reading response: #6

I’m reading this book called redeeming love. It’s an outstanding book I have read it a few times a before. It is about a lady that’s a prostitute her name is Sarah, but she goes by Angel; she grew up at hard times. Her mother died when she was a young girl and her father never wanted her born because he already had a wife and children of his own. Her mother wanted to keep her though. One day he stopped paying for cottage and stopped giving her money. They had to live out by the docks in a shack.  Her mother died not to long after the lived down by the docks.  She was sold to a man when she was younger and he treated her very badly. She finally escaped him after several years. She was a beautiful lady and she was on a boat to get away from him. The girls she ran away with beat her up and took her stuff right before they got off the boat. She was in a new place where she knew no one and she had no money. A lady helped her by letting her stay with her and feeding. But the only way she could stay is if she sold her body and gave the lady that helped her so much percentage of it. She lives there for a while, it is way better than where she was before. One day a guy name Michael came to her room and just wanted to talk to her. He loved her so much and he barely knew her. And he tries to whisk her away but it’s harder than he thinks. In the beginning of every chapter there is a quote. I think they are all great and make me go into deep thought about things. One I really like that I just read is by Charles D’ Orleans “I am dying of thirst by the side of the fountain.” I think that has so many different meanings and I know it means something different to everyone. But I also know it brings up deep thoughts and that’s what this book does. IT makes you question a lot of things. However I love it just that much and every time I have read it, it changes me in some way. I hope everyone tries to read it.  

reading response: 5 Rot and Ruin

            I am reading rot and ruin; it’s a great book about life in a zombie world.   It’s about this boy named Benny, Who was just a little boy when the first night of Zombie attack started. He should not remember anything from that night, he sure does dwells on it for quiet a while. He hates zombies for taking his parents away and leaving him with his brother Ben.  They live in a fenced in community, where nobody in the inside but rare few want to acknowledge what is happening outside of the gates.  This book has different chapters and sections, in each section there is a quote. One I really liked was “Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only one second without hope.” That helps explain the book because in this story it is true. They have to have hope.

I also like this quote “Everyone carries around his own monsters.” By Richard Pryor. In this book it shows that zombies are sometimes better than humans because zombies do not understand why or that they are trying to eat people and be evil. However in this book there are people called bounty hunters that are worst because they hurt others and they know exactly what they are doing. It shows how a lot of people just do care about anyone but them self now days.  It’s a great book and it makes a lot of great points, check it out see if you would like it.

reading: 4 evermore

I am reading evermore it is a great book. It’s about this girl, Ever, that loses her family in a car accident and she thinks it’s all her fault. She is the only one to survive the car accident and now she moved away to live with her aunt, Sabine, in California. Now she sees her dead little sister now and they talk to each other and spend time with each other. When she wakes in the hospital she fined that everyone has a different color glow to them and she can hear in on their thoughts. Each color of Aura means something different in the book it has the color reading cheat sheet

“Red: Energy, strengthen, anger, passion…

  Orange: Self-control, Ambition, Courage, Thoughtfulness...

  Yellow: Optimistic, Happy, Intellectual, Friendly…
  Green: Peaceful, Healing, Jealous…
  Blue: Spiritual, Loyal, Creative, Kind…
  Violet: Highly Spiritual, Wisdom…
  Indigo: Benevolence, Highly Intuitive…
  Pink: Love, Sincerity…
  Gray: Depression, Sadness, Exhaustion…
  Brown: Greed, Self-involvement…
  Black: Lacking Energy, Illness…
  White Perfect Balance…”
            She meets this new guy, Damen, who is the hottest in the school now and she can’t get a read on him. She can’t even see his aura. Her best friend Haven called dibs on Damen but he is showing a lot of interest in Ever. He gives her random red tulips all the time. It’s a complicated relationship though.

            It’s a series of six books which is a lot but I’ve only just read the first book. I’ll see how far I will go I might even finish the series it’s so good.

