Author: Mia

The book I’m reading is “GOOD GIRLS LIE” by J.T. Ellison. The book is about the boarding life at the Goode School, which has elite status and long-held traditions. Though it seems like a peaceful story, there are lies behind the students’ smiles, and they cause murder.

 “I’ve never understood my compulsive desire to lie. I’ve read so many articles I’ve become my own sociology experiment. Everyone lies. To themselves, to each other. It’s a way to belong, to be included. To look important.”(p.23)

This is the main character’s inner thought about lying. Though she hates lies, she has been lying her whole life to protect herself. Her words are convincing. Everyone lies. That is sad, but actually true. There is no one who has never lied. I’ve lied hundreds of thousands of times in my life. Because I needed to. Some people think that lies are bad things that we should not make. However, there are always some reasons that make us lie. There is one point on which I disagree with her. I don’t think we want to lie. I assume that we are just forced to lie to become what we want to be because it’s not easy to get people to accept you as you are. I hate this society where it’s necessary to wear a mask and hide yourself with lies to belong, to be included, and to look important.

 

The book I’m reading is called “All for You” by Louise Jensen which tells us impulse that leads what we can’t expect. I just finished reading whole this book so I want to write about my review.

Everyone has at least one thing that you cannot tell anyone. However, the family in this book is little different. And actually they are really far from normal. We can find out that the family’s terror of the worst possible outcome with all its consequences. The author does well to keep us puzzling about what has happened and is happening to each of them.

 

It’s displayed on Aidan’s features, carved into the lines that now furrow his brow; his guilt. His entire face wracked with pain. He has read my thoughts. All of them. Now he knows why I want it to be Ryan. A complete circle. A repeat of the past. A truth. Will he agree? I want to believe that he will. Sometimes hope is enough. It’s all I have. I wait. Teetering on the brink. The brink of what, I am not sure. What is he thinking, my husband? Why doesn’t he say something? Anything. Yes. (p361)

 

These are sentences when we found out the reason Lucy wanted to be Ryan. I felt like the puzzle was going to be complete. And we can see both Aiden and Lucy’s feelings from inside of Lucy’s heart. It was breath-taking moment. There’s tension and fear and also a sense of the claustrophobia of being watched. This is so crazy. I asked myself how far I can go for someone I like or love. I don’t I’m enough old to understand these emotions. But, I enjoyed thrill that I’ve never had.

The book I am reading is “All for You” by Louise Jensen. Let me talk about the scenes of the mother Lucy’s feelings. These are sentences after Lucy lost everything that she had.

I’m alone.

I’m alone.

I’m alone.

A wife without a husband. A mother without any children.

Help me.

I cannot cope with this. I just… can’t.

The flowers. The white car. Connor. Kieron. Aidan.

Hailey.

I’m so so sorry for the things I did, for the things I didn’t do.

I hate you, Connor had screamed.

I hate me too.

The smell from the flowers fills my nostrils, I crawl down the hallway from them.

A spinning top of thoughts, whirring faster and faster until I’m dizzy.

Missing.

Taken.

Funerals.

Death.

Missing.

Taken.

Funerals.

Death. (p.208)

In this quote, we can see that Lucy is blaming herself and she is terribly upset.  The author repeated “I’m alone” three times. I can say these are messages for each three Connor, Kieron and Aiden. The sentences “A wife without a husband. A mother without any children.” can break our images of wife and mother. Lucy is talking to herself. We can find the feelings like sadness, regrets and despair. And the worlds “missing” “taken” “funerals” “death” express how it ruined her life. Though this book seems to be only mystery, it shows us some feelings that we do not show to others.

I want talk about how the author handle readers’ mind. I sometimes feel like it plays into the author’s hands when I read this book. It means he is really good at expressing situations and feelings.

The figure is still there.

Waiting.

For what?

For who?

Shivers snake down Connor’s spine as he pushes into his hallway then locks the door behind him.

Home.

But even here he doesn’t feel safe.

Since Tyler vanished nowhere feels safe.

He put the sentence “Home” before he wrote Connor’s feelings. This word works like an exclamation by putting only the word. What do we imagine when we hear the word “home”? Probably, family, relief and positive words. However, the atmosphere is radically changed by this next sentence. There is no family in his house. These is no relief in his house. The air is only stagnant and sinking. No lights and no hope. This book uses these techniques to make my emotions going up and down violently. The tension is always so great that it makes us impossible to take our eyes off from each sentence.

 

The book which I reading is “All For You” by Louise Jensen. The family has Kieron who has a terrible disease. This makes the family apart gradually. Mysterious incidents continued to occur around this family. First of all, I love descriptions of conditions and situations in this book. The author skillfully used new lines, inversion and various fonts to create tension and thrill for the reader.

I want to ask who put it there but I’m desperate for a rational explanation can hold tightly against my chest.

Someone has been watching me.

A gift from a cat , most likely, Aiden says.

But we don’t have a cat. And neither do any of our neighbours.

These are sentences after the family found the death birds in front of their house. Only this sentence “Someone has been watching me” is in a different font from the others, which gives me a sense of meaning. Something terrifying. It is as if it’s only part of the beginning. I felt it was interesting not focus on only story but also on author’s techniques.

 

The book which I’m reading is “ Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom. This book has two characters Mitch and Morrie. Morrie was a teacher of Mitch’s university. After he graduated and became a journalist, he lost the meaning of life. So he started visiting Morrie every Tuesday to talk about various aspects of life or listen to his thoughts. Though Morrie left a lot of famous quotes, my favorite one is not his words.

After a week of this, I picked up the phone and dialed Morrie’s number. Connie brought him to the phone.
“You’re coming to visit me,” he said, less a question than a statement.
Well. Could I?
“How about Tuesday?”
Tuesday would be good, I said. Tuesday would be
fine.

I want to focus on the last two sentences because I think these sentences express the whole story. Tuesdays are the special days for them. The classes he took were on Tuesdays and the days they talked each other were Tuesdays. That’s why they chose Tuesdays to meet. At that time Mitch couldn’t find the happiness of life. And these sentences seem that he tried to talk himself. And we can find his Hopes and expectations in these sentences. No more Tuesdays that used to be boring. This moment is the most happiest moment for him but also sad memory because it lasted only 14 times. I can think about these sentences in many aspects because I know the end. Yes. The day Morrie died was also Tuesday like an irony.