I know I haven't made a recent post in awhile. I just moved into a new place so everything has been a little crazy. Alright here we go into Chapter 3.
Already I found something. The second and third sentence. "It was the light. It was still the gray-green light of a cloudy day in the forest, but it was clearer somehow." How can a day be cloudy yet clear? It's either one or the other, or partially cloudy would be a better description.
Again with hating snow. I understand why she hates snow. The state I live in basically shut down because of snow not too long ago. It's not the snow we're afraid of it's ice. So I understand why she hates the ice part of it.
She was excited to go back to school so she could see Edward. However she said that the idea was very very stupid. Finally.
Bella seems to be warming up to her father in a way. He put chains on her truck so she could drive across the ice without difficulty to school.
When Bella has her episode in the parking lot nothing really to pick at. Everything seems to be ok so far.
For the next page and a half Bella and Edward argue about if he was next to her or not before she almost got hit. Personally she is still very dismal and always sad, and it wouldn't hurt my feelings if she got hit and died.
Bella is about to be sent to the hospital and then her dad shows up. Bella says that makes matters worse. If I was in an accident I would want a family member to be there. Even if I wasn't hurt, it'd help to have support around me.
Bella is really starting to sound like a 3 year old. She is complaining about everything. Why doesn't she just chill and let the doctors make sure everything's okay? Everything will be over soon.
Nothing really interesting after the episode in the parking lot. She goes to the doctors and they say she ok. You do get to meet Edward's father and that's about it.
This chapter was a snooze fest. I about fell asleep. I'll try to get through chapter 4. Maybe Bella gets in a better mood. Again, sorry for not posting in awhile.
Thanks!
CJ
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Friday, December 31, 2010
Chapter 2 Open Book
When my sister told me that this chapter had the name open book I about laughed. Obviously her readers were about to quit reading it at this point. I don't blame them.
CHAPTER 2
The beginning wasn't bad until she said her day was horrible because Edward wasn't there. Just to recap, Edward does not seem to like Bella at all. So, why would you want someone who does not like you to be around? It would make my day if he didn't show up!
What is up with this author's grammar? She starts 3 sentences within the same page with the same conjunction. The grammar is killing the reader (my sis) and the blogger (me).
Bella reminds me of a stalker I once knew. She's always looking out for Edward. A friend of mine, we'll call her Susie ( not her real name), she planned her lunch schedule at school so she could always run into a guy she liked. Susie is not like that anymore, but Bella seems to stay that way.
Another error has been found. "...and wrote my mom more bogusly cheerful e-mail." Either she meant one more or she forgot to put a "s" on the end of e-mail. It doesn't sound right at all.
Where I live it doesn't snow often. When it does everybody gets excited, even thought we don't know how to drive in it. Bella however thinks that snow is "Ew". I understand if it's a blizzard and you can't get anywhere. That would get annoying. Snow is fun to me. Just my personal opinion.
Bella sees Edward after some time of him being away. She still infatuated with Edward for some unknown reason, although he appears to still not like her. This girl needs to find another guy quickly.
When Edward sits next to Bella in Biology for the 2nd time he says "hello" in a musical voice. This is NOT High School Musical, last time I checked.
Bella describes Edward's eyes as "careful". That doesn't make any sense. He's acting like she's poisonous or something.
Now Edward has a musical voice and enchanting laugh. Again this is not High School Musical. It'd be so funny if he broke out into song it'd sound something like this:
"Together together all vampires,
together together let's eat Bella!"
I mean really, let's make this story actually interesting.....
If anyone knows a person with a "beautiful crooked smile", please let me know. Every time I see someone who smiles crooked I think they have an issue with me or they're in pain.
After Bella and Edward are done with Biology she says she's trying not to look at him. She does and he has a look of frustration in his eyes. I got the funniest image of Edward having constipation problems.
