Between a Rock and a Hard Place

I didn't finish Between a Rock and a Hard Place. I'm almost done; I did watch the movie though. Many of the events were the same. The movie was very silent because it was mainly him stuck in the crevice, thinking about freedom, and events that happened in his life. He was told multiple times in the movie that he would die alone, that stament hit him hard after Aron realized he couldn't get out. He thought back to his previous girlfriend and how she left him at a basketball game and told him he would be alone for the rest of his life.
Around day three he started losing his mind, he had a video camera and was pretending he was on a talk show, there were multiple callers (all named Aron) they would comment on Aron's situation, and there was a crowd in the background cheering and laughing at his pain. I think that he stayed really strong throughout the five days. He had a few incidents where he was pretty much insane, the talk show and he was half asleep at one point and he dreamt about getting free. A storm was passing through and it flash flooded the crevice and he got his arm free and swam to the surface. He was only dreaming and when he awoke he basically cried.
Day four was interesting; Aron finally decided he had no other options but to cut off his arm. He fashioned a tourniquet just below his elbow. He then realized that his blade just wasn’t going to cut through the bone in his arm. He managed to break his arm before cutting it. After he broke the arm I could barely watch, he stabbed into his arm and cut.
He got out of the crack and found water, it was really dirty, and he drank a lot of it. He managed to walk a long ways and there was a family walking and he yelled out and they saved him. They called someone and a helicopter came and he was saved. In the book it talks about his recovery, he got a lot of infection from the water and the wound, but he lived through all of it.
Three years after the accident Aron found his soul mate and married her they then had a son. So he wasn’t going to die alone after all. I enjoyed the movie and the book, and I will finish it.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

This story is going by so very slowly... i read whenever i can because it's so interesting though. Aron has been trapped long enough that he thinks he's going to die so he has been making a video diary in hopes that someone will find it when he is gone. He has basically given up hope in surviving and is thinking about all of the things he did wrong when he was hiking those few days before. How Kristi and Megan were sent as his guardian angels. And all of his mistakes.
He goes back into his life before his arm was gone, and talks about all of the climbing and work he has done. Right now he is climbing at Mount Holy Cross. He almost died climbing this one too. He went up to the summit, and the nest day when he was coming back down he slipped into a hole and the snow made a cracking sound and the ground started to give way. He realized that the previous day he had climbed right over that very spot and nothing had happened, but as he looked down at the damage he saw that if he hadn't jumped over onto the rocks that were next to where he was standing he would have fallen about 500 feet. His body would have been smashed against the rocks below. He then talks about how we look over the small things that we survive every day,but when it comes to the huge things we notice.

When Aron goes back to the "present" time he is still talking about the video diary and he edventually has to turn it off after explaining most of what has happened so far and how he got into that mess. He has to turn the camera off for a second or two because he starts to get choked up and he cries. He turns the camera back on and says i love you and goodbyes to his family.

I find myself feeling so sorry for him because of all the things he's been through, but then i think, he's made so many mistakes he should have learned from them by now but obviously hasn't because he's still making them. All of these incidents have only made him stronger as a person and a hiker i think.

The last time I posted on the book, The Tender Years, I had given you the full story of Victoria's life with Jenny and their love interest, Jamison Curtis. Actually in this story, there were two main plot lines going on at the same time. When Victoria wasn't worrying about Jenny, annoyed about her parents, or talking with Jamison, she was thinking about Rett Marshall. Rett was a man who never really talked much, spent his days roaming the woods, and only cared about injured animals. When the raft tipped over that night with Victoria's friends on it, he was the first to arrive to help the kids out. He stayed in that freezing water so long, but he refused to stop looking for the last boy. When He finally did find him, Rett took him to town where the doctors tried to save him, all to no avail. After the boy died, his family and the rest of the gullible members in town tried to blame Rett that he must have tipped the raft over. They even went as far as framing him for a theft crime he didn't commit. In the end however, the person who really framed him came out and announced Rett innocence at he trial, and all ended well.

