All the books seemed really really good. For Christmas break my goal is to read every single one of those!!! I still haven't decided so i'll keep chattering on until I do.
Mondays presentation: Both of the books seemed really interesting. I’ve read a book by Kevin Brooks called “The Road of the Dead” and I loved it, so I’m totally positive that I’d love Candy!! As for “No Country for Old Men,” I actually saw the movie the day before they presented, and it was as confusing as heck! So if the book clarifies it, I’m totally reading it.
Wednesday: “The Road” and “the Alchemist.” Those seemed so good also! “The Alchemist” seemed like it would be so positive and would just life your spirits high! And I remember my high school history teacher telling the class about “The Road,” and it sounds sooo good, almost like an M. Night Shyamalan movie, and I LOVE his movies!!! But that teacher was halfway through and never told us the ending either. THIS IS SO HARD, WHO WILL I VOTE FOR!?!?!?!
Today’s presentation: “My Most Excellent Year” seemed like an awesome book too! Reminds me of “Twelve Long Months” kind of. It’s about a girl who gets a scholarship to New York University (well…some university in New York), and she figures out that the love of her life (her high school chem. Lab partner) will be near there too! She’s so excited, but finds out he’s gay, so he obviously wouldn’t like her because she’s not even the right gender. Ok, so not the same plot, but it just reminded me of it. “My Sister’s Keeper,” my presentation was the BEST book EVER! I love that book! If I could, I would totally vote for that one.
Well, not that I’ve blabbered on, I guess I have to vote now…My vote is: THE ALCHEMIST!!!
Friday, December 12, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
In the Shadow of No Towers
Reading anything that mentioned a tragedy that actually happened in our lifetime was really surprising. Many people talk about the holocaust, the wars, JFK dying, anything in the past are things we talk about in our history classes, things we talk about that we haven't been through. But 9/11, people don't really exactly talk about it. I guess they did when it first happened, but now, it's like people are trying to hide the fact that it happened. Or they just don't want to be reminded of what they went through that day, or week.
It reminds me of something my high school history teacher said. He said something about the Holocaust being removed from history books in the future...well who knows if this is true because this is a teacher who stretches the truth a lot...but he said that all the people that lived through it are either dead, or really old, basically going to die sometime in the near future. So once they're gone "we'd have no proof this actually happened."
It also reminds me of what I went through that 9/11. Ok, it's really stupid, but I guess I'll mention it anyway. I remember me and my sister at the park with a couple of friends, and all of a sudden one of our friends sister came running saying that there were a lot of cars at the gas station. A LOT. She said some kid got ran over and that everyone wanted to see what happened. Well, we later found out that the kid being ran over wasn't even close to the truth. I guess everyone just wanted to get gas because they all thought the prices would rise really high, so they wanted to get it while it was really cheap. I found this out while my dad picked us up, and we saw my aunt walking towards her home. We gave her a ride and she told us about the towers and the gas thing. yeah...then the next day we go to school and literally every teacher has their tv on watching the news.
It reminds me of something my high school history teacher said. He said something about the Holocaust being removed from history books in the future...well who knows if this is true because this is a teacher who stretches the truth a lot...but he said that all the people that lived through it are either dead, or really old, basically going to die sometime in the near future. So once they're gone "we'd have no proof this actually happened."
It also reminds me of what I went through that 9/11. Ok, it's really stupid, but I guess I'll mention it anyway. I remember me and my sister at the park with a couple of friends, and all of a sudden one of our friends sister came running saying that there were a lot of cars at the gas station. A LOT. She said some kid got ran over and that everyone wanted to see what happened. Well, we later found out that the kid being ran over wasn't even close to the truth. I guess everyone just wanted to get gas because they all thought the prices would rise really high, so they wanted to get it while it was really cheap. I found this out while my dad picked us up, and we saw my aunt walking towards her home. We gave her a ride and she told us about the towers and the gas thing. yeah...then the next day we go to school and literally every teacher has their tv on watching the news.
Monday, December 1, 2008
My Sister's Keeper
This book is the book my group will be presenting, and I really liked reading it, even though I have read it before, it makes you think, no matter how many times you read it.
It's basically a book about a 13 year old girl named Anna, and she knows that the only reason she was born was because her sister, Kate (16). Kate was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL, very rare), and to live longer, she needed a perfect match donor. That donor needed to be a family member, and through stem cell research, Anna was born. Anna has undergone many surgeries to donate to her sister, since the day she was born, literally.
This book really made me think. If I had a daughter with leukemia, and had another from stem cell research, specifically born to save Kate's life, would I make that second daughter go through so many surgeries when in reality they are not benfitting her at all? They may be profiting the leukemic daughter, but knowing she isn't going to live that much longer(since she should have died at age 5), and making my second daughter undergo so many life risking surgeries...
Thinking about that is one thing Sara Fitzgerald, Kate and Anna's mother, does not do. She worries so much about Kate that compared to what Kate has gone through, any scrape and scratch Jesse (her son) and Anna get is nothing, (including a HUGE needle needed to draw marrow from Anna's hipbone).
Well, from the start of the book, Anna hires a lawyer for medical emancipation: rights for her own body. And as we go through the plot, we see a huge twist on why Anna actually started the case, and a speechless ending!
It's basically a book about a 13 year old girl named Anna, and she knows that the only reason she was born was because her sister, Kate (16). Kate was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL, very rare), and to live longer, she needed a perfect match donor. That donor needed to be a family member, and through stem cell research, Anna was born. Anna has undergone many surgeries to donate to her sister, since the day she was born, literally.
This book really made me think. If I had a daughter with leukemia, and had another from stem cell research, specifically born to save Kate's life, would I make that second daughter go through so many surgeries when in reality they are not benfitting her at all? They may be profiting the leukemic daughter, but knowing she isn't going to live that much longer(since she should have died at age 5), and making my second daughter undergo so many life risking surgeries...
Thinking about that is one thing Sara Fitzgerald, Kate and Anna's mother, does not do. She worries so much about Kate that compared to what Kate has gone through, any scrape and scratch Jesse (her son) and Anna get is nothing, (including a HUGE needle needed to draw marrow from Anna's hipbone).
Well, from the start of the book, Anna hires a lawyer for medical emancipation: rights for her own body. And as we go through the plot, we see a huge twist on why Anna actually started the case, and a speechless ending!
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