Pretty Little Liars

  All Stories pretty much have a conflict in them.  Without conflicts books would be boring.  In the book Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard there is more than just one conflict there are many.  There is a girl that vanished she has not been seen in 3 years and everyone thinks she is dead but maybe she isn't and is just playing a mean trick on her friends and family.  This one problem of a girl dieing has turned into more problems with people getting black mailed and innocent people dieing.  How did this all happen?  No one knows except for the one that is dead.  
    Imagine being at a funeral of your closest friends that knew all your secrets and than  you get a text from the dead girls phone.  How do you react to something as freaky as that and the message says: "Don't worry your secrets are safe with me in the grave as long as you listen to what ever I say"
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Every time you get a text you have to do something and if you don't every one will know your secret and some can even get hurt from a little text like that.  
  If I was that person getting messages i would be freaked out knowing that if that person has done something to my friends they can easily do something to me.
  Have you ever gotten a message from a blocked number saying that they are watching you but it just ends up being a friend.  Well imagine it wasn't your friend and it was actually a really person that was trying to hurt you.  I would be terrified.  So now imagine how the girls in the book feel.
 

The Help

  This book is wonderfully enjoyable.  Have you ever needed to write some specific topic for class and you had a totally different idea, so you decided to do what the teacher wanted and what you wanted.  Well that is sort of what happens in The Help.  There is a white women in the book and her name is Skeeter.  She has to write something in  the news paper and the topic is how to clean things.  The bad part is that she has no idea how to clean anything because ever since she was born there was help (Also known as a maid).  So she ends up going to one of the maids to ask her questions about how to clean.  As she's been doing this for weeks now she comes up with a better idea.  That idea was to write a book about the help and how there life is like.
  Many times she was told that it would be a stupid idea writing about the help.  Something that was mentioned a lot was "Who would read a book that has to do with the help".  Although Skeeter was let down a lot of times she still went on in writing the book.  I'm guessing that the whole point of that part of the book was that you shouldn't give up no matter what people say.
  With that I am going to say that I agree because if you really love doing something in life and people say you shouldn't do it.  Well sadly some people listen and stop doing what they love and then they might regret it.  Not so long ago my friend was one of those people that gave up her dream of becoming a singer because she was told she was not good enough.  She loved to sing, she would pretty much sing every were we went.  Also one of my other friend loves to draw she was auditioning for a school with a art program but she was once again that she was not good enough.  Guess what she didn't give up she kept trying and trying until she was the best she can be.
  So remember there is no reason to give up because its not worth it! 

The Help

    The Help by Kathryn Stockett is a wonderful novel that is written in the early to late 1900's.  This book is written as if by a person that was a maid so back than it was people with dark colored skin.  In the book it talks about how the blacks and whites live in different neighbor hoods just because of there skin color.  You might think its racist but its true back than these people didn't get along so well.  They would get along well so long as they were the same skin color.  There are things that really bothered me in that time period one thing was how the people treated each other, they really had no respect for you if you had darker skin than they had what also bothered me is that some people were rich and had plenty of money but they would only pay the help up to two dollars a day that is just so sad.  Now there is this big question wondering around in my head and that is why did people treat each other like this?

  Back than I realized the help (the people that help keep the house clean and take care of children) was treated terribly and no one really cared.  For example in the book the people that have the big houses spread a rumor about how one of the help stole something from them, they did that so when they fire that person they would not be able to get any other job.  Well why would they do that you ask?  well they did that because some of these people were really rude and had nothing better to do with there life.  Well that is just my opinion I also think that every person should be treated with respect no matter what shape, size, or color of skin.

  Overall i am really enjoying this book.  It really sucks you in.  One you have started it you really can't stop reading it.  What really worries me is that although most of this nonsense has stopped there are still people out there that have problems with people's color of skin and how they look.  I really think that that should stop because I say that treat people the way you want to be treated.  I say that because if you are nice to people they will be nice to you, but if you are mean to people there is a big chance they will be mean to you!    

Inkheart

  So far in the book Inkheart by Cornelia Funke the main character and her father Mo set out to her aunts house because something bad has happened.  A stranger to Meggie but not Mo has come to there house with bad news that a bad guy is coming to look for something that Mo has.  A book.  It is no normal book in fact it is a magical book.  Meggie and Mo have gone away from the house because Mo knew the first place the bad guy would be looking is there house.
  Right now Mo is keeping lots of secrets to himself and not telling Meggie what they are although she really wants to know.  All Meggie knows is that there is a book involved and someone wants it really bad.  Meggie also knows that she is going to a place she has never been in.  Over her life time her and her father had gone to many family members but never have they gone to one of her aunts.  Meggie is scared and doesn't know what the aunt is going to be like for now she is just imagining the bad and hoping for the good.  
  In her aunts house there are lots of books every were around the house although there is a pretty big room used as a library.  Meggie has never seen so much books at once in her whole entire life and she can't wait to read them all, if she has time before they have to go back home again.  Right in the middle of the library was a huge book that was probably the biggest in the whole library Meggie was most interested in that one she couldn't wait to get her hands on it.  I stopped at that part and can't wait to see what happens next!

