At the moment i am reading shadowland by:Alyson Noel
I am on the third book of the series "the immortals" and right now the two main characters Damen and Ever are taking care of two twins brought over from sumerland. Summerland is a place where immortals can come to practice magick or to relax. The twins lost their "magick" and now they can't get back to summerland on their own. Damen and Ever are have taken them into there home and are caring for them. But now the evil character Roman who's "true love" Drina has been killed (by Ever) has stopped Damen and Ever from ever exchanged DNA again, well until they can reverse the curse. While reading this series i have always connected a lot with Ever.I can't make personally or real life connections to how she feels but someone i am always drawn to her section of the story. Damen is her life patner and she cant touch him for etenity. She misses the crease in his neck the hardness of his stomach the touch of his hand clasped around her own. She feels it is her fault that this happened, while Damen feels it's his own. He  thinks karma is out to get him, because he thinks he has wasted his powers and now it has come back to haunt him. Ever however thinks this entire situaton should be blamed on her, everything that happened is because of her. Her obsession with getting him better... her selfishness. I think that Ever blames herslef for many things in her life and some she should. But many things she blams herslef for are not her fault at all. Its hard to relate to Ever because her anxiety makes her almost crazy so i dont think i can fully connect to her as a person. But i understand why she blames herself for everything... when she lived in Oregon her parents died mostly because of her. I think now whenever something bad happens she automatically takes the blame. Even people around her dying that never really knew her like evangeline. While Ever thinks this Damen thinks something else. And even though they are true life partners there opinions differ so often. I have to wait and see what happens to understand there point of view completeIy. I think this is a great series and i cant wait to read the next one and figure out the end of the story! 

Independent reading book response

     At the moment i am reading shadowland by:Alyson Noel
I am on the third book of the series and right now the two main characters Damen and Ever are taking care of two twins brought over from sumerland. They lost their "magick" and now can't get back on their own. Damen and Ever are "immortals" they can live forever. But now the evil character Roman has stopped then form ever touching. They can not exchange DNA Damen will become fatally ill. In this particular blog i am focusing on Ever. She has been told he can never (until a cure is found) touch her immortal boyfriend. Damen is her life patner and she cant touch him for etenity. She misses the crease in his neck the hardness of his stomach the touch of his hand clasped around her own. She is going through hard times, very hard times. She feels it is her fault that this happened Damen feels it's his. He  thinks karma is out to get him. He thinks he has wasted his powers and now it has come back to haunt him. Ever however thinks this entire situaton should be blamed on her everything that happened is because of her. her obsession with getting him better... her selfishness. I think that Ever blames herslef for many things in her life and some she should. But many things she blams herslef for are not her fault at all. Its hard to relate to Ever because her anxiety makes her almost crazy so i dont think i can fully connect to her as a person. But i undertsand why she blames herself for everything... when she lved in Oregon er parents died mostly wel fully because of her. I think now whenever somehting bad happens she blames herslef for it. Even people around her dying that never really knew her like evangeline. I think this is a great series and i cant wait to read the next one and figure out the end of the story! 

I really enjoyed reading Olivia's blog I thought her sonnet was really great and all her poems offered some funny rhymes and refreshing metaphors. I loved her responses to poems and pictures and how much detail she put into them.I think her blog shows a lot of effort and her homework reflects that.she definitely thought more about what she was writing and not that it was just homework.
I also really enjoyed austere blog she gets really into all of her entries and a lot of her poems were written as if she experienced every moment she wrote about. Man of her responses were choppy and not as detailed as Olivia's but they had really good ideas. They could have been expressed a lot better though.
I also really like julias blog she hit every point in both entries poems and responses. I think she cares about the homework she does and uses the terms used in class to explain her thought process.

sonnet 1

Red roses always seek perfect shaped hearts
But all hearts have many inperfetions
They are banged and bruised not black nor blue
They stand a glowing red, painted just right
Ready to be broken from heartless life
They chose dremers from devils instead
And cupid sings lullabys to mend their love
To make devils dream and make dreamers sing
To speak as if the day will grow undamaged
To pray to whom it may concern that if
The dreamers can sing devils can too learn
And if devils can learn, people rome free
To make earth better for you and for me
Your heart beats fast and so does mine time slows

SONNET

The subway maps are all wrong
With an arrow of direction and a sparrow of connection
connection to all that now rome free
free of robins and blue jays and grand supremes


A myriad of numbers that flash through my brain
No meanings no rememberance not even of change
They sing through the trees and echo through the park
catching up to my legs that run faster as i notice the dark


The birds still sing and the wind still whistles
They work as one down to every swift tickle
They dance to the tunes the birds sing
And sway to the whistles the wind begs to stay


They dance and sing and oh how they laugh
but when dawn arrives they are gone with a gasp

Response

   In my opinion the poem we read in class called " My papa's waltz" was not about abuse. There were signs of him being drunk but no concrete proof that he actually was intoxicated. I think that waltzing may have been a metaphor for him trying to communicate with his father and there is something that he has to tell him, but doesn't know how to. And i think that's where there was a line that read " such waltzing is hard" But i have more than one theme or side to the poem and I think they may have actually been waltzing and that is why his ear scraped the buckle .... because he is little and his head is up to his hips. 

   The theory of it being abuse was just someone's idea there is no proof it was abuse just that waltzing may have been a metaphor for it. So the argument in class wasn't supported on both sides, there was theory but no facts, it was a weak debate with questions and possible answers that were thought up based on opinion. The poem was open ended and not to revealing. It showed enough to form an opinion but not enough to back it up. There was always an opposing person that made sense and took away from your opinion. So to write a response is difficult and will never be perfect.

Immitation poem of Don't take my Air Jordans

Stepping on the sidewalk with thumps of cracking snow
Glittery droppings of carefully carved snowflakes melt from the warmth of the bittersweet air
In one hand my gloves in the other a bag dragging on the floor
Hopping up with every inperfection in the fallen snow

My bag held some money and a coat not wanted
The wind rushed past my uncombed hair and withered away at my licked lips    
Chapstick stayed untouched in the pocket of my sweatshirt
I kept on walking past the blinking red light only to remember i didn't know where i was going

I knew that i would find something worth wanting but didn't even have a clue of with it might be
People in my life always knew what they wanted and knew how to get it
I only had half of that
I knew how to get anything I set my mind to but I could never decide what that should be


I knew i wanted happiness and that was the only thing stomping me on how to get it
So i walked
Past the Deli, the bagel shop, the schools, the jewelry stores, the shoe store, and the sporting goods place
Until i was happy with what i was doing


Only to find that the feeling in the pit of my stomach wasn't happiness but was the feeling of being unsatisfied