Stephanie+Cunningham

= May 26th, 2011. =


 * __Discussions of Classmates Blogs__- So i read Alexis Heistand's blog and her book looks really good. I like books with outcasts who then find friends with extraordinary people who don't judge them like the rest of the world does. I have also read Jaslyn Clark's blog and she seems ecstatic about the book she just read that's called __House Rules.__ She also noted in her blog that the book has a somewhat predictable ending but not right out in the open which i'm perfectly okay with. :)
 * __Characters__- The characters in my book are still Zoey Redbird, Stark, Aphrodite, Darius and the rest of the gang. These characters are all a group of friends and are very close with each other. Zoey is pretty much the leader of everyone else because even though she hasn't been there as long as every one else she has affinities for all of the elements. Stark is now not just her Warrior but her Gaurdian. He found a way to go into the afterworld so she could put her soul back together and fight back the darkness and evil that she'd left behind in the world when her soul shattered. Aphrodite is still a stuck up snob that cares about herself most the time but now she and Darius are in love which is slowly making her a soft and more caring person. She also is one of Zoey's best friends and also a prophetess for Nyx. Darius is Aphrodite's warrior and he's sworn an oath to always protect her. He also help Aphrodite when she has her visions and helps Zoey interpret them.
 * __Summary__- So i'm reading the next book in the series, Awakened. I haven't gotten very far into this book yet but it's still good. Kalona has come back from the afterworld but he didn't fullfill his oath to Neferit that he'd kill Zoey. So she has complete control over him because of it. Zoey is still on the island where she's safe from all the outside world until she and Stark feel rested enough to go back. The gang back home is setting up for a big meeting for when Zoey does arrive and while preparing Neferit manages to kill one of them and Stevie Rae knows it was her.
 * __Rating__- I give this book (and this series) a rating of 5. I can't wait till more books come out! :)
 * __Discussions of Classmates' Reading__-
 * __Wiki Reflections__- I do think that doing blogs on the Wiki site was good because it was easy to keep track of and everyone's stuff is on here and viewable so you could talk and discuss books, you could even discuss them as a class if you wanted to.

**April 18th, 2011. Blog entry 2.**
I am reading __Burned__ by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. April 1st, 2011. Blog entry 1 I am reading __Children of the Lamp__
 * I am reading the book Burned by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast.
 * This is a new book for me but it's the seventh book in the seies so far and it's on going. aka: the author hasn't even finished writing the series yet so i read every new book when it comes out and i just bought the next one so i'm really excited to finish this one and move on to the next one. :) So when i first started this blog in class the other day i had 15 pages read and now i have 119 read! =D
 * So first off I can't really tell you what's happening in this book without giving you a little background information that would come with reading the other books that preceeds this one. The main character's name is Zoey Redbird and she is a fledging. Now this series IS about vampires but it is NOTHING like Twilight at all. At first when i read the very beginning book I didn't like it at all because i had just finished reading the Twilight series and i did like it and then these books were so much different. It's not about romance and finding love even though Zoey (being a teen) has some boy issues through out the books but what teenage girl doesnt? =P These books are more action and suspence than romance though. So Zoey has been marked as a vampyre, and yes that's how they spell it in the book, but in this series humans know about them and they know that they live among them. Some people like them, some people dispise them and some just don't care. So Zoey goes to the special school for vampyres called The House of Night and in this school she discovers that she has magical connections to all the affinities that the vampyres' goddess, Nyx, has given her. She has affinity for air, water, earth, fire, and spirit which no fledging or even full grown vampyre has EVER had before, so even from the beginning Zoey is VERY special and VERY important. So her mentor from the beginning, Neferet, has turned evil and basically risen a very powerfull evil immortal from the grave. His name is Kalona and he used to be a good guy, one of Nyx's warriors but when he forbiddenly fell in love with her he was banished from the Otherworld for his feelings for her because it was forbidden to feel that way for her if you weren't her warrior, whose name is Erebus. Now Neferet is wanting to bring back the ways of the old days where vampyres ruled the world and they could walk freely among humans without having to hide their vampyre markings (which all vampyres had. Fledgings had an outline of blue cresent moons on their foreheads and when you finally turned into a full vampyre then it would fill in being completely blue and have a special marking that was different for each vampyre that marked them with their personality in a way). Zoey isn't a full grown vampyre she's just a fledging still, but her cresent is already filled in and she has her personality markings on her face, AND she has another thing that no other vampyre fledging or full grown, has ever had. She has her personality tattoos not just on her face (where they usually are) but she's also got them covering her arms, chest, and her back. (btw they're not real tattoos. They come in by themselves, a gift given by the goddess) So in the previous book Zoey has just seen her consort (a human or vampyre that other vampyres use for feeding off their blood to stay alive {it doesnt kill them either and they don't turn into vampyres just by being bitten, they form a very strong bond called an imprint}) but anyway she had just seen Kalona kill her consort and human ex boyfriend (but still in a way her boyfriend). She tried stopping him by throwing the element spirit at him but she couldn't stop it and Heath died. Seeing him die was too much for her soal to handle and so her soal shattered and only her human body remains as a shell on earth while her soal is in pieces in the Otherworld with Heath. So this book is about Zoey's friends and her warrior, Stark, trying to get Zoey back to help defeat Kalona and Neferet. Zoey's body will only remain for a short amount of time before it dies, and no vampyre's soal that shattered has ever gotten back to their bodies, they always ended up dying... always. I really like these books and i hope that the new one doesn't take too long to come out. :)
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 * Respond to at least TWO of your classbmates' blogs.

