Blog Post- Sharp Objects by; Gillian Flynn

   This book I'm reading is about a girl who's been the IT girl all her life, until it comes to home, where she is a totally different person because of they her mother lived. I feel a connection here to almost all the books I've read before, since they're all about teens and their popular lives on the outside, when on the inside they're full of deep dark secrets. Camille, right now is 29, but is a reporter and goes back to her home town for an article based on  the deaths of little girls going missing.
   During her visit, many different people are telling her weird things about her having to leave, yet none of them tell her WHY she has to leaves, and then she knows it's leaded toward the murderer, and how it's after Camille since she's on the case more than the police at the scene. I personally liked this book for another reason too, it was actually about real life stuff that happen in this life, and didn't have a happy ending like all the other books out there.
   Overall, I thought that it was really good, but the thing I didn't like was the fact that Camille cut herself every time she got mad, and the weird thing about her cutting was that she cut in words and that was really creepy.

Blog Post- Faking 19 Alison Noel

    This book is totally real life. The story's about the fact of how some teens are really smart, yet they tend to mess up their lives because of the influence they get from their friends. The main character, Alex, has the bestest life a student can ever have; invitations to scholarships at sophomore year, and  the bestest friend ever. Yet the girl just somehow screws up her life because of the influence of having to be popular.
   These things do happen in real life, it's just that the happy endings happen in the books, not in life. Reading this book made me think about all the teens in this world that probably have the same things going on in their lives, it's just that some of them decide to use their brains and avoid that path.
     Alex was the smartest girl freshman and sophomore year, it just happens to be that M, her best friend drags Alex to her level. There are always these types of people in schools, they need to be a certain type be noticed, and it just happens that they stay like that all their lives which means that they can't go back to their mistakes. They all live the worst lives and regret themselves to ever happen.
   Alex is all about struggles, and she ends up reaching her goal, college. Not community, which is what everyone was expecting her, but an actual college that was given to her by scholarship. So now we know that changing for yourself is totally possible.

Blog Post; Blue is for Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    This book I'm reading is really cool. It's about witches and spells, Stacey, the main character can tell the future through her dreams, and now knows that her her roommate, best friend is in trouble. Stacey is able to use spells and witch-crafty to make things a bit clearer, but things aren't clear enough... Stacey needs to have a clear image and name of the person behind all this to have an actual reading, otherwise she can't help her best friend Drea.

   Throughout the entire book, Stacey keeps getting mixed messages about who this person is, is it Chad?The boy next door? Or is it Donovan, the guy who's been admiring Drea since the third grade?Stacey keeps going back and forth, thinking differently about each guy every time. She even starts thinking that it could be the snooty Veronica who thinks shes above the universe. Through this mess between prank phone calls and mysterious presents, Stacey is in a mound of her own problems, issues that she can't tell anyone, not even Drea, that they're so humiliating and private.

    So far I think that Donovan is the killer, because every time they go to investigate, Donovan seems to appear out of nowhere. They also saw him calling someone through the pay phone, which they later found was the source where the prank calls were coming from, and they noticed that the person on the other line did not pick up... Then they knew it was definitely him.

   At the beginning, when I was getting mixed messages, I thought it was just some random dude who they saw creeping around their ground at night, which did seem to work out, but why would he want Drea? She is the it girl  at college, but how does that relate to him? Stacey is in between all this, yet she feels the need to help ;o out her friend who doesn't even appreciate it, until the first hit comes.

Review on Evin's Post

I read Evin's post on Along for the Ride- Sarah Dessen, and saw connections because I read the book myself. It was sort of like having a conversation with her face to face, except it was without the face to face thing. I thought that Evin sort of had the same illusions on the main character as I did, which was why I kept reading. While I was reading her post, I thought about other places where I've seen or heard the same thing that's happened to the character in this book.
Reading Evin's post was like actually being in the book that I read about two years ago, which is a good thing since then it's a reference to those who haven't read it yet, and happen to read her post, it wouldn't leave them with a question mark on their head. There was another thing I noticed about Evin's post. It had cnnections to another book- Freak the Mighty, which I haven't read, but now know what it might be like, an out of place person who knows they don't belong starts loosening up and changing before everyone's eyes.
Evin's post wasn't the first one I read, but it was the first one that I had text to self and text to reading with.

