go hunting and the only place in the world where they would be alone.  President Snow announced to the World about Katniss and Peeta’s wedding. What Gale is feeling after the announcement in the story, it doesn’t say.  Peeta always liked Katniss but is first to know during the Interview of the Games.  I can’t remember what Peeta says that becoming the star crossed lover from District 12.  Peeta then told the whole world that Katniss is pregnant and that starts an uproar in the Capitol that brings all of the Victor tributes to hold hands as one.

UPRISING TIME!!!!

In the book "The Heroin Diaries", he talks about how his life involves shooting heroin and making terrible decisions in his life.  His band members and friends are worried for him and try pulling him out of his drug addiction but he locks himself at home and shuns everybody out.  He does heroin and drugs with one of Prince's dancers named Vanity.  She is just as messed up and the only time they meet up is to do drugs. He really doesn't care much about life and what happens to him.

I was engaged in the book immediately because of the language he used and how he talks so lowly of his life. The book is exactly what we think of when we think of the rock star life.  Being a rock star is full of alcohol sex and drugs.  I feel bad for him and how he had a troubled childhood that had a part in how he is today but also he could have found a way out and not be a druggy.  It's also very messed up and how dark his diary entries are.  They are sick and twisted.

while nobody know when he will die

My name is Elijah Garsayne
i attend  high school in africa
you may not know the title of this book but it is an African novel written by an African writer name Wilton sankawolo. this novel is made of short stories. one of the stories tell of a man who very mean. This man was so mean until he was bueried alive for food.
one day his wife prepared a meal and a strenger came by, he told his wife to inform the strenger that he was dead and the woman did as he said. The strenger had nothing to do but to help the woman buried him. He prefered been buried alive than to share his food.

My experience so far on the book My Forbidden Face is how thing change literally overnight for women under the Taliban rules in soviet occupied Afghanistan.  The testimony of the author, who lived in Kabul when the Taliban turned it upside down, tells of the dark reality of how this oppressive regime shouts the voices of women. Female faces were to be unseen, concealed behind a burka, they were banned from leaving their homes without a male relative, and they were also banned from work, school, and public life. For example, the author had planned on pursuing journalism, but when the Taliban took over she was forced to observe and make sense of what was happening to women.

I could not engage the book immediately, because I have some assignment to do. However, reading the book make me feel sad and disturbed for women under the Taliban rules, because of the horrors and injustices that occurred against women. I think they were basically trying to eliminate women. For example, white is the color of the Taliban flag, so women are not allowed to wear white.

        From reading half of the book Money ball I am already way to deep into the book. I, being interested in baseball, really love how the book talks about playing baseball. Its talks about a guy named Billy playing baseball and being really good and MLB teams looking at him to play for them.
       The big concern is that Billy is to young to play and is not ready to play in the Pro's. Billy ends up playing MLB at a young age and he realizes that he was not ready to play MLB yet. He becomes the worst MLB player and gets kicked off the team and no one picks him up. After that Billy becomes a coach for the A's and he has a hard time with that to because he cant win a game. This is by far the best book I've read in awhile and I've never been so interested in a book.

13 Reasons Why- Jay Asher

I'm reading the book 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher. In the book so far a boy named Clay goes home from school one day and there's a strange package on his door step. Clay opens the box and listens to the tape inside the box out in the garage. Clay starts playing the tape and a girl he used to like named Hannah started talking, Hannah started to explain that everyone who has ever hurt her will be receiving these tapes but Clay was supposedly the first one. Hannah explains to Clay that everyone must listen to these tapes or they will be reveled to all the public to hear, she says she's got her eyes on them and will make sure she is heard. Clay is very confused and said he remembers that he used to like Hannah but it never really got too far, he says he wishes he would have got to know her better. 
This book is very interesting, it really keeps you pulled in and want to keep reading. I wasn't immediately engaged but it didn't take long to really get into the book. I feel very amused while reading this but also very confused how someone really could send out tapes to others who made them kill themselves. This book is so good and I'd suggest it to anyone.

i am reading the book "half a life" by Darin Strauss, and in this book, well its not a book its a memoir because all its about is how he remember hitting and killing a girl that went to the same school as he did whole she was trying to cross the road on a bicycle.

so far in the book it really gets into detail about his day-to-day thinking and life after he hit this girl, he explains just how it happened and explains the scene very well its like a movie in my head kind of.

i really like the book so far because its like being inside someone else head and how they think all the time which is really neat because you never really get to experience something like this, you only know the toughs in your own head. i wasn't really engaged at first, and i still am not too engaged into it because its not that thrilling, but i like it to an extent where i want to keep reading.

