Drunk marriages could affect young children....

Star by V.C Andrews
Pages 12-21

Star's mother always went to a bar to drink and drink and do nothing but drink and star would go to the bar to get her mother to come homr to make dinner for the family but instead she would come home and throw things around the house and plates smashed all over the floor. All this drinking gave star nightmares and monsters in her bedroom. One night when stars mother and fatherhad a fight, her father put a pillow case over her head and tied it around stars mothers neck so she fell and she knocked things overa chair and kicked a living animal.

Do you think all this would teach everybody a lesson about drinking too much or do you think they wont care and keep with their actions as it is now?

This Book Has Style

Creature by John Saul
pgs 52-284

Im not too familiar with scary books other than Goosebumps and a Stephan King book or two. This book is from the horror genre but it really isn't anything that will have you hiding under the covers. It does on the other hand, have a type of style that i have never read in a horror book, and i myself sort of like. It gives you a comfort level that is...well...comfortable. Not really at any point in the story does the author make you fell like your life is in jeopardy, or something of yours is at stake. It takes place in a jolly town, the the sun is allways shining, and the people are constantly smiling. It doesnt go for such a scary setting, but i think the author makes up for it by letting the reader use his/her imagination to picture the way it looks. the idea of the story is scary but the way it is presented is not. Have you read a book that does the opposite of what is intended? Have you been actually scared by a book?

Messed up marriages could be painful.........

Star by V.C Andrews (the wildflowers)
Pages 9-12

One reason why Star's parents broke up is because of money problems but that is not the whole entire reason, there are others to add on to that problem. Star's dad is a painter and also a carpenter. Star's parents get into arguments of how her mother does not have to think about what she needs to get done, she just does it. Not all relationships or marriages have money problems, some have money problems, others have their own jobs for there own money, more have a good relationship or marriage that they share well with all of their belongings. If people have things to get done when i know everybody does try get it done and out of the way of everything else and then they done have to find time to get it done later when you are not busy with something else.

Do you think money problems would break up a relationship or a marriage or if it is just something they use to get what they want about everything?

Finally Discovering What's actually in the woods...

Only reading 3 chapters..after Lonnie and Benjay's gruesome discovery. The book goes back to the girls from the beginning of the book and it goes on from there.
This part of the story relates to me of how camping in the woods and telling scarey stories to each other can actually be scarey because after hearing all the fake and made up stories you start to think to ur self [can that really happen?].
Well these girls sat around telling them, after wards they began to scare them selves with their own untrue stories when all of a sudden they hear some one or something creeping outside their cabin, and when they finally realized that nothing was there, they kind of freaked their selfs out so bad that they were a little too scared to sleep cause they felt that some one was watching them... After all fear is only a feeling, it can never kill you.

Have you ever had a dream, that your only fear came true how would u feel or react to it?.

A Fresh Start...Or So They Think.

Creature by John Saul
(Pages 23-52)

In my last post the Tanner family had just moved to Silverdale. In the next couple of chapters the town is described. It is a small town with allmost nobody in sight. It seems very unexpested that a bad thing will happenin a small town where the only thing keeping it on the map is the recent arivall of TarrenTech and the high school football team that is unusually good.Mark catches up with a cousin he hasnt seen in a while. Once scrawny and weak, his cousin is now towering with a muscular build. Back when they were younger they had a close friendship but now that the two have nothing left in common, Mark feels uncomfortable around him. The book stats to reveal the school that is a mysterious place but is too perfect for the Tanners to relize. Mark is suprised that the jocks have pretty much any privalge needed. They can leave early to train for the football team, and dont get it counted against them in their grades. It all just seems too perfect and i dont feel it can last long.

Have you ever had everything go your way one day and felt like it wasn't going to stay that way? Do you get jelouse of people that seem to have the perfect life?

Don't trust strngers

The Hitchhiker by R.L.Stine
Pg 21-ending

James hitchhiking to get away from something, a voice that continues to haunt him. Christina and Terri begin to worry when there trip turns for the worst. Continuing to hear that a hitchhiker killed a man on the radio, Terri begins to worry. James of course gets upset and angered that she would think he would do such a thing. But when the three leave James' cousin's house and continue to drive back to Cleveland find out their being followed. But by who? An unknown man who come to find out his name is Art is mad and wants revenge. To whom is he getting revenge on? Can you imagine the turns in he story when now James finds out that he isn't the only one that was hitchhiking. He fears for his life when Terri disappears then Christina and him become kidnapped. What could possibly make Art so mad to want to hurt Christina and James and even maybe Terri. Finally the truth comes out and everyone is fighting for their life. But who's going to live and what twisted story will be revealed as Christina begs for her life and James helplessly watching. Reading this book made me realize that innocent has no certain look innocent is what everyone wants to be seen as.

Do you trust just anyone? And if they look innocent does that mean they are?

Creeping in the woods..

(pgs.20-78) from chapters 5-14

Through out the book, new characters were introduced (Lonnie & BenJay). Lonnie is the son of a [police officer], hes the kind of kid who jokes around and is very curious of things.. Till he see's the girl he likes with her boyfriend then he decides to follow them..untill he loses them in the woods so he figures that they went inside a cabin, then all of a sudden he discovers an unknown bloody gruesome scene inside. He has his father that doesnt believe him and his friend (BenJay) that thinks something is up with lonnie but hes willing to find out what really happened inside that cabin. If you were in this kind of situation would you take things into your own hands and find out who or what could have done such a thing?

Picking up strangers can be dangerous

The HitchHiker by R.L.Stine
Page 1-20

Although I am just starting this book I have read some interesting facts about the hitchhiker (James). So far within the few pages I have read I know that there is something that James is running from. A voice that seems to follow him saying "Please don't, James. Please-don't hurt me.". Although it is unclear why James is running and why he hears these cries it seems as if he is running from something bad, something he did. James Hitchhiked his way from Key West to Lauderdale with an old man and now James has been picked up by Christina and Terri. Christina and Terri spot James hitchhiking on Highway 84 and pull over to pick him up. Although he looks like a nice guy Terri still believes that picking up a stranger is not a good idea. With James' attitude towards questions that the girls ask Terri begins to worry. As for James he think he has told the girls a little to much about himself. So for now he keeps quiet.

If you were on your way home and seen a "hot" guy or girl hitchhiking would you pick him/her up?

Star's life with her wonderful grandmother (blog 1)

Star by V.C Andrews (horror)
Pages 1-12

Star went to go see Dr. Marlowe for therapy sessions, wishes she could go home so she dont have to tell other people her problems. Stars mother lastly worried about whether or not her clothes and etc. were in style. Star thought if she told Misty or Cathy her problems, they would not be able to handle listening to it. (stars problems were not available yet) Star's grandmother was a very helpful 68 year old woman. She had alot of good friends, some had alot of money and other ones did not. Some of her friends were also wealthy people and she would help them out as much as she was able to. She loved to help her friends and loved ones. She was trying to explain to Star that people dont have to have alot of money to have friends. All because Star thought you did and she didnt understand that until her grandmother explained the whole situation to her. Star's parents were not dead and buried but they were to star though there were no funerals. Instead there was a parade of lies and crippled promises from the days she was born until now. Her parents were always fighting and arguing about something so Star felt like her parents were not there for her at all.

How would you feel if your life was just like Star's? Would you feel like you have no one but your grandmother and friends, or would you be able to handle being without your parents for the rest of your life? Think about it!!