This Star Won't Go Out, 12/13

Esther Earl is an amazing inspiration. Although I did not get the chance to finish the book within this semester at school, I will be continuing my read and finish this book. 

I love reading Esther's writing so much. She is so wise to have only been 13-15 years old, and it's a shame she was only granted that short term here on Earth. Esther mentions truthfully how she feels to her journal. She viewed her books she wrote in as a person, she was an open book, spilled her feelings through the tip of a pen. She spoke of whether she felt depressed, great or just okay. 

Esther Earl was a great young woman and I hope her story will continue spreading throughout the world. Her legacy, "Star," will not go out as she will continue being the root of so many inspirations.

As I have not reached my desired reading checkpoint within This Star Won't Go Out, I will eventually get to the ending after stressing over exams so much. But as for now, This Star surely will not go out.

This Star Won't Go Out, 12/2

This Star Won't Go Out, by Esther Earl. Many of my peers have read The Fault in Our Stars, or at least seen the movie. John Green, a best selling author was very close friends with Esther Earl. As those of you may know, TFIOS is about two lovers who have cancer but the story isn't about their cancer. Esther Earl was who John Green dedicated TFIOS to, and who spiked some inspiration to the writer in writing TFIOS.

I chose This Star Won't Go Out for my nonfiction genre book because I have a deep interest in John Green. I find his writings so interesting and intriguing. I knew somewhat about Esther Earl, but as I continue reading this book of her journal entries, friends and family writings including various other entries, I have learned more in depth about this amazing lady and her journey.

Esther has Thyroid Cancer. She was diagnosed before Thanksgiving, and has been on a roller coaster going up and down. She gets sick, gets well, worse, better, really well, terrible, great, okay, good. For her age of about 13, she is very wise. She met John Green at a Harry Potter convention, and the two kept in touch ever since. 

This book, is, in my opinion one of the most inspiring I have read. Esther is sick, she has been for a few years, but she goes about her life while focusing not on her cancer. Her Internet friends weren't aware of her sickness until further into their relationships. In Esther's journal entries, she talks about how her day went, anything funny or terrible that happened and so much more. Some pages of the book include drawings, others entries, other updates from a blog made by Lori and Wayne Earl, her parents, to keep friends and family updated on how Esther is. Though I am roughly half way through this book, I'd rate it five stars out of five stars and would recommend it to anyone reading this post. 

Lexicon, 11/18

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I really do not like how the ending of this book was illustrated. For one, the chapter wasn't really in sequence along with the previous chapters. But, the other chapters never really went along in order either. I also learned that there is an immunity to the bareword. If you get the flu shot, it is supposed to help prevent you from getting the Flu, just as if you were to get any other booster or shot at the doctors. Well, this bareword isn't so muhc like that.

Wil, or Harry was immune to the bareword, or of ever being comroomised. He was used by Eliot against the oragnization of the poets. The group Eliot was involved with when Emily was Woolf and he was interacting with Harry was a group of people who retired of being a poet or who quit their job with the Academy. When Emily speaks to Yeats for one of the very last times, she mentions that love itsef is equivalent to the same powers the bareword can do but like the bareword it will comrpomise anyone or everyone. I realized when she said this, that Harry was immune to Emily compromising him and the bareword because he was deeply inlove with Emily, though he never said it. With that, I don't think Emily was ever fully in love, since she was able to be compromised.

With the ending aswell, I don't think it was fair ("but life isn't fair, right?") Emily did finally kill Yeats like her wish, but Eliot was murdered also. Along with this, when Emily goes to Harry after she kills Yeats she tells him she loves him very much, but to kill him. I think Emily completely was inlove with Harry that final chapter of her llife. When hse rejogged her memory after being compromised twice, she recived some of her memory back, and her ruling wore off more and more. This was a major cliffhanger, considering the book didn't specifically say wether Harry kills Emily or not, what happens afterwords, and if the organization for the Poets continued or not.

Overall, I guess I enjoyed this book. Although I am not too sure if I would have a science fiction book for my first pick. This book was very well written, but also quite intense. There was a lot of "power," mind control and violence.

Lexicon, 11/12

SPOILER AGAIN!

Wil is Harry! As he travels with Eliot and goes into the hospital again, Wil begins to regain his memory. Emily, or Woolf compromised Harry to never remember living in Broken Hill, Australia, her, or anything that happened. After that, Emily compromised herself to believe Harry died. When Emily set the 'bareword' in the hospital, set to comrpomise anyone who sees it to kill everyone, she caught a reflection of it in Harry's paramedic van when she left, leaving what she called a star in her eye. As she leaves the town she remembers that Yeats cast a rule over her to do such a thing with the bareword.

Yeats, I thought were more than one person, but I have realized that Yeats is just one person. He casted Emily to steal the bareword and comrpomie everyone in Broken Hill using it, so he could see what power the bareword held. He also casted for Emily to never remember any he told her until the second time she leaves Broken Hill. 

