FOURTH POST, SEPTEMBER 30TH

SO... I READ AND FINISHED THE BOOK... THE LOVELY BONES. IT WAS AN AMAZING BOOK!!

SPOILERS AHEAD, WATCH OUT!!!!!!!

I think that a few characters were waaayyyy more memorable than the rest.

First You Need To Know the Basic Characters...

Susie: Murdered
Jack: Dad
Abagail: Mom
Lindsey: Sister
Buckley: Brother
Samuel Heckler: Lindsey's Boyfriend
Holiday: Dog
Holly: Susies best friend and roomie in heaven
Frannie: Susie's counseler in heaven
Len Fenerman: The guy that Abagail cheats on Jack with, also the detective
There are others, but you dont need to know them to understand my sinopsis and summary and blog. idk
OH, AND DONT FORGET GEORGE HARVEY, THE ONE WHO KILLED SUSIE!!!!!!!!! HE WAS HER NEIGHBOR!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY FIND OUT ITS HIM AFTER HE ESCAPES AND RUNS AWAY, SO THEY DONT FIND HIM!!!!!!!!!!! you figure out that he killed her at the beginning so i didnt ruin much.

WEll, I think the dad was really memorable because he took the loss of his daughter pretty hard. it was nice to see how he got used to it and how he eventually accepted the loss, but it was really sad. it took him really long, but i like that he thought about it, instead of pretending it never happened. thats what i did when my dog died, and now i cant remember much of her. :(. I also like how he dealt with his wife cheating on him (out of depression guys, dont get mad at me)... when she left for california, and sat there pretending nothing happened and missed him, he sat at home, living his life. He lived it pretty normally for after their daughter dying but he had a picture of her that the daughter took before she died and looked at it for hours every day. then he described how he seemed like he was falling in love again. when the mom came home when he had a heart attack (when his son, Buckley was using Susie(the murdered girl)'s clothes for a plant stand), they fell in love all over again and it was really sweet.

Another favorite character would probably be Samuel Heckler, Lindsey's(the sister of Susie) boyfriend. They were going out since 7yh grade, and eventually at 21 got married and later had kids. They never had one problem. i sympathise with Sam cuz he was in a really hard position. he had to deal with a really messed up depressed problematic family after Susie died, and all he did was comfort them all. the dad and mom loved him, and as susie thought from heaven, "It's one of those couples that were just meant to be." On college graduation, they rode home on his motorcycle and a huge horribl storm came up. They pulled over and sam found safety and helped them stay dry. they used to play ona soccer team together, and since Lindsey didnt want anyone to worry, they ran home in the pelting rain. sam gave her his jacket. i just think he dealt with alot and he could have just broke up with her or not even gone out with her in the first place/. they go t together after susie died.

I thought that you might want to know my favorite characters, but i will give you a brief overview...

It's a book about a girl, susie, who is murdered. she watches her neighbor(her murderor) and her family from heaven. since she is dead, she feels other's feelings and thougths. she knows their thoughts and evaluates all their choices. She watches her family cope and figures out how to deal with it on her part, madness, insanity, calmnity??? you'll see!!!

read the book, its really good but its really sad.

i really think that i like it... not like the other books i read.

i couldnt put it down(stop reading it for you slow turtles) cuz i did put it down.

EMMA BALDWIN

p.s. i commented on Fran and Libby's blogs... (my comment on fran's is better i think)

Week 3 Post

So while you were goneee...

i finished the book the SECRET LIFE OF BEES. YAY! While it was a good interesting book, it just moved a little too slowly for me. CAUTION SPOILERS AHEAD!!! After they stayed at the river, where we left off last time, they found a place that had the Black Mary picture all over it. That is the picture that Lily had with her. What happened was she basically lied to Aubust(the bee-keeper and owner of the house along with sisters May and June) and said both her parents died, and made up this whole story. My first problem with that was Lily kept lying, basically throughout the whole book, adn she thought about telling August the truth soooooo many times. I was just like HURRY UP ALREADY!!!! JUST TELL HER!! thats one reason it was slow. The other is that theres basically no action, i mean its all talk and helping with the bees. dun dun dun DUNNNNN... (evil continuing effects), all until May killed herself. I mean, she meets all these characters like Zach and Neil and The Sisters, and nothing happens with them really until May dies. It's just slow that way. Sorry, i dont like slow books that much but i dont like really ACtion ACTIOn books either. like wars and stuff.
Another problem i have with this book is May. Why is she all depressed? When you read the book, it just makes you down adn sad. It's like she holds the whole pain and depression and problems of the WORLD on her. for example, when she hears that someone was murdered on the radio news, she starts humming "Oh Susanna." (WHY OH SUSANNA?????) then she starts SOBBING, i mean literally eyes filled overflowing mouth mourning SOBBING. Why does the author have to make her sooooooooooo depressed. Another time was when Zach, who she wasnt that close to goes to jail, she finds out and says she's gunna go 2 her wailing wall (A WALL THAT SHE WRITES ALL THE PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD DOWN AND STUFFS IT IN2 THE WALL. SHE SOBBS MORE THERE). when she goes there, she ends up killing herself, rolling a rock down the bank of a river on2 herslef while lying face up eyes open under the water in the river. omg, they described the whole scene( another problem, it grossed me out and made me feel REALLY sad). they find her suicide note and it says basically that she cant hold all the weight of the world on herself anymore. she had to leave. WHY????? what is the need for this character? i get that it made the book have action but only for like 5 minutes and then all the characters stop working on the honey hives and mourn all day and all night. it shares all their thoughts. it gets really really SSSSS LLLLLLLL OOOOOO WWWWWW (slow if u dont get it yet).

