Ending the quarter well with another finished book!

I finished The Urban Hermit, and I really liked it for a few reasons. First the book was good because you can't help but feeling like you know Sam (the urban hermit). Also the book was good because he was really funny. One final reason I liked the book was because it was so cool to actually think that somebody did what this man did. He only spent eight dollars a weeks and only ate eight-hundred calories a day and completely succeeded and his life became much better. So yea I think this is where I will leave off my blog off for this marking period.

Another new book!!!

So I have started my third book of the quarter, it is called The Urban Hermit by Sam MacDonald. It is a true story about himself. Sam, after college (he went to harvard) slowly spent money and gained a lot of weight. He reached a point where he owed so much money to the government and was so overweight that he had to do something drastic. So he started an experiment called the urban hermit project. In it he would only spend eight dollars a week and eat 800 calories a day. This book is him re-living this crazy experiment and the best part is what happened to him after, after he was done he was debt free, 160 pounds lighter, and got a job as a news reporter. I really like this book so far because I really like the craziness of his plan and the story is actually funny even though basically the whole story is told in the first chapter.

My new book.

I'm reading a new book called Game Of Shadows by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. The book is about the use of steroids in sports. One part of the book that really made me think was right in the beginning; they were talking about all these Olympic Athletes. I learned that on top of unhealthy amount of exercise (at least about 7) these athletes take incredible amounts of drugs and, legal and illegal. One such story was of female runner Marion Jones. Jones ingested about 35 things a day that helped her train. These included creatine monohydrate, vitamins A, C, E, D, B1, B2, B6, B12, omega- 3 fatty acids, dextrose, tyrosine, folic acid, and ZMA tablets. My first reaction after hearing all of these things was that it was incredibly unsafe. After that the book named a lot of the athletes that had healthy problems because of the all these drugs. I guess that this book has so far given me a peek at the darker side of Olympic sports.

finished with the book, last thoughts.

I have finished the book. Towards the end of the book you can see a lot of togetherness between the two families who's daughters were mixed up. I was really surprised because the two families seem to be friends now. They have spent a lot of time together between doing spots on the news, and writing this book. I think that it was sort of beautiful in a way to read about this bond that these two families share and the fact that they became so close because of a tragic accident and a case of mistaken identity. The end of the book reminded me of the book reminded me of the saying "It's always darkest before the light" because in the span of two months, both families had the experience of losing a loved one, but have grown as people and have recovered using each other.

Starting to really get into the story.

This week in the book I read about one of the families reactions when they got the call from the hospital about their daughter being alive. It was different than the reaction I would expect. For one, the other daughter that was living in the house was convinced that the call was a prank call and they should just go back to sleep; it's not like she does not care if her sister was alive, she just thought that this was some jerk that was playing a horrible joke on them. The daughter, Carly, would not let her mother even think that the news was real. While Carly thought the call was fake, the mother had mixed feelings. On one hand, nothing could make her happier than to have her daughter back, but at the same she does not want to fully believe that her daughter is actually alive because she does not want to go through the pain of losing her daughter again. I talked about this because it was completely not what I expected to do. I would expect them to immediately run to the car and speed to the hospital.

My New Book A.K.A OFFICIAL BEGGINING OF THE SECOND MARKING PERIOD!

To kick off the second quarter I have found a book that I am really exited to read. It is funny because it the book is an in-depth look at this really big case of mistaken identity that I had actually heard about on the news a few years ago. I decided to read this because I remembered how sad it was when I saw it on the news but forgot pieces of the story. The case was of these two girls who hit each other in their cars. The two girls happened to look exactly the same (and were not related. One died in the car crash and one lived, but was in a coma. Somehow all the cops and family members mistook the two girls because there faces were messed up in the crash. The family of the dead girl thought that their loved one was in a coma and the family of the girl in a coma thought that their loved one had died. You can probably imagine what it was like when the girl came out of her coma. But the thing that really interests me about this story is the idea that you think your loved one was almost dead and then find out that she was dead all along. Or that the loved one that died tragically has been alive the whole time. So yes I'm really exited to read this book.

The "epic" story about me reading a whole book in one week!!!

Because last Friday was the official end of the marking period and I only had credit for two book's (one really long one), this week I had to read a whole book; and I actually did it. The book I read was called The Body Of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci. I know the name of the book may give a weird picture in the reader's head but the book was really good. The book was about a guy named Victor "Torey" Adams. Torey had a great life in his old town until a person he knew from his school, Christopher Creed, went missing mysteriously. Christopher's body was found by Torey who went in the woods to look for him and ended up tripping and fell onto the dead body, which is pretty gross to even think about. When Torey told everybody that he found the body there was obviously people that would think rumers like that Torey killed Christopher and such. It was things like this that made Torey want to leave town; so for his senior year as a student, Torey went to a boarding school. Soon after the year at the new school starts people start to learn about Torey's past, It was as if Torey could not run away from what had happened. Throughout the book the reader sees Torey trying to contact people that knew more about the "insedent". One quick thing that I thought was funny was that i was able to make a connection to The Cather In The Rye because in the first chapter, Torey was sitting in his room when another boy from the school, Leo, barges in and starts spying and touching things in Torey's room. It reminded me of the part of Catcher when Ackley would come into Holden's room and start touching everything.