= ** Blogging requirements for April 1, 2011 ** = === ** Date the entry and remind the reader what book you are reading. ** ===

=== ** State the number of pages you have read this week. ** ===

=== ** Quote a favorite line from the book and discuss why it's your favorite line. ** ===

=== ** Insert a picture of your book. Look at the aesthetics of your entry....make it look professiona ** ===

= **March 4th, 2011. Blog Entry 4. FINAL BLOG.** =
 * Characters:**
 * John Gaunt (Major)
 * Philippa Gaunt (Major)
 * Uncle Nimrod (Major)
 * Layla Gaunt (Minor)
 * Edward Gaunt (Minor)
 * Mrs. Trump (Minor)
 * Dr. Larr (Minor)
 * Plot**


 * Rating:**

I am still reading __What i...__ By Marie Lamba and so far I've met a couple new characters that seem like they will be main characters. One of them is Gina who is Sang's best friend, and another one is Dalton who is a friend of Sang's from school that was at the ice skating rink the night that Sang went there for her date with Jason. Which is something that i MUST tell in this blog. She ended up going to the rink for her date behind her parents backs but when she got there Jason wasn't there and he never did show up. Which is when Dalton comes up to her and talks to her, which makes her feel better. The best part of this book so far is how there's some what of a romance in it. I love books with romance and ones that are around our age because i can relate to them and they almost always have a happy ending. :) I haven't really found any part in this book that i don't like so i don't see any worst part in this book.
 * Reactions:**
 * February 10th, 2011. Blog Entry 3.**

http://teenbookreviewer.blogspot.com/2007/07/review-what-i-meant-by-marie-lamba.html
 * January 27th, 2011. Blog Entry 2.**

__What I Meant...__ By Marie Lamba I got this book in the high school's library and I decided to read it because it looked like a good book when I read the back cover.

The main character in this book is named Sang and she is 15 years old. Sang is the first generation of family on her father's side that was born in America. Her father was from India but moved to America when he met and married his wife. To me Sang seems very nice and very outgoing, for instance she gets straight A's and her room's always clean and she does very good all around in life. Sang is having issues with her dad about letting her date. She likes this boy named Jason and she's going behind her parents' backs and going on a date with him but before she does she keeps trying to convince her parents that she's old enough and mature enough to date. So far i do like this book. I like it because I can compare to the Sang because she's a sophomore in high school and she's 15 and will be 16 soon and i just turned 16 a month and a half ago.


 * January 13th, 2011.** Today I have successfully created a Wiki account, joined this Wiki, and am ready to blog!