I really liked this side of the plot because it gave me a break from Victoria and her problems and let me focus on another big picture at hand. I thought, along with Victoria, that Rett was simply not capable of doing the things he was accused of. He was not that type at all if you really knew who the man was. However, he was not the kind of man to stand up for himself. He just sat there at his trial and said nothing. Maybe unspoken words are sometimes the best said...

I was so glad that in the end, Rett was able to be free to roam again, helping all the animals in his path along the way. I just hope that no one will ever take advantage of Rett Marshall again. For now, I know I will follow Jannete Oke further in her series.

Perfect Match

I read Perfect Match. by Jodi Picoult.
its about a young boy whos sexually abused by a priest. What happens is that everyone falsely accuses a priest of doing it, when it was actually a visiting priest. The real molester had a bone marrow transplant from the falsely accused priests, show they shared DNA.
The mother of the boy, who's a DA, actually ended up killing the falsely accused priest. The jury couldnt reach a verdict so she wasnt charged with murder, just manslaughter, but her sentence was suspended.

Week 7: The Secret Life of Bees

When I last posted about the Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, I explained how Lily Owen's mother died. Lily, the main character, is now a 14 year old girl who lost her mother due to a tragic accident. She lives with her ever so cruel father, T-Ray, and Rosaleen, a black worker in T-Ray's orchard. As you know, the story was set in a time of racial discrimination. One day, Rosaleen comes into Lily's room and tells her to tell her father that she wouldn't be coming to the house tomorrow morning because she's going to her church to register to vote for the fourth of July. Lily, with it being her birthday tomorrow, wants to get out of the house, so she asks Rosaleen if she could accompany her. Rosaleen agrees and comes early in the morning to pick her up. They had to walk all the way to town. Because it was so hot outside, they stopped inside the church that T-Ray and Lily go to to rest. The deacon there is racist and doesn't welcome Rosaleen with much heart. They left the church after a while and finally got to Sylvan, which is the worst part of town. They walked past, or tried to anyways, a small group of men who started saying things like "Where're you going to nigger?" Lily, attempting to get Rosaleen to not turn around failed and Rosaleen couldn't help but wave the fact that she was going to get registered to vote in there faces. The men kept on throwing slanderous things and words at Rosaleen, so she spit on their shoes. The men called the police on her and she was arrested for assault, theft, and distubing the peace.

Week 7- The Tender Years

Since I have last blogged, I have finished the book, The Tender Years.I can't exactly blog about it all at once, beings that so many main things have happened in the plot. As the story goes on, Virginia wrestles with herself whether she should be the Christian and help and pray for Jenny to turn her toward her faith, or the firm friend who stands her ground and doesn't take Jenny's harsh ultimatums. As she decides which side of the fence she should be on, her family, church, and other friends are aiding her in staying on the side with God. One such friend doing this is Jamison Curtis, who is the boy Jenny is infatuated with. Even after all of the help Virginia had given Jenny, she still grew angry when Virginia so much as spoke to Jamison. She thought that Virginia shouldn't have any business with him, for she had her eyes on him from the very beginning she had started to go to church, Jamison being the only reason she went to church or Youth Group at all. After all of the flirting and extra time Jenny put into her appearance, Virginia had enought and decided that she didn't care that Jenny saw Jamison in that way first. She put her foot down, just like I hoped she would.

This story to me was ultimately very entertaining. I loved the spin to the melodramatics of today's teens. I liked how the time was set back into the approximate 20's or so, making the experiences they took part in much different, like dating, or courting, for example. Everything had to be approved by parents and there was only certain ways it could be deemed appropriate. In the topic of dating, I thoughbt it was funny to see Virginia's changing feelings toward Jamison and how she thought she was wrong for having the feelings. She almost seemed confused, making it all the more funny. Another thing-slightly off topic- I really liked was how the Simpson family always made sure that everyone was always included and felt like they were needed and were important as the next kid. The way Virginia developed as a person to actually see that they cared just as much about her as Clara was very interesting, for I knew the family did all along. There are many more details of this book, but I will be sure to touch on them in the upcoming blog. Stay tuned!

