Finally.

During the course of this semester, I read 4 books. I read Its Kind of a Funny Story, Odd Thomas, Breaking Dawn, and a little bit of Eclipse. The two new ones that I read are the first two listed, and I reread the Twilight books just for fun. I choose Its Kind of a Funny Story because of Riley McComb. Last year in English she was talking about it, so I thought I’d give it a try and I loved it! It was one of the best books I’ve ever read I think. I really liked Odd Thomas too, it was awesome. And strange, and weird. I chose to reread the Twilight series because of the last movie coming out soon, and I wanted to catch up and see what all happened again. Every time I watch the movies or read the books I love the series even more. It’s pretty easy to find things that interest me to read because I love mysteries, comedies, romances, and pretty much everything. The only thing I don’t really like are the things like anime, Harry Potter wanna-be’s, and the fairy tale stuff. So finding books really isn’t a challenge for me. It was really hard for me to stick with Odd Thomas, just because I was so busy during the course of it, but I still stuck to my 100 page week quota. When I heard people saying that we had to read 100 pages a week in Etymology I was like wow, really?! But it wasn’t hard at all. It was way more enjoyable than I thought, and I’m really glad I took the class.

Last week, post 2.

Soo after making out intensely on the mountain tops of Forks, Washington, Bella is forced to pick between Jacob, the warm, sexy, yummy werewolf, and Edward, the cool, shimmery, intense, soul=mateish vampire. I wonder who she chooses. HMMMM, well don't lie people ! I know you've all either seen the movie or read the book. You'd be lieing if you said you haven't. So she chooses Edward and Jacob goes to fight the vamps. He ends up getting into a tiff with the vampire Leah, a girl werewolf, is trying to kill and he breaks the entire right side of his body. Ouch. So while he's getting medicine and his bones put back in place, and after the werewolves and vampires win the fight ofcourse, he tells Bella that he will always be waiting for her, until her heart stops beating. Her plans to become an immortal vampire are not secret to Jacob so he drops the romantic, suprising line: And Maybe Even After That. Awhhh how stinkin cute. Well I did way more blogs this year than I did last year and it was kinda fun. But Eh, ta ta for now fellow bloggers. It's been real.

Last Week, Blog 1.

Ok now i'm workin my way backwards. I read Breaking Dawn last week (by Stephanie Meyers) and this week I read Eclipse (also by Stephanie Meyers). Breaking Dawn is the last one, and Eclipse is the third one. This is the intense one where Bella is forced to choose between Edward, her soul mate, and Jacob, the better choice. COUGH COUGH. I mean I like Edward, don't get me wrong. The way he shimmers in the sun light is just magnificant. But Jacob.. who doesn't think that ripping off your clothes and turning into a werewolf is sexy ... He is to die for. But anyway, the werewolves and the vampires team up to fight the new fleet of newborns (vampires who want only distruction and blood) and before the fight Bella has to convince Jacob to stay around with her and not get involved with the fight. In order to do this, she yells: "KISS ME. Kiss me." Which he ofcourse jumps on, and i'll let ya know in the next blog how it turns out. Muahahah

Currently's. Week 2 and Week 3. 11/4/11

During week 2 I read 113 pages of Stephanie Meyer's book Breaking Dawn. That means I read a total of 1129 pages overall.
During week 3, I read 165 pages of Stephanie Meyer's Breaking Dawn. That makes a whopping 1294 pages read during this year.

3 Best Sentences:
1) "I’ve been waiting a century to marry you, Miss Swan." This sentence is just soooo romantic as said by Edward Cullen.
2) "You’re awfully small to be so hugely irritating." This sentence spoke to me because I know a lot of small people that are extremely irritating...
3) "I’m not ready for you to kill me yet, Jacob Black. You’ll have to have a little patience." This sentence is quite ironic, which is the reasoning for my picking it, because its hard to believe that anyone is really ready for someone to kill them.

Fin. Blog 2 of Week 3.

awhhhh i'm done reading the book about werewolves and vampires and half human-vampires. Sad face. Tear. Oh well, there will be more of that when the first part of Breaking Dawn comes out in just 16 days ! Whooo ! I cannot wait for this to come out. I wish these things could happen in real life too. Find a vampire, fall inlove, be able to live with him forever. I know that people do meet, fallinlove, become destined to be together, and do all the til death do us part yadee yaddee yadeee blabidy blahbidy blahh! But nothing compares to this. We will never ever meet someone and actually spend eternity with them. How sad for us. But who knows, maybe in another life :) That would be spectacular. I wonder what life will be like for our kids, and their kids and thier kids. This is what reading books like Twilight does to me ! It makes me think of all the caraaaazy possibilities inlife that we don't know about or never will know about. The things that life could actually be like are mesmerizing to me. And it makes me sad to know that I'll never find out about them. I guess i'll just have to reincarnate into a new person later on down the road and see what i'm missin :) wow. How awesome would that be ?!

que pasa blog 1 of week 3.

