A Million Little Pieces

I'm just about done with this book.

It's called A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. Everybody has their own opinions of James Frey, my opinion is that his book is very good. Even though he embellished many events that happened in this book, i think it's a great story.

"One of the most compelling books of the year... Incredibly bold... Somehow accomplishes what three decades' worth of cheesy public service announcements and after-school specials have failed to do: depict hard-core drug addiction as the self-inflicted apocalypse that it is."

---New York Post

I agree with this review. and if you like books about people struggling to get through a problem, you should most definitely look in to this book...

Only a few more months.

I haven't seen my dad since around July and I miss him and my brother so bad that it makes me cry to read this book. In The Truth About Forever, Macy's dad had died and she talks about her time about a year and a half after his death. If my dad died, it'd be really hard for me to even think about the word: spaghetti. My dad mad the best spaghetti in the world, i promise. If he died, I wouldn't be able to eat anything Italian without crying.

My Dad still lives in California and I only see him in the summer. I miss him so badly right now because I am reorganizing my bedroom and I found my photo album. Most of it has the last vacation i took when I lived in California. We went to Disneyland, the ocean, Lake Tahoe, and Hollywood. In the book, Macy comes across many packages that her dad was a gold member for. She stored all of the boxes in the attic.

Macy and I both do the same thing, but in different ways. I have a shelf in my bedroom of everything my dad has bought me since my 10th birthday. It includes a Digital Camera, a picture of my Nana and him, a broken locket of him and my Nana, the candle he bought for me at my Nana's funeral, and even a rock he grabbed for me from this levee near his "mobile home", he doesn't want people to call them trailers. I am holding back tears even typing this. I have never out loud said that I have missed him because i have to pretend, especially around my mom, that i could care less. Macy, in the book, did the same thing. she held it in so long that both her and her mom were overcome by it.

I relate the that book even though my daddy is still alive.

I highly suggest reading The Truth About Forever because it is so easy to relate to it.

~~Mrs. Michael Way <3

An Awakening Book

Okay, this book I'm reading is amazing but its so sad. It's called All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. It has truly awakened me to what war is really like from a soldier's point of view. If you have a weak stomach, please don't read the following excerpt.

"We see men living with their skulls blown open; we see soldiers run with their two feet cut off, they stagger on their splintered stumps into the next shell-hole; a lance-corporal crawls a mile and a half on his hands dragging his smashed knee after him; another goes to the dressing station and over his clasped hands bulge his intestines; we see men without mouths, without jaws, without faces; we find one man who has held the artery of his arm in his teeth for two hours in order not to bleed to death."

It is an incredibly sad book, but the writing is so beautiful. Here's another bit, after the writer's comrades have died.

"The days, the weeks, the years out here shall come back again, and our dead comrades shall then stand up again and march with us, our heads shall be clear, we shall have a purpose, and so we shall march, our dead comrades beside us, the years at the Front behind us--against whom, against whom?"

JUDE

A couple of weks ago i started a book called JUDE.It is a bout a kid whos dad dies because he sold drugs. After his dads death he is finally reunited with his mother who he was stolen from by his father as a baby.Jude goes to live with his mother the D.A.Then his mothers boyfriend plots to put Jude away in jail.His scheme works and Jude is sent to jail for five years for selling drugs.After Jude gets out of jail he is now twenty-two and decides to try and go to college and become a lawyer so he can make his mother proud of him.That is as far as I have gotten but so far I like the book because it tells how Jude was tricked into being sent to jail for five years all beacuse he wanted his mothers approval.

ICE: A Frozen Wasteland. A Desprate fight for life. A Mistery for the ages.

The story goes that the Apollo 19,successfully lands on the moon's south pole. Commander Gary Lucas and pilot Charlie Shepherd set out in the icy wasteland where temperature reach 334 below.They are looking for crystalline bedrock for the scientist back home, but something happens. I don't know what because I'm not that far. It is really getting good i got it from my friend and he recontaminated it.

El Libro

The book that I'm reading right now is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Here is an excerpt from part of the book that I read today that I thought was funny:

"For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of a street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway. next second his mouth opened in shock as the dummy gave a tiny nod, beckoned its jointed finger, and Tonks had seized Ginny and Mrs. Weasley by the elbows, stepped right through the glass and vanished."

The Harry Potter books have to be my favorite books because they are suspensful and very interesting. I can read one of these books much faster than other books because of the fact that on every page there is something new that sparks my brain to think that I have figured out another clue to the entire series. I give all of the Harry Potter books a 10 on a scale of 1-10!

Invisible

I just finished reading Invisible by Pete Hautman. It's a really good book and it's become one of my favoirte books!

It's about a boy named Douglas who has a model train, and he's obsessed with making a town for the train, dowstiars in his basement. He calls the town 'Madham'. He got into an acciedent with his bestfriend, Andy, and you find out something very..odd, as you keep reading. It's a really good book, and I just kept wanting to read it and not put it down.

Anyone have any sugestions for a new book? Let me know.
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