Blog Reflection

The quality of my writing has improved greatly over the period of this trimester. For one, I have begun to show more personality in my writing rather than just blatantly telling the reader about my book. By developing this growth factor, it makes my blogs more interesting and easy to read, in my opinion. Another example of how my writing has improved is by writing complete thoughts first and then going back to edit after I’ve written the most important ideas. I am a complete perfectionist, so it’s hard to appreciate anything I’ve written. I don’t think there’s one blog where I haven’t edited it at least three times.

One thing that I have struggled through this blogging experience is making time in my schedule to read. I enjoy reading very much, so you’d think it would be fairly easy to make time! Because of homework in other subjects, and after school activities it’s been tough to find time to read. To work through this struggle, I’ve been putting at least 30 minutes in before I go to bed to read to. A strength I have had through blogging is that it doesn’t take me long to construct a well written blog. Especially if the book that I read was recent, and was a book that I enjoyed. I did not meet the reading goal of 10 books on GoodReads.com. I have only read about 3 this trimester. I used GoodReads.com as a resource to find books that I’ve read and recommendations on what to read next and it did a great job at that! I believe that I improved as a reader over the course of this trimester, because blogging definitely showed that reading is very important in your life. Not only does it improve your vocabulary, but it affects the way you think as well.

The Twilight Saga By Stephanie Meyer

Because her mom gets busy with her new husband, seventeen year old Bella Swan moves in with her dad Charlie in Forks, Washington.She is very different compared to the other students at Forks High School. Shy, timid, clumsy; she didn't think she'd make any friends in her new town.

Then she meets Edward; the youngest of the "adopted" family of Cullens. Something about him crawled under her skin and made her want to know more about him, but how? He was so mysterious and Bella was curious and eager to know more. He runs fast, and he can stop cars with his bare hands! What kind of gift is this??

Edward's quiet and really only talks to his siblings, so it's hard for Bella get the nerve to speak to him. Then Bella finds the perfect opportunity to talk to him! They sit together in their Biology class and have a lab to do. He still doesn't talk much though, and it seems to her that he wants nothing to do with her.

 

As he starts opening up to Bella, she gets more intrigued. He warns her to stay away from him, but she doesn't listen. He doesn't want Bella to get hurt because of his secret; him and his family are vampires. To make that concept even more dangerous, Bella's scent of her blood is super overwhelming to all vampires.

Even more so to a certain vampire; James. He's a tracker. He discovered her scent, and was instantly drawn to it.

Later in the book, he tells the Cullen's that he has taken Bella's mother captive in her old dance studio. Bella thinks she can handle James by herself, so she goes to the dance studio. He didn't even have her mother!! He just said that because he wanted to kill Bella. Luckily Alice has the gift of seeing the future and can see that James was planning to kill her. So her, Emmett, Jasper (the other siblings) go to the dance studio and make it just in time to save her life.

They definitely learned a lot more about Bella; she may seem shy, but is really daring!

Through this series, Bella and Edward fall more in love with each other. Edward and his "family" being vampires doesn't change her mind about being with him.

Click above to watch the movie trailer of the first Twilight!