Wednesday, February 16, 2011

This Book Is Not Good For You (SPOILER ALERT!!!)

   This Book Is Not Good For You by Pseudonymous Bosch is about a girl named Cass and her two best friends named Max-Earnest and Yo-Yoji. Together they are part of a secret society called the Terces Society. As part of the Terces Society, they fight against a society known as the Midnight Sun. The leaders of the Midnight Sun, Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais, have assigned a new agent of the Midnight Sun to kidnap Cass's mom. And he is a chef called Señor Hugo who wants the tuning fork which can turn anything to any desired food or drink. When Cass found the fork, she gave it to Senor Hugo who promised to give Cass's mom back but actuallly he didn'y keep his promise. At last, Cass rescued her mom  and other children, who were forced to work for the Midnight Sun, and got the tuning fork back. But in the end while eating a time traveling chocolate she gets sent to the past and she is stuck there...
   I really love this kinds of book because it involves a secret society with a hint of fantasy. The book was really interesting with a very good twist and also funny. I think the theme of this book is to show that young kids can do anything if they are interested in something. And this theme is just perfect for the book because it shows so many things that an adult can't do but a child can do and this shows that a kid is capable of doing anything even if there parents or some other adults think they can't do it.
   I try very hard to show my parents that I am capable of doing anything but for me that's actually very hard to do since My parents have a hard time understanding what I am trying to tell or show them. So, usually, I try to not show or tell them anything unless it's very necessary. 

Monday, February 7, 2011

Posts From The Best !!!


I just love Aishwarya's post, Life is Peaceful because even without seeing the painting, just by reading the poem, the image that forms in my mind looks very similar like the painting. Her vocabulary is one of the things that makes her poem so strong. Her poem is written with passion and the repetition made the poem much more meaningful and interesting. Also, just by reading this poem makes me calm and... well, peaceful. I really liked the way how she ended her poem. The ending was very different than the other poems I read and this made the poem very different and interesting. Good job, Aishwarya!

Nina's poem is so beautiful. The rhyming made the poem very interesting to read and this poem also created a very nice image in my head. I really like this line, "for the soundless noise they make in the night" because it reminds me of when at night I can't sleep, I would stare at the sky in silence imagining what it would be like to go to outer space where its so quiet, peaceful yet filled with incandescent light. When I read this poem, I actually see a star filled night so vast yet so small.

 Shadman's post about The Giver is really good. Because he used the three paragraph structure, each paragraph containing separate ideas which made the post very good.  In the first paragraph, he gives the background info with all the necessary info. In the second paragraph, he tells us the main  character's task with really good questions. And, in the last paragraph is where his post got better because the ideas he had was amazing with thought provoking questions that gave the reader the hint that he is thinking and asking himself a lot of questions. I love his last sentence, " In my eyes this community is an imaginary paradise where nothing goes wrong but should. " 

Amazing work, Aishwarya, Nina & Shadman !!!!!