Book Report-->Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac:))

The book I have recently finished this week is called Memoirs of a teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin. Naomi a former high school junior conks her head falling down the stairs and from there she can't remember anything since 6th grade. She is by then very startled by her present life. Including, the birth control pills she has, her recent boyfriend and best friend, and her parents divorce. Eventually her memories return, but it leaves her questioning if she likes her new life now with her new romance and friends, she can't decide which of her two lives represents her most authentic self.

I really enjoyed this book because it makes you put yourself in the protagonists own shoes. What would you do if you couldn't remember your past and you had the opportunity to start all over.? That's the question that I gave myself while reading this book. Some people think it's better to forget the past, because that way they don't remember all the bad things that has happened to them. I myself sometimes feel like that too, it's like if you could run away from all you problems everything would be a lot better. For example on love, when someone breaks your heart you simply can't get them out of your mind, some people will do anything to get them back, and it's simpy not healthy. It is better off to forget someone you loved, the easy way then doing it the hard way.

If you forget your past and start all over you might discover that you really weren't happy with the type of person you were, and your paradigm of looking at things. That gives you a new opportunity to change that. Like Naomi did, she discovered that she was really a snobby typical teenager. She had a jock for a boyfriend which she didn't really understand why was she so into him, and she really never gave her mom an opportuniy to let her make up for her mistakes. Throughout the story Naomi grew as a character and she ended up being absolutely amazing. She dropped her friends which really were backstabbing her all the time, and she let herself find more romance. A true romance she thought she would never feel.

All in all, losing your memory from a blow to the head from falling down the stairs isn't really a typical everyday good thing, but sometimes it can be a really good thing in your life. God always works in mysterious ways, sometimes we just might not understand why certain things has happened to us or why we meet the people we meet. All we know is that there's a reason for everything, and no matter what you just got to make the best of it, like Naomi did. Who knows you might just discover your true self along the way.

Book Report--> The Five People You Meet in Heaven:))

I recently finished reading the book: The five people you meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. The book starts off with an ending. It starts off with the final hours of life of Eddie an 83 year old head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. He dies in a tragic attempt of saving the life of a little girl when a cart ride falls off. The story then traces Eddie's world through his tragic final moments, his funeral and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and adjust to life without him. The book is divided into three different sections of story throughout the whole story. One of them are The life after Eddie's death, Eddie's birthday's each year followed by cakes and candles, and lastly Eddie's life in heaven where he meets five people that without him realizing made a great big impact throughout his life. Each of the soul's Eddie meets has a different story to tell and a lesson to be learned. Throughout all of them Eddie understands the meaning of his own life. 

This book makes you realize the true meaning of life, and life after death. It will make you think about all the people you have met, and believe it or not, you realize they had all made an impact in your life. It gives you a different perspective on Heaven you always here the typical stereotype that Heaven is perfect and it is all you want it to be but, in the book heaven is what you least expect it to be. Yet, you seem to love it. 

Eddie died living a grumpy lonely and sad life. He didn't realize all the things he accomplished. In heaven he learned the reason why he was in war, why he married the love of his life, why his father treated him the way he did, why he ended up working at the Amusement Park, and why he gave his life to save the little girls' life. Everyone has a purpose in life, by reading this book you dig a little deeper to find yours.  

Book Report--> Life in the fat lane:))

Before you even pick up this book right away you think that it's another typical book about an Anorexic or Bulimic girl. To your surprise your wrong, this book is different from all the books I have read about Anorexic or Bulimic girls. It starts off with Lara she is 16 years old and she is what most girls wants to be: thin, beautiful, popular, nice, and smart. With a perfect family, she is dating one of the cutest boys in school and she even won homecoming queen her junior year of high school. Weeks after homecoming she notices that she has gained a few punds, unconcerned she works out harder and eats healthier. However, her weight still rises up, after a few months she weights over 200 pounds. She spends a week in a hospital eating from a tube but, she still keeps gaining weight, it's said that she has gotten a rare and yet not curable diease called axell-crowned disease. Soon Lara figures out that life isn't so perfect when your not thin and beautiful. Everyone is cruel and mean to her, and she also discoveres that her family really isn't so perfect startring off with her obsessive weight control freak mother, and rebellious brother, and to top it all off her dad who has had an affair for quite a long time. 

