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Mrs. Hunt's Book Reviews
Below are my most recent readings and their reviews.
As part of my "Summer of doing things for me" I have decided to review my readings. As you can see below I am part of the summer reading challenge. The first book that I read was a classic book by Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper. I would have to say that this was one of the best books by Picoult that I have read. I really do enjoy her style of writing, where she writes from multiple character's perspectives, but she did an extraordinary job in this novel. Her character work was outstanding. I particularly enjoyed her character work with the older brother Jessie. She made him such an interesting character and a great addition to the main story line. I think I connected to this because I see everyday how student react to the various situations in their life. I also loved the ending. I of course won't give that away here, but it was a classic twist Picoult ending.
My Sister's Keeper-Reviews
As part of my "Summer of doing things for me" I have decided to review my readings. As you can see below I am part of the summer reading challenge. The first book that I read was a classic book by Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper. I would have to say that this was one of the best books by Picoult that I have read. I really do enjoy her style of writing, where she writes from multiple character's perspectives, but she did an extraordinary job in this novel. Her character work was outstanding. I particularly enjoyed her character work with the older brother Jessie. She made him such an interesting character and a great addition to the main story line. I think I connected to this because I see everyday how student react to the various situations in their life. I also loved the ending. I of course won't give that away here, but it was a classic twist Picoult ending.Speaking on the ending of the book... the movie. What happened with the movie. Although the movie did a great choice in choosing actors for the roles, I was really upset by some of the choices that the director/screen writers made. I am fully aware that you can not include every aspect of a book into a movie, but I really feel they did Picoult's book an injustice. They left out some of the greatest character traits of Jesse, who I said before was one of the greatest parts of the book. Also, they changed the ending. I think part of what made this book so amazing was the greatest part, and it was completely different. Although the movie was tied up in a nice neat bow, I think what makes Picoult's books so great is that they aren't nice and neat, they are messy and emotional and great.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone, but I would tell anyone else that they should wait to rent or netflix's this movie.
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Its really cool that this came up. I know the whole class saw the pictures of my brain. well after i had surgery for months i wouldnt have dreams. It kind of creeped me out. I dont know why though. But now I have dreams and they can be kind of boring, or seem really real. I had a recent dream that someone stole the ring that means the most to me and it was such a nightmare. I dont know if i really like dreams at all. lol
((LARA))
I usually don't remember my dreams, I haven't had one in years, usually just have violent nightmares :\. Oh well, here is some insight on lucid dreaming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrV4vEDPkB0&feature=related
i cant remember the dreams i have, i mean the next morning when i wake up and have a good dream i want to keep sleeping just so the dream continues, like a fantasy world. if i have a dream tonight ill let you know
i sometimes remember my dreams.
i think how dreams work is that like you hear something before you go to bed or like you are thinking about something right before you go to sleep and that is what you dream about.
i always dream about concerts and like boys because at night that's where i do most of my thinking and i listen to music!
i love dreams:)
hey guys, yea its cool to here all the different dreams u guys have, mine are mostly about super powers but hey kinda kiddy ish lol
I used to have these dreams where i would be "swimming" over the town in which I lived in at the time, as if the air was water. I would always get vertigo during those lucid dreams. ^_^
my dreams are usually about me being a hero and completing an impossible mission. i also have dreams related to what i watch on tv right before i go to sleep.
i usually dont remember my dream either but when i do theyre usually of people really close to me having bad things happen to them. i wake up and freak out sometimes thinking they were real and then i laugh at myself.
im not really a big dreamer
well i say that because i dont remember my dreams, and i wish i could, but usually when i remember my dreams there about something good which is always a good thing
I don't really remember my dreams. Most of the time I will try to but can't. Unless they happen after I already woke up and then went back to sleep. But then they are really crazy and I don't know why i dream about certain things that usually put someone in a dangerous situation.:/
I actually had a dream last night where I was in a room with practically all my class mates and we were all standing in a circle, and one of my classmates stepped into the middle of the circle and started to play bass guitar, trying to show off. So that being my instrument of choice, once he was done, I wanted to play so he handed me the bass and once it touched my fingers the tuning keys at the head of the guitar unwound the strings so it was unplayable, and everyone laughed. The he went up and played guitar with a pretty good amount of skill. Once he was done, i tried to redeem myself and I tried playing the guitar and once it touched my fingers, the strings turned to razor wire and the saddle's on the strings went up really high, so I again, couldn't play. I kept on trying but only to cut my fingers and have everyone laugh at me...then i woke up. :(
i have really strange dreams sometimes, but i cant remember them when i am awake. Yes, i can remember them a little when i first wake up, but after 2 or 3 hours of being awake, i cannot remember anything that i had dreamt. their are images in my head, but i cant form the words to explain them.