I have just a little more to read until I finish this book, but I am curious to see if Harry and Emily meet again and if their true love will break the rules over each other. Since where I left off, Yeats didn't get murdered by Emily, but he finally was able to compromise her after many failed attempts. Emily isn't dead.... yet. So I am also curuious to see where that leads!

Lexicon, 10/23

So, I am glad to say I have been able to confirm that Emily is Woolf! She was sent to Broken Hill until she'd be informed she could return home, and she was. She had just settled in though in a solid relationship and job. But she returns home to find they had given her a job with the name Virginia Woolf. Also I think that Jeremy might not be who Wil is now. I suspect Wil may be Emily's boyfriend Harry. 

Also, since Tom Eliot says Wil is immune and that that's why he survived the Broken Hill end, I think it may be Harry and he only survived that because that is how Emily (Woolf) would be reunited with her love once again. My thoughts are a complete mess this post because of the sequence of chapters. When a chapter is written within Emily's point of view, it's before Broken Hill was destroyed. When the chapter is about Wil, the timing is after Broken Hill was destroyed.

I read upt o just before Wil goes into the emergency room in Broken Hill to find the box and "word." I think that Woolf will be waiting for him to reunite with him. Since Harry worked as a paramedic for the hospital and the emergency room was where they last saw each other, I think that she will bring back Wil's memory, if it really is Harry. 

I am very excited to read more to see if my new suspicions are right! 

PS. I am also pretty surprised I have gotten into this book! I didn't think I'd enjoy it so much throughout the beginning as it isn't a genre I'd pick from first.

Lexicon, 10/16

I believe I have come to a conclusion of this book. So, Emily was recruited into the acadamy, and Wil survived a deathly explosion at Broken Hill. Tom Eliot explained that there was Woolf, who wanted to kill Wil. I think Emily is Woolf, Eliot who expelled Emily for engaging a relationship with another student is Tom Eliot with Wil. Wil is Jeremy, who is who developed a relationship with Emily.

Tom is an ex-poet which would explain how he'd know Woolf, (or who I suspect is Emily) He remmebers a wood piece that is in Broken Hill that could guarantee his and Wil's survival against a war with Woolf, so he is going to get there, have Wil find it, and return to America. Since Wil survived Broken Hill, it's suspected Wil has an immunity to be persuaded, which is what the Acadamy teaches. So, I think since the academy found about the relationship, Emily was sent to Broken Hill until she was "ready to learn again," and Jeremy was sent home, where Tom found him years later.

These few chapters were sort of really confusing to me. It went from everyone all fine and dandy, a relationship and Tom levaing Wil behind, to Emily's expulsion and no further chapters about her with Tom joining Wil again. Also, Woolf finds where Wil just was, and is working to track them to kill them. Tom had explained a little bit in depth of what Wil was capable of, which was a word he had in his mind that could end everything in peace. I'm looking forward to reading further into this book, curious to see if my suspections are true.

Lexicon, 10/9

I've concluded that Emily and Wil were taken because they had knowledge to some word. The word  must be pretty dangerous, which I wouldn't understand how but then again, it is scy-fy.

On page 73, it states, "... twenty minutes we're in the air and pulling this guy's head open," speaking about Wil. "Nothing personal. But we need whats in their more than you do," the man continued. Then Tom, the kidnapper realized something was wrong. They killed people, wrecked, then hijacked the plane. Wil finds a box full of surgical tools that would be needed to cut open a head and brain, which he realizes. But Wil also knows Tom is looking for the better intention no matter what. They refer to these "poets" who are bad peoplewho are good with words, using the names of dead poets.

Emily, is in an academy. The school is basically a competition which I realize, and the other charachters in this school find too. It's basically a game, and whoever passes everything will win. I think this school is where the so called poets come from and are, and Tom is an ex-poet. Tom Elliot, or T. S. Elliot. They speak about Charlotte Bronte, who is basically the head of the academy Emily is attending. I think the school is teaching students how to use their words and mind against the greater good, otherwise the team Tom and Wil are with.

I'm not quite sure if I would say I like this book or not, yet. It is very good and interesting, and I'm happy to continue reading to find out what the word is the sides so desperately need but this book is also really weird. I've been confused of some of the charachter's actions and surprised. There's any unexpected actions in this book. If any of you are interested in this whole 'another world' sort of fantasy themed books with twists, this could be for you.

Lexicon

I started reading Lexicon today. I chose this book for the genre I don't usually read because although it is fiction, it is also considered sci-fy. I don't read a lot of scientific fiction books, I usually stick to normal best sellers. I was interested into this book because when I read the description in Barnes and Noble, it was very intruging. 

