Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson

I have now finished the book "Prom" and now I'm going to tell you my thoughts about it.

I think the book was very good. It was well written and it was easy to understand the story. Even though the author didn't describe the environment very well, I could still understand everything. I think it was a little bit sad that the author hadn't described the environment so much, because you could have got a better picture of Ashley's life if she had. I also think it was sad that she hadn't described what the prom looked like. I got to know the basics, that it looked nice and that it was a complete change from how their gym (where the prom was) had looked before. I wanted the author to describe more about how it looked so I really had understood that "magical change".

The book had a happy ending, and it ended the way I wanted to. The author also wrote a "what happened then?" chapter. In that chapter, the author really described how Ashley has grown through the book, like I wrote the last time. The author also wrote about the "old Ashley" and the "new Ashley", and what different decisions they would have made about the same thing. In that chapter you also got to know which decisions Ashley made, what she decided to do after she graduated. I liked that, because I always want to know what the characters are going to do when the book ends. I don't like when you don't get to know.

I would recommend the book. The language wasn't so hard, which made the story easy to understand, but it was still a little bit of a challenge. The author used a little bit harder language sometimes, with synonyms of words that I never had heard. But I could easily guess what the words meant when I had read the whole sentence.

/Heffaklumpen

Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz

Now when I'm finnished with the book I can say that the writer did a verry good job at seperating the two diferent worlds that the girls are living in. She is really describing how beautiful the girls in the Blue Bloods are and how easy and fabulous their life is. In the end the writer is really trying to keep it exciting until the verry end, which she manage to do quite well.

Overall I think the book was quite good but a bit boring. It was about almost the same thing through the whole book and it didn't happend as much as I wanted it to do. But I'm happy that I read the book and I can recomend it to others if they want an exciting book about vampires.

/Anakin

Dear John by nicholas sparks

Im gonna tell a little bit more about the three big characters in the book.

John Tyree:

John is the person who tells this story. He is 23 in the story but the story is written in the way that he looks back on the so which age he is when he tells it is hard to know. He tells his past whit words that make me understand that he diddnt have a great childhood but he dont want to complain. He talks mutch about his fater and about his problems, in a loving way. By reading I can see that John really loves his father but he wish that they had a better relationship. John, who is in the army, dosent talk so mutch about his work, he realy fokuseding on the love story insted.

Bill Tyree (Johns father):

Bill is a very speciel person. Even sans John can remember has his father been very quite and reserved. But bill has a big passion in life, coins. Bills father was a coin collector and the passion moved on to Bill. When hn was little his father wanted him to be intresstede in coins to and he was in the beginning but when coins was the only thing they talkt about John gave up. He got really mad at Bill and they nerver talkt about coins agian, they nevers spokt so mutch after that what so ever.

Savannah Lynn Curtis:

Savannah is very important for John. He speaks about her whit well chosen words and his feelings about her is very strong and confusing for him. Savannah is a 21 years old collige student who is on a break so she can build a hous for a poor family. I get the impression that savannah is a nice and polite girle whit very loving parents. She dosent drink or smok and John is very farsinerad about her.

John's and Savannahs realation grows very fast in the two weeks they are together. When John needs to go back to his service in the army thers love needs to be stronger then ever. But can a distence realationship work when the only comunications is in letters?

this book has been made to a movie which is very good :) here is the trailer

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/Princess

Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz

The writer discribes the persons really detailed. For example she is writing about a girl named Bliss. Bliss is a girl who is one of the more popular girls at the school. She is a verry beautiful girl, with long curly hair and green eyes. She is born and raised in Texas. Her mother died at birth and her father is remarried with a woman who is mother to Bliss sister. Now they're living in a luxurious apartment in Manhattan. Bliss doesn't like their home at all. She thinks they brags to much with all the fansy china and the expensive chandeliers. Bliss really misses her home in Texas even though she fits in quite well in Manhattan. Bliss is one of the few girls who doesn't really think about popularity. She came to Manhattan, she was herself and then all of a sudden she was a part of the most popular sociaty in the city.

/Anakin

Percy Jackson and the last Olympian, 4th post

I have now read the book through and I am pretty happy with the ending, though with a feeling of incompletion and sadness because the last book is finished. One thing I have thought about is a decision Percy made in the end(spoilers!).

When Kronos was defeated, the Gods wanted to thank Percy for everything he did for them and Olympus, and so they offered him immortality. They said they could make him a God, to server under his father Poseidon in Eternity. Percy declined after thinking about it, because he was in love with his friend Annabeth. If he would become immortal, he would live much longer than her, and probably fall in love with lots of others after her, only to get his heart broken again when they died. Sure it tempted him to rise above every hero before him, bask in his own glory, but on the other hand I think it would be pretty selfish to Annabeth.

I think this decision proves him strong far more than everything else he does in the fights, and it makes me think how many people who would refuse such an offer. Personally It makes me sick, thinking about living for thousands of years, but still, I'm not sure what I would have done.
/ Justin Bieber

Percy Jackson and the last Olympian, 3rd post

In this post I am going to speak about the environment and how it's described.

The most detailed descriptions in the book is about people and monsters. No wonder, because the environments is shifting too fast for the author to actually have to describe it properly. Mostly, they simply don't play such an important role for the events, rather than people and creatures. Maybe this is also because the book is last of five, and some places have already been described.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the book is more or less described from Percy's point of view, although Percy is mentioned as "Percy", and not "I" or "me". This affects the telling, and thereby the descriptions. This is a quote from the beginning:

"It was almost dark by the time we spotted our target. The Princess Andromeda glowed on the horizon - a huge cruise ship lit up yellow and white. From a distance, you'd think it was just a party ship, not the headquarters for the Titan lord. Then, as you got closer, you might notice the giant figurehead - a dark maiden in a Greek chiton, wrapped in chains with a look of horror on her face, as if she could smell the stench of all the monsters she was being forced to carry."

