That would be awfully depressing. Anyway, I'm not entirely sure what to do right now, so I am taking a little break to write on my blog. (Were we required to do this? I don't think so, but I thought it would be fun) Reading this week has been, er, not much. I finished a book called
Savvy which is about a family, where each memeber gets a savvy on their thirteenth birthday, and it can be just about anything. The main character, Mibs (Short for Mississippi) has two older brothers, one who has electricity-type powers and the other that has wind/hurricane powers. Her mom's savvy is that she is perfect, and her grandpa can move the ground and create new places. So they live somewhere between Kansas and Nebraska (They call it Kansaska/Nebransas) and not much happens. Then, her dad is mysteriously injured (quite seriously) on her thirteenth birthday and she is not allowed to go see him. Unfortunately she believes her savvy is waking things up (She lacks reasoning, in my opinion) and hitchikes on a bus that is supposed to go by the hospital. Of course, in doing so she also drags along her older brother, her younger brother, and the pastor's kids, Will and Bobbi. (The pastor's wife threw a birthday party for her) So the whole book is about how she helps out a bunch of people on the road to find her dad. Hopefully you can see that this book is aimed at younger readers and not choose to read it, but I guess the choice is up to you. I think it was a very creative book, but it was too well planned. I think everything unexpected quickly became uninteresting. The only good thing about the book was the little brother, Samson, who was infinitely smarter than all the rest of his siblings and everyone else in the whole book. (I'm sure anyone who has read the book will agree with me) He does become the main problem for them at one point, but I think that's also supposed to be a good thing and he helps solve the problem. Anyhow, that book is happily sitting on a shelf at the library now.
The book I just started reading is called...er...just a second. I know exactly what the cover looks like but I don't remember what it's called. Aha! It's called
Moon Over Manifest, and so far very few things have happened. The only thing I really know is that the main character, Abilene, jumped off the train, because although she could actually afford the ticket (this time), she wanted to. Then there was a newspaper bit from 1916 (20 years ago for the time), which hasn't said too much yet. Then again, I've only read about the first ten pages of the book.
Moon Over Manifest won the Newberry Medal this year, (which is probably why my mom got it for me from the library). I was reading about it, and evidently it starts off
very slowly, so I guess I have some long reading to look forward to. (But I have heard very good things about the ending, too)
Poetry this week was the usual Poem-A-Day, which I have not cancelled yet. A little while ago (I have no idea what day it was), I read a poem by Linda Pastan (She also wrote
Why Are Your Poems So Dark?, which is on Poetry Everywhere), called
Traveling Light. It was not too long, but it was still long enough to make sense. (If poems are too long I usually lose interest pretty quickly) I also read a poem by Emily Dickinson called
Hope is the Thing With Feathers. It was definitely a poem that made me smile!
Happy reading and portfolio-designing to all!! Here is a very calming poem for overworked minds. (And it's not too long) :)
Peace
Is not the fault-finder
Of the world.
Peace
Is the fault-mender
Of the world.
- Sri Chinmoy
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