So far, a secret service of some sort has kidnapped a lady named Emily and Wil. They haven't told them why, but they have talked about Wil as "the guy." I think that the secret service men are looking for something that only a few select humans have experienced, or the knowledge of. The chapters rotate between Wil's life and Emily's. 

This book sort of seems like Emily or Wil have a secret power. A power that they do not know they actually have, but the men do. It's off on a wild start so far. With two characters being kidnapped while not knowing why. Wil's life was threatened to be killed until he used the words "bare words," which must have meant something. Wil didn't even realize he said something to his advantage. These characters are on thin ice with the service they're being recruited into. They don't know when they'll cross the line and be killed or when they will will get spared a bullet and live. I'm looking forward to reading more of this book!

The Ending of Tiger Lily

I finished the book tonight and I am quite infuriated. I held off reading the last few pages after dinner because I was already near to tears, and I saw some of the letter Peter Pan sent Tiger Lily. I believe you cannot fall 'out' of love with someone, you either always love at least some of someone or never at all.

Tiger Lily promised Peter she'd leave her tribe to be with him and the lost boys, but suddenly Tik Tok becomes sick. Phillip, the Englander who Tiger Lily tried to save came back and started telling stories. He told Tik Tok he would never be accepted into heaven for wearing dresses, Tik Tok eventually cuts his hair and becomes as normal as he could. Tiger Lily is so angry when she finds this, she sets up birds to infest the homes of the Englanders on Neverland as if the God's were back. Tiger Lily had forgotten temporarily about Peter, so she never went to leave with him. Her mind was infested on Tik Tok. When she finally does get a chance to get away, she goes to Peter and the boys where she sees a new girl.

Wendy. They called her Windy bird because she was in a tree like a bird when the boys found her. The group was so invested into this new girl they hardly paid attention to Tiger Lily. Eventually, Peter and Tiger Lily confront each other, but it is also near too late. Tiger Lily formed an alliance with the pirates. She planned on killing Wendy and Peter. At this point, my heart was breaking. Tiger Lily was abandoned by Peter Pan when she needed him the most. Her father had died, she has to get married and Peter belongs to someone else now. Now, she does go back for the couple after realizing she is in the wrong for thinking such thoughts. She goes to save Peter and Wendy from the water, but the mermaids try to drown Tiger Lily. She gets away, as do Peter and Wendy.

When Tiger Lily leaves, Smee, the pirate who wished to kill Tiger Lily catches her. But, bit by bit the true Tiger Lily is coming back. She gets loose from the pirate and goes safely home when he falls into the crocodiles' mouths.

This post is getting longer and longer, so I will try to shorten this up a little bit. Peter is leaving for England with Wendy, where they do get married. But Tiger Lily goes to see him first where he says,"Maybe I just love some of you. Maybe not enough." Tiger Lily didn't understand how you could only love a part of something, when Peter seemed to love all of her. Towards the end of the book, Tinker Bell goes to England where she sees Peter. He has aged, it's 50 years later and he has gray hair. When she returns to Neverland, Pine Sap and Tiger Lily are to get married and Tinker Bell finds a letter from Peter. He explains int he letter that it wasn't he loved part of Tiger Lily but that he was afraid she was braver than him, that he wondered if she could ever love more than some of him.

This was a great book, and I certainly do recommend Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson to any girl, or even boy. I hope anyone who reads it enjoys it as much as I did.

Tinker Bell

Within reading this past week, I've thought quite a lot about Tinker Bell lately. She is the narrator of this story but I haven't thought about her as much as Peter Pan or Tuger Lily or even the Giant. Tinker bell mentions Peter Pan noticing her, calling her cute or picking her up with his finger, any slightest bit of attention. Then Peter kisses Tiger Lily on the neck, and all Tinker Bell can talk about is how she thinks more of Tiger Lily than Peter Pan. But, I don't think that's true. Obviously, Peter is on Tink's mind or else she wouldn't bring him up when she speaks about Tiger Lily.

Then, Tiger Lily returns to the borrow of the Lost Boys. Peter sort of claims Tiger Lily when she holds her hand on Peters fourhead and he hugs her. He says, "Were together, right? You are with me. You'll come back again now, for sure, right?" Tiger Lily didn't really think twice about her marriage with the Giant that was approaching even more. They were sort of boyfriend-girlfriend, Tiger Lily would visit every day after evening. One day Peter invites Tiger Lily to go see the ancient people of Neverland. It's a three day journey and extremly awkward. But within the camping during night, Peter notices Tinker Bell again and names her Tinker Bell. "Our little Tink," he said.

Another night when the lost boys and Tiger Lily were swimming, Tinker Bell was careful to not get her wings wet. When a faeries wings get wet, they are just as good dead. Peter scooped Tinker Bell into his hands before a beast emerged from the water and ate a mermaid. Startled, he had dropped her. Tink fell into the water. Faeries in Neverland communicate by flapping their wings, but she can't do so with them drinched. She sees this as her last moment alive while everyone is swimming to shore, but then Tiger Lily turns. Tiger Lily comes back and reaches Tinker Bell, careful to dry her off. 

