Kayla+Morehead


 * January 5, 2011. Blog 6: Final Blog:**

This is my final blog! I finished Uglies, and I am now reading Pretties. I am not very far in Pretties, but I can tell that Tally has changed dramatically. From what was said in the Rusty Ruins, I honestly believe that they do change the way you think when you get the surgery. It's crazy that the author thought the world would turn to this, and it makes me wonder if something like this could or would happen in the near future. I think that everyone should like who they are, and not even think about changing anything about themselves. I don't believe in plastic surgery, or anything like that. This book really makes me appreciate myself more, because the way the people refer to themselves, 'Uglies,' just is so sad to me. I think the authors point was to make the reader think like this, too. This series is really good, well the first book was anyways. I have no doubt the others won't be either.


 * December 6, 2010. Blog 5:**

I finished __Uglies__ by Scott Westerfeld! It was really good, I finished it last weekend. Tally's birthday comes, and she heads to the hospital for her surgery. A guy shows up, and takes her to a Special Circumstances unit. Where she is questioned about Shay's disappearing to the Rusty Ruins. Shay's note then leads Tally to where she is, the plan being that Tally pushes a secret button in her locket; the Dr. at Special Circumstances will receive that she pushed it, and get Tally's location. Which will lead the Specials to where she is, and take the people who have ran away for many many years back to their cities for consequences.

Now, I'm reading //__Speak__// Laurie Halse Anderson. I have been wanting to read it for a while now, and I am glad I did. It really keeps my attention, I cannot put it down when I'm reading it. Anderson writes about a girl for whatever reason, is hated by the school. So far I know that there was a party and Melinda, the main character, had to call the cops. There is also this guy who she calls IT, always in bold caps. She speaks of him as if she is scared to be around him. He will look at her and smirk, or whisper in her ear. My guess is that he raped her at this party. But there has to be some kind of twist, otherwise almost everyone reading this would guess that.


 * November 18, 2010. Blog 4:**

I have gotten quite a bit further in __Uglies__ by Scott Westerfield. Shay takes Tally to the Rusty Ruins, which is the deserted town outside of Uglyville where the past existed. As in, before all of these changes in how a person is supposed to look or before hoverboards where invented. There, Shay tells her about David; David is a friend of Shay's who ran away before his operation. When the night ends, they don't find him and go home. A few days before their surgery, Shay tells Tally that she is running away to go where David is. She believes that looks don't matter, everyone is pretty in their own way and for their own reasons. Tally is speechless, and doesn't know what to say to stop her. Shay leaves a sort-of code note, that only Tally understands, telling her how to get to where she is going. The day of Tally's operation comes, and she is taken to a different place, outside of town. There, she is questioned about where Shay is. I wonder if she will tell?


 * November 4, 2010. Blog 3:**

Second blog, supposed to be my third. (: I am reading two books right now! __Define "Normal"__ by Julie Ann Peters still, and I am still where I was on my previous blog. And now I am reading __Uglies__ by Scott Westerfeld. I have heard about this for years, and attempted reading it a while back, and didn't stay interested. But for some reason now, am loving it. (: So, it's a book set in the future. There are two places to live; New Pretty Town or Uglyville. Once a person turns sixteen, their whole appearance is changed into a 'pretty'. And that's when you move to New Pretty Town. Until then, you live in Uglyville. Like Tally, in a few months will be transformed completely and she can cross one of the many bridges into New Pretty Town. She waits for that day to come so impatiently, and it makes me wonder if her new friend, Shay, will show her a different side of 'pretties' that she didn't know about, and if Tally will change her mind. What will happen if she does? Shay is the exact same age as Tally, they coincidentally have the same birthday. But, unlike Tally, Shay can wait for that one biggest day of a teen's life. She is a rebellious girl, takes Tally past city limits into Rusty Ruins, the abandoned city of the forgotten on hoverboards. These two girls meet in New Pretty Town, both having snuck over there for different reasons. Tally's reason being to find her old best friend, Peris. Who, has sent one letter to her since his transformation. Tally's curiosity leads her to a party where she has to wear a pig mask so she isn't seen and caught, because it's forbidden to be over there if your an 'ugly.' "But we're best friends, right?" - Sure, forever. In three months." (20) Peris' reply shocked me, he is saying he won't be friends with her until she is a pretty. Or I wonder if he means that since they can't talk, that they will be able to in three months when she has her change.. My questions for this book so far are..  If there really is a bad side to being 'pretty'; something everyone is hiding? Besides the fact that everyone shouldn't be based off looks, because that is just horrible.  Also, will Peris and Tally become best friends if/when she does get transformed?  What exactly is the transformation, anyways?  When did it happen that everyone had to look the same? That being your own self isn't unique, it's ugly?  I can't wait to find out. (:

This is Kayla, obviously! I stopped reading __A Million Little Pieces__, and now am reading __Define "Normal"__ by Julie Anne Peters. So far, there are two main characters. Antonia Dillon is a straight A student, who's family is torn apart by the death of her father 8 years earlier. She is peer counseling a 'troubled' teen named Jazz Luther, who seems to be a care free girl living life day by day. Supposedly Jazz is the person who does drugs and such just because of the way she dresses and looks. She says she doesn't though. Both of them are unique in their own ways and i think this story is going to show that its not what is on the inside that counts, but who the person really is that matters the most. Now I have found out that Antonia's dad isn't dead, but the author hasn't said what happened to him. It makes me wonder what did, and why her mom is such a mess. Antonia and Jazz are closer now, and things happen that make Antonia and her two brothers stay at Jazz's big mansion, Jazz's mom sends Antonia's mom to her friend who is a doctor for mental help. Antonia's brothers are easily warming up to Jazz's family, considering they haven't really been happy for a while. I think that Antonia's mom will be in the hospital for a while, with her and her brothers staying at Jazz's house and growing even closer.. maybe even becoming a better family than the Dillions originally were to start?