Maus: Part I

I have made substantial progress on Maus. The first two chapters are about Art Spiegelman visiting his father, Valdek Spiegleman, in the late 1970's to interview him for his new book. He asks him to describe, in great detail, what it was like trying to survive the Holocaust. Vladek, at this point, has been remarried since the suicide of his wife and Art's mother, Anja.

Vladek begins to describe how he, as a young man in the late 1930s in Sosnowiec, married into Anja's wealthy family and soon became a father. After the birth of their first child, Richieu, Anja fell into deep postpartum depression to the point where she all she could think about was dying. In order to help her, Anja's parents and Vladek decide to commit her to a sanitarium. They must pass through Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to reach the sanitarium.

So far, I am loving this book. I has a great, though provoking plot with complex characters and it's set during one of the dangerous times in history. The comics drawn by Mr. Spielgelman not only creates a great visual for the reader, but also makes the story more intense and interesting. The concept of using animals to portray human characters is a brilliant one indeed. Instead of rushing through and trying to finish the story, it really makes you slow down and experience everything with the characters as they go through their struggle.

Mercy Jodi Picoult

Now that I'm half way through Mercy I am hooked. The reason being behind this is you never know what's going to happen next. The author gives you a taste of what's going to happen in the next chapter at the end of the current one, so it usually leaves you wanting more. I believe she does this for that exact reason.

Here is a short summary so far:

Cam MacDonald is the towns Sheriff who not only has duties to his town, but also his family. After his father died he had to take on the roll of being in charge of his family's clan. The responsibility of watching over his entire family has now become a lot harder, because of his cousin confessing to murdering his wife.

His own wife get's caught up in the murder trial and does everything that she can for Jamie MacDonald's case. She is convinced that it was purely out of love. Jamie's wife had breast cancer and didn't have that much longer to live, so he ended her suffering when asked to.Thinking that one could love another as strongly as Jamie did, intrigues Allie. She finds herself wondering if Cam could do the same for her.

As you're reading, you'll be able to answer her question yourself. Cam isn't as faithful as he seems to be.

Without giving the book away, here is a short summary of what has happened in the book so far.

90 Minutes in Heaven

I am currently reading 90 Minutes in Heaven. Pages 1-73. Don Piper was at The Baptist General Convention of Texas. He had left the convention an hour early because they had a speaker who had gotten done early. On his way home it was raining really hard. He was driving over a a bridge and a truck had hit him. The driver of the truck was was an Inmate at the local prison he wasn't paying attention to the road, and he had hit the car in front of him and took the top off the car that Don Piper. He was pronounced dead right away, there was a priest that was at the convention with them and he asked if he could pray over the body. Dick Onerecker was singing and all of a sudden Don started singing too. Dick ran to the nearest EMT and tried to convince them that Don was alive. Don was rushed to the hospital where they fixed his broken arm and put metal rods through his leg. The metal rods where to try and make his bone grow.

I am honestly loving this book so far! It is a very interesting story. The thing that catches me is that it is a true story.  I find it fascinating that he had survived his accident.

Throughout the book so far, it is a very sad story but it is very realistic and makes me happy that Don had survived. So far I am having mixed emotions throughout this story. But non of these emotions are bad :)

Catching Fire: Part1: the spark: PAGE: 3-135

 couple day after the Hunger games, Katniss and Peeta just won the hunger games  or a deadly game ('Cause it's a deadly game that we play as we live our lives, When we say what is on our minds,Play it now before the game is over,) Deadly game by Jim Johnson. with the a deadly berries that they o most ate. now Katniss and Peeta is back in disturt 12 move to victor's village  before going on victory tour. Katniss (the Heroines of this story) meet Priendest Snow (who i think  i is a vampire but also my favorither Carather) and president Snow talk about  the stund in the arena and some uprising in the disturt. Katniss  doesn't know what to do. that whole disturt is disur and the love tragle between Gale and Peeta.  but the with chaos is just begin in districts that Peeta and Katniss speech in district 11 led to a chaos in 11. 
but not all in district 8 a riot happen as Katniss and Peeta. was there (damn that good way to sum up that Crap) and Katniss and Peata are now getting merry, thank to President  Snow. back in district 12  the final day of victory tour at mayor house in mayor offince ion TV A uprising in District 8 (Riot in Vanconer, and Detroit.) a lot death. so Katniss tell Peeta, Gale and final Haymitch (Haymitch is coach of Katniss and Peeta.. Read the first Book k)  and final before the part 1 Gale whipped by the new  head Peacekeeper, for bring a dead wild turkey in the district.
what i thick an about this i really like it so far the begin was not slow freak love President Snow and the story what now is just Holy -. but i wish they have a graphic novel of Hunger Games trilogy thou.

