Wintergirls

       Once again I did another re read this week.  I know, I need a new book very badly.  But anyway, I re read the book Wintergirls by Laurie Anderson.  In this book the main character is an anorexic girl named Lia, who used to be best friends with Cassia, a bulimic girl.  But they haven't been best friends in a while, or at least since Cassie died.  This is the story of Lia and her life.  And how Cassie comes back to haunt her.
         I don't get why the book is called Wintergirls.  It's not like Lia only comes out in the winter, because I'm in the book she went out in the other seasons.  But it might be because she is cold, out of it, like many people are in the winter.  Maybe it's because in the winter, Lia may feel like everything is a dream, like nothing i reality, and that is what makes everything easier to deal with.  If it feel like a dream, a fog, then it makes it easier for life to feel like nothing is real.  That this is a dream, this isn't happening.  I feel like winter might make everything easier to deal with, or even harder.  Like when it's calm with snow falling gently, it makes the world slow down.  It makes it so that you feel like you have more time to deal with everything.  But when there is a rough, windy blizzard, then everything feels hectic.  It can make you feel so overwhelmed by everything that you can't deal with anything, you have to go to your last resort, which is usually a bad thing.  Especially in Lia's case.  In fact, in the end it almost killed her.
        Winter is also a time of beauty and a time to hide.  In Lia's eyes what she is trying to become is beautiful.  But beautiful, isn't beautiful.  For Lia, it also makes her hide.  She can't let anyone see who she is, what she is trying to become because if she does, it won't be pretty.  It makes Lia feel distant.  It makes her feel strong.  It makes her lie about her weight by sowing pennies into robe that she wears when she steps on the scale.  And in a way, winter does this to all of us.  Each person in their own ways.  So, I don't know.  Think about that, or don't.

My Sister's Keeper

        The other day when I was sick I went back and re-read My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.  Great book, in case you were wondering.  Anyway, in this book the main character is Anna, even though it tells the story from multiple people's views.  But anyway her sister Kate has cancer so they  created Anna, literally created like in a petri dish, who would be a perfect genetic match to Kate.  Now Anna is filling a law suit against her parents because she doesn't want to donate a kidney to her sister.
        So is it wrong of her to not donate a kidney?  Well, it sort of is, at least in my opinion.  Anna is the only one who can save her sister.  If my brother was dying and I was the only one who could save him I probably would give him the kidney.  But Anna and Kate aren't just sisters, they are best friends.  They don't really have other friends.  It's kind of hard for them to stick around knowing what is going on in that family.  So if Anna doesn't donate her kidney, Kate will die, and Anna will not only lose her sister, she would lose her best friend.  That would be like 2 losses in one, which I think would make it harder for Anna than it already would be if they were just sisters.
        It's also okay for her to not donate a kidney.  Why should her sister's life be in Anna's hands?  That is not fair for Anna.  She has her own life to worry about.  Plus, what if she donates the kidney and it doesn't work, and Kate dies anyway?  Then Anna will have one less kidney for no reason at all.  Besisdes, you don't have to help someone, you choose to.  And if Anna isn't choosing to then why should she donate a kidney? It's not the law, she wont get arrested if she doesn't.
        I guess all I am really saying is that Anna has a choice, and either one could be the right one.

My Little Phony (The Clique #13)

                                                                Spoiler Alert
        Before I start, I have to say, these books are horrible.  But I don't care!!  They are some of my favorite books, I don't know why though.  But anyway, in this book Massie and Claire get into a fight so Claire puts bugs in Massie's bed to get back at her for shaving her brothers head and making her friends think she has lice.  This forces Massie to live in Claire's house for a week while her parents are supposedly in the Bahamas.  I don't know what else really happens.  Not much untill sort of the end, but I don't want to give everything away.
        So basically what I'm going to do in this blog is ramble about things, fun right?  But anyway,  Massie takes everything personally and it's annoying.  When Claire wants to hang out with her new friends she takes it as. "Claire left us for her new geeky friends.  She must not like us anymore.  Must Get Rid of Claire's Friends."  Who does that?  And another thing that I find dumb is that it is perfectly fine with the rest of Massie and her friends, who used to be Claire's friends.  That's pretty mean if you ask me.  Also, in maybe the 10th book, it was, everytime her ex- "boyfriend" would come near her and try to talk to her friend Dylan she would be like: "Oh my god, stop flirting with me, I have moveed on from you, so try to stay away from me."  She thinks everything has to do with her!
        Another thing that annoys me about this book is how SHALLOW Massie and her friends are.  They are more shallow then a puddle.  Especially Massie.  She thinks everything is about looks and being on tot means , even if it means putting people down.  She has no problem with that.  Mean, right?
        These books suck, but I love them.  No clue why, I just do.  It might be because they are so bad that it's just hillarious And that is good enough for me. The End.
        P.S. Sorry that this was a sucky blog post, I haven't had anything new to read in weeks.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is very confusing

There is a spoiler about what happens in the beginning, if you haven't read it yet.

