For Hayat's blog "The Lovely Bones"

I think that this could become an allstar blog, you just need to do a couple of things to improve it:
- First you have to write more details of the book and retell the story a little so that a reader that isnt familiar with the book, can get an idea of the plot and what the problems and plot is.
- I also think that you could make it much longer because all you have is the basic information and if someone who didnt know the book (like me) read it they wouldnt understand anything.  I find that blogposts are supposed to give an idea to an interested reader about a book, and it has to convince them that the book is worth reading.  So if your post was longer there would be more information to convince the reader to read the book.
- You also need to go outside the book and how it relates to the real world.  You do that a bit but its just the basics.  You need to really just put it all out there.
- Another thing you have to do is explain the effect that the book had on you, and the emotions you felt while reading it.  You also cant only write about the book, you also have to write about your opinion on the story and how the book may have changed you.
- Lastly i think that it is odd that you said that you have been thinking about the book for a long time but you didnt really explain what you were thinking about. And also write about the positive and negative about the book. 

"What I saw and how I lied" 2nd blog

*SPOILER ALERT!!!!!*
Before you read this I just want to warn you that there is a spoiler alert so dont read on if you plan on reading the book!

     I didnt think that it would be possible for me to feel any emotions towards Peter (Evies Love), after all the trouble and drama he caused, and especially after what he did to Evie, i thought that he was awful and i wanted Evie to see him the way i did and the way her parents did as well.
     What i highly doubted was that when he turned up missing i would have any sympathy.  But when i realized that although i disliked him because i knew more about him than the main character Evie had, she was in love with him.  And i wished that he could be found soon so that she didnt have to suffer anymore.  The truth is that when you dont like someone you still would feel bad if something happened to them and especially if you think about the way their loved one might feel.
     So when he turned up DEAD suspicion circled the family when they were the last ones with him.  Everyone seemed to be more carried away with whether Joe and Evies mom had committed the crime, and seemed not to care less about how much Evie had been shattered emotionally.  She felt that she knew him soo well, when all she knew were lies, and the man that she had loved she didnt know anything about.  And as if things seemed like they couldnt get anyworse Evie was devastated when she found out that her mother had actually been having an affair with Peter, when she thought that she was the only one that had a special bond with him.  It seemed like the trip was one huge mistake, everything had once seemed so picture perfect and then in a blink of a storm everything was so different.
     And this sort of thing seems to happen all the time in the real world.  When people feel like they have it all good and then in a secondnothing's good and your world id turned upside down.  And not only that but they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and if they had come and gone at different times and waitedtill later to go like the mother had told them (mothers always know best)then maybe, just maybe they wouldnt be stuck in this situation.  Nobody's hearts would be broken, no tears would be shed, no jury would be called.  It would be just like the life Evie was always used to, and when she asked for a change in her life, she probably never expected a change like this one.

"What I saw and how I lied" 1st blog

What I saw and how I lied

     Evie always wanted to be someone else, either her best friend Margie, her enemy Ruthie Kalman, or the famous Joan Crawford.  So when opportunity knocks Evie is quick to open the door.so when her step father (Joe) planned a trip to Florida to get away from work and to enjoy the rest of the summer, Evie was excited, for it had been so long since their last vacation before Joe went into the war.  During their stay Evie managed to reinvent herself into someone she knew in her heart she wasn’t but was instead someone she wanted to be.  She wanted to be the one who girls envied, and a girl that could fill out a sweater.  So when she meets a young man who seems to like her for the person she isn’t, and as time goes by the old Evie is lost and just can’t be found.  The question is will Evie take her love too far and lose her identity, or will she find herself and overcome the illegal love she has?
     The plot may seem simple at first, a girl who falls in love with an older man and forgets about herself as well as the others around her but it has a lot more meaning than that.  It’s a bit like Romeo and Juliet and the fact that Juliet’s parents don’t accept the fact that she is in love and wants to be with the love of her life Peter.  And like Juliet she ignores her parents and goes behind their backs in secrecy thinking that she knows what is right for her when she’s just a young girl who doesn’t know what she really wants and what she needs.
     Even though Evie’s decision seems stupid despite all the warnings her parents gave her to not go with Peter, she shows a lot of character development through the main symbol of the story, red lipstick.  During the beginning you hear Evie’s complaints on how she wants to wear lipstick, and how her parents believe that she is too young and undeveloped to wear it.  But toward the end she actually does wear it which shows a sign of maturity from the beginning of the book to the end of the book.  So it really signifies Evie’s character growth.