There was one i remember that I had 8 or so years ago, but that's really the only one. My babysitter at the time got her arm torn off by an alligator that jumped out of a puddle. Other than that, I don't remember most of my dreams. But i've been popping up in people's dreams lately. In a really creepy way, actually. I think dreams are kind of the brain's way of telling you things that you don't know you're thinking. One of my exes keeps saying that i pop up in her dreams, and she becomes almost mesmerized. But when I appear, i look like i did when we first met. Does anyone else think that means something?
Well if that's how you appear in her dreams, then that is how you are represented through her eyes. Also, the fact that she is mesmerized when looking at you in her dreams shows that she might feel ensnared in some trait that you have (i.e. beauty). It could also mean that she feels helpless in trying to resist you changing, hence her not being able to move/mesmerized. So my best guess is that she misses the old you, hence her showing up in her dreams and that she still has feelings for you. I'm no psychologist, so I might be wrong....
I usually have dreams regarding issues that are on my mind a lot. Even if they're not on my mind when I fall asleep. Its cool cause its almost like tapping into a subconscious thought level or something.
I don't usually remember my dreams when I wake up. If I do remember them at all they are usually about whatever I was thinking of right before or as i was falling asleep. I used to have the same nightmare every night for a long time, awhile ago, but after i stopped having that dream I didn't really remember anymore that i have now.
Yea, I used to have the same violent nightmare almost every night before I moved to my dad's house, they just kind of went away after that...
I really have the most insane dreams anyone has ever heard of. Must mean I'm crazy. They're always about wacky things that could never in a million years happen. Like this one dream I've just always remembered. It took place at ruth chaffee, my elementry school, and like i was being chased by this giant squid and the girls bathroom completely filled with water and i had to escape. It was really so weird. I think i played way too much mario, you know those stupid squid things that spit ink? yeah that must have been it. it creeped me out so bad
I seem to usually always remember my dreams. They aren't really about me being chased or falling or anything, more just about what happened to me the day before or things that are going on in my life. Actually in most of my dreams I am well aware that I am dreaming so I can do whatever because I know its just a dream. But at those few other times my dreams seem so real and have to do with what is going on in my life i sometimes have to ask people, wait did that really happen or did that just happen in my dream?
I feel like i hate my dreams sometimes because i can only remember them for half of the day and then when i am ready to tell someone what happened at the end of the day, i forget. But i'm not really one to have the chasing dreams. I'm more of the dejavu kind of girl. More than 70% of my dreams are dejavu and i end up seeing them play out in real life in the next week or so. I think its creepy, but then again i like it because i can prepare myself for that situation and sometimes i feel like i minupulate it and change the outcome.
i never remember my dreams :( but i think that we dream about the ideas that we think about in the back of our minds and its not something that we can control
i don't remember a lot of my dreams but the dreams that i do remember are one that I'm either being chased in or falling in.
I dont normally remember my dreams all that much but when i do i have some strange ones. Some of them include my friends and some are about what happened that day but twisted around in different ways. One time i dreamnt about getting married in my prom dress lol.
I have dreams of me if questions I avoided were asked and I couldn't get out of it or dreams of my alter ego, like how in "The One" there were many personalities of one guy, I get dreams that I'm one of those.
I have many dreams. but the ones that most stand out to me are falling or violent dreams, for example i remember being chased and then being stabbed by one of my friends. when i woke up the next day my stomach hurt really bad, but i think that it had to do with both my stomach and maybe in real life something was about to happen to me and my friend.
My dreams are very everyday dreams. They are not magical nor fantasy-like. I just dream about the usual everyday things and situations. If I have a problem, I deal with it through my dreams. My dreams really help me cope and understand my emotions. Apart from the usual themes of my dreams, I do tend to fly a lot, but in a very realistic manner. I love dreaming to see what I'd do in certain situations.
I think that on average, i remember 3 dreams, or parts of dreams a week. They usually consist of friends, old friends, and alot of the time, people i havent talked to in a while. They are also usually very wierd, and not very realistic. The wierdest dreams i think are the ones where you know the person or the place in the dream, but they arent the same in real life. For example if you dream about youf house, well its your house in the dream but its not the same as your house in real life.
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