This Chapter has nothing really interesting except her making small talk with Edward. I really hope the next chapter is more interesting ideas because I want to go to sleep hearing my sis read this book. If anyone has any suggestions just let me know.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
The Twilight Back Cover and First Chapter
First, the reason why I didn't do the front cover is that it's only the title of the book and the author's name so no reason really to take a look at the front cover. My sister pointed out the back cover, and I was intrigued about what was on it. I will now quote what the back cover says: "About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn't know how dominant that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him." Ok, to start off, the first sentence doesn't even sound like a complete sentence. Now maybe adding a colon where the period is would be better because she is listing. Continuing "Edward was a vampire.", is ok that is making a statement. The second part was he hungered for her blood. That makes sense as well because he is a vampire. Duh. The third part was she was, "Unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him." Why would you want to be around someone who wants to drink your blood, seriously. Second how would you love someone who wants to drink your blood? If it was me I'd be running for the hills. In slow motion. I was confused about what the word "irrevocably" meant. I had an idea of what it was but my sister and I looked it up in Webster's dictionary and it defined it as, "Incapable of being revoked or recalled." Let's take a look at the last sentence of the quoted section again. Unconditionally makes sense, but how could you love someone unconditionally who wants to EAT YOU!?!? Back to irrevocably, she is incapable of revoking her love for him. I would revoke my love for him quite quickly, again, HE WANTS TO EAT HER! Keep these thoughts in mind as we take a look at the first chapter.
CHAPTER 1
My sister is reading to me the first chapter so I can hear what it sounds like out loud. The first page I found something quite funny. The sentence states, "I was wearing my favorite shirt- sleeveless, white eyelet lace; I was wearing it as a farewell gesture." How does a shirt exactly mean a farewell gesture? Unless the shirt is waving good-bye or the shirt says "FAREWELL"printed across the front, I don't see how a shirt has a means of being a farewell gesture.
The end of the first page is one of the most depressing introduction to a book. I really wished we would've skipped that page.
Bella says that she exiled herself with great horror to a place she detests. Now, think about this. I would exile myself to Hawaii but not to a place that is gloomy and be miserable. Just a thought. I would want to be miserable in Hawaii, if I had to be miserable. Her mom even told her that she doesn't have to go to Forks.
On the second page, Bella says that her mom looks her except with short hair and laugh lines. In case no one picked this up, we don't even know what Bella looks like. AT ALL. We don't know if she fat, thin, brown hair, blonde hair, blue eye, or even what color skin she has.
When Bella and her dad are heading on the way to her dad's house he brought up finding a good car from a friend of his. He brings up a memory of him, Bella, and his friend going fishing. She says she doesn't remember because she does a good job of, "blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory." Fishing is somehow painful to Bella.
Again with the most depressing book award. When Bella arrives home she is excited about her new car. But Bella has hormonal problems because not 2 minutes later she is upstairs unpacking and, "staring dejectedly out the window and letting just a few tears escape." Please cry me a river.
First on page 10, she says everything she ISN'T but all you know is that she is ivory skinned and slender. Wow shocker. Anyways we still haven't figured out what she IS though.
Still on page 10, Bella is going to clean herself in her "communal" bathroom she shares only with her dad. Definition of communal is pertaining to a community, which is more than three people. If only her and her dad are sharing with each other how is it a "communal" bathroom? Just wondering.
Just to point out, on page 11 she starts a sentence with a conjunction. It's really annoying.
On page 23, "But I saw his posture change from the corner of my eye. He was leaning away from me, sitting on the extreme edge of his chair and averting his face like he smelled something bad." Bella sniffs he hair "inconspicuously" to see if it's her. (By the way I thought sniffing her hair "inconspicuously"was hilarious.) And it's not. If he had done that to me I would've asked, "Is there something wrong with my hygiene?"
There on page 24, Bella says her hair makes a dark curtain between her and Edward, which suggests that her hair is dark. FINALLY! We finally know what color hair she has!
Also on page 24 there is a weird phrase that states, "He didn't know me from Eve." Does anybody know what that means just from reading the book?
On page 25 this phrase is really confusing it says, "... and Edward Cullen was out of his seat. Fluidly he rose." If he's already out of his seat, how can he rise fluidly? It makes no sense whatsoever.
On page 27 she describes Edwards voice as low and attractive. How can a low voice be attractive? He's not even talking to her, he's talking to someone else.
Again on page 27 this girl Bella has issues, "But Edward Cullen's back stiffened, and he turned slowly to glare at me-his face was absurdly handsome- with piercing, hate-filled eyes." How can someone's face be handsome if they are giving you a look like, "drop dead?" If I liked a guy and he gave me that look, I would never think of him as handsome.
At the end of the chapter she is again in one of her depressing states of mind. Nothing is happy, even in the slightest bit. I'm almost tempted to say it's more depressing than The Scarlet Letter. So far nothing interesting just a girl with hormonal problems.
Coming soon, Chapter 2 of the most depressing book EVER.
