Blog Review

            I could never imagine rereading a book; I don’t like to read books the first time.  I agree with Eamon that the books we most like turn out bad.  One of the books that I didn’t like the ending of but liked the book was The Giver.  It ended with an open ending.  I don’t like open endings because it leaves you wondering what happens to the character.  Then, the second book of the series, Gathering Blue, didn’t really connect to the first book. It didn’t have as big as an open ending but the end was still pretty bad.  Then, the third book in the series, Messenger, had the worst ending because the character that you get to know very well dies.

            I agree that people reread books because they want the book to end happily.  If I were to reread those books I know that I would get to the sad parts and want it to end happily even though I knew it wasn’t going to happen.  My brain couldn’t take the sad parts either.  I would also throw the book at a wall if I didn’t agree with a plot.

            This post gets me to think about life and if it’s like one of these books with a poor ending.  Life doesn’t always take the right path and we might get mad about it, but we can’t change it.  The ending of people’s life won’t be happy because it ends with death.  Since life ends in death we should live life while we have it.  You should also be happy so that when the tragedy of death comes you will know that you had a good life.  Also, you will be remembered longer if you were good during your life than if you were bad.

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Judging A Book By Its Cover

            A well known saying is doing judge a book by its cover.  I think this is wrong.  The book my mother is reading has a boring two colored cover.  The book doesn’t look interesting for me to read at all and my mother agrees that I probably I wouldn’t enjoy the book.  The book that I have chosen to read NERDS 2: M IS FOR MAMA’S BOY has a funny and colorful cover.  The cover shows five of the characters that seem to be having a good time.  This makes the book look good to me.

            Also I think a book’s title can help draw you into that book.  This book is the second book in the NERDS series I think I am going to enjoy this book. Also the subtitle has something to do with my life.  Some people call me a mama’s boy because my mom does this, that and the other thing for me.  I think see is just being helpful and showing that she loves me.  My friends think that they are teasing me but I don’t let that bother me.  I can’t wait to see how it fits into the book. 

            In writing a series having the characters in the other books is important.  Once a reader becomes attached to a character they are more likely to read the next book. They are going to want to find out what happens to them.  I wonder how the characters are going to change from NERDS to NERDS 2.

            After reading two books about personal tragedies and hard ache I look forward to reading a funny and meaningless book.  I hope NERDS 2 is just the book to enjoy.

Lou Gehrig and Matt Long

            The two books I have just read The Luckiest Man by Jonathon Eig and The Long Run by Matt Long with Charles Bulter are both inspirational.  Also the characters are both good role models.  They accepted all the bad things life threw at them and made the best of it.  Their lives were not identical.  Lou Gehrig troubles started as a young boy and continued through life while Matt’s started after the accident.

            Both Matt Long and Lou Gehrig were dedicated athletes.  They both weren’t natural athletes to the sports they loved.  Lou Gehrig had to work hard all through high school to get good at baseball.  Matt Long had to work hard one summer to make his college’s basketball team.  To get better at triathlons he joined training groups but he didn’t only train with these groups.  He would run races without the group. He wouldn’t only take the train to these races he would run from his place in Manhattan to Prospect Park.  Then he would run the race and run back to his place in Manhattan.  Both of them became accomplished athletes because of their dedication.

            Their accomplished athletic careers were destroyed by illness.  Lou Gehrig’s was taken away by a terrible disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS.  This disease is now known as the Lou Gehrig’s disease.  Matt Long’s career of ironman’s, marathons, and fire department basketball team was changed forever by the bus accident.  His many injuries made it hard to work never mind finish an ironman and a marathon.

            They both did their sports even with the challenges that faced them.  Lou Gehrig continued to play baseball for as long as he could with the disease.  Matt fought through physical therapy and many hours of training to finish the 2009 Lake Placid Ironman.  Since Matt Long is a family friend I can’t wait until the day I meet him and tell him what I think of him.  I wish I could have only met Lou Gehrig.