This tells us about a ship in a pretty typical way by Percy, with a sense of humor but still a bit scary. As I said, creatures are often described much, but not as much the look of the monster species as the feeling you get when you see them, or the mood they are in, even still often with a sense of humor.

/Justin Bieber

Percy Jackson The Last Olympian, 2nd post

In this post I am going to talk about the mood the author wants to create. As I mentioned in first post, the story consists of many fast turns and very different environments. Overall though, there are also many humoristic elements and ironic situations, which actually makes everything feels a little less scary or sad or whatever the current mood it is meant to make you feel. Maybe the haste plays its part too, in reducing the feeling. My personal opinion is that this is mostly good, because the story doesn't stuck anywhere, making sure you REALLY feel something, instead you feel sad for a short moment, then turn the page and get to know what is coming next. Maybe the author could have stopped a little more, but then it wouldn't feel like a Percy Jackson book for me, since I've read almost all of them. The way they are told makes you both exalted and disappointed somehow while you're reading them.

/Justin Bieber

Milo's Wolves- last post

I have now read the whole book. I recently found out that there is three clones of Gwendal, and Laura and Milo travels back home from France without Gwendal. Eventually Gwendal comes back to England to his family. He starts school and he is happy.

Laura gets a friend, Marie-Claire and they get really close.


One day, Milo went to Nathan Culfire's house. There he ends up in a fight with him. It didn't turn out good, Milo ends up in coma but the book ends with him waking up.


I'm now going to talk about the language in the book.


In the book there is not so many hard words. But one thing is bothering me. It's bad paragraphing in the book, I can't really understand when there is a new day or a new time of the day because the text seems to be sticking together. The author only jumps in a bit on the row. She does that even when it is a new day, and that makes me confused. This doesn't have such a big impact on the story because you still understand what's happening, but I find it tremendously disturbing. Otherwise the language is quit good in the book, not to hard and not to easy.


In the end of the story everything goes very fast. On the 15 last pages Laura gets a friend, they get really close and Milo ends up in a coma and he wakes up. It's too much happening. It felt like the author just wanted to get a classic happy ending of the story and that made the end a big disappointment. It would have been better if Laura started to know Marie-Claire earlier in the book and if Milo didn't wake up from his coma. That would make the reader reflect more about the story I think.


Now I will talk about the mood that the author wants to create.


I think the author wants to create a special mood. She wants to create excitment and mystery. She creates excitment for example; when she lets the reader know that Jean tells something to Gwendal but the reader doesn't find out what he tells until later. The author creates mystery by just calling the book Milo's Wolves. That makes you think that there is some person who has a lot of wolves. But the truth is that there isn't wolves, instead it's persons who's being called wolves. I think the author wanted to create these special moods too give the reader a impression that Gwendal is mysterious.


I like the mystery and excitment in the book because It makes me want to read more.


// Anonymous

The saddest girl in the world – Third post

I have now read to page 245 in the book "the saddest girl in the world" by Cathy Glass. When I read this week I was looking on the environment and how that is described. I think the environment is described well in the book; it's not too much and not too little.

The environment in Danna's real home is described very well, and I think it's because you shall understand how awful it is. For example, the author is describing how dirty clothes and dishes everywhere and how the floor is full of newspapers to cover the dirt and feces from the animals. The author are describing very well that the house is very dirty and not okay at all to live in. I think it's very good that the environment in Donnas "real" house is described so good, because of that I could get a picture of how awful environment she lived in and it is making the impression stronger.

The environment around Cathy, Donna's foster carer, is also described very well. Not as much as Donnas real home, but so much that you can understand how the environment around her is. The environment around Cathy is nice and comfortable and the environment in her house is described very organized. There are rules you have to follow, for example the children aren't allowed in the kitchen because it's not safe there for the foster children. During the book I got more and more impression that Cathy's home is very safe and organized.

Like I said in the beginning the environment is not described too much and not too little. I think its perfect described and if it would bee more it would be nagging and just get annoying. The author has put a perfect focus on the environment!

// Anonymous

Stormvarning - fjärde inlägget

Stormvarning

Slutet

Alex rider fick flyga till london, han skulle stoppa Herod Sayle som skulle Skicka ett virus bland alla datorer i hela världen. Alex rider to ett plan där mr grin var. alex rider smög in till planet och drog upp sitt vapen som han fick av vakterna han har slagit ner. Mr grin Såg sur ut och började genast och spring fram till honom. Men Alex rider siktade och sköt mitt framför Mr grin som Blev så arg. Alex rider sa att han skulle flyga till london. Mr grin sa inget, han börja att gå och flög dit. alex rider var rädd och var vaken hela tiden. Tills klockan var fem i tolv. Då började alex att bli stressad han hade bara fem minuter att Döda herod sayle innan han har skickat viruset som skulle sprida runt om hela världen. Som tur Hoppade alex ut ur planet. Han hade en fallskärm, och då så hann han och siktade genast och sa STOP!. så sköt Alex Rider På Herod sayles Hand så att han började att blöda. Han ringde Polisen medans han siktade på herod sayle. Han sa att han undra om att han skulle återvända till en skolpojke. ja sa chefen. Chefen gav Alex Rider Diplom och sa hoppas att vi ses igen.

Kevin andersson 7g thunmanskolan