Soo I stayed home sick today, so while I'm here just mopin' around and hangin' out I figured i'd get a little bloggin' done. I gotta case of the runny nose, the cough, the slight headache, the swollen lymphnodes in the neck, the sore throat, and the grogginess. Yay, aren't you jealous ? If you aren't .. you should be. Ha totallly kidding. But i'm almost done reading Breaking Dawn by the ever so charming and famous Stephanie Meyers. AND THE CROWD GOES WILD. I really like this one. It might be my favorite. I watched New Moon, which is the second one, over the weekend and it was pretty good too but not as good as this one. The third one might be my favorite, but it's between the third and the fourth definately. I'm just so indecisive when it comes to these awesome books ! Breaking Dawns a pretty big book, but i'm gonna finish reading it by this friday so I can start a new one for the last week of the reading assignments. That's exciting. I think i'll still read a lot actually. As long as I don't have very much homework. Well off to my next reading, buhhhhhbyee. Adios. Chao.

2nd blog for the week man. yeah buddy.

Ahh I'm so glad there's a 3 dizzzay wizzzzeeekend ! This week went by kinda slow though. Dive started this week, but I couldn't go monday because I had to work. But i've had morning practice this tuesday and this thursday (today) and its been rough. I've been so ferrrrreakin tired after wards but it's all good. And I started the workout video/program INSANITY and it is thee hardest workout I have ever or probably will ever do. I've been sore the last 3 days and walking up the school stairs is killing me. I haven't had that much time to read this week but I pushed through the min 100 pages. I'm still workin on Breaking Dawn, the fourth famous book out of the Twilight series written by stephanie meyers. I LOVE IT. And once again, I cannot wait for the movie to come out Nov. 18th. Yipppieeee ! Well toodles for now, have fun this weeekend everyone ! oh yeah...
HAPPPY HALLOWEEEENY !

Breaking wind .. HAHA

So Bella's a vampire. And she just got the car she gets to drive now. It's a freaking red Ferrari. What the heck ! Umm why don't I get a Ferrari ? I turned into a vampire because of my new found vampire husband.. Ok, not really but still.. I WANT A DANG FERRARI ! Alice just left because of the vision she had of the Volturi coming to fight over Renesme and Bella has to figure out a way to stop them. With her mind. Dun. Dun. Dun. I wish we had a special powers. All people would have a different one too, no one with the same power would exist. But I think we would definitely run out of powers for everyone. I think that if I had a choice to have a power it would be that I could fly. Or shape shift. I wouldn't want to become invisible though because I just think that it wouldn't be fun. Well, i guess you could scare people and that would be funny, but I wouldn't wanna evesdrop because if someone was talking about me, it would make me sad. Haha. I think flying would be the best. Yepp, that'd be the way to go.

Close Reading B I N G O .

Four blogs that I came across that were following the weakness chart were ...

1. "While describing his 'touchy as hell', he empathizes how emotional his parents can be. Mentioning his childhood as a 'lousy childhood.'” - Outspoken Silence
These sentences just don't make any sense.

2. "Overall, Baker wrote a very descriptive paragraph, but lacked colorful and exciting diction." - Running in Circles.
This person wrote in past tense !

3. "His diction affects the reader as a young boy who doesn't have a story to tell, and is boring and dull." - Amanda.
Amanda addresses the reader. NO NO NO.

4. "In Nicholson Baker's work The Mezzanine, he uses elegant and intricate diction to create a formal tone." - CLAY ball.
In the very first sentence, they say the word use.

I think the most well written responses come from the blog Lori.
I especially liked the sentence ... (even though it might be a run-on)
"The highly descriptive and scholarly diction, the almost philosophical and appreciative tone inserted into Nicholson Baker's connotation, and the harmonious flow ringing throughout the first page of his novel, instill dreamy, practically romantic admiration for the mezzanine Baker speaks of, as this first page is read."

Practice Diction Analysis

The low, vulgar diction and the straight-forward, denotative attitude of the narrator of “Catcher in the Rye” fosters the callous representation that the protagonist holds towards the world. The narrator is consistent with his undesired involvement between the audience and his personal life, as he makes well known that he doesn’t “feel like going into it.” His home-life and personal-life were just not mixing well so the narrator decided to leave the less gracious one behind. Using crude words such as “hell” and “damn” demonstrates his real personality as a teen and addresses the hardhearted thoughts of his mind. The nonchalant, indifferent persona that the author adapts to is demonstrated throughout the entire book, especially the first page.