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  Coming towards the end of the book I realized it just gets better and better.  Harry has now joined the Quidditch team for flying a broom as if he were a pro although he was no really allowed to ride it while the teacher was gone but this was all because of a boy named Malfoy.  Harry does not trust Malfoy because he is mean, rude and a Slytherin.  Slytherin is not to be trusted because Harry has heard terrible things about it.  Now Harry has two best friends Ron and Hermione they meat on the train on there way to Hogwarts.

  For now all Harry knows is that Malfoy is his only enemy but although he knows about he who's name shall not be said Harry sees him as no threat.  SO far Harry is having a wonderful time at the school as he finds out more about his past from teachers, friends and even some he doesn't know.  Now Harry has been lucky not getting in trouble for flying the broom or sneaking out pass curfew.  Harry has no idea what is waiting for him in his future.
  Harry has come into this magical world without knowing a thing about magic and things like that but he has a talent that he doesn't realize he has.  Although he may not be as good as Hermione he is still good.  Harry has been trying his best in school because he does not want to go back to the Dursley's house.  He knows that if he goes back things will go back to normal and he would have to live a horrible life as he did before.

   

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

   The book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling is an amazing book with lots of action and adventure.  This book is about an amazing boy that finds out that he is a wizard and that you know who (Voldemort) has given him a scare on his forehead at first he thought that it was a scare from a car crash because that is what the Dusley's told him.  This is one of the best books i have ever read so far I am really loving this book so much that i can't stop reading it.  What i find interesting is that the Dusley's knew that Harry was a Wizard but they have never told him.  I think that if he did not get the letter from Hogwarts he would figure out that he was different eventually.  Sometimes during the book i wonder what if that letter never came and he was stuck with his aunt, uncle, and his cousin Dudley.
  I think that if Harry never have gotten the letter from Hogwarts explaining that he was going to the school because he was a Wizard than just maybe he would still have been stuck inside the cupboard until he was old enough to move out.  Without getting the letter Harry would be living a sad life just like he did before the letter.
  I also think that the letter he got changed his whole entire life.  After he received the letter Dudley stopped teasing him and he was moved to the room up stairs.  He was also treated better from every one that knew.  At first I had no idea why Mr.Dusley didn't want to give him the letter but after reading a little more of the book i realized that maybe he didn't want Harry to know because they would have to act nice to him because he had magic powers and could hurt them.  I really am enjoying the book and if you haven't read it you really should! 

World on Fire

  To me there is something in this song that makes me feel that I really do want to do something about the world and the people on it.  What really caught my attention is that the music videos that people make cost over 100 million dollars, I really think that if all that money went to a place that really needed it than the world would be a better place for all of us.  When i first read the lyrics to this song i was thinking of 9/11 because it said that darkness was falling around them and how airplanes came crashing down.  After watching the music video I noticed that Sarah Mclachan was thinking something else.  She was talking about the people in Africa and how they need a lot of help.  In the video they were showing kids from Africa and how they sleep on the streets and don't have enough money to go to school or some even struggle with getting water.  I think if we donated the money that people get from filming videos or even just making a t.v. show because the people that make these videos probably all ready have a lot of money that they don't use and if they don't use it than why not give it to the people that really need it.  I thought that the video was really interesting because in between some of the stages they filmed they had the amount of money that the regular videos cost and what they could do with that money.

  To me this video was very inspiring and i also think that if more and more people watch this video they will actually do something for the people that right now are in poverty.  Although this video was only about the people in Africa that doesn't mean that, that is the only place with people that are in poverty.  That is not true because people all over the world are having the same issues as  people in Africa.  You don't have to start big even donating some clothing that you don't wear or is to small on you can make a big difference.  Every year I donate some of my clothes to people that actually need it.  So next time if you have some nice clothes that you don't wear any more than instead of throwing them out donate them and you will help a person in need.

MockingJay

  MockingJay by Suzanne Collins is a "Violent, jarring, speed-rap of a novel that generates nearly constant suspense... I couldn't stop reading it" is a quote given by Stephan King.  As many he thinks that the the Hunger Games series is one of the best.  Although i have not finished the third book yet i loved the other books.  In the book MockingJay (The third book) there is a lot of things that are going on that make you want to think.  One thing that I kept thinking in my mind was that does Katniss really love Peta or Gale.   This question has been wondering around in my brain from the begging of the first book.  In this book i love how Katniss cares so much about both Gale and Peta and how all she wants to do is save everyone but she thinks all she is doing is making everything worst.  In this book all i really think about is how Katniss Is stuck in a love triangle.  

  Katniss is stuck because Gale who she knew all her life kissed her out of nowhere and Peta the one that loves her but she has no idea if she loves him back.  She has to marry Peta so she started to think about her mixed up feelings about both boys and she also has to pretty much save evryone from dying.  Now she also thinks that every thing is her fault because before doing a whole act in the arena with the berries everything was normal than president Snow started to threaten Katniss's family and friends.

  Over the course of the book she makes many huge mistakes like running away from the arena when it was her second time there.  Also leaving Peta alone in the arena after promising Haymich that she will protect him from getting hurt or even from dying, she said that if she has to she will die instead of Peta.  I think although she has made a lot of bad mistakes she also made a lot of good ones in this book.