In other words, my problems were how slow hte book was and Mays depressing state. UGG IT GETS ME SOOOOOOOOO MAd. i'll leave the very end up 2 u to read or figure out, i dont wanna ruin the whole book 4 u. (even tho i kinda already did cuz i gave up the most action part except when... oh wait, i wont tell u but it has to do with T-Ray)................... I'm gunna go post on sum1 elses blog now.


~Emma Baldwin~

P.S. i commented on mara's and Aisling's and Libby's and Fran's blog (you dont have to look at all but if u do only look at 1 i wouldnt look at libbys cuz i actually didnt fully comment... u will have to look to know what i mean)

SECOND POST:)

im readin a book called The SECRET LIFE OF BEES

i feel like im down in all my posts and uno, just thinkin they're not great books... well this is the same

no different

so... it's kind of a long beginning, boring and slow moving. it also doesnt help when my mom and Fran say that they didnt like the book that much, THANKS GUYS!!!

So........... right now (BTW IF UR PLANNING ON READING THE BOOK I WOULDNT READ THIS ALTHOUGH IDK IF ITS A SPOILER)

So... again... Lily Owens is in this kind of abusive relationship with his dad, who is really mean adn her mom died when she was 4. her dad T-Ray, makes her kneel on bits of shreaded glass when she gets in trouble (sometimes for doing nothing)

she adn her kind of "stand in mom" rosaleen get arrested for stealing from church adn rosaleen unsulted a bunch of guys that are racist adn they are like the most black hating people ever if u no wut i meen. they wont stop at anything to kill her. she is in jail and Lily is bailed out by her dad adn he made her kneel on the bits. the guys come to visit her and beat her on the head. she gets knocked out and put in the hospital. GEEZ THoS GUYS ARE NOT NICE! (obviously, but its a view). Lily is home after he puts her on the glass 4 a couple of hours, and then he sends her to bed. he tells her that the reason her mother was packing when she died (cuz lily picked up the gun her dad dropped and it went off, without warning killed her mom) wuz because she left before then adn came back for her stuff. idk if this is true but i kinda agree that this was T-Rays some kind of idea of sick punishment.

lily cant stand with the idea that her mom did that and she comes up with the idea it is his punishment for her. she gets soooooooooooooooooooooooo angry cuz she is really tireeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed of living with him and his abuse. she finally cant stand it. she goes 2 rescue rosaleen out of jail but she was still in the hospital from the blow actually meant 2 kill her. the guard said if she was seen at the hospital he would cal her dad. when her dad found out she left he got SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO mad, REALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY mad! lol i luv doin long letters. she went anyway and got her outta the hospital. it was actually a good plan even tho it wuz thout out wen she got there.

so now they hitchiked adn are 3 miles from the town called Tiburon, SC. they stayed at a creek adn she is thinking about the picture of the black mary that wuz in her moms stuff and why it says its from Tiburon, and why her mom had it. I hope they get 2 tiburon soon cuz its gettin kinda borin now.

wow, i just realized that its actually kinda full of action. i didnt realyize tht b4.

:):):):):) sry 4 the not full writing and i think you (ms. pietrzak) sayd we cood do it. soooooooooooooooooo............... rite now i think the story is pretty good and tha i reely shood get to the rest of my hw.

by the way, i finished my last book (speak).

thanks

EMMA BALDWIN

P.S. pleez comment

MY BOOK 9-3-09

I read the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, and it is really a book about a girl who is a social outcast. She is basically hated by all high schoolers right now and I dont think that it is that great. It is just kind of quiet and unusual but I am going to keep reading it because i want to know whats going to happen. I am on page 45 or somewhere around there and i'm not sure really what the big plot or problem is. i might not reccomend it yet but we will have to wait and see about it.

This girl, Melinda, apparently called the police on a party over the summer, (i just read that part where i find out why she has no friends so i dont know many details) and all of her friends hate her and arent talking to her anymore. The feeling is all kind of depressing right now because she is having trouble talking to anyone and making new friends. I think that the girl should just speak up and just really make new friends, so that she won't feel so lonely. it might also let her turn in more work, and actually do her homework without just taking a nap. Her parents are not really supportive and they really dont communicate well. they leave notes instead of talking.