The story starts at an outdoor wedding. Orrin is going to be marrying Mary Tripp. While the wedding is going on Higginses walks up the road towards the wedding with a gun in hand. Orrin does nothing about it because he is caring more about marring the beautiful young lady in front of him. One of Orrin’s brothers meets Higginses on the road and tells him to stop but Higginses doesn’t stop. Orrin pulls his gun and tells him to stop but he didn’t so Orrin finally shot him. People started screaming and running for their lives. When Tye go home his mom asked him what had happened. Tye told her and she said that he should take the old hoarse and head west. He left with specific instructions to find a place to settle down and send for the rest of the family. On the way he spots a cattle drive and he approaches them and asks if they need any more ranch hands. The ranch hand in charge said yes and one of the other ranch hands thought that he was going to shot Tye but Orrin showed up behind Tye and told the hand to try it. On the drive the other ranch hands get to know Tye and Orrin and began to like them for who they are. On one part of the trail some men road up to Tye and said we are going to be splitting your heard. Tye pulled his gun told them his name and they went around and left them alone for the rest of the day. The foramen asked Tye what went on and Tye said they were going to split the heard but I told them my name and they left. After that the foramen had a lot of respect for Tye and his brother. They would save them a lot of trouble. That’s all that I have read so far and from what I have read this is a very good book. I would recommend it for anybody that likes to read.

Week 7

I am still reading Tangerine by Edward Bloor. At Paul's school, it was raining normally. Suddenly a big sinkhole appeared under most of the school. Paul now gets to go to go to Tangerine Middle school. He is really happy because he has a chance of being on the soccor team. He finds out that the team is made up of boys and girls and that the school is filled with rough people. He is really happy in the end, though, when he becomes the backup goalie. The team Paul is now on wins all of it's games and is a really good team. He is a little surprised though, that his parents never come to his soccor games. They always go to his brother's football games.

I think this story is a pretty good story. I was expecting Paul to be the main goalie though, instead of the backup when he moved. I also was expecting Tangerine Middle School to be a better school, not a trashier school. I wonder how jelouse Paul is that his parents don't support him as much as his brother. I think that he is just happy to have friends for once and to be on a soccor team. I think Paul actually likes the trashier school than his old one. He is kind of accepted with the soccor people and that is all that Paul wanted.

Always Watching

   I read a new book called Always Watching by Brandylin and Amberley Collins. This book was about a girl whose mother was a famous singer, and they were always on the road. One night at a concert the main character, Shaley, is backstage with her mom’s hairdresser. They are talking and having a good time when he leaves to go get something. Shaley ends up waiting for him to come back for an hour so she decides to go find him. When she walks into one of the offices she finds him dead on the floor with a bullet hole in his eye. Everyone gets questioned about it and Shaley has to go pick up her friend Brittany from the airport. They talk about what happened and they go stay in the hotel.

   The next day they go shopping and the paparazzi finds them and they have to leave. Someone slips a picture into Shaley’s bag and it scares her. The next day, Brittany’s mom makes her come home so Shaley is alone with the band. She goes to bed and wakes up to hear gunshots. She runs out in the hallway and finds her bodyguard dead. She suspects that her other bodyguard is the one doing the killing so she runs when she hears him coming. He tries to call to her to get her to stop but she just keeps running down the stairs. When she gets to one of the lower levels, her bus driver shows up in an elevator and tells her to come with him. They go down into the basement and he pulls a gun on her. She realizes with horror that he’s the killer and tries to escape. Her bodyguard is on the other side of the door and she kicks her bus driver, barely making it out on time.

   The story ends with the bus driver being arrested and her mother decides to devote more time to her and not to her performances.