Distracted. MAJOR

so I'm still currently reading breaking dawn by stephanie meyers and I can't help but let my mind wander to next months debut.. I cannot wait for the first part of the last movie to come out ! November 18th. That's less than a month. Too bad my dad won't let me go to the midnight premiere >:( i'm so mad. I've never been to a midnight premiere and I thought that this year he would let me because i'm almost 18 and a senior and highschool but NO. I don't know why he won't.. but whatever. I'm totalllly over it hahaha. Well I did go see the movie Paranormal Activity this weekend and let me tell you.. it was CRAZY. I jumped soo many times! I usually never scream and I actually let out a scream during this one. It was soo scary but it was so freaking good. I saw a preview for a movie called The Devil Inside and I really wanna go see that. It made my friend cry she got so scared ahah and just from the preview.. It was funny. Well there's my second blog for this week. Yay

Currently 10/21/11

This week I have read 101 pages in my book Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyers. This means I have read a total of 1016 pages this semester.

My three favorite posts and sentences from the Style Mapping are...

1. Contrasting the opening of The Guns of August , Tuchman portrays a sophisticated view of regality that harmoniously prescribes a session of kings.
This sentence is from the blog of The Lost Message of Words. I really liked this sentence because it is contrasting another writing and it uses sophisticate diction but i've never heard the word regality.
2. Up Your Score on the other hand, speaks with a mixture of intricate words and slang pop-culture references that are very punctuated, straightforward at times, but somewhat suggestive, and often light.
This sentence is from the blog of Comtemplations. I liked this sentence because of the diction and way that it is said and described.
3. The book Catcher in the Rye provides a excessivly low connotation with an evident harshness.
This sentence comes from That One Guy's Blog. I really liked this one because I enjoyed the book Catcher in the Rye and I agree with the statement made.

There ya have it.

Snapping Morning.

I tried to make breaking dawn something different so I came up with snapping morning. Ha look how clever I am ! Not. But ok so I just read in Stephanie Meyers's book that Jacob has a secret that he is afraid to tell Bella. But he's finally and suddenly actually okay with her being with Edward ? RANDOM. He loves playing with Renesmee though. He says he really connects with her ... whooops. Spoiler alert. The reason he connects with Renesmee so much is because he has IMPRINTED on her ! Shocker. When a werewolf imprints on someone, they have to be with them for the rest of their life in some way. They don't have a choice. It has to happen, it's destiny, it can't be changed. Bella is so mad. Her little girl is going to be attached somehow to Jacob for the rest of her half-vampire life. Jacobs happy about it, because it will allow him to keep close with Bella too, just not on a romantic level. He's totally okay with that now though because he has little baby Renesmee <3

Style Mappin, yo.

For many different types of writing, there are many different ways to describe or label the writing based upon it's language. In Lynda Barry's "Cruddy," a blunt, suggestive tone is used throughout the collection of words. Surrounded by "cruddy" this and "cruddy" that, the main character, Julie, is quite frank about her surroundings and her opinion of them. The thudding sound of "cruddy" adds to the harshness of the way this exerpt sounds as well. A passage from Leon Uris' " Mila 18" is a great demonstrator of the diction and language that the author uses during his book. Uris uses a elegant diction and a melodious language. Words such as "gentry" and "grandeur" express his panache, decorative use of words. "Late summer rain" adds the lyrical sense to his book as well. The way authors use diction and language often foster the casualty of his piece.

Quarterly.

For my reflection, I’m gonna talk mostly about my reading habits this semester. I wished I could have read mostly outside, since It’s been so nice, but I’ve mostly read in my bed at night and on my breaks at work AND in my free times during classes. The reading that I most enjoyed was probably Breaking Dawn. Mostly because I love the Twilight series and it’s a really easy book to read. Odd Thomas was kind of a hard book for me to read. It was a good book and I really liked how it was written, but it took a while for me to get through it. I’m proud of myself for keeping up with the required minimum of 100 pages a week, so overall, I’m really happy with this quarter readings. My phones usually on when I read, but i'm not really a big texter so it's not that much of a worry for me. I only text my bestfriend all the time. My main goal is that I want all of my books that I read next quarter to be from my white board in my room. I have like 40 books that I wanna read on my white board, but i'm moving kinda slow. I have a study hall and 2 art classes next quarter so I think i'll have a lot more time to read some more pages.

Breaking Dawn.. again.

