Willow by Julia Hoban (Beginning)

   Stress gets to everyone and I understand that. Sometimes, life brings you down, even though it wasn't you to blame, and I understand that too. But is putting yourself down makes you feel good about yourself? Is cutting yourself; making yourself bleed in pain, is for your advantage?
   Willow, by Julia Hoban is about a girl name Willow Randall who kills her parents driving on a rainy day, in March. So she secretly cuts herself, to release all the pain. She's now a new girl, in a new school and also is working at a library, at a university. She just recently met Guy( the boy's name) and just confessed what happen to her parents.
   We all have those complicated moments when life turns in a different direction and it's not what it seemed to be. Sometimes, we get so stressed out or upset, we kill or even hang ourselves and sometimes, we even take it upon the people we care or love the most. Hopefully, everyone hears this when I say that you're not alone. I'll admit, I have cried days and nights, stressing over little things that are going in my life but I don't let that get to me. I never, in my life, went to the extreme like what Willow did. I just keep reminding myself that I can pass through those challenges. Life would be okay and to get rid of all those tears of depression, and make sure that in the future, i have a happy, joyful life. 'Cause I know, for sure that I don't want to be rolling my eyes out, about the past, and not moving forward.
   Hopefully, through this book, Willow would finally open her eyes and change her ways for the better. I understand that she must be destroyed inside but that was seven months ago. She needs to let go of the past and make sure her future is bright. And as the book said, "it's hard to keep a secret when it's written all over your body."

The Beginning of Prada & Prejudice by Mandy Habbard

    Prada & Prejudice by Mandy Hubbard is a book where once you start reading it, you just can't stop. To me, this book has so much character and feeling that you can actually relate to this book in so many different ways. This book really grabs you and makes sure your attention is fully on it, which doesn't happen in my life often. Anyway, for just finished reading the first 3 chapters, this book is off to a good start.
    So far, it's about a girl name Callie who convinces her mom to spend her summer in England,( and not with her dad, which she does every year) and hates it there. She misses her best friend Katie, is hated by most of the cheerleaders in her school and desperately wants a friend, specifically a girl name Mindy, who hangs around with the most popular girl in her school, Angela.
    In between chapters 2 and 3, Callie brought some Prada shoes, which she apparently "wobbles on the cobblestones, trips in her too-high heels, and conks her head" and suddenly whines up where trees are everywhere. She then stresses herself out by saying...
"This isn't fair. I didn't do anything to deserve this. Angela should be the one showcasing her survival skills. She made fun of me. Karma is supposed to catch up with things like that, not kick me down when I'm down.
Today is officially the worst day of my life. Why did I have to talk my mom into letting me go to England? She was right. I wasn't ready for a foreign country" and blah blah blah.
    Honestly, my advice for Callie is that she should relax see what her future lies 'cause stressing things out leads no one anywhere, and that's the other thing. Whenever kids, or maybe even adults, come into a dead end, why do they panic/stress out? People should know by now that the outcome is a- not very delightful or b- get killed. I may sound like I'm taking the situation as a joke but I'm really not. Instead of opening their eyes to new possibilities, they panic and do something crazy which whines them up to nowhere so take the advice. It's very useful to people these days.
     "If the shoe fits, wear it-and if you're in the mood for an awesome romance, this is definitely the shoe for you," said Lauren Myracle, New York Times bestselling author of TTYL. That's just the thing I need to hear about a book, to get me really interested it, alot. Most books don't catch my eyes really often but if this book did, imagine the possibilites so I really should get back to ready this book. So far, it's one of the best books I've read in a long time and I hope you can read it too, to feel the excitment I'm having once your shoes "wobbles" upon it.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book #5

    Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book #5 by Jeff Kinney is probably one of the most funniest books in his series. I just finished this book yesterday and to tell the truth, i really enjoy it, like when I reread The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. Everytime I found out a new book was coming out from the series, I always found a way to get the book and was ready for the comedy within the book.
    Some people might say that this book was only meant for boys and some might say it's not but I believe that this book is meant for everyone who needs a laugh or two in their life. I recommend this book to people who goes to school, almost everyday, so stressed out. This series helped me through the day & I hope it did for you too,(if you've ever read the series.)
    This book is about how Greg and Rowley not being best friends anymore because of a fight that happened over the summer, his mom going back to college & about some other things that happens during the school year that are really hilarious, but generally, they mostly talk about Rowley & Greg.
    There's one part in the book that really caught my attention.  Right before the book's about to begin, there's a picture that was really unexplainable & even my friends that even saw the picture. I was really curious to what was the history behind the picture until I almost finished the book. Greg & a few of his peers from school was having a Lock-In, which was when his school was a having a sleep over party but in my opinion, it really sounded like a boring party. Anyway, during this so called "party," they were playing this game called "Guess Who?" So the object of the game was to take a picture of a body part and let the other team guess what was the picture. Little did they know that the teachers thought that the picture was someone's posterior. It was really a picture of this kid's bended arm but I started to crack up when I read that part. It was really hilarious and I really love this series.
    I wish that the series would never end, but eventually it has to, so take a weird photo, go to a wedding or something and sit back and relax while reading one of the most funniest books you'll ever read in your entire life.
   