Blog Review for Wiola

     Usually when i find a genre that i really like i tend to stick to the books that fit into that genre.  so it was no wonder when i was recommended a book in the genre that i didnt really recognize, i was afraid to step out of my box.  so i decided that i wouldnt want to read it, because it would probably be boring, plus the cover looked awful.  so there i was rejecting a book based on it being unfamiliar and having a bad cover.  weeks later there i was reading the same book, which became the best book i had ever read.  the plot seemed like you already knew what would happen, but there was constantly a twist in the end making you wonder what the outcome would be in the next book.
     i like how wiola tells backround on how she ended up reading the book and what she expected and the and what really did happen in the story.  i dont really think that she really went into the book and told the reader about what was going on and how the plot was affecting the characters or even whatr was going on. maybe she could've wrote more about the story and gave us a summary instead of writing about how she got to reading it and gone inside the book instead of talking about it.  but besides that i really like how she realized that when you read books, you need to find a way to relate yourself to the character and read it with emotions and passion.


check out wiola's blog at http://shinelikemeex3.blogspot.com/
  

Sammy Keys and the cold hard cash

     wherever she is sammy keys always manages to attract trouble, just like fruits attract fruit flies.  so when she's caught in the middle of a sticky situation its a question of what she'll do next.
     although sammy keys is a mystery series you seem to notice real life issues that sammy faces, they may seem obvious but they are hidden and only when you really think about it is how you really notice it.  not only that but she is one of the few teen characters that you read about that isnt the "fake teen" that the media tries to portray.  instead of having money, fancy clothes, accesories, nice hair, and a perfect family, if you look at sammy you notice she has none of that.  she lives in her grandmothers apartment (senior highrise) which is only for the old secretly, while her mother left her for fame in hollywood, and who knows where her father could be.  she barely has enough money to buy descent shoes, let alone have lots of clothes at all, and she has a lot more to worry about than her looks.
     sammy is the kind of teen that has a very kind heart, not snobby and prissy but kind.  and although she doesnt have much, she knows that money isnt everything even if it is a neccesity.  all you needed were good friends, a great grandmother, and a smile spread across your face showing to the world what really is important.

"These boots are made for stalking" 2nd blog

     why do the good guys always have something bad happen to them?  for example claire, she lived a normal life in orlando and then was forced to move here as her fathers job moved to a new location.  now challenged to start over, she understood that things in westchester would be much more different than it was in orlando.  after a years move she finally earned her place at the top of the pyramid, well maybe not exacly on the top, there was only thing stopping her from getting that spot on the top.  and that was massie block.
     although claire struggled and changed herself to becaome someone else she learned for her mistakes and decided she would never change herself to become someone that wasnt her.  and that is not only a lesson but a life lesson, because no matter who you are never forget the real and true you.  

"These boots are made for stalking"

     This book  is one that starts with drama and ends with drama, it starts with pressure, and ends with pressure, and it starts with good and bad desicions and ends with them.  The bigest problem seems to be the one that all teens, kids, and children face in their childhood and it's the need to be or become popular.
    Many strive for the number one spot, and become the ruler of the school, with nice clothes, hair, style, and beauty.  the pressure to change yourself to become a whole other is amazing.  the neccesity to have good apperances rather than work and strive at your goals at school.  but nowadays students seem to care more at beaing at the top than they do about being at the bottom of school educational wise.
     this book is one of the few books that manages to show all of the problems that children and teens face as they go to school.  the way they care about boys and things that aren't even something you need to worry about.  we are constantly exposed to society who portrays the things that seem to be right and the things that seem to be bad.  and we dont even process things through our minds to see if they really may be true, but instead we go on ahead and do what society tells us to do.
    thne point of this book is to show what is really neccisary and what is really not, and that is what we have to take away when we read it.