        I started to read the book The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.  So far I think it is about how the earth is going to be destroyed and what happens afterwards.  The main character is a man named Arthur Dent.  The book starts off with Arthur waj=king up to his house being destroyed so he lies down in front of it so they can't run it over.  Then his friend makes him get up and go to the bar where he tells Aurthur that the world will be destroyed in 12 minutes.  Then some alien things come or something.
        The first thing that I found confusing was that for a zillion pages all they talked about was Arthur's house getting torn down and him lying down in front of it.  I honestly do not see the point of that.  Yea it's sort of interesting, but it has nothing to do with the rest of the story, at least out of what I've read already.  I would have started the book more like this:
        It was a Thursday morning when Arthur Dent's friend Ford came and dragged him to the pub.  Now he was just sitting there waiting for the 6 pints of beer his friend had ordered.  Finally, they arrived.  "Now drink 3 pints of beer and I'll tell you why we came here," Ford had said.  Arthur drank his beers in question, thinking about how drunk he would be on the way home.  "The world is about to end."
        I would have started it more like that.  Not waiting a chapter or 2 for the stroy to really begin.  But I don't know, maybe that first chapter is important later on, so far I don't think so.
        Another thing that is confusing is when what ever it is appears.  The things in the ship.  That is what confuses me, i don't know what they are, I don't know who they are, where ther're from.  I don't know anything and it really confuses me.
        I just got into the book today so, sorry that it doesn't go into much detail.  I didn't know enough to write about much of anything.

Yet another blog about one of Miranda's posts

        Okay, now I know everyone is doing their blogs on Miranda's but I'm still going to write mine about her blog.  The blog of her's that I'm writing about is called Google In Your Brain.  It's about a book called Feed that she was reading at the time.  A feed is a sort of computer in your brain, I guess.  I haven't read the book.  Anyway, what Miranda actually thought about was whether or not the feed actually made you smarter.  And I agree with her.
        The feed can make you smarter.  Just imagine not having to learn anything because you have the answer right at your finger tips, or in your brain, I should say.  You wouldn't have to taake 20 minutes just to solve part a of a math problem.  You would just know it instantly.  But she also said that the feed is bad.  She said that if some one asks you for your opinion then you couldn't give it to them, you could only give them some one else's opinion.  But I have a question.  Everyone has the feed right?  Well then how could they have an opinion in the first place?  You can't.  And you can't search for an opinion because no one can have any, right?  I don't know, thats just something to consider.
        Another thing that Miranda did well was that she went into the book,and put a lot of thought into what she was writing.  And that made it, as I said to her in a comment, very looong.  I need to start expanding my blogs and making them a little bit more insightful.  I have to do what I sometimes did last year, which was wander around in the text.  I think Miranda did that very well.
        Overall, Miranda did a great job.  She managed to convince me to want to read the book, and that is even after I know what the cover looks like, and trust me it's bad.  But I'm going to read this book one day, it seems pretty good.

Loser by Jerry Spinelli

        I had no new books to read this week so I picked up the book Loser by Jerry Spinelli.  The "star" of this book is a clueless kid named Donald Zinkoff.  He stands out in a crowd, but not for a good reason.  He never really gets above an A in school and you can't read his handwriting.  To everyone but him, he is just a friendless loser.  Poor Zinkoff.
        In this blog post I'm going to talk about being clueless, and whether it's good or bad.  Donald is seriosly the most clueless kid in the world.  He is completly un-aware of everyrthing.  And in his case, it a very good thing, it keeps him happy.  If he wasn't so clueless, then he would probably be very depressed all the time.  He has no friends at all.  In fact everyone hates him, especially when it comes to feild day.  Plus, if anyone maakes fun of him, half the time it makes him proud.  He just doesn't get it.  If I was him and actually realized what was going on around me I would probably lock myself in my room and stay there for the rest of my life.  The only time he isn't really clueless was when people were calling him a loser.
        I also think that it's bad for him to be clueless.  I mean, if he understood what they were saying about him he might try to stop it.  If they say he is a super slow runner he might try to run faster.  They could say he is a bad student.  he might try to study harder.  If he realized it then Zinkoff might try to prove everyone wrong.  That would benefit him in the long run.  He might also get what is wrong with this picture, his picture.  If he knew and changed it, his life would be better, even if he doesn't realize it.
        If I were Donald, I would probably wan't to be clueless, I wouldn't get hurt as much.  What about you?

A long rant about the Little House Series

        I didn't really have anything to say about any book I've read in the past week, so I decided to take a look back at the Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.  These books show the story of the author and show what it was like growing up in the mid to late 1800s.  The author is the main character and she has 3 sisters, Carrie, Mary, and Grace.
        All throughout the series I've noticed that evry single one has a very happy and very corny ending.  It honestly is one of the most annoying things ever!  For example, in The long Winter the ending goes "And as they sang, the fear and suffering of the long winter seemed to risew like a dark cloud and float away on the music.  Spring had come.  The sun was shining warm, the winds were soft, and the green grass growing."  Every time I read that I want to die.  If he was still alive today I would love to write her a letter saying those things.  Not that she shouldn't make it a happy ending.  She could do that if she wants, just not in the same way.  I don't really know what I'd say but if I had to I would figure something out.
        Another thing, I think that Laura exagerates a lot.  I do to, but if there was big blizzard I wouldn't say, my brother was so very scared that he was shaking really hard.  Ever heard of show not tell?  Didn't think so.  Some things that Laura exagerated actually enhanced the what she was trying to say.  Like if she says something like, the wind howled really loudly all night long, then that would be okay because she wanted to enhance the point that  the wind was loud.  But if she says that every time it is windy then it get annoying.   And she does say that when ever it's windy in the book!!  I am getting so worked up about this now, it's un-believable!  I'm basically yelling these things in my head.
        Oh, lets see.  What else is annoying...hmmm.  Some of these people's names annoy me.  Now, I know he didn't make up these names, but still.  Tell me, who names their kid Cap.  That is a form of a hat.  Nobody wants to be named a type of hat.  And Minnie too.  Whenever I think of that name I think of a mouse.  I wouldn't want to have the same name as a giant mouse (not that I don't like Minnie Mouse, because I do).  I bet you I could keep going forever but I'm going to stop know.  Do you think these books can be annoying?