4.08 Free Choice Blog

Lately I have been reading an awesome book called The Fault In Our Stars. I must say I really enjoy reading this book. So far it is about a girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster with lung cancer (that probably wont be getting any better and eventually the cancer will be the cause of her death)who is very depressed and unhappy with her current life. Her doctor said that going to a support group is a good way to help you get through cancer and subside the depression. When she goes to the support group she meets a boy named Augustus Waters and his friend Issac. Issac has eye cancer and he is about to lose his sense of sight. Augustus is at the support group on behalf of Issac's request but has in fact been a victim of cancer himself, he lost a leg.
After the support group meeting, Augustus and Hazel begin to talk and over time she ends up going over to his house to watch a movie about Natalie Portman. Of course she meets his parents and gets to know them and Augustus better. She really likes him already. She has always loved this one book that shes read over and over named Imperial Affliction. It is about a girl in her same position and (spoiler alert) she dies at the end of the book. She says that she had special connections with that book, that that book understood her. She shared the book with Augustus and he loved it. The only problem that they had with the book is the ending. It was completely unresolved and that bothered Augustus.  Later, Hazel wakes up in the middle of the night with a terrible pain in her head. Her parents rush her off to intensive care and when she awakens a few days later she is informed about how her lungs were flooded.

3.07 Free Choice Blog

I recently started a new book named City of Bones. So far this book is about a girl named Clary and her friend, Simon. When they were out at a club called pandemonium Clary saw something that was very strange. She saw two men with a knife and when she asked Simon if he could see them he did not know what she was talking about. At first she thought she was hallucinating something but when she followed them she found that it was very real. She went into the room where she had seen the guys go in and in the room there was a man tied to a chair and around him were the guys that Clary had seen go in there.  In the room there was another person named Isabelle. Isabelle was wearing a white dress and wasn't the nicest of people. Then they explained how they are and what they were doing. Once Clary gets home she is told about some bad news. Clary's mom had made plans to move to upstate New York for the entire summer. Of course Clary is against the idea and runs off with Simon so she can get away from all of the stress. Simon and Clary go to their friend's poetry reading and she sees Jace behind her and they go to meet in the ally outside. In their conversation Jace tells Clary that he needs to take her to the institute.  Then Clary gets a frantic call from her mother telling her to stay away from their apartment, so of course she heads straight there. When she gets to the apartment she is greeted by a huge monstrous caterpillar creature that is trying to kill her. She nearly escapes death but still gets (weakly) bitten and she spends several days in the institute's hospital.

2.07 Free Choice Blog

I have been reading a really great book lately called Insurgent. Insurgent is the sequel to a book called Divergent. This series is all about a Utopian society where everyone is split up into 5 different factions. The factions are called Dauntless (for the brave), Erudite (for the intelligent), Candor (for the honest), Abnegation (for the selfless), and Amity (for the Peaceful). When you're 16 you get to choose which faction you want top be a part of, and that decision will determine the rest of your life. In the book I am reading now ( the sequel to divergent) is about a girl that cannot be controlled by the Erudite when most other people can be. The term for people who cant be controlled is called Divergent. The main character is one of the few people who cannot be controlled. In the latest chapter that I read she surrenders to the Erudite because they were threatening to kill innocent people (even though all of her friends told her not to). Once she gets to the headquarters she is escorted to a cell where she spends several hours just waiting. Finally someone comes to her cell and escorts her to a room where there is a metal table and she meets the head of the Erudite, Jeanine Matthews  (they are bad people).  She tells her that they are going to do some research on her brain and after they are done with the testing they will execute her. Although she is brave, the thought of being executed sickens her. She shows no feeling but on the inside she is terrified. After the chat, the first examination commences. Her brain is examined with an MRI scanner and when looking at the results they find that she has an unusually large prefrontal cortex. A prefrontal cortex is the part of your brain that allows you to make decisions. After the test she is escorted back to her cell but before she gets there she sees Tobias (her boyfriend) being forced to go with some erudite soldiers with wounds on his head and he looks beat up. He is trying to save her but he has failed. Thats when the chapter ended.

FLVS 1.03

For my FLVS course I took a reader test. A reader test is pretty much a test you take to see what kind of reader you are. The results I got was that my two favorite genres are Fiction and Drama. I think that the test was actually very accurate. Those two genres are definitely my two top favorites.

The last thing that I have read and actually liked was surprisingly in a magazine called popular science. I read an interesting article about 3D printing and how if you make a 3D print of a heart and put a heart stem cell into it you can grow an actual working heart! They can also make noses and ears.