Fifteen years old boy, Michael is sick in the street on his way home from school.  Hanna, thirty six years old, helped him to get back home after she cleaned him. He diagnosed as hepatitis case.  He goes back to thank her when he recovered. She  allows him to wait while she changes out of her work clothes. Michael watches her  , then runs away when she noticed that he was looking for her. He returns a week later; this time they become lovers. she helped him  to study what he missed during his illness period by reading to her and she follow him. He used to miss the last class to meet her. when she noticed that she get angry with him.she motivates him. suddenly she disappeared.
It's a wonderful story.I love these types of books and The author has a smooth narrative style makes you live between the pages of a book, Imagine every moment like you are the protagonist of the story.

I will let you follow with me this illegal relationship and where it will end.

I have read up to page 150 in my book.  So far it has talked about how the bass guitarist for Motley Crue is so messed up in drugs.  His life involves shooting heroin and making terrible decisions in his life.  His band members and friends are worried for him and try pulling him out of his drug addiction but he locks himself at home and shuns everybody out.  He does heroin and drugs with one of Prince's dancers named Vanity.  She is just as messed up and the only time they meet up is to do drugs.

I have read up to page 141 for my book, My Sisters Keeper and it is very good right now! Right from the beginning it had your attention. Anna was the first to talk about her life and what has happened, so right from the beginning you are just like woah, I want to know more! I also like how Jodi Picoult writes her books because it will talk about one characters opinion/life/how they feel, etc... and then switch to a different character and talk about them and how they relate or what there side of the story was. It's very interesting and definitely not boring. As I read-on, it kept getting deeper into detail about the family, what has happened in the past and present, how everyone feels, etc.
 The book so far has been based on Brian and Sara, who are a married couple and their 3 kids, Kate, Anna and Jesse, who is their only son. Jesse would be the oldest, then its Kate and then Anna. It may seem like they have a happy family, but really... they don't. Kate was diagnosed with leukemia at a very young age, and as most people know, there is a very slim chance you will survive. They were all heart broken. They knew eventually they would need a kidney donor for her, but they didn't know who or how they would get it because they have to have the perfect match up and who knew how long it would take to find one. So one day Brian and Sara decided to have another baby, but not just any regular pregnancy, they wanted to match up Kate and their new babies chromosomes, etc, so that this new baby would be able to be a donor for Kate. They found out she was a girl and they named her Anna. Different news reporters have found out about what they were doing and wanted to interview them about it. Everyone was so shocked and thought that it was wrong of them to do. But according to them, it wasn't. They all started growing up a little bit and Kate was still really sick and having her problems , Jesse tried to stay away and Anna was finally realizing that the only reason she was even alive was so that they could just use her to be Kate's donor. She was so hurt. She didn't want to be the donor or have surgery or have them keep poking her with needles. She felt like no one really cared about her so, she went out, found an attorney, told them the situation and brought her parents to court. Of course she doesn't want her sister dead but she was sick of being used and not feeling loved. Her mom was furious, but could do nothing about it. Anna wasn't really getting along with her mom after she took them to court. Her mom was always on Kate's side and never listened or cared what Anna said. Anna ran away for awhile to get her mind off things. Later that night Kate ended up back in the hospital and not doing well at all. Anna was so scared she was going to lose her but so much was running through her head... she had no idea what to do. A couple days later Kate was doing better and the doctors were trying to figure out what else they could do to help her, like always. It was a constant cycle that kept happening.
While I'm reading this story I have a lot of mixed emotions. Sometimes I'm really happy because one of the characters will bring up a good memory of the past and their childhood and it really just warms your heart. But other times, I get really mad and want to ring the parents neck because it really doesn't seem like they care about Jesse or Anna. Yes, Kate is in bad condition, but they have two other children that need love and attention too and they never give it to them and that's why they are in this mess because Anna was pretty much made exactly how they wanted her so she could save Kate's life, and they never care to listen to how she feels about it or what type of pain they put her through. I've also caught myself get a little teary eyed a few times because of what Kate has gone through and how Anna wants to help her sister but doesn't want to give her her kidney and she's scared it will be all her fault if she dies and that she will be lost without her sister. That's why I think this book is so good because it keeps you interested and never gets boring.

