The Lovely Bones Book trailer

This is the link to my Animoto Book Trailer on th Lovely Bones.
https://email.animoto.com/pub/cc?_ri_=X0Gzc2X%3DYQpglLjHJlYQGmtAHTRdnm6Tl1sekzdSgKgzg89MeclzekTDzbBBjoIazetPzg1qF8zaTkFbkl8VXtpKX%3DSTWTWW&_ei_=Es-ttJgmfdlUa0LvCZF0RO8YBhkw72LKQLFKx1lhAS1G1hv1-aH_npfijLn3FlLaf6AXa6MMIPxci98LzS84dZq6lDbL68ulyMRoW0QJZt6GyKy_2mzU0hl5SfOZGJivwH9IgFWV4tYXM81aFHIw4jzmdbzq90o7Ji1SLOl6SCzQ15VPEDrNIipeYsZqOp4r-VQizVrJp2HfQuv4hfPZf4m1DJQ.

If you could be mine#1

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/930814274

If You Could Be Mine tells the story of Sahar, an intelligent ambitious teenager living in Iran who is in love with her best friend Nasrin. Iran is a dangerous place to be out of the closet, although there is hidden gay community, which Sahar is introduced to by her cousin Ali. 

It is at a party at Ali’s house that Sahar meets Parveen, a beautiful trans woman. Ali explains to her that the Iranian government sees trans people as a mistake made by God, a soul born into a wrongly gendered body. They’re not only accepting of transitioning, they will pay for gender re-assignment surgeries. Sahar wants nothing more than to be able to marry Nasrin, and take care of her forever, but she also knows that if she transitioned she would just be living another lie. 

If You Could Be Mine is written with simple, clear language, accessible by both YA readers and a potentially younger audience. I was brought along by the story’s narrative, even as I learned a great deal about Iran, its gender and sexuality politics, and the wealth of culture there.

A&D Discover the Secrets to the Universe

        As the friendship between Ari and Dante deepens, they become friends with each other’s parents; discover shared interests and different attitudes; and begin to awaken to feelings for each other that go beyond friendship, an intimacy with which Dante is far more comfortable and open than Ari. At one point, an encounter with a skidding car results in Ari saving Dante’s life, but suffering two broken legs in the process. Dante and his parents express deep gratitude but Ari, who tends to be uncomfortable with emotion (both his and other people’s) brushes off their thanks. Meanwhile, as an incentive towards recovery, Ari’s father buys him a truck and, after the casts on his legs are removed, Ari (after celebrating his sixteenth birthday) learns to drive, and revels in his new freedom. Around this time, he also discovers a sealed envelope with the name of his brother (who is in prison and who is never spoken about) on it.

Closing American Born Chinese

    After reading the second half of American Born Chinese, I was definitely surprised in the ending. Also in the duration of reading the book, I really liked all of it because it brought a new perspective on reading comic books. Graphic Novels do not catch my attention still. And eve still, this graphic novel is different because it had three stories in one. So even when reading this is was different from you standard graphic novel.
     The ending struck be and confused me a little because the characters began to switch up and characters began to change to other characters. For example, Chin-Kee becomes Monkey king, Danny and Jin become their true forms. Danny become Jin Wang and Wei-Chan bis the monkey King son. That became a little hard to follow but overall it was not a big issue.

     In my opinion I like how Yang, the author, incorporated issues of the real world. The struggles of acceptance and appreciation of where you come from was well incorporated in the story theme as well. I personally like to acknowledge her work as far as switching the characters to make the perspective of the reader change.

Opening American Born Chinese

     In American Born Chinese, We discover that it is a graphic novel and it is also three stories in one. A graphic Novel is a book in comic-strip format. It contains bubbles, and the actual thoughts of characters, pictures, lots of colors and many themes. Especially In American Born Chinese. It focuses on the stereotypes about  Chinese people at the same time incorporating The Monkey King, a folk tale that is derived form the Chinese culture. Although the story seems to be about Jin Wang, it starts off with the Monkey King story, then switches to Jin's story in the second chapter.

     Personally, I do not like graphic novels or the comic book format because I can easily get off track. In comparison to Brown Girl Dreaming, I could follow but I got distracted just from a line or two because I wanted to figure out what was going on. Sometimes I can read words but not comprehend the meaning of them, which is time consuming. But at the dame time, I can always produce a general idea of whats going on.

   Additionally, In this book I think its cool to incorporate real social issues, that are in reality, very big controversial issues. On the other hand, I dont like sugar coating anything.

http://www.shmoop.com/american-born-chinese/summary.html

Closing Brown Girl Dreaming

      I really enjoyed the genre of Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, I began to flow much better with the book. Its actually more intriguing to read just because of the format style. It made me appreciate poems a lot more as well. I am pleased that her experiences of living in the South as Well as the North, shaped her into become this awesome writer. I was surprised that her dream to be a writer carried on as well. Additionally, I was really interested because of the time era and because during the Civil Rights Movement Era, blacks were ridiculed and dismissed if they thought their writing needed to be published. So that could have definitely affected her thinking as far as, publishing a book about her life. 

     I think that it really important for people who don't necessarily identify with Jacqueline's specific experiences to read this book because you can always learn more with an open mind. Furthermore, connecting to a persons past experiences could also help one grown as well. Overall, it's not my favorite book but it dis allow me to be more open. Especially, with the formatting in poem style.

 

 

Opening Brown Girl Dreaming

       Opening up Brown Girl Dreaming, I expected it to be a novel about the title. An African American teen girl in our society today. I thought it would be about a girl who has trouble fitting in and why she couldn't fit it. I expected it to be in a novel format with every line to be a sentence, you know, the usual. But it's not. It's in poem formatting which is not common. Since it is in that format, I noticed that it is a lot harder to flow and actually know what going on, rather than in a regular book you could understand a single sentence.
       Diving into the book and beginning to read, the first few pages tell you that it's not in my generation but placed in the 1960's. It begins with Jacqueline being born in Colombus Ohio. It goes on and tells you that her parents got a divorce and how she's managing her life with that. After I her mom moves it describes how hard it is to live in South Carolina, as an African American girl.
        I've never read this book and by the looks of it I think I will appreciate it more than if it were in a regular format. I think the format and the poem structured book it what gets to me the most, in a positive way. I'm definitely going to like this book.