Wrong!

Okay, I admit...I was wrong about what I said in my blog post "I Can't Read Boys!", or at least I think so. Now, I think that it doesn't matter who the main character is, it matters who the author's audience was, and my fellow commenters made me realize that. One person said that they thought it depended on who the main character was, girls connecting more to girl books, and guys to guy books,  except in the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, and another person said they also thought it wasn't about the main character but about who is the audience. All of these comments made me think really hard , and I finally reached a decision to see my reader's point of views and see if I agreed with them...so I continued reading Hugo Cabret, and finished easily! I even almost started crying when the book ended, that's how good it was. So, I'm going to seriously start being more opened minded about listening to other people's opinions, because they could even change your own!

Hugo Cabret is a young boy who is very good at working with his hands. His deceased father taught him that skill, and it helped him well later on because now Hugo Cabret is an orphan and spends his days using his hands to fix clocks in a train station, but he needs even more excitement then that , so he begins stealing form the toy booth in front of his "home" and building and re-building the toys, that's were his adventure begins.

In my opinion, this book attracted me more than Youth In Revolt or It's Kind of A Funny Story, because one, I love art, two it uses historical facts which really makes the book interesting and seem like a true story, and three, just like an intriguing story! It was so different, and I think that's why I loved it. In my opinion, the reason the author made it so different then form other books, is because he wanted to stand out from all the writers, teach us something, and create some art. Well, in my eyes, he succeeded at that, and created a master piece. Now this book is hitting my "Top 10 Best Books" list.

Master Posts

 I wanted to congratulate everyone cause everyone had great blog posts but the three people bellow, Audrey, Teddy and Anabel, are people who had really inspiring blog posts. They are  most definitely my "All Star Mentors" of the week.




Ms.Robbins

Audrey Bachman

Just Go With It

http://lostinreading.blogspot.com/2011/01/just-go-with-it.html

Audrey seems like someone who is really creative. At least her blog post is. She didn't just do a typical three paragraph blog post, she really used good writing craft and wrote her post in a purposeful, creative way. She wrote a blog post in response to a poem, and made good observations, good inferences and good conclusions about the poem, and they were all paragraphs that were...extravagant... and made you go through a little thinking adventure in your head. She wrote like a little memoir before analyzing the poem and it was just so powerful, I never stopped reading I promise. Even though this kind of blog post is so original and different, it's one of the most amazing one's I have read yet, and it might be risky for me to do this because I'm not as creative as Audrey, but one day when I feel like changing the mood a little in my blog, I will most definitely turn to Audrey's writing for ideas.

Ms.Rear

Teddy Ostrow

Bye Bye Dad

http://ienjoybabythrowup.blogspot.com/2011/02/bye-bye-dad.html 

I'm not a big Harry Potter nut, I mean I love watching the movies, but that's about as much I'm dedicated to the series, however, Teddy's blog post on the books really got to me and made me think a lot about Harry Potter. He basically took his feelings about his dad leaving to go take care of his grandma in Connecticut, and made a connection to a detail in the book. I'm guessing that when he read about how Harry Potter's parents are dead, it brought out feelings about himself not seeing his dad for a while. He  put those feelings on his blog, and in this way made his posts deeper, and really showed us what Teddy was thinking. After he made the connection to his book, he wrote another great paragraph on his thoughts on orphans, and what he thinks they go through, which gave his audience a different perspective and the ability to think about a topic they probably don't think about everyday. Then, he wrote a paragraph, on memories he would keep of him and his dad, which was just plain old sweet, and made me appreciate sitting down at the dinner table with my whole family. I really enjoyed just the whole post in general because it was different then what I am used too. It wasn't the typical blog post, in this one...I really got to the writers head. On top of this all, it was great format, good paragraphs and good editing. I can proudly say I was on Teddy Ostrow's blog and read a piece of his writing.

Ms.Rear

Anabel Polin

A Fraction of the Whole…Still

http://youcalledishmeal.blogspot.com/2011/02/fraction-of-whole-still.html 

First things first, man did Anabel go above the meeting standards blog post. She wrote five real solid paragraphs, and I never got bored from reading her post. I think Anabel's post on her book A Fraction of the Whole is a really good example of a star mentor blog post.  She has great capitalization, spelling, purposeful paragraphs, and good format to use. She first tells you what the book is, gives you context, and then gives you her theory, everything my E.L.A teacher, Ms. Robbins taught us to do. When she wrote the context of the book, she wrote it in a quick brief way, which is something I really need to learn to do. In her theory, I thought it was really cool that she didn't just focus on the theme of the whole book, but she tried to unpack a character in the book with small details she noticed about them. She didn't even unpack the main character, she unpacked a character on the side, which is something I really want to try. Also, as I was reading, I really felt like she was talking to me because she had so much personality put into it, which made her writing more interesting, and her thoughts seem more realistic. It's just definitely a blog post everyone can learn from.