I have started reading The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan who won the Mark Twain award for two of his Percy Jackson and the Olympians books, along with other awards for some other series he has. I was so excited to get this book because Riordan is my favorite author and I adore his Percy Jackson story. I got this book only last night but I’m already on page 447 (and reading while I type this, only 66 more pages to go!)
To completely understand all that’s happening in the book I think you’d have to read the six books that lead up to it but I’ll try my best to explain. Percy Jackson has been sent to the Roman equivalent of Camp Half-Blood, by Juno (Hera). He befriends two kids, Hazel and Frank, who both seem to be outcasts but have dark secrets and big destinies lying in wait for them. After a successful war game a quest is called and the three friends are sent to Alaska, the land beyond the power of the gods. There they have to defeat an evil giant who cannot be killed and free Death.
Like all of the previous Percy Jackson books, The Son of Neptune is filled with the same addicting mix of humor and action. I found myself unable to separate my mind from the book, which hopefully my teachers didn’t notice too much. I can’t wait to finish this so that I can return my attention to my book. Then again once I’m done with it I’ll be sad because the Mark of Athena doesn’t come out until the fall, which means I’ll have to wait the rest of the school year and the summer to continue the adventure. I strongly recommend reading this series, especially if you find mythology difficult. As unlikely as it seems it really helps you remember things about the gods and other mythical creatures. It helped me remember some things for my history test on Rome. That’s more then three hundred words so I’m going back to my story now.

week 7

Tyler has to bring Bethany a get well cake for “hurting” her foot. When he gets to her house, they started off with just talking, and then they started feeding each other cake, finally when Bethany had to go upstairs, Tyler gratefully carried her up the stairs. This reminds me of the relationship between me and my best friend. Back in 7th grade he used to annoy the heck out of me, but as the year went on I started getting more used to him…even though I didn’t really have a choice since he was in almost every class I was in. Then at the beginning of 8th grade we were good acquaintances, as the year went on though we started to become friends. I even asked him to dance with me at a dance and he did. In the summer of 8th grade we were both in the same swimming class, we started to do things together, in the same summer he asked me to time one of his Marlin meets (swim meets), which is where I met his parents, in 9th grade I asked him to snoball, I was afraid of what his answer would be because I knew that he didn’t like dancing but surprisingly he said yes. Towards the end of 9th grade we were like best friends, we could trust each other with anything, now that 10th grade has started, he always asks me to come to his house after school, I think I go to his house at least twice a week and now he wants me to become student manager for the swim team, I don’t know if I’m going to or not though since I’ll be gone enough just with band alone, and I kind of want to try the pit orchestra, but I have a while to decide yet.

I finished my book the yesterday. The book that I was reading had a good ending so that is good. In the book I read “On the far side of the Mountain” it was interesting and I noticed a lot of things. I noticed that Sam had to go a long way to find his sister Alice. I also noticed that he showed a lot of emotion in the end of the book either it was sadness, worriedness, or happiness he went through some rough times in this book. I noticed that he began to forget about Frightful his bird that was taken from him. I noticed that Sam had a lot of things on his mind which made him nervous at some points in the story. I noticed that Alice was playing a game with Sam and did not run away she just made it seem like did. I also noticed that the guy that took Frightful wasn’t really a conservation officer, but a man just trying to sell her to make some money.
This book reminded me of a lot things. Ii reminded me of one time when my sister got lost in the Wal-Mart and we didn’t know where she was and of how worried I was about her. It also reminds me of going camping and it also reminds me of going hiking. This story also reminds me of going hunting and fishing. This story reminds me of building things with less resources then a person usually would use to build a certain item.
I had felt a lot of different things towards the end of this book. Things that I felt were the worriedness that Sam felt when he was looking for Alice. I also felt the sadness of losing Frightful and also the sadness of the thought that he might not be able to live without her. I felt the nervousness that Sam felt when out that the people that took Frightful from him were close by where Alice was.
I really have only one question for this book that I a reading and the question I have is from the end of the book and when Sam says to his friend Bando “I want to become a falconer to train and raise falcons.” Will Sam become a falconer? (385 words)

