The Monsters of Templeton...

   I'm half way through, The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff - which is a really good book because not only is it extremely interesting, (SPOILER ALERT***) but it's about a girl name Willie Upton who arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in storybook Templeton, New York (which she swore she'd never come back to) after a disastrous affair with her married archaeology professor. When she arrives, a prehistoric monster surfaces in Lake Glimmerglass, changing everything in the town, Willie's mother, Vi, tells her a secret that she's been hiding for nearly 30 years, and as Willie puts her archaeological skills to work, digging for the truth about her lineage, she discovers that the secrets of her family run deep when dark mysteries come to light and the shocking truth about more than one monster is revealed. That grabbed my attention right away because I like books that almost have an edge to it and make you want to keep turning pages. I find it interesting.
    Anyways, I'm really looking forward to getting to the end of the book because there's this thing going on  in it where secrets, mysteries, messages, and themes are combining which makes the book even tougher to resist reading without a break! My hopes for this book is that it continues to leave me hanging because like I said before, and I really just don't know why, but I like those kinds of books! I just do. It sort of hypnotizes me in a way and makes me feel like I've literally stepped into the page and entered the world of the book! That's exactly how The Monsters of Templeton is designed, and I guess that's why I find an interest in it...

Poetry and Shakespear...

    As I've been recently learning about poetry and studying the techniques of Shakespear , I've notices that his way of expressing poetry is much different from the way poets express today. What I mean by this is that Shakespear wrote his poems in ways that you would almost never imagine of writing in such a way. Not only because he he's been around in the time where english was spoken differently, but the messages/ themes he puts into the poems are very interesting. For example, in one of the sonnets he has written that I learned about in class, he writes about the characteristics of a girl and the way he describes her isn't really the normal way a man would describe a women. He actually admitted that she was pretty ugly, realistically, but his message was that he speaks the truth and he is unlike the way men usually describe women...that would be that they have (for example) hair that flows like the waves, or eyes as bright as the sun, etc. Shakespear points out the fact that this women may not meet the standards of other guy's imagination of a fake girl, but she is beautiful because she is real. She may not have eyes that beam like the sun or roses on her cheeks but she is real, which-to Shakespear, makes her beautiful! That message is just one of the many that he sets out through his poems, and that's what makes his way of poetry have a sprinkle of uniqueness...  

The Post Pick...

 Okay, so to start off, I've read a lot of amazing posts written by students and it was really hard to pick which one to write about....but I had to go with...Kim's post on her story,
"Fat Cat"purpleskky.blogspot.com because it really made me remember the fact that we have a lot of smart people in this world and the characteristics have nothing to do with it at all! As Kim described her book, she included a few key points that were pretty deep! One of them was that Catherine came up with a way to loose a few pounds from all natural foods that existed millions and millions of years ago AND still create a genius science project! Obviously it didn't matter if Catherine was fat...she was still able to create a great science project from her own mind in which she never thought would come in such a value! It shows that a lot of people who may think that they aren't that bright do have the capability to prove themselves wrong! Even I caught myself a couple of times thinking that I wasn't too brilliant (not to brag, but I don't know WHAT I was thinking...)...because I realized that I have a capability to be genius just like what Catherine was able to realize and my look, size, proportion, etc. have absolutely nothing to do with it! It's all about the genius inside! And I think that Kim's blog post brought us to that point.