Outside Reading Post #2

Tally reaches the Pretty party, and finally finds her old best friend Peris, but not after many peopole see her and realize she is an ugly. Peris helps her escape, and tells her she can never come back until she's Pretty, to stay safe, and Tally believes thats the only reason he doesn't want her to come back. On her escape away from the party, after bungee jumping off the roof of the party tower, and running through the "pleasure gardens" to get out of the Pretty Town, Tally runs into another Ugly, Shay, who becomes her new best friend. They find that they have the same birthday, and start connecting even more. Tally is so excited to become a Pretty, but it seems that Shay is kind of hesitant, and thinks that the whole idea of the operation is wrong, and everyone being the same is not appealing. I kind of agree with Shay, because I really think that everyone getting an operation at age 16 so that they can all be the same is a really weird idea, but to everyone in this book, it's normal. At the part of the book I am now, Shay has convinced Tally to sneak out into the "Old City" on their hoverboards. I'm beginning to realize that this book is about sometime in the future, and whenever they talk about the "old city", it's one of our modern cities today.

Blog #2

I rejoice when Annalise thrusts her pencil. Kelly laughs like a potsticker. The sprinkles swim through stone and jump like a boy. The salty apple paints with bleach right on my funny bone. 88 phones boink the golf book, like a running, speeding, painting, swimming, pig i smile.

Outside Reading Post #1

For my outside reading book, I am reading The Uglies by Scott Westerfield. I am 25 pages in so far, but so far it's very good. In this book, there are two groups of people: The Pretties, and The Uglies. They live on opposite sides of a river, and have completely different lifestyles. The uglies work, go to school, and live boring lives, while the Pretties party non-stop and have no cares. People aren't born into a certain group, all Uglies are turned into Pretties at a certain age. Tally is an ugly and her best friend Peris was as well until recently, when he turned the age to become a Pretty. Tally is only 3 months younger, but she is lonely so she decides to sneak over to visit him on the Pretty side. This is how far I am in the book so far, but I think it's really interesting that this is set sometime in the future, and how different it is from the lives we are used to.

Blog #1 (quarter 4)

So much of spring depends
upon

the birds flittering through the
air

the fresh scent of dew in the
morning

the feel of sticky raindrops splattering your
skin

and the rush of
summer