Tweak- Nic Sheff

I finished reading Lucky, and over the weekend I read Tweak by Nic Sheff.
The story is a memoir of his life.
Its starts out by telling you about his life at a young age, when he started with the drugs.
He was about eleven, and he got drunk for the first time with a friend. After that, he started smoking weed. Everyday. He tells you how he smoked before school, during. after, all the time. Then, he occassionally started tripping acid and mushrooms on weekends. He started dating a girl named Lauren his senior year. They always did drugs together, and he was embarrassed to bring her home to his parents and didnt want people to know he was dating her. They broke up and he later heard that she was in rehab. Nic was sober for 18 months, he had a car, money and house again. He worked at a rehab facillaty.  He ended up running into Lauren again and they started hanging out again, sneaking around between their houses.
Nic met Zelda. She was a rich older woman, and they started hanging out. She was engaged, and slept around with Nic and they did drugs together. Thats when Nic started doing cocaine. Nic became very emotionally attached to her, and things between them ended. Thats when he met Akria. Akria offered him his first line of meth, and Nic took it. Right away he was addicted, like meth was what he was missing his whole life. Nic went crazy to get that high again. But everytime he did it it was never the same. He dropped out of college and his parents kicked him out. He would break into their house and steal money and his dads checks to pay for meth. He got a job at a coffee shop but stole hundreds of dollars, and ending up getting a possesion charge. He spent three years going in and out of rehab too. He mets a boy named Destiny on the street and they become friends. Nic buys him a beer and Destiny agrees to introduce him to a friend of his who sells speed. Nic starts smoking alot too at this time. He leaves Nic on the street to go talk to someone and thats when Lauren sees him. Thats when they start hanging out again and he gets into drugs again. Laurens parents go out of town and he stays there with her. Its a really good book and I recommend it completely!

Consumed

I'm reading a new book called Consume. It's about this girl who is trying to fight off evil spirits. The book is a little confusing because it doesn't start out like a normal book would. It starts out with someone hurting the girl in a nightmare and then she wakes up and says to herself that whoever was hurting her in the dream can't hurt her anymore. So it's kind of confusing to me and don't really make sense because I wanna know who hurt her but I guess I haven't gotten far enough in to the book yet to know who hurt her and even learn what her name is. So anyways the girl in my book is haunted by evil spirits that shes trying to fight but they won't leave here alone. They keep coming back and haunting her so she is staying at her grandmothers house for the time being. That's how far I've got in to the book.

Vision in white

Catalyst

I am nearly done with Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson. What has happened so far is that Teri Litch’s younger brother was killed by an electrocute accident when no one was watching him. The accident happened when they were at the Litch’s new house that was being built. Someone left wires out of the plug and Mikey was playing with them. When everyone discovered him, Teri kept saying “my boy” or “my son”. So Mikey wasn’t Teri’s brother, but he was her son. When he was killed, it was so surprising and I didn’t think that it would’ve happened that way. After Mikey died, Teri spent the next couple of nights sleeping right in the place where he died.
Something else that I remember most from the novel was when Kate won’t accept the fact that MIT declined her and didn’t accept her into their school. She called and pretended she was her mother (who is actually dead), and asked why she wasn’t accepted. The college said that she lacked something special that made her different from everyone else.
I think that there is a huge story about Teri that the author hasn’t told yet. I think Teri had a baby when she was young and no one even knew about it. Kate finally realized that Mikey was Teri’s son after he has passed away.
There is something else about Kate that I can’t figure out. I don’t understand why she needs to be an overachiever so badly. She wants to go to MIT all because her mother did when she went to college. I think that Kate wants to feel closer to her mom, so that’s why she had her heart set on MIT. After she has been rejected, she doesn’t give up on hope of trying to getting reaccepted. Finally, towards the end of the chapter, I think she finally accepts the fact that she has to apply some where else.

Speak

I am on page 67 of the book Speak and currently what has happend is that Heather has joined this group of girls in school called The Marthas. It's a very expensive clan to run with; outfits must be coordinated, fresh, and appropriate for the season. They love wearing plaid in the fall with matching sweaters. Melinda thinks that Heather should push the fashion envelope just a teeny bit to something of the 1950's. The Marthas clan consists of, Meg, Emily, and Siobhan. They follow the rules to much. Heathers first project for the Marthas is to decorate the lounge. Heather asks Melinda for her help but Melinda doesn't want to because she thinks it's completely stupied. That's where i stopped.

