campus life? w-w-what?

Alright, well this post is just to spread the word and get some more words in for my word count. I would like to invite all of my fellow classmates to the Campus Life Kickoff after the football game this Friday! It will just be at the football field so no worries about driving somewhere else. It is only $5 and you get a SWEET bracelet, a t-shirt, and food (which I think its pizza, but don't quote me). It will be really fun, so don't be the kid who thinks they are too cool for...well anything that everyone is invited to. I think it will be really fun, mainly because a lot of people are going to be coming anyways, so the more the merrier! This is what the bracelets will look like:

Also the green one is glow in the dark. So that adds to the complete amazingness of this all. The shirts I believe will be a dark greyish with black and blue writing on them. I'm not entirely sure on that one either. Whatever color they are I'm sure they will be worth the $5. So go, it'll be fun. JUST DO IT.

sum total of the week

I've been reading quite a bit and I'm pretty far through Never Let Me Go, but I'm in a part where it feels like there is no plot or point to what I'm reading. Its just detailing days in her past and she will say things like "this all connects to and brings me back to this" and so on but I really never get the underlying point as to why its said or important to begin with. Well I just want to know how the book ends already. As you can tell I'm not a patient reader and I like fast paced books.

This week I came across some pretty entertaining sentences and they are:

1. It's not an optical illusion. It just looks like one.

2. I'm too tired to sleep.

I decided that these would probably be my favorites I've seen/heard this week. The first one I saw on the internet in some small margin to the side and I thought it much of an oxymoron. The second one my friend said to me and I thought that was also a little contradictory.

WEEKLY READING LOG
this week: 168
last week: 156
last last week: 104

semester: 428

Never Let Me Go cont.

By the way if you want to read Never Let Me Go this may possibly be a spoiler alert:

Alright, I've gotten a lot farther into the book. I've just breached part two. So far I've found out that Kath and the children who were at Hailsham were different from the rest of the world. I'm not exactly sure what they are but 1. they can't have babies because their bodies can't produce them. 2. they were created for the soul purpose of donations. There entire existence revolves around donating their vital organs to others.

When I found this out it was kind of depressing. Miss Lucy was the guardian who told them out of vast anger because none of the children knew. In my opinion was a good choice because they should have the right to know. How would you like to find out some day that your heart was going to be taken from you to give to someone else randomly without a choice? I'd be pretty angry, but on the other hand if I knew before I'd probably still feel the same.

This little bit of information is a bit perplexing because Kath is narrarating this story, and I'm sure she is probably old by now. I'm just wondering why she hasn't donated anything yet. SO MANY QUESTIONS.

I also heard that a movie came out of this book only last year, which is really suprising because I've never heard of it until now. So I may look into that one after I'm done reading this. Here is what the cover looks like:

the word on the book

Okay, so i've been reading Never Let Me Go and I've gotten a little bit farther. As I expected Kath does go back and talk about her childhood, actually its taking up a lot of the book. Honestly I'm kinda getting sick of all the minor details that keep describing each character. I am hoping this book gets a little more fast paced and possibly some conflict.

Earlier in the book I came across a passage that stuck out to me, here it is:

"So you're waiting, even if you don't quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realise that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you--of how you were brought into this world and why--and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs. The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange" (page 36).

I found this quite interesting to think about, I'm not quite sure what it means yet. It seems pretty dark, like I'm going to find out there is actually something wrong with the children at Hailsham or if there is just something wrong with Madame for being scared of the children. I'm not entirely sure on this one.

trying to get with the program

Today in class we are on our laptops going through each other's blogs and commenting/liking them. Today I visited A Scrap of Parchment, TheyCallMeFreshMoney, Hog Smog Blog, RocketGuild, BookLover17, T-Rex, Stormy Days, Banana Smoothie, and Wolf Spot from third period and then JimmehFTWand Keep it Classy from first period. I commented on TheyCallMeFreshMoney, RocketGuild, and JimmehFTW's blogs. 

Latest on Reading

Yesterday I started reading Never Let Me Go and I am pleasantly surprised. It is actually interesting. It isn't the kind of book that I normally read, but I guess it is time to start reading other types of books. I'm now halfway through chapter four and I'm pretty sure I'm going to read this one all the way through.

Favorite Sentences This Week
"The memories I value most, I don't ever see them fading."

"It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed."
WORD COUNT
this week: 156
last week: 104
this semester: 260

Not My Cup of Tea

I recently was reading The Magic Kindom by Stanley Elkin, I got about two-thirds of the way through the book. I couldn't read it anymore because there is absolutely no suspense or element of suprise to the book. It is written in a series of events. Things happen and that's it. The plot isn't really that difficult to guess, and on the back cover of the book it pretty much gives the reader a clue. This was what I get for judging a book by it's cover. In all fairness the cover of the book was nice looking. Good job Stanley for having a nice cover.

Today, the first day of September, I started reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's a novel that is, so far, told by a narrarator named Kathy. She is a carer, which is some sort of nurse, and she is modestly proud of her twelve years in this service, but it seems like she is anxious to get out. She continually alludes back to places of her past, so I'm sensing a flashback later on or something to do with her past  will become extremely relevant to the story. I've got much more to read since I am only one chapter into the book. It seems pretty promising and I hope it keeps my attention.