Welll, Bella and Edward are gettting married, lets just call them Bellward, and the date is set for Bella to become a vampire ! ahhhh. So they get married, go on a honeymoon, and do the dirtyy, and now bella's pregnant. Her daughters name is Renesmee and she doesn't really have a special power but she can make people love her soo much and she can fully and completely love someone too. I'm excited to see Bella as a vampire in the movie and see who they pick for her daughter because you know how all the vampires are totally gorgeous. Ugh, I wish I had their eye colors. They're so freaking cool ! But anyway, Renesmee is really only half vampire and half human because bella was still human when she was conceived. Renesmee almost killed Bella too when she was giving birth to her. They had to deliver her from Bella's stomach because she was too weak to give birth to her because she was going through the vampire transformation at the same time. Whattta crazy life. Soo jellly

Breaking Dawn.

Alright so I started reading breaking dawn again by stephanie meyers. The first part of it comes out in almost a month ! November 18th to be exact, and I cannot wait. My dad said i'm not allowed to go to the midnight premiere but i'm gonna try to talk him into it. Anyway, i'm gonna reread the entire twilight series after I finish reading this one. I don't even know why I started reading the last one haha it was probably the best outta the four though. I watched the very first movie .. twilight.. before I read the books so I had no idea what to expect in the next ones. I completely fell inlove with the series though. I love Edward and Jacob's obsession with Bella, and Bella's with Edward's love and Jacob's friendship. At first I wanted Bella to pick Jacob (just cuz he was wayyyy cuter) but now i'm glad she has picked Edward. I'm really excited for the last movie to come out because the visuals are better for me after i've read the books. CANT WAIT

response post.

My response post goes out to those who have made and presented videos for our book talk project. If I was creative, skilled, and talented enough, I would have made a video.. but me and computers justs don't really get along too well. BUT I thought that the videos made were soo good. I really liked the music soundtracks being played in both videos and the transitions that were put into play were awesome too. I really believed that if I saw a preview like that on tv, I would want to go see both movies that we saw previews for.

Currently 10/11/11

THIS WEEEK - 122 PAGES
TOTAL PAAGES - 802 PAGES
FAVORITE SENTEENCES -
1. IN SPOOKY MOVIES, DO YOU RAIL AT THE BELEAGUERED CHARACTERS TO GET THE HELL OUT OF THE HAUNTED HOUSE, TO GET SMART AND LEAVE? THEY POKE INTO ROOMS WITH A HISTORY OF BLOODY MURDER, INTO ATTICS HUNG WITH COBWEBS AND SHADOWS, INTO CELLARS ACRAWL WITH COCKROACHES AND CACODEMONS, AND WHEN THEY ARE CHAPPED-STABBED-GUTTED-BEHEADED=BURNED WITH THE FLAMBOYANCE NECESSARY TO SATISFY HOLLYWOOD'S MOST PSYCHOTIC DIRECTORS, WE SHUDDER, AND THEN WE SAY, "IDIOT," FOR BY THEIR STUPIDITY THEY HAVE EARNED THEIR FATE.
OK THAT WAS KINDA LONG, BUT I REALLY LIKED THIS BECAUSE I AGREE WITH IT ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AND IT BUGS ME IN SCARY MOVIES WHEN PEOPLE ARE STUPID AND FOLLOW THE OPENING DOOR.
2. IF I HAD BEEN ABLE TO SPEAK TO HIM, I'M NOT CERTAIN WHAT I WOULD HAVE SAID. HOW'S IT HANGING?
I LIKED THIS SENTENCE BECAUSE IT SHOWS ODD'S OCCASIONAL LOSS FOR WORDS AND AWKWARDNESS.
3. AT THE START, I WARNED YOU THAT I LEAD AN UNUSUAL LIFE.
THE REASON FOR LIKING THIS SENTENCE IS BECAUSE HE ADDRESSES THE AUDIENCE, EMPHASIZING THAT HE'S STILL AWARE OF US.

Post REAd.

Odd now knows that there's gonna be something way big happening tomorrow, August 15th. Him and his three or four helpers are in an urgent situation to figure out what it is, where it's gonna happen, who its gonna involve, and when exactly it will go down. And on top of that, they have to figure out how to stop it.. I know that it sucks knowing something is gonna happen before it does. I've watched my friends fight and have something go down and nobody else knows its gonna happen but me, because only I was talking to my friend that was gonna yell at the other one or something like that. Stupid drama, I know but what can ya do?! Anyways, to try to prevent something like that takes time, hard decisions, and actuallly a lot of carefulness. I like being a mediator though, it makes me feel like I am more mature then the people fighting. Anyway, i'm gonna keep reading to see what happens !