Beautiful Creatures

            This week I read the fiction book Beautiful Creatures written by Garcia Stohl. The book is about a girl named Lena Duchannes who is different from everyone. She struggles to hide her given powers from the outside world and fix a curse. After moving to the small town of Gaitlan, Ethan Wate comes into her life, being first introduced into the world of magic and curses. This book was really good, I first saw the movie, and after reading the book I still think that they are both great, and there are not tons of huge differences between them, other than some details. The author writes it in a way where you get to know the characters in really great detail. Also I think that the plot of the book is a really cool idea. Overall I think that this book was really good and would be great for people who enjoy the mystery fictional type books.
            As for a genre or type of book for book groups I think that it would be interesting to do a non-fiction book because I have not done one, and I think that the discussions would be so much different than fiction books. I think also doing a mystery would be interesting.

Poetry blog

The one that smiles back

Blank faces
staring at traffic lights

Feet shuffle on
the corners of streets

Too many faces
with unspoken stories

This poem is for
the one that smiles back

Speak

       This week I finally read Speak written by Laurie Halse Anderson. This book is about a girl who gets socially rejected after calling the cops at a party, however she would not tell any one why. She tries to go back to school and go back to her normal life where she can focus on art, but her friend keeps pushing her to do things to become popular. Eventually her secret comes out. I thought that this book was pretty good, I did not know how I was going to feel about it originally but as I read more I started to like it more. The type of books that I like are mostly fiction and some non fiction type books.

Counting by 7s

This week I read Counting by 7s written by Holly Goldberg Sloan. This book is about a girl named Willow. Willow is a girl who is almost in her own world, but is a complete genius. She has a close bond with really only her adoptive parents. After a sudden tragedy, her entire life is changed and a new girl named Mai comes into her life. This book was really good. I really liked it and I thought that the plot of the book was really great. The characters are explained and brought into the book really well. Overall I thought that the book was really good and I think that it is the type of book that everyone should read no matter what genre or type of book they enjoy reading.

Son by Lois Lowry

This week I read the fiction book Son written by Lois Lowry. After a girl named Claire washes ashore without the familiar feeling of her child in her stomach, she sets on a quest to find her child. I really liked this book, I thought it had a lot of details included that not all books have which I thought was really cool. I would recommend this book to everyone in the class, but especially Sofie. I think that she would enjoy this book because after reading some of her blogs she seems to like books like this. Overall I think this was a really good book that I think anyone should read.