Speak

The book that I'm reading is called Speak.It's about a girl named Melinda who is in the 9th grade. No one likes Melinda because she called the cops on a party and they stopped it. So now no one talks to her but this new girl named Heather that just moved from Iowa. Melinda really wants to tell her friends that now hate her why she had to stop the party but she can't. She just wishes that she could.

Vision in white

This is the first book in the series of four. They are written by Nora Roberts. In vision in white mac is the main character. She works with her friends who all have their own responsibility to complete a wedding. Mac is a wedding photographer. In the beginning of the book she talks about how she is just waking up from a wedding that happened the night before that was a New Year wedding. She woke up and landed on her face from the counter top that he fell asleep on. Normally she stays up all night working and all day but she normally sleeps in till noon. When she has free time or when she is done with her other work for her customers she will go to her work shop and work on her photographs that she takes for fun or for her scrapbooks. Then in the next couple chapters her and her friends are planning a new wedding for a winter scene and they just have a while to complete it. They always have to deal with MOB‘s which is the mother of the bride. They call and always ask how far they are and how much is done. So now most of the time they take turns trying to get rid of her. Mac calls them crazy because half the time they are more crazy then the bride.

R.L. Stine... Deadly Date (The Boyfriend)

Deadly date "The Boyfriend" is about a girl named Johanna. She was breaking up with her boyfriend and watching him sqirm at a meeting place where she stood him up, but next thing you know he’s climbing threw her window and asking her to grab her car and take him and his friend out to “The Teens Place” where teens would go and make-out and what not. Dex (her boyfriend) just wanted to spend time with her. He had to do tricks at the end of the cliff and frighten her. Then as she walked down to her car she seen him fall and heard his bones crack. She freaked out and ran to her car while his friend was telling her we need to help her Johanna, but all she thought was “I am helping, I’m going to go get help yeah that’s it I am going to go get help.” She drove off away from the site, she sped up and while speeding she noticed she was on the wrong side of the rode…. it was too late the truck that was up ahead of her hit her dead on. She dreamt everything was back to normal she started seeing Dex everywhere she went she didn’t know it was just a dream… seeing dex crawl into her window again with his skin looking paler in the moonlight then before. She was saying to herself that,”Dex? What he’s dead I heard his bones crush I did.” She woke up hearing nurses’ voices and her mother’s voice as well. She didn’t think she was in the hospital but she was. One day Dex’s friend came and visited her, asked how she was doing and then all of a sudden he said "You know dex died last night and you didnt even want to try and help him tyou just drove off." He sounded furious and angry with her.

When Johanna got out of the hospital she started seeing Dex every where. when she went on her date with Scotty. *This is a book i most enjoy but i notice i can easily out grow it but it's remarkable. I recommend that you try and read it.* To be honest i don't remember what to do on this blog thing for school so i am typing what i remember reading about. this book has great thrills and can make you go to the edge of your seat yet it can just let you sit there and think is the book over with or is it going to be at an exciting part? This book as we all know and read from my topic that it is By R.L Stine and we all may possibly know that man really could let his imagination run wild.

This book "The Boyfriend", which is the main story i am reading because it has two stories involved. "The Boyfriend' is a weird book plus it starts out boring and slow but it gradually gets extremely interesting and fast it tells you describing words that make you picture the people or the characters.

This story really teaches a lesson in it. I can't fully describe it in a well manner but i can tell you it teaches that we should love the people we know and care for and that being rich or having money or even getting everything you want because your spoiled doesn't mean it will get you many friends.

When i read this book i had no clue most of the time what was really going on but that's what made me stick to it but it also lost me a couple of times but it sucked me right back in. It's like an off and on type of book but once you read it, it will all come together and at the end it will all make sense.