Get Well Soon

Get Well Soon

This book is about 16 year old Anna Bloom who had just been admitted to a mental hospital by her parents. She was depressed and stopped going to school for fear of one of her panic attacks. She also has Irritable Bowel Syndrome, which is directly related to her panic attacks. The whole book is her writing letters, which she never sends, to her best friend Tracy, telling her about everything and everyone in the hospital.

I loved this book. It was surprisingly upbeat and lighthearted. It made me laugh, which is rare. It was just an all around good book.

The only thing I didn't like was that near the very end, she randomly switched from her letters to Tracy to just plain old narration. It was a little confusing. But, in spite of that small fact, I loved it.

I give this book 4 1/2 stars. It loses half marks for me because I don't think it's a book that I'd read again. At least not anywhere in the near future. And I would only not read it again because the jokes are old now. I read them once, I remember them, that's it. End of story. Once the jokes and puns vacate my memory, I will deffinately read it again.

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Gay rights.

I am not gay. I love men and everything to do with them. But my good friend Krash's latest blog post [http://wastoidz.blogspot.com/2008/11/you-can-take-your-tolerance-and-shove.html] has me inspired.

In grade nine, I wrote a speech on gay rights. A speech I never got to read aloud. But damn, I wanted to. I wanted to share with my classmates my beliefs, my feelings. Statistics about the gay population.

"...gay teen suicide attempts are four times that of heterosexual youth."

That was copied and pasted from http://gaylife.about.com/od/gayteens/a/gaysuicide.htm
Doesn't that turn your stomach? I know it fucking rots me.

I don't really know where I stand on a lot of important issues (i.e. Abortion) I'm just a confused 15 year old girl. But I do know that this Proposition 8 bullshit and everything surrounding it rots me.
If these people want to be with someone of the opposite gender, let them! It's not hurting you. You don't have to even look at them if you don't want to. Turn your head. Stop being so goddamn selfish.

With this, I leave you. I'm too pissed off to continue.

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Spider's Song

Spider's Song

This book is about AJ, a troubled girl who lives in Yellowknife. She lives with her grandmother while her mother, Cherry, is going to school. She has a blog called The Cherry Blossom blog and it is here that she talks about her life and follows a code for her moods. More often that not she's in code yellow. There's also a code blue, green, and, the code for her cutting urges, red.

She's ashamed of the fact that she cuts herself and she's trying to stop. She only ever does it once in the book; the rest being flashbacks.

She meets a busker at the local Caribou Carnival and immediately finds out he's her father. She keeps it a secret from everyone and brings him to stay at an abandoned shack that she used to go to for when she cut herself. The whole book is her trying to get answers from her 'father' Ed.



I have to say, the book felt like a bad fanfiction to me. But, it had a good hook. Everyone who asked me what I was reading, I told them I was reading a bad book. But, I couldn't stop because I had to find out what was going to happen. I knew there was something big going to go down between her and Ed. And I knew after that something big went down, she was going to spazz and go straight to what comforted her from the start; cutting.

The best part was probably fifty pages from the end. When things actually started getting interesting. The rest of the book really wasn't that great. Even the ending wasn't that great. It was left for a sequel, definitely. To be honest, I'd probably read the sequel. I have a tendancy to read bad books. Dangerous girls by R.L Stine, anyone?

I give this book 2 1/2 stars. Deffinately not the best book I've ever read. But if there ever was a sequel (or maybe there already is one that I don't know about) I'd probably check it out of the library. Or buy it second hand like I did this one.

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Blab

Hello.

It's been a while since my last post. And I can tell you that virtually nothing of overly great importance has happened since.

Report cards were handed out. I wasn't ecstatic but it wasn't as bad as I expected it to be. I'm upset with Bio mark. I like Bio, quite a lot, actually. So, I just thought I'd be doing better. Let's keep our fingers crossed for next term.

I've had Animal Farm and A Christmas Carol passed to me for English. I haven't finished either, which is surprising because they are 98 and 76 pages each (approximately). I think, honestly, it's because I was told you have to read these books by these dates. I don't like being told what to do, especially when it comes to reading. And, weirder yet, they are two books I'm pretty positive I'd like. I had wanted to read Animal Farm even before I knew it was going to be a book we were going to be working on. I like taking my time when reading. Otherwise it takes the fun out of it. I think that's why I haven't joined a book club.

On the topic of books, I'm finally coming to the end of Spider's Song, so stay tuned for my review on that. I stopped reading for a couple weeks because there was a not so interesting part. It always happens to me. I start a book and stop mid-way because there's a part that doesn't hold my interest. I don't think the review will be anything great, guys. Unless the ending is amazing.

Tomorrow, 6:25 pm, I will be sitting in a movie theatre with popcorn in hand, settling down to watch Twilight. I have to say, friends, I am not very excited. At all. It honestly looks like crap. But, when I get home, I'll probably post a little blurb telling you what I thought. I'm really really hoping it exceeds my expectations. Twilight was my favorite book of the four and I will not be all too happy if it is ruined. Because, well, I like the book but, it is quite overrated. Just like Harry Potter. I know, everyone loves, HP! Well, I don't; not really. I think it's overrated. Everyone's too obsessed with it. But, even though I do quite enjoy the books, Twilight is just as overrated as Harry Potter.

I will shut up now. Leave the rest of the blogging for another day.
As I promised, I will be back for a Twilight and Spider's Song review!

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