Smackin'

So, i'm done with The Diary of a Young Girl Annie Frank, yay! Now, i'm reading this book called Smack by Melvin Burgess. I started reading this book before I started reading the Annie Frank book, but then I read that and I kind of forgot about this. I actually really liked this book when I first started reading it, but then I kind of like veered away from it. Because I forgot what it was really about. I'm not going to write about the book, or the plot as much but just the way the book is.

The book is about a bunch of wanton teens and their lives. It's quite interesting and very humorous actually.  I kind of forgot the character's names and there are a lot so I can't tell you that. But, it's mostly about what happens, what goes on in a teenage girl's and boy's life. Which is pretty much; boyfriend/girlfriend, drugs, sex, etc...

I'm like 30 pages into the book, but I think i'm going to stop because I don't even know what's going on! I started reading it again in Project R.E.A.L again, and I was so confused. The book is written in kind of a unique way, that I have seen in a couple of books, but not much. It's unique, because it's not written by like chapters but by a character and their thoughts. Like for ex: Um... Emily and like Gabe. I don't know, haha. So it would be like how Emily sees what happens, what she thinks and then the next part would be like the same situation but in Gabe's perspective. And that's how it goes throughout the whole book, basically. It's also written in that like English type of way, with those English words/curses. And oh, I almost forgot! It has like a dictionary for the English words, which I found very amusing and informative. 

So, yeah. I didn't really want to post today, and so that's why it's crap blah. But I reccommend this to anyone who is an enterprising person, someone who is open to books. Because this is definitely one to check out so yeah. I'm just not reading it cause i'm a lazy person, who doesn't like to reread.

*Black, underlined words are for the Writing Challenge.

Yours truly, 

Zarrin S. Class 813 [:

I. Need. To. Finish. ASAP.

Yes, I'm still reading The Diary of a Young Girl Annie Frank, I know. I thought I would've finished it by now since it's just so good, and I read it as much as I can, in my free time and all. But I've been just so sidetracked lately err... Also, maybe because I've been becoming a slow reader, I just really want to peruse the text now. I don't want to miss one detail.And I deplore that decision as well, because I wanted to write a better blog post than the crappy one I'm about to type right now. *sigh* oh well. Here we go. This book or um, diary is a diary written by this beautiful, young girl named Anne. Anneliese Marie Frank to be exact. But I don't like the name Anne, so we're not going to call her that. We're going to call her Annie. This story is taken place during the Nazi War with Hitler in charge, her family is forced to go into hiding with 4 other people in a Secret Annex in her father's old work office. Anne writes about everything that happens there, as she notices many things. In all of the people in the Annex, she's the most talkative and least enjoyable person. She lives with her father, her mother, her staid, stubborn sister, Margot. Another family who she terribly dislikes, Ms. van Daan, Mr. van Daan, and their son, Peter, and also not part of the family Pfeffer.

In my last post, I talked about Annie being in love with this boy, who I forgot the name of. I said, he'd probably be included in the story more. But I was wrong, actually he's totally forgotten. Maybe because I did not expect them to go to the Secret Annex at all it was a total blow, when I found out. I actually don't want to really put a theory out, because if you think about it, this isn't a real book. Actually, it's a diary and a diary is your thoughts, it doesn't have a beginning, rising, climax and end. It just happens. And so, that's why I don't wanna whoops! I mean want to heh ;] 'risk' myself putting a theory that will most likely not come true, like the one about her love life. No wait. Actually, it might have been true. I wouldn't know because when they found her diary, they edited out anything with sexual content, so maybe. Huh. Well, I never actually thought about that.

I just find this story-no, diary so interesting and funny at times. This diary was ONLY published due to the fact of historical evidence, but really I don't care about that. That part really slips my mind. I care about her, her thoughts, feelings and humor. Her life, really. Annie is just so funny, like even if there are parts that are really serious I want to burst out laughing. I don't even know why. I think the most important reason why I can relate to her so much is because she is a teenage girl. Well, like me. She goes through what we go through, in a more old-fashioned way but still, she goes through it. It's just so good, her adolescence, her writing, her thoughts. Scratch that. It's freaking everything. Man, I really want to skip through the whole book and really read the afterword. But i'm afraid if I read the afterword, i'll hear what I really don't want to. DEATH. <Man, that's really really annoying. But if I had to pick one favorite thing about this diary, is that it's real. No, not some story. Hence on some. It's real, it happened. It's crazy. It's, it's nwhw1n01eee1henskskssnkss. Yeah it's that.

Overall, please go read it. Anyone. Please. Go. Read. It. Or I'm just going to have to tell you everything. Hahaha :P Oh yeah, and now you know what I mean my crappy ^

*Black, underlined words are for the Writing Challenge.

Yours truly, 

Zarrin S. 813 (:

Poor Annie Frank :(

I just started reading The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank today. Also, I like calling her Annie not Anne, Anne sounds like a Grandma's name to me :S. Well anyway, I decided to finally read it yesterday at night, but only because I read the foreword (I spelled it right!) The foreword was so interesting, it made me want to read the book, but also because so many people recommended it to me. I asked them if there were like sexual content in the book, considering it was a book from long time ago, and they said no so then I thought maybe the foreword would say why. To my compete surprise, the foreword was 3 pages long! Like, wow! It actually did have what I was looking for. Her father, Otto H. Frank who is also the editor of this book included that there was sexual content in Anne's original diary but he felt that, that was too personal and inappropriate at the time of 1940's, which I thought made complete sense. If it weren't for the foreword, I would have left it back down in my book case (it's my sister's book, not mine) because I don't want to read the life of a 15 year old girl during the war, how boring but it really isn't. It's actually quite humorous but also informative at the same time.

That was a long intro, well now to the actually diary. In her (Anne) diary, she talks about everyone she knows/meets. Everyone in her class, in her family, her friends, etc...everyone! She explains everything about them, and I think that was really unique because most people would write, not caring about explanations. Now in the book, there are A LOT of people mentioned, so much that I can't write everyone down but only the main people. Her family: her Daddy, who she loves so much and gets a long with more, her Mother, who she too loves and helps around with, Margot, her older sister that always does better than her, and Hello, her "crush", the boy she talks to a lot and hangs with.

This diary of hers is truly aspiring and thoughtful. But if my father sold my diary, made it into a book and made millions. I'd be a little pissed off, naw actually a lot pissed off! But then again, she was planning on giving it in for some information of the time period, since it was the time of Holocaust, it would've been a informative text for the government.  And I personally, think it is. She talks about what goes on and how she deals with it. I don't know if she will later on in the book, because i'm only 30 pages in. But I think she will. I think that she'll either talk more about Hello or not because of where she is in the part of the book, but then i'm more leaning on that she will. I think they have a connection that should last and it would make the story more interesting if it did. But, I have a bad feeling about the Hitler situation I am just SO sure that something's going to happen to her or her family members. Err *bites nails*

In the end, I venerate her. Because of her giving away her diary or that she was going to give it away. That's seriously amazing, I wouldn't want to give my diary away. I'm really enjoying this book or "diary." It's so much fun to read it from her perspective, but only because she's a 15 year old girl writing about her family, her love life and what's actually going on around her. Oh and something I forgot to add, I absolutely love the format of the book. Starting off with Dear Kitty (the name of her diary) and ending with Yours, Anne truly makes me smile. It just seems so ahh... I don't know the word, just happy? Blah. I think i'm going to actually finish this one, unlike the last book I attempted to read. I recommend it to everyone!

*Black, underlined words are for the Writing Challenge.

Yours truly, 

Zarrin S Class 813