Reading Response:3

I am reading the book Five Flavors of Dumb. It’s very interesting book it is about this deaf girl named Piper. She doesn’t fit in good; everyone is always looking at her funny. One day this band called “Dumb” won the Battle of the Bands. They got really cocky and started to play for the school for free. Well Piper was angry that her brother didn’t want to live, he rather watch them play. She signed to her brother to tell them that if they were smart they wouldn’t be playing for free. Now she is their new manager and is trying to fit all the pieces together and make it better so they can become big and make money.

                There are good sayings in this book, a lot of meaning in the words. Part of a quote I like was…

“SUCK-I-NESS

Realizing you’re completely alone…even in a crowd”

I liked that quote because at the beginning it was like that for her. Now I read about more people noticing her since she is the manager of “Dumb”. I think it’s a great change in the story and I’m excited to read more.

Face to Face

I thought this way very sad and it is so tragic the way other people had to experience this. Some were scared and feared for their lives, sometimes the first time. One woman did not want to go out at night or even drive her car by herself. She was scared that she would get harassed, or told to go back to their country, or spit on or worst attacked. Another lady was out in the rain and she was waiting for the bus. And this woman opened her window and told her to get off the porch “dirty jap” She was scared she might have got hurt. She had night mare about her face for months after words. I don’t understand how people could be so crude in this time of tragic. I would never say anything like that to someone. Then again times have changed. Some people were harassed so bad that they later hung or killed themselves. Where are the people that tried to stop that type of harassment? Why did it go on for so long!! This just makes me angry to hear these stories of what happened to these millions of people.

Reading Response:2 Revolution

The more I read the book the more I love it. Andi writes songs one of her songs which she’s never let anyone hear except this one time, a boy she likes asks her to sing it to him. His name is Virgil, she likes him a lot but he lives in Paris and they won’t be able to see each other that much if she went back to Brooklyn. She made the song for her mother after her brother died and her mother went crazy. Since Andi and her father went to Paris, her father put her mother in a psycho ward. Andi does not want her there she thinks that her mother has made but slight progress and thinks it will only make her worst. I think this song is very good it shows how much she cares for her mother and how much she wishes to fix it all.

“If I had coal and fire

And metal fine and true

I’d make an iron band

An iron band for you

I’d pick up all the pieces

From where they fell that day

Fit them back together

And take the pain away

But I don’t have the iron

Andi don’t have the steel

To wrap around your broken heart

And teach it how to heal

Somewhere in the fire

Somewhere in the pain

I’d find the magic that I need

To make you whole again

I’d make the iron band so strong

I’d make it gleam so bright

I’d fix the things I’ve broken

I’d turn my wrongs to right

But I don’t have the iron

And I don’t have the steel

To wrap around your broken heart

Wish I could make it heal

Wish I could make it heal”

 

Reading Response 1: Revolution

Revolution is about a teenage, named Andi Alpers, who has been in a very depressing mood. She is hurt and depressed because of a big event in her life. The event that happened was her little brother died. Her father has been even more distant since that particular event, he is too busy working. Her mother has gone a little insane, and keeps painting her son over and over again. Andi does not know how to handle how her mother is acting. Andi’s grades are failing at her private school, except for her music class which she spends all her time practicing for. Music has now become her life and a good escape for her since the accident.
I found a lot of quotes in this book very interesting. One I really admired is “I want the key,” he said. “The key to the universe. To life. To the future and the past. To love and hate. Truth. God. It’s there. Inside of us. In the genome. The answer to every question. If I can just find it. That’s what I want,” he finished, softly.” I want the key.” I like this quote because it’s true everyone wants the key. I would love that key but once I had it I wouldn’t know what to do anymore. I don’t really know if once I was to obtain it if I would truly still want it. I think it would be like I want what I can’t have but then once I have it; it has no more value to me. This quote is very amusing and brings up a lot of wonder and even more questions for myself. I hope you enjoyed my summary, quote, and that you might want to read this book soon.