Outside reading

For this outside reading I want to do a summary on the book Someone Like You by Sara Dessen. Someone Like You is about two very different best friends Halley and Scarlettet. Scarlette is the more bold, daring and out going one while Halley is more shy and keeps to herself. But these girls seem to have a friendship that is stronger and more meaningful than most. When Scarlettes love ,Michael Sheerwood, is killed in a motorcycle accident and she finds out she is carrying his baby their friendship only grows stronger. Scarlettes mother was a teen mom too but she doesn't want the same life for her daughter so she kind of stays out of it. Halley had to learn how to go out of her confort zone to help Scarlette go through all the rough patches in her life. It seemed like it was very difficult for her but she did it cause of the love for her best friend. There is a quote on the back of the book that says " Life is an ugly, awful place not to have a best friend." Someone Like You does a good job displaying he meaning of that quote beacause Scarlettes life would have been twenty times harder if she didn't have a shoulder to cry on or someone to put a smile on her face. I believe that with friends by your side anything is possible and this book shows you just how true that is.

Outside reading

For this outside reading a read a book called Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard. This book is about four girls who have tons of secrets to hide and suddenly it seems like all of their secrets - big and small are spilling out. Spencer , Aria , Emily and hanna are all gorgeous girls with ugly problems. Spencer has a cruch on her sisters boyfriend and steals one of the papers her sister wrote and turns it in as her own, Aria is fooling around with a teacher, Emily likes the new girl who just moved to their school and hanna is doing weird things to stay pretty. These girls try to do everything they can to keep their dirty little secret hidden until an anonymous person who calls themself "A" is blackmailing them and revealing all of their secrets. The girls don't know who the person is but they have a good idea. They think it could be the beauty queen Alison that disappeard a few years back. Spencer Aria Emily and Hanna do what they can to find out who "A" is and sometimes it ends up putting them in bad situations. With all these secrets surfacing the girls have to relive their pasts to figure out why its happenning. This book is full of excitment and thrills but you will have to read the book to find out what happens next!

Outside reading

Since it’s the New Year I decided to blog about the top ten new years resolutions for 2009.
-Make more time for family and friends
-Quit smoking
-Start exercising
-Go back to school / take a class
-Get out of debt
-Advance in career, make more money
-Get into philanthropy and community involvement
-Quit drinking
-Lose weight
-Get out of a bad relationship / find true love

Most people make new years resolutions and only follow them for about a week or so but a resolution won't work unless it comes from the heart and its something that you actually want to do. Picking a resolution from the top ten list might not work for you because it's just the most popular one not the one that works for everyone. Also a lot of these resolutions aren't something you can just say you want to do without putting time and effort into doing. You have to really want to make a difference in your life for you, not for others. Thats when things start to go bad and resolutions fall through. One of the resolutions i have is to be a better person. I'm not trying to be a better person to please others but rather for myself. A new year is a time to make changes for yourself and to reflect on changes you can make to become a better you.