Hi everyone. I want to tell you that  I changed my book after I read  45 pages. I Discovered that it's not  interesting at least for me, so  I change it. This is my new book "The Reader" written by Bernhard Schlink. i choose this book as when I am previewing it, found that this is the story which i look for.it is about teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped to return home by a woman who did not saw her before.

I am Elijah Garsayne
I chose the book My Forbidden Face
I picked this book because of its title
My prediction is the treatment of women in Afghanistan

I am reading the book Moneyball by Michael Lewis. The reason I picked to read this book is because I played baseball for my whole life and I just love how the game is played. The fact that you can play the game so many different ways is just amazing and thats what I love about the sport. In this book I believe that they will try to play baseball in a different way to prove that baseball can be played in a math way and stats. I believe this method can work but not good enough to win all the time, you need skill and talent to play and win to win all the time.

I am reading the book called "My Sisters Keeper" by Jodi Picoult. The reason I picked this book was because I have read some of Jodi Picoults books before and I think she is a very good author and I definitely recommend you to read her books. A couple of my roommates have read this book and said it was super good and that I should definitely read it. It doesn't really have a short summary of what it is about but the picture on the cover is two teenage girls, and since the title is called "My Sisters Keeper" I'm guessing it will be about a couple girls that are sisters maybe going through a hard time.

The Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx & Ian Gittins

I chose The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx and Ian Gittins.  I think the book is about Nikki Sixx and his struggle with drugs as a rock star.  I think this book will show what a rock star life is like in the 80's and 90's as a Motley Crue band member.

13 Reasons Why- Jay Asher

The book I chose to read is called 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher. This book is about a girl who was bullied, made fun of and didn't have a lot of friends. This girl Hannah committed suicide & before she died she made videos to the people who made her commit suicide, there were 13 people. In each video she explained what they did to her. These 13 people get these videos after Hannah had already committed suicide, Hannah might have went too far but she's showing others to be treated the way you want to be treated. Hannah's story has changed so many people's lives, but some still haven't changed one bit.

Mercy, Jodie Picoult

Mercy by Jodi Picoult is a story about a police chief who has to make an arrest on one of his cousins. He is an ethical person so he doesn't want to give him an unfair trial. At the same time though, he cares for his family and doesn't want to see him behind bars. It's also a love story that becomes very complicated.

I chose this book because who doesn't love a good love story? Also because I find court cases to be very interesting and have always wondered what happens when cases become personal.

I have already begun reading the book and am already sucked in! I would highly recommend reading it so far. The story behind each character is unfolded piece by piece so you have to put things together.

Maus

Maus is a graphic novel written by Art Spiegelman about his father's experiences as a Holocaust survivor.

I picked this book because I had started reading it in high school but I never finished it.

I also picked this book because of the interesting way it depicts people as animals with the Jews as mice, Germans as cats and Polish as pigs.


 The thing that intrigued me the most about Maus is the way it presents itself as a comic book while telling a story about the Holocaust. 

With it's theme being very similar to Night, I predict that it will have a similar story as well.

half a life

i chose the book half a life, i don't really have any particular reason for choosing the book because all i did was read the back and it kind i interested me. its memoir about a guy who hit a killed a girl in a car acident and how he lives his day to day life. i think it will be an interesting read to get into the mind of someone who involuntarily killed someone.

where the red fern grows

I chose the book Where The Red Fern Grows. I already watched the movie. So I really want to see if the book is better than movie. Also its a perfect time to read this book, cause its trappin season. I think the book is going to be just like the movie

"Live From Baghdad" was written by CNN executive producer Robert Wiener. it covers five months, from the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in August 1990 from the onset of the air war.

I choose this book as I am a admirer of the character of Saddam Hussein.They say he was a dictator and ignoring that most of the Arab countries run by military rule or monarchy.I know that this is not room for debate, but if I find a book contain only part of the history of Irag during the period of Saddam , I should  read it. Sorry to someone you consider an enemy, and I consider him  hero.