Post #7

Last week I picked up New Moon by Stephanie Meyer again. There were some major events that occurred during the last set of pages I read. While Bella was forced to celebrate her birthday at the Cullen’s house, she got injured and being around a family of vampires, it wasn’t the best situation. Luckily Edward’s “father” Carlisle is a doctor and can control his thirst for blood and gave Bella stitches. After that though, Bella and Edward started going downhill. Edward started acting really weird at school and not only that but Alice and Jasper, Edwards “siblings” had left to go to Denali, where another family of unique vampires similar to them lives. Finally one night Edward comes over and takes Bella for a walk in the woods. During their walk, he suddenly announces that they are leaving. Bella figures out that the whole family is leaving. Edward tells her that everyone has left already and he only stayed behind to say goodbye to her. But suddenly Edward ran off forever and left Bella alone in the dark woods where she fell asleep, but then woke up to someone shouting her name. Bella had forgotten about her father, Charlie, who had sent the men into the woods to look for her. Bella is now remembering Edward’s words “it’ll be like I never existed” because she doesn’t want to forget him, but he even took the pictures she had of him out of her scrapbook.
This book is getting better and better all the time, and it was hard to put it down each time I picked it up. There is something about the way Stephanie Meyer writes, but it really grabs you and makes it hard to stop!

Post #6

Since last week’s post I read another book from The Clique series by Lisi Harrison. It was another book from the summer collection, but this time it was about Dylan’s summer. Dylan’s mom is a famous talk show host and for the summer they went to Hawaii so she could cover a huge tennis tournament. While Dylan is there, she meets a guy who she really likes, but he only likes tennis players. Dylan has some major self-esteem issues and thinks she is really fat. Another person she meets there is a tennis superstar, Svetlana. She was amazed to see her because Svetlana has really bad anger management and had just finished some treatment for it. While she is there, Dylan enlists Svetlana to teach her how to play tennis. They start to learn a lot about each other and for a short time they become friends. Dylan even gets her curly hair super straightened so it looks just like Svetlana’s. Although later on Svetlana found out that Dylan was just using her to get the tennis skills she needed to impress this guy. Apparently Svetlana liked him too, because they got in a huge fight about it, which I thought was incredibly stupid. In the end, Svetlana and Dylan didn’t end on a good note because Svetlana made Dylan sign a contract saying she wouldn’t talk about anything personal Svetlana said over the summer. Overall I thought this book was better than most of the books, but I am interested in tennis. I enjoyed when they mentioned the actual tennis stars that are famous today, because I knew who they were talking about.

Post #5

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This week I read a long blog post by the Jonas Brothers. It was recapping their past week, which was spent in Europe promoting their new album. They really emphasized in this post how much the fans support and encourage them. At their first stop in Milan, Italy they said there were 20,000 people waiting for them and other people lining the streets. They said they weren’t expecting that big of a response, which makes it even more crazy! The insanity didn’t stop there, though. In Madrid, Spain, they sang in a major shopping area because their concert there this summer had been canceled. They said the crowd was huge and it sounds really crazy because it said they had to shut it down twice to call in more security and then they ended up having to leave because of how crazy it got. As much as I am happy for them that they have international support, it is kind of sad that they couldn’t even stay because the crowd was so overwhelming. That reminded me of when their new album “A Little Bit Longer” came out this summer and when they were in New York to buy it at midnight, times square shut down and they could only go in, buy the CD, then leave because the crowd was actually dangerous. Through the rest of the Jonas Brothers’ trip to Europe they went to Germany, London and Paris and they said that there the fans followed them everywhere and were waiting outside every TV show and radio station. At the end of their blog post they say, “To all the fans…Thanks for being so amazing. To our fans in the US that have been there from the beginning. To the fans in Europe that encouraged us this week. To the fans we still need to meet…WE LOVE YOU.” I loved reading this part because they seem like very sweet guys and they love their fans so much and try their hardest to meet as many fans as possible. Hopefully I’ll get the chance to meet them someday!

Post #4

The past week I read a book called The Clique Summer Collection: Kristen by Lisi Harrison. It was a short book and easy to read, but it is part of a series that I really enjoy reading. Kristen is one of the girls in the pretty committee, which is the name of their clique. During the summer each girl had different adventures, so there is a book for each of them and this book was all about Kristen’s summer. For Kristen, she doesn’t get to go somewhere extravagant like Massie, Alicia, Dylan, and Claire. She is stuck home in Westchester. Kristen gets a job tutoring a ten year old girl named Ripple, who has an older brother, Dune, whom Kristen really likes. While Ripple is using Kristen to get to her friend Massie, who is the alpha of the clique and extremely popular, Kristen is using Ripple to get to Dune. But one major thing gets in the way of Kristen and Dune. Skye. She is a year older than Kristen and is just like Massie – everyone wants to be around her. Kristen has to come up with a plan, which involves replacing the country club’s pool water with jello and having to keep it cool on a hot summer night. Of course, in the end everything worked out ok, and Kristen and Dune got together, but right before Dune announced to her he was moving again. I really liked the book, but I wish it was longer. They cram so much into 100-150 pages and I wish there was more about her summer than just that.