I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth The Trip.

Some of my favorite books are the ones I find when I'm bored during my free hour and walk around the library. So on Wednesday I was staring off into space and I saw this book and the cover resembled notebook paper with the title written repeatedly on it. So I opened up the flaps and started to read about the book.

This boy named Davy Ross lives with his Grandma and his dachshund Fred but when his Grandma dies he is sent to live with his alcoholic mother. The blurb went on and it hinted to strange events with another boy and decisions that will change his life. I handed the book to Stephanie and we both knew that it was about a gay guy :)

I finished the book and it wasn't all about Davy "queering around" and those parts weren't to graphic or anything (this book was from the late 1960's). It was actually a really touching story about how Davy adjusts to living in New York with his crazy mother and his friendships with Douglas Altschuler and his adorable dog Fred. It had a sad ending that I wasn't expecting but I am really glad I read it.

-Madalynne

"Cats reagrad people as warmblooded furniture."

-Jacquelyn Mitchard

Final Thoughts

 I very much enjoyed reading Romeo and Juliet. To be honest I knew very little about it before it was assigned. As far as my favorite scenes it would have to be most of Mercutio's or the nurse's parts because they had a great sense of humor. I did notice that there was a tone of scene changes. How in the world did Shakespeare put this on as a play. He was definitely a genius. If I were to rewrite this for teens... I would just hand them Twilight. If you changed it into a modern english it would all seem so cliche, in my opinion. A boy and a girl fall in "love" and die for each other. It would just seem so predictable. But with the play being in old english there's a sense of knowing that it must be original and that all other stories are trying to top it.

Wow I really need to work on making my blog posts flow better :/

-Madalynne

"Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement."

-Barry LePatner

"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper."

-Jerry Seinfeld