Me into Harry Potter?

 So on Friday the class went out to the movies to watch Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows Part one. I honestly liked the movie except for one thing.... I didn't get what the heck was going on! I felt so clueless. All I knew was that Harry's parents where killed by he who must not be mentioned (forgot his name see what I mean) but he was just left with a scar. Since than Lord Voldemort has been trying to kill Harry Potter. It's not that I didn't get was was going on, but I felt like I would of enjoyed the movie that much more, if I had read the books.Not only to get what was going on,  put to have something to compare the movie with.

 Once we to school we had to do independent reading. I didn't feel like reading my book, I was still in the Harry Potter mode. So I sat down with this thick harry Potter book in hand. I was about to put the book back on it's self  because I was to lazy to get into this book. Truth is that the only reason I  never read a Harry Potter book is because i felt so discouraged by the size of it. But after watching the movie I really wanted to fill in the gaps in my head. I opened the book and started reading it was not what I expected. 

 As i was sitting down reading i was disappointed. Not at the book but at myself. I expected the the book to be really boring, confusing and hard to understand. I was so into the book, that when Brianna interrupted my reading to show me what was going on in her book I didn't want to stop reading. When I looked at the page number so i wouldn't lose my page I was like 37 pages into the book. I was surprised. I didn't feel the time go by. When people say don't judge a book by it's cover they mean it literally. As soon as I'm done with my book, I'll definitely  be giving the series a try.

Intense

 I'm reading the Hate List by Jennifer Brown. this is such a good book. It's about a school shooting provoked by a "Hate List" made by a girl named Valerie and her boyfriend Nick. To Valerie the list was a way to vent her feelings. Nick really didn't go about the list the same way, he really did hate these people on the list and was willing to make the people in the list pay for what they did to him and his girlfriend. The list was used to pick his targets. During the shooting Valerie saved a class mate yet was blamed for the shooting because she helped create the list. Nick on the other hand ended up dead. He got shot when Valarie tried to take the gun away, it got ugly and he ended up getting shot.
  Valarie had the summer to come to grips with what happened. She's having trouble facing everyone back in school. Everyone points their finger at her, blaming her for the death of fellow students that passed away during the shooting. I think it's wrong! She's as much as a victim as everybody else. It wasn't her that brought the gun to school or the one shooting. It was her boyfriend Nick, how was she suppose to know that making that stupid list would cause so much trouble? I'm not saying that her taking part in  making the list is right, but she honestly didn't know it would escalate this far. Would you blame Valerie for the shooting? Do you think she's the one to blame, because the person that was shooting is dead and she's the only one they have to blame?
  She also has to deal with the fact that everyone is talking cruelly about the boy she loved, and now is dead. Yet she knows that he was the killer, but she loved him. She can't turn her back on Nick even if he is dead. I would be crushed to pick sides. I get that she loved him and feels like she the one to blame for everything. truth be told how was she suppose to know things would turn out this way. She can't let people intimidate her. The people pointing their finger at her should shut up ass well. I'm not defending Nick for what he did, but if they weren't such assholes to him or Valerie they wouldn't have had a reason to make the hate list. So no one is innocent in this scenario. 

Borderline

I just finished reading the book Borderline by Allan Stratton.(takes place right after the 9/11 attack) Sami Sabiri is the only Muslim kid at his private school. He gets picked on everyday by a couple of high school jocks just for being Muslim. His only true friends go to a public school, he barely gets to see them he feels like they've grown apart and is afraid to loose them. Yet things get a whole lot worse when he catches his father in a lie.At first when he finds the unfamiliar phone number he thinks his dad is having an affair.Soon enough the FBI are at their door taking his father away and tearing his house up. Apparently his father is a part of a terrorist attack! the phone number was the number their leader. Sami's house his surrounded with the press and his mother is broken down.
 He sets out to clear his families name. He was relived that his father wasn't cheating on his mother because he didn't know how to break it to her but trying to clear his families would in no doubt be a harder task. With the information he found when he was snooping in his fathers computer he know that his father and the so called Tariq would meet in he next couple of days. With the help of his friends Andy and Marty he set of to the city. Would you risk your life in order to try and clear your families name? would you be able to come face to face with a terrorist? would you ask your friends to risk it for you as well.
In my opinion this was a good book. It was able to keep me interested, and guessing the whole time. It differently had a strange twist towards the end of the book. That what i likes most of all. It wasn't something that you saw coming. It also didn't just have a happily ever after.?

