Readers Response #3

Babe in boyland
chapter 3

Natalie decided that in order to cheer Darcy up that they should throw a party. While getting ready for the party Natalie realizes that in order to figure out what guys want and to win a report at her school she should write up questions and ask the boys at the party what they really think and like about boys. she thinks this is a brilliant idea yet Darcy and Chloe are skeptical.

I think that Natalies planned is wayyyy far fetched. I mean does she really think that guys are just going to stand up and tell a stranger about what they really want in a girl?!?! NO. But I wanna see where she ends up going with this.

I can not relate to this chapter besides the pages describing how they got ready for the party, I could totally relate to that.

Readers Response #2

Babe in boyland
chapter 2

Natalie gets a crisis call from her best friend Darcy, because her on again off again boyfriend ditched her. As their other friend Chloe shows up and says the actual truth. Which is that the guy Darcy is dating is no good for her and that all Natalie is doing is sugarcoating the truth to make Darcy feel better. As Chloe is saying this Natalie has an sudden realization that she has no clue what guys think and that everything she has ever said as advice was fake because she didn't know what she was talking about.

I think that Chloe needed to tell Natalie the truth because otherwise she would have gone on giving the same advice that she usually gives and not actually digging deeper.

I can relate to this because In my group of friends we have the sugarcoater, the wimp, and the strong willed person. And as I was reading this I was just picturing my friends in this situation and it fit perfectly.

Readers Response #1

Babe in boyland
chapter 1
 In this chapter we figure out that the main character of the book, Natalie, is the writer of the love column in her schools newspaper. When she suddenly receives bad  reviews on her latest post from all the guys in the school complaining about how her advice is just basically what the girls want to hear and nothing about what boys actually think. Some people even went as far as to say that she should be fired from her job because of the bad advice that she was giving to the girls at the high school.

I think that it was harsh of people to say that although is it TOTALLY true, you can't just tell girls what they want to hear because it's putting false information in their heads about the boys that are "too good" for them.

I can relate to this because about 80% of the time when my girlfriends have boy problems I only tell them what they want to hear and not the actual truth.

Readers Response #3

Gone
part three

Janie deciedes that she would rather work with captian and stay with Cabel than isolate herself from the world. But her vision slowly gets worse and her body becomes gnaraled. Cabel still loves her though dispite her disibilities, Janie has moved out of her house and now and lives with Cabel because she is a freshman at college. The trilogy ends with Janie falling in to one of Cabels dreams about their happy yet struggling life together.

I think that Janie made a good decision, if anyone loved me as much as Cabel loves her I would completeky chose that over being alone even if it ment that one day I will be useless. Janie asks herself a lot about why all this is happening to her, which really makes me wonder why the author chose to write a trilogy about so many bad things happening to a poor teenage girl, I mean if any girl has all this happening to her at once she would have some serious problems but Janie seems to be pretty normal. I really liked the authors point of view on these stories.

Readers Response #2

Gone
Part 2
Janie has to choose between living in her dead fathers beat up home by herself in isolation or to slowly become blind an gnarled but to stay with Cabel. Captian tells her that it's her choice but Janie has some serious problems making up her mind because she loves Cabel but she wants to enjoy life.

If I were Janie I would choose isolation but to have Cabel with me until he dreams, I guess that isn't really Isolation but anything to finally get what you want. I could never Isolate myself from the world because I love being around people but if I were in her situation I think I would chose isolation knowing it would be the best decision.

I can relate to choosing between two things of people you love because of my divorced parents I have to choose sometime where I wanna stay for the night and sometimes I feel like i'm letting the other one down. I know this is nothing like Janies decision but it's still something.

vocabulary words

Martyr: A person that willingly suffers death.

Ersatz: Being an imitation.

Xenophobic: Being afraid of immigrants .

Readers Response #1

Gone
Part 1
Janie and Cabel go on vacation to get a break from all the madness of the dreams and trials for the bust of her three teachers. But while on vacation Janie's best friend Carrie calls and tells her that Janie's drunk of a mother has lost it and that she is at the hospital. When Janie and Cabel get to the hospital they realize that Janie's mom isn't the problem but that Janie's dad that she has never met was in there because of a brain tumor.

In the book Janie's mom goes off on Janie for being gone and not telling her where she went. I personally think this was a terrible thing for her mom to do. Janie's mom never talks to her or pays any attention to her so she shouldn't go off on her like that, even if she is her mother

This book is extremely hard to relate to so i'd rather not.

vocabulary words

Sublime: elevated or lofty in thought.

Benign: expressing gentleness or kindness.

Connoisseur: The judge of the best in any field. 

Readers Response #3

Fade
Part 3
Pages: around 200-300

Janie spends enough time with her teachers Mr.Durbin, Mr.Wang, and Coach Crater and realizes that they use date rape drugs to drug the students and well...rape them. Janie was drugged but was lucky enough to signal the police in time to catch her teachers before they also raped her. Janie helped catch the teachers and her and Cabel rejoined yet again.

I think that what Janie did would scare me more than anything I could ever do. I hate being around drugs and creepy older men, and that's exactly what that party was. I really love Janie's strength because I would totally chicken out. and i'm really glad her and Cabel got back together because they are meant to be.

I honestly can not relate to anything about this, normally I can find something, but I seriously can't.

Readers Response #2

Fade

Part 2

Pages: I don't have the book with me again but from about 100-200

Janie realizes that with the rate shes going becoming a dream catcher, she will become blind around 24, she will lose the use of her hands by 31 and will pretty much be useless from then on, once Cabel finds out this is going to happen, he freaks out and breaks up with Janie suddenly. She pretty much dies on the inside realizing that no one would ever love her with the problem that she has.

I think that it was wrong of Cabel to just...abandon Janie at her time of need. But I can kind of see where hes coming from, I mean, its a lot to handle. I know I would probably have some kind of mental breakdown if I were him. he thought it would be easier without Janie but instead it was worse.

I can relate to Janie but on a much lower, more conceited level. My boyfriend recently left me around the time of my great great grandmothers death, he knew that I loved her and that losing her was a huge deal to me but that didn't stop him from dumping me, now I assure you I probably did something to deserve