This book makes you realize the importance of life, and how our society is so stereotyped and based off of looks. Girls especially my age think they have to look and act a certain way to make sure everyone likes them. It's like they put on a show and if you don't have the makeup, the clothes, and the hair. Your not worth talking to. My personal opinion is that what matters is on the inside, than the outside. Someone may look beautiful and nice, but they might have a rotten personality. No one is perfect and no one is meant to be that is why god made us all different, so we can all shine on our own. Be happy and accept who you truely are. 

Everyone has their own story to tell and you shouldn't wish to be someone else because you don't know what that person is going through, they may seem perfect on the outside but you don't know what really is going on at home. Also treat people how you want to be treated. Society is based on all looks and just because one person doesn't look like society wants them to look doesn't mean they are amazing in their own way. It just makes you a better person if you give someone that chance and become their friend. Lara wasn't mean to overweight people, but she was secretly disgusted by them, she never admitted that to anyone though. Now that she has to put herself in their shoes she has a different perspective and sees what they go through every single day.     

Book Report--> The Last Song:))

The story starts when Ronnie Miller and her brother are shipped off to their dad's in Wilmington for the summer after three years of not speaking to him because of her parents divorce. The first night she gets her soda spilled on her by a young man playing volleyball but she just let's it go not knowing that the young man ends up being the love of her life. When Ronnie arrives at her dad's she remains alienated and angry at him and doesn't change her rebel ways, but she has no idea that the summer she spent with her dad was a summer she will never forget.

A lesson that I grabbed form this book is that you have to be grateful for the things you have because not everything is what it seems. You have to learn to forgive and forget and love as much as you can because at any moment life comes and tears you apart from your loved ones. Growing up, I developed an unnecessary anger against my dad. Yea, he wasn't such a good dad or anything but despite everything he did, there were moments were he showed he really cared and loved me. I did learn a lot of things from him too, like wisdom and respect. Now a days I realize that my life could have been worse. He did what he could do for me, yea alcohol took over him and some days I didn't even realize who he was but when I get to speak with him even though we don't speak much,I learn to forgive him and move on.

Love, is beyond all description. It's a different experience to everyone, but once you find it, and really find it not just throw yourself at lust, it is completely unforgettable. For many people love is harder to live for than to die for because life will get in the way. It can give you the greatest happiness in the world or it can give you extreme heartbreak and despair. When life gets in the way of love all you need to know is that you got to let go of the people you love, and if they come back then it's meant to be and if they don't then it never was.

In the story, Ronnie learns to love, forgive, mature, and deal with heartbreak. These are all the lessons people experience at least once in their lifetime. That is why I think this is such a great book. Yea it's hard but it gets you where you have to be, and it's just a part that creates our lives. The last song by Nicholas Sparks, is a tale that unfolds an unforgettable story about love on many levels; Including: first love, love between parents, and love between children. The story demonstrates the many different ways that love breaks our hearts and with time heals them back up.

Book Report:Sold

The book I read this week is called Sold and it's written by Patricia McCormick. The life of a young girl living poor but happy with her family in Nepal. The family is full and complete with the little they have, until mother nature decides to betray them. Young girl named Lakshmi wants to get a job as a maid to help out the family, her step dad gets her a job. It's not anything like Lakshmi expected, she had been sold into prostitution. Now in order to survive with hopes of making it back home Lakshmi has to struggle with being locked up, beaten, starved, drugged, raped, "torn and bleeding". Lakshmi can only hope and that's all you got left to do if you were stuck in this situation.

I always heard stories that people from Nepal, or Africa especially woman would always get abducted or were sold into prostitution and things like this. But I never quite put much attention to it, since it was so far away and I am so young to do anything about it. After I read this story I had a different point of view in things, because stuff like this is even happening today. Not long ago I made an account at a website called change.org and I've recently received some e-mails, about stuff like this story that I read that's been happening around the world. By signing a petition online, I discovered that I made a slight difference in one of those girls lives, and hopefully sooner or later will help stop situations like this to keep from happening.

Lakshmi discovers a whole new chapter of hope in her life, when a little boy that sells Tea to them, comes secretly and teaches her to read. From all the bad things that happened in her life, she makes the best out of it and learns new things. I really admire this about her, it's so hard to look at the glass half full when so many bad things are going on at once. I learned that even though you might be in the worst situation imaginable, you can scoop up some good thing about it or even learn something too.