Tinker Bell has been noticced. Even though she didn't think Tiger Lily had, or anyone really, Tiger Lily knew all along, and Peter Pan did too.

Tiger Lily, September 11

I am about halfway into the book, Tiger Lily. So far it's really good. Since my last post, some exciting things have happened. The last I read before this week was the letter Peter Pan had left Tiger Lily to find him. She contemplated doing so, but decided she would to retrieve her necklace the Englander had gave her that Pan took. She finds the hideout is underground, where all the Lost Boys are asleep when she arrives. Eventually, they awake, give Tiger Lily a tour, and ask her to come back again. The boys are extremely rude. They'd constantly spoke their thoughts about Tiger Lily. If she was a girl, if she was pretty or ugly, how she acted. When she leaves, Pan walks her out and decides they should be friends. Tiger Lily accepts the offer but says she will not come back.
But when Tiger Lily returns to the village, she encounters more trouble than she'd ever expected. The citizens had announced Tiger Lily cursed a second time when Aunt Fire burns herself alive. Tiger Lily, of course, had absolutely nothing to do with Aunt Fires death, but people will have their suspicions. Then, near a week after the death Tiger Lily returns to eating with the other girls of the village for dinner with two feathers in her hair instead of one.
Three days after the village buried Aunt Fire, Tiger Lily returned to the Lost Boys. They weren't home when she got there, so she tracked them. They were on the beach throwing a party for what they think is Tootles' birthday. Tiger Lily dances with them and Peter Pan.
When she wakes up in her bed the next morning, Aunt Fire's wedding bracelets were left to her. This symbolized that the wedding was still on. Tiger Lily, by tradition had to wear the bracelets and go into town to show everyone the news.

Tiger Lily

The best thing about my book, Tiger Lily is how independent Tiger Lily actually is. Tiger Lily survived Pan's kidnapping of her. She got her hands loose from being tied, and knocked Pan unconscious to get away. Aunt Fire is still bossing Tiger Lilly around, and from where I recently stopped reading in the book, Tiger Lily is called to pop a boil on the Giant but when she returns to her bed, there's a note from Pan. It was a map that had said "Find us."
 Tinker Bell follows the pirates instead of Tiger Lily after the attack. Past the forest, Tinker Bell comes across the murderer. Reginald Smee. He killed because he had a heart, just the opposite of what anyone would think. Smee would suck up to be the captain Hook's favorite, which, in fact he was. Hook would get drunk and go outside to speak with Smee. There, he confessed how he lost his hand. It went around Neverland that his hand got chopped in a fight, thrown into the ocean and in an alligators mouth. But Hook told the real story. Hook worked on shoes to pay for school, back in England. His job was to insert the sole to be cut in the correct shape, but he had fallen asleep and his arm went in instead of the leather sole.
 Tink also noticed how Tiger Lily affected Smee, though Hook told him to keep his hands off due to their truce with the Sky Eaters. But Smee was intrigued by Tiger Lily's braveness and strength.
   I'm predicting she will become more acquainted with Pan, and he will lead her to the pirates where they will fight. Smee will have a chance to kill Tiger Lily, but I don't think he will be able to carry out his death wish.

I don't have a summer reading, so this post is about a book I recently started reading called Tiger Lily. I'm not too far into the book yet, so this post will just be on what I have read so far.

Tiger Lily is a book about Peter Pan, Tiger Lilly, Wendy and pirates.. Tik Tok, the man who adopted Tiger Lilly, gave her advice that was, "be careful who you meet, you can't unmeet them." She doesn't listen too well, since she meets Pan. Peter Pan is the leader of the Lost Boys on Neverland. The Lost Boys are a group of the most dangerous and fearful of the land.

Tiger Lilly finds an Englander that the council decides to let die, from the 'death disease.' Tiger Lily cares and nurses the man to health from broken bones and hunger. When the council finds out, they decide to let Tiger Lily live, since she's been exposed to the disease already, but she has to marry the giant. At the end of the hot season she will have to be officially married to the giant, but until then Aunt Fire makes Tiger Lily work. Aunt Fire forces her to work, clean and cook for the Giant. When Tiger Lily returns back to the village one night, Aunt Fire hits Tiger Lily for being so wild.

After she was strucked, she was wandering around the lands. She found pirates and threatened to kill the man who just murdered someone, but she couldn't commit herself to do such a thing. Tiger Lily let the man go and walked back into the woods. When she realizes she went too far and had gone itno the forbidden forest, it was near too late. Peter Pan found her, grabbed her from the waist and took her. Tiger Lily put off a fight, but it was too late then. Pan dragged her into the bushes.