-CJ
CHAPTER 1
My sister is reading to me the first chapter so I can hear what it sounds like out loud. The first page I found something quite funny. The sentence states, "I was wearing my favorite shirt- sleeveless, white eyelet lace; I was wearing it as a farewell gesture." How does a shirt exactly mean a farewell gesture? Unless the shirt is waving good-bye or the shirt says "FAREWELL"printed across the front, I don't see how a shirt has a means of being a farewell gesture.
The end of the first page is one of the most depressing introduction to a book. I really wished we would've skipped that page.
Bella says that she exiled herself with great horror to a place she detests. Now, think about this. I would exile myself to Hawaii but not to a place that is gloomy and be miserable. Just a thought. I would want to be miserable in Hawaii, if I had to be miserable. Her mom even told her that she doesn't have to go to Forks.
On the second page, Bella says that her mom looks her except with short hair and laugh lines. In case no one picked this up, we don't even know what Bella looks like. AT ALL. We don't know if she fat, thin, brown hair, blonde hair, blue eye, or even what color skin she has.
When Bella and her dad are heading on the way to her dad's house he brought up finding a good car from a friend of his. He brings up a memory of him, Bella, and his friend going fishing. She says she doesn't remember because she does a good job of, "blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory." Fishing is somehow painful to Bella.
Again with the most depressing book award. When Bella arrives home she is excited about her new car. But Bella has hormonal problems because not 2 minutes later she is upstairs unpacking and, "staring dejectedly out the window and letting just a few tears escape." Please cry me a river.
First on page 10, she says everything she ISN'T but all you know is that she is ivory skinned and slender. Wow shocker. Anyways we still haven't figured out what she IS though.
Still on page 10, Bella is going to clean herself in her "communal" bathroom she shares only with her dad. Definition of communal is pertaining to a community, which is more than three people. If only her and her dad are sharing with each other how is it a "communal" bathroom? Just wondering.
Just to point out, on page 11 she starts a sentence with a conjunction. It's really annoying.
On page 23, "But I saw his posture change from the corner of my eye. He was leaning away from me, sitting on the extreme edge of his chair and averting his face like he smelled something bad." Bella sniffs he hair "inconspicuously" to see if it's her. (By the way I thought sniffing her hair "inconspicuously"was hilarious.) And it's not. If he had done that to me I would've asked, "Is there something wrong with my hygiene?"
There on page 24, Bella says her hair makes a dark curtain between her and Edward, which suggests that her hair is dark. FINALLY! We finally know what color hair she has!
Also on page 24 there is a weird phrase that states, "He didn't know me from Eve." Does anybody know what that means just from reading the book?
On page 25 this phrase is really confusing it says, "... and Edward Cullen was out of his seat. Fluidly he rose." If he's already out of his seat, how can he rise fluidly? It makes no sense whatsoever.
On page 27 she describes Edwards voice as low and attractive. How can a low voice be attractive? He's not even talking to her, he's talking to someone else.
Again on page 27 this girl Bella has issues, "But Edward Cullen's back stiffened, and he turned slowly to glare at me-his face was absurdly handsome- with piercing, hate-filled eyes." How can someone's face be handsome if they are giving you a look like, "drop dead?" If I liked a guy and he gave me that look, I would never think of him as handsome.
At the end of the chapter she is again in one of her depressing states of mind. Nothing is happy, even in the slightest bit. I'm almost tempted to say it's more depressing than The Scarlet Letter. So far nothing interesting just a girl with hormonal problems.
Coming soon, Chapter 2 of the most depressing book EVER.
-CJ
Monday, December 27, 2010
First Post
Hi I'm CJ. This blog is all about books. Good books, bad books, and fad books. You name it and I might just read it. Here is how this is going to work;
I'm going to pick a book, and read it chapter by chapter and tell you my thoughts on it. Some chapters in certain books I read may not be adequately described in text my opinion on the matter, but I might have to tell you myself by a video. At the end of each book, I will give you my reason as to why this book is good, bad, etc.
I hope you enjoy! We will be starting Twilight tomorrow!
I'm going to pick a book, and read it chapter by chapter and tell you my thoughts on it. Some chapters in certain books I read may not be adequately described in text my opinion on the matter, but I might have to tell you myself by a video. At the end of each book, I will give you my reason as to why this book is good, bad, etc.
I hope you enjoy! We will be starting Twilight tomorrow!
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