The Lying Game By Sara Shepard

I really liked this book, it's a really good cliffhanger, and I loved how nothing about it made me put the book down. It was mostly because I read all of the Pretty Little Liars series too, so I pretty much knew what to look out for.
   This book was all about mysteries and the acts of identity theft. So there's this character, (Emma) and there's her "twin" (Sutton). Emma and Sutton are "long lost twins" and they (mostly Emma) discover that they are "twins". Emma and Sutton are foster children, so they don't know who their real mom or dad is, so neither of them twins would know if one of them are on the other side of the world.
   What really was revolting, was the fact that Sutton dies as Emma is going to see her for the first time in her life. The twins are identical, so when Emma gets to Sutton's, everyone's like,"Sutton! Where have you been," not knowing at all that Sutton's in some random hole at the bottom of some random woods, which is most likely in the middle if nowhere. And so Emma has to go along with the Sutton, knowing that no matter how hard she tries telling the people that she'd not Sutton, no one could ever believe her, since Sutton had a thing for tricking people pretty bad, so that once, it got really close to murder. She's technically the town's "boy who cried wolf" except with a popular rep and the police being on her case for submitting false alerts.
  Emma has nothing to do but to follow her instincts which are actually Sutton's thoughts creeping into her mind, which is all Emma has close to family, and she might as well keep it with her for as long as she can. Right?

Handle With Care Jodi Picoult

    What is Justice? Justice is about freedom and peace, we all have to have some kind of justice. But in Handle With Care, Willow doesn't have any of that. Every time she moves there's a limb breaking in her, and it's a symptom from the disease, ostogenesis imperfecta. Can Willow do anything to prevent from breaking? No, and that's because OI is so rare, that there hasn't been a cure yet. At six Willow is barely even two feet, has to move around in a wheelchair, and is smarter than any other six year old.
    Through out this book, Willow's mom is trying to sue the doctor she had when giving birth to Willow, for the money, she says to her husband, but only because I love you, Willow. I don't understand how her own mother could do that to her, and even knowing that Willow hears all the conversations concerning her, Willow wishes she were dead.
     So now you see, justice for Willow is never going to be possible, no matter how careful she is. All her life, Willow watches her sister as a role model, but never could she copy her, because her sister doesn't have OI, and she doesn't break every time she moves, or jumps. Sometimes her dad watches her as she stares at Amelia, longing to have what she will never get, and he feels for her, like any other parent would.
   Willow will literally never have justice, or freedom, since her mother sees it that way...

Airhead by Meg Cabot

     Reading airhead was fun, and it taught me a lot of things I didn't know before about what goes on in Hollywood. Airhead's main character is Nikki Howard, or Em Watts. The story behind the two main characters is really an unrealistic one, but it's realy cool, if you ask me. Em Watts is one of those tomboys who get straight A's(or higher, if possible) in all their classes. Nikki Howard, on the other hand, is teen supermodel sensation, as they call it and there's no way that Em would go near her, not even if you pay her in the JourneyQuest games, which are her life, by the way... So her little sister Frida demands to go to the Stark grand opening, which was starring the ever so famous Nikki Howard and her partner,(Gabriel Luna, which was the only reason why Frida wanted to go in the first place.) When her mother insists that she go with her little sister, Em has no choice but to tag along.
       The first thing Em sees(or hears,) was the voie of Gabriel Luna, who her sister insisted getting her autograph from him first thing, which meant they had to wait in line. Em was snarfing down the free Stark- brand food they were giving out for free while waiting in line for her sister, when suddenly, Gabe pops out of nowhere to say hi to the crowd, which was in front of her. So Em goes closer to see what's going on, when she sees Nikki with him, coming closer. While Em calls for her sister, who is wandering off, Em is now in front of Gabe's face, and next to Nikki, when some smart person decides to hit the plasma screen above their heads with a paintball, which causes the whole thing to come crashing down, killing Em and doing the same to Nikki.
      When she wakes up in a coma, Em is now Nikki Howard. How? ends up Em was dead, but her brain  was still functioning, and Nikki was fine, but her brain was in the worst condition for her body. Since they both got injured in the same way, Stark decided to switch the brains, Em's in Nikki's body, and Nikki's in some random person's, though there's more to that.
      The message Meg was trying to give us, was definitely to be the person you are, not to be the person in your dreams, which is really important, because there are lot's of people out there who would kill themselves. Literally. Just to be that person, which is no point, because that person is probably just as original as you, yet you come in every shape and size, full of creativity, which I bet none of those people out there have, which is great, because YOU get to be YOU, and that's all a person can ever need in their lives.