Possessed by Katie Cann Chapters 1-3

          Possessed by Katie Cann is the book I'm currently reading & to say the truth, to me, this book keeps me guessing. So far, I've leaned a few things about the main character, Rayne and right now, she's not liking anything about her hometown, which is like the same way my dad feels about his hometown too. From what I've read so far in this book, well its pretty interesting because Rayne is wanting to get away from her home in London, from her controlling boyfriend and her apartment that she currently lives in, with her mother and her little brother. It must be very weird to hear that she hates London, I don't!!!!!!! But it's the way the story must go so I'm okay with that fact. And as I must repeat, my dad also feels the same way and if he was reading this book, he would really connent to the book.
          My dad was born & raised in the worst part in the Bronx and his dad used to abuse him all the time. His mother left the picture when he was very young so him and his three sisters never really respected her. They used to get bullied all the time for the way they dressed and the way they used to act so yea. It's kind of obvious, into why he hated the Bronx so much and I really do honor him for all the great achievements he has accomplished & for the fact that he doesn't treat me the way that his father did to him. "Benrock," the nickname that stuck with him when people found out, at his work, about his past. A powerful, achieving, street fighting man that I respect with all my heart and that would never change.
          Other from my dad & Rayne, I know there are alot of other people who feel the same way so I would just like to say that if you're really wanting to go away because you hate the way you live at home, or in your hometown, just go, escape to that new place. I might even go to a high school in Staten Island and maybe, just maybe, might not ever return back to Brookyln, ever. But moving on with your life is one of the best decisions you can chose, it's the chance I'm taking, to change my life so, I hope you can open your eyes and experience all the good opportunities in this world, just like me.      

Accidental Love by Gary Soto

    Well I just finished the book Accidental Love by Gary Soto and I'll have to say that this is a book that really got me begging to read on. It was about how the main chararcter, Marisa, falls in love with a guy that she should have never meet. It all starts when Marisa's about to hit her best friend's ex. Somehow she picked up the wrong phone and that leds into the guy Rene that she falls head over heels for. Thier relationship from there goes up and down with situations that Rene goes through everyday; everyday life for him before he met Marisa.
    Most of all, I really liked this book because of the fact that the author took an relationship that barely happens to teenagers and interprets it into a hilarious, some what scarey book. The author gives so much life into the book that for me, makes the reader addicted to this book and until the end, you never know what scene you'll wined up to.
     Most of you must of read the first sentence in the second paragraph and must of thought it to yourself, well how come a book with so much to deal with love, can be described as a some what scarey book? Well a) it's possible in so many ways if you have experienced it and b) I was put in that scarey situation myself. So what is this scarey situation you must ask so I respond, in one part of the book, Rene was beat up Marisa"s best friend's ex because of what Marisa had done to him in the beginning so of course, she found out and there was a fight. If you know me as well as you do, you must know that yes, I was in that situation but I'm not getting into more detail 'cause it's kind of obivious where I'm going to whine up, but if you want some advice, never, ever ever underestimate your opponent.
    As much as I want to give away the ending, I can't because its wrong but I'll give you a hint, it was very romantic and thought for him to do. Anyway, I recommend this book to readers who want to read about unexpected love and to readers who loves a happy ending and I hope if you read this book, that you'll love it the way I did. 
      
      

The Phatom Tollbooth Chapter 5: Short Shrift

    Chapter 5 in the book, The Phantom Tollbooth, was the most funniest part in the book that I've read. It made me smile from cheek to cheek and I hope that most people, who also read this book had the same feeling I did.
    The chapter was mostly about what happened after the Humbug and the Spelling Bee destroying the stalls in the Word Market and the police force came to clear things up. Officer Shrift, the shortest policemen Milo had ever seen, came into the picture and considered that Milo was gulity. Somehow the situation whines up on July 27(the officer's birthday) and as soon as he can, he sentenced Milo and Tock a short sentence and a additional penatly of six million years in prison. He also took them down to the dungeon with the Which. So now, at this very moment, you wonder, but only a judge can sentence you. Well that is true but there's just two promblems. a) He's a judge & b) he's also a jailer. 
    The way the author, Norton Juster, wrote this chapter with so much humor and imagination, just made me laugh my butt off. It was probably one of my favorite chapters in the book and I hope that I remembered  all the good/humor/imagination parts so that I can share them with you. So anyway, I really enjoyed the way he wrote the chapter and as they always say, "humor and imagination is what makes the world go 'round."