Deliver us from Evie

Deliver us from Evie is a good book. I like the fact that kerr write about the two different type of lesbian the manly and the femine ones. it show's how they are treated differently in society. Parr did not mind the way how evie is but his parents did. If you were to have a gay person in your family how would you deal with it? i have a cousin who is gay and his family seem to be okay with it. they just ask him why he perfer guys instead of girls. they are getting use to the idea now. i always wonder why people are so oppose to gay people? I used to oppose to it , but that ws because everyone was opposing it and i didn't really understad it. Now that i have thought more about it, i think as long as you are happy with that person and love each other it does not matter if they are a boy or girl.

Coraline

I am going to go ahead and post instead tonight.

What do you guys think about this book? Are you lovin' it or not? I'm not loving this book at all. Let's be honest here...the book is creepy. I think it's the pictures that get me, they look so weird and scray. It reminds me of those "scray ghost story" books that you would read as a little child. I was the child that read that book when it was complete daylight outside with friends, too creepy to read alone.
The whole book seems rather odd to me as well? The mice whisper and sing this creepy song? Who goes and talks to mice hiding under a bed? There is this part on page 31 when she is at "other mothers' house" and she is talking to the mice. She asks them if they can talk and what they do and in response they say this back to her:
"We have teeth and we have tails
We have tails and we have eyes
We were here before you fell
You will be here when we rise"

when i read that section it seemed as if the mice were preparing her because they were going to take over. Apparently they were just preparing for the circus they were going to perform. Yeah, that makes much more sense. Again..a very intresting and odd book.

I think the whole "other mothers' house" is creepy. Everything on that side of that other world is distorted and strange. For example, her parents have buttons for eyes. The plus side is her parents in that house ackwoledge her and feed her real food vs. her real parents who are always too busy to spend time with her and either can't cook or cook something that a child her age definately won't eat. They also pronouce her name the correct way.

This book seems like a dark attempt at something like The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.
I can't say i would ever reccomend this book to anyone, and to be honest it has already gone in my "donate" area in my garage. I have a hard time doing illogical and creepy at the same time.

Skelling Reading

Let me be honest. I have not read the whole book yet. I just finished The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, this evening. I really loved that book. When i was younger i always had that dream that i had a secret door in my house that led to some cool place that i can go back and forth to. I think also because i read this book a lot as a child and seen the movie i was very much into the book.
Skelling is a bit erie. I don't know how else to say it. Part of me can seriosuly reason with Michael. When my family decided to move into out first house i was about 9 going on 10. The neighborhood was amazing, but the house was a dump and when i 1st seen it i refused to live there until it looked liveable. The backyard was this feild of weeds, and the inside of the house had massive holes in the walls, it was horrible. My parents decided we wouldn't live there until the house was in great shape. It took them almost a year and after that you couldn't tell it was ever a dump before, it fit in perfectly with the other houses in the area.
This book is definately pegged for young readers. I say this because the chapters are seriously short. I suppose it makes them feel accomplished to be able to say "i read 10 chapters", which anyone would think, "wow that's a lot of reading!" when really it's only 27 pages.
I do find it creepy that they have moved into a house where a person died. Under no circumstances is that okay with me. I would easily start freaking myself out.
It seems to me so far that Michael just feels like he is an outsider. Afterhe gets caught exploring the garage he says, "Then i went back into the wildreness we called a garden and she went back to the stupid baby(Almond, pg.5)."
I am not exactly sure who Dr. Death is. He says he calls him Dr. Death because of the way he looks. I haven't really gotten far into the book yet, as i said i just finished the previous book.

Wizard oｆ Oz

Well　since there no one posting anything I will. I finished the book. itis a good book but i think this is more of a book for teenager and not for kids. itis also not like disney movie. Like in some part of it. for example, the part where the Tin man was telling his story of how he became a Tinman. i like the book more than the movie because it has more detail and you actually get the whole book. i like how each characters has their own story and when i was little i was always frighten by that movie. if back then i was to read this book i would be awfully scared. anyways this book is a great book.

Alice in Wonderland

Umm.... i have only gotten to chapter 4.. but i was really confused with the numbers that was referring to the bottom.. But it is a very good book . i like this quote from page 29, "I almost wish i Hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole -and yet - and yet - it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!......when i used to read fairy tales, i fancied that kind of thing never happened and here i am in the middle of one." i like this quote because it show the curiousity of little kids and also older people. i said older people too because everyone is always courious about something that is how we discover things. idon't know about you guys but some time i get confused on what is happening.. but it does have lots of magic in it. i don't read fantasy book much. i got confuse why the catilpiller had her repeat that little story or ryhm. i don't like reading this book.

Briar Rose Reading

I am glad to be done with analyizing what Zipes thinks is a good children's book and actually reading a book.
The person who is suppose to be our lead blogger i think dropped the class, so i am going to do it again , but it won't be too long. I have class, but i wanted to get this out so you guys had time to respond.
I really do like the Briar Rose. I love that it's modern and up to date and i love that the characters are relateable. I really have no idea why they call their grandma "Gemma" but that is neither here nor there. I really do enjoy that this a modern day fairy tale sleeping beauty with a girl on this journey to find out the truth about this fairy tale that her grandmother told her all throughout her life. Reading this book reminds me of reading a memoir of some kind of tragic time. More like a memoir of the Halocaust.
I love that Gemma pretty much lets Rebecca know that Briar Rose is her ...in so many ways, by telling her the story will come true. Her sisters pretty much dismiss her grandmother like she is just old and rambling so whatever she says doesn't really hold to anything. I am really enjoying this book and this journey that i am able t go on as Rebecca discovers her past.

Class Blog

This one of the class blogs for ENGL 342, Spring 07.