SOLD by Patricia McCormick

   SOLD by Patricia McCormick  is truly a one of a kind book. It touches the core of your heart. Lakshmi is a innocent yet ignorant, 13 year old girl from a small village in Nepal. I don't mean ignorant in a harsh way. Lakshmi has been stuck in a small village her whole life. She lived in her own fantasy world where she believed that everyone had a pure heart and that she could trust anybody. As we all know that is not true and she learns this the hard way.Her ignorance and the need to help her family out of poverty leads her to face the real horrors of the world.
 Lakshmi is lied to and sold into prostitution by her own step father. She is taken to the brothel to work. She is violated by many disgusting men. Yet she endures the pain. What keeps her going is the thought of her mother and brother. She is lucky not to fall into temptation to suicide. If i was in her place i don't think i would have been able to endure the hell she's gone through. She is wise beyond her years. Yet she is the very walking dead. She's no longer the ignorant young girl. She understands that the city is full of many bad people.Even the people that are suppose to be good. She is scared to even imagine life outside of brothel. She is a different girl than the one she used to be. 
  I admire this young girl. I think i wouldn't of been able to survive in the conditions she lived. Many of the girls that accompany  Lakshmi in the brothel just seem to think  of it as a way of life. Like there's nothing or no one to help them escape the hell they live in. No one i mean absoultly no one should have to endure anything like this. 
 The world is full of corruption and injustice. It's unrealistic to say that it will come to an end but if we work together there's a chance that it will minimize the number of girls that are being SOLD. 

It's Kind of a Funny Story

  I'm used to reading those cheesy girl books. They all have to do with some girl falling for some hot guy at school, and in the end they end up together.... wow i didn't see that coming (I'm being sarcastic). Those books get me bored. So i needed a change from that and i picked up It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. It's a book from a 13 yr old boy named Craig,  who's struggling with life as a teenage boy.
 Starting this book i thought i was going to end up putting it down and getting a different book. I was hesitant when i started reading it. The first few pages were a little graphic and i though wow so this is what goes on in a boys head i didn't need a book to tell me this, I already knew. I got through the first few chapters i thought it was an o.k book. When i got to the middle of the 2nd part of the  book is when i really got into it. I realized that as a teen we all got the same issues no matter if your a boy or girl. Were all just as messed up. Were got fears, responsibilities , expectations  to live up to, and pressure that is put upon us. I was able to connect to the character Craig on many levels. As a person, student, and teen.
 Having questions about who you are what your purpose in this world is. Most of the time you don't feel like your the best you can be. Like everyone out there is a whole lot better than you. Craig had a problem thinking he wasn't worth anything falling into depression at such a young age. Thinking about suicide being the easiest way to get rid of his so called problems. He was so focused on getting prepared to have a perfect life he forgot about living it. He wanted to be a big important person, with a wife, kids, and a house he could call his own.
 Truth is he still a kid he needs to live his life. he needs to stop stressing about having a perfect future. It's good to have goals for yourself and be ambitious. There's no need to let it take over your life. Now that I'm a teen i wish i was a little kid again. I thought being older would be cool and fun, but boy was i wrong. If I feel this way now I don't want to imagine the way I'm going to feel when I'm a grown up.
Craig no one know why they were but on this earth or who they really are it takes a lifetime to figure that out. Even with a lifetime the answers to those questions may not be clear. You just gotta live your life to the fullest, take advantage of the opportunities you get in life.

The Lion Witch and the Wardrobe

 It's weird that now Edmund happens to be some what my favorite character in the book The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. The first time I read this book i disliked Edmund very much. What ever he said or did was just annoying to me. He was such a nasty boy so rude and cruel. The second time around i followed his journey closely, and i loved to it. He changes very dramaticly. He was blinded by this awful jelousy he felt towards his older brother Peter, his sister Susan, and younger sister Lucy. He was looking for a way to prove that he was beyond better than any of them. he wanted attention, and he was willing to do anything it took to get it. he was not intentionally looking to harm any of them but a young boy like him didnt know any better. He was nieve to believe that the white witch would really make him the king of her "kingdom". he thought this wqas the perfect way to prove he was on a greater level than his siblings. Once he saw with his own eyes how cruel and cold hearted the Witch was he regreted his betryal. (giving his own blood up to the witch). But yet in the end he ends up being Edmund the Just. A huge change from the person that fibbed and made his sister Lucy suffer when she first spoke about Narnia. Even after Edmund knew it was true.