If I had a conversation with the author.

If I had the chance to talk to Ellen Degeneres, I would ask her if her life is always funny and crazy. I mean, do all comedians and stars have laugh out loud moments all day, everyday. I sure don't, but laughing is a choice. You could laugh all day if you wanted, or you could be a debby downer all day. I would also ask Ellen if she makes up some of he things that she says are true, or is all her trips to the mall ironic. I also think that Ellen would talk to me like one of her guests on her show. She makes all her guests feel like her good friends that she's known for ever. I think she would talk to anybody like that. I mean, have you seen a newspaper article about Ellen Degeneres fighting with paparazzi?

The best thing about my book.

      I would say that the best thing about my book is that there's no plot. You don't have to remember any character names or how the author makes the character react to certain scenarios. It's just Ellen Degeneres and who ever she talks about in the 2-3 page chapters. You can escape all the author's connection questions and just have a good laugh at her sarcastic humor. She makes you relate to her stories and even included coloring pages for if you don't want to read, which I have colored already. But I guess she just wrote down the first thing that came to her head just to write a book for more money. That's what all stars want out there in Hollywood. More money. Anyway they can get it. That doesn't mean that what came to her mind isn't funny, because it truly entertains me and if you watch someone that's reading her book closely, you might see a visible smile on their face.

Why I chose this book.

    A new trimester started and I went to my english class and my teacher said that we will be doing blogger again. I knew I had to pick another book for this trimester so I went to Barnes&Noble to pick a book. I didn't feel like going through two plots from tow different books, because of our class novel, so I leaned toward comedy. I had heard of Ellen Degeneres writing a book, but I never payed any attention to it until I found it in the book store. I started skimming through it and was laughing in the book store. I had to buy it.

   In her book, she had many different stories about her and her life. She was like an everyday person, but turned her ironic moments into humor and joked about it. I felt like this book would bring me joy to an everyday school day to blog about weekly.

Plot For Seriously I'm Kidding

       I am up to page 57 in Seriously I'm Kidding and have realized something. There is no plot or characters. That is because Ellen Degeneres, the author, didn't write a fictional book with characters. The characters are the people she sees everyday and herself. She is basically writing about herself and anything that has happened to her that is comedic. Her main goal of the book was to bring people joy and entertainment by reading something that is funny and you don't take serious. That's probably why people choose to read this book to relax, laugh, and not have to get emotional about characters in a silly fictional book. I recommend reading this book, even from just explaining the plot only.

Seriously I'm Kidding

      You may have heard of Ellen Degeneres from her show Ellen Degeneres. She is at it again with hr book Seriously I'm Kidding.  Her book consists of many little chapters where she talks about many different things that we can relate to. I have read to page 33. The chapters within these pages are: Writing This Book,  CoverGirl, Stuff, Personally Speaking The Secret of Life, The Secret of Life-Part Two, and Thunderclap: A Short Short Story. 

      I would say my favorite chapter was CoverGirl, because she tells you these ways to be a supermodel and they are like ridiculous things. Basically, the whole book consists of satire. She is sarcastic and just makes jokes about her life and really anything. 

Fahrenheit 451

         In Fahrenheit 451, I have started the book before thanksgiving break and have read to the second part. In the first part, the story begins with the setting at a firehouse, but no ordinary firehouse. Firemen are supposed to extinguish fire's right? Not in this book. The government has banned all books and now firemen are burning any book they see. Guy montag is the main character here. He has been working there for 10 years now and seems to know everything about burning books and loves his job, until montag is called to a house with a book citing.

           He is forced to burn every book the homeowner has, which is a heaping pile, and the homeowner refuses to leave. His rules state to light the entire house up and anything inside it, including people. Montag is now sick of that scene he had done the niht before and has taken something back with him that could get him in major trouble. His wife finds the book he has hidden behind his pillow from the night before and is very scared what might happen is Captain Beatty finds it too. which is coinsidence since he is there wondering why montag didnt go to work. Beatty leaves and Montag leads his wife to the opening of an air vent and shows his wife something that nobody could have ever guessed about Montag.
 

Reflection

I chose A Link Between Gossip Girl and Life to exemplify as my best blog post. This is becasue I linked Gossip Girl to what it would be like in everyday life and even at your own school. I felt like this related and met the requirements most to having our first post be related to life in some way. Also, in my blog I felt like I tried to make the blog posts about some of the rubric requirements and even some different topics, like grammar. I think I stuck more to analyizing over a couple chapters and characters then to putting more effort in the harder things like theme and book recomendations, just to make the whole thing easier. Over time though, I must admit that I got lazy and didnt want to read this book anymore or post.

During writing my blog, I had struggles with was figuring out what to write about half the time. Like some days i would have a really good section i wrote about and then the next week i had a section in the book that i had a hard time to write about in some way. I just overcame it by looking at the rubric and choosing something to writy eabout it with and maybe putting a picture in to just make it seem not so empty. Although I was really good at putting pictures in to realte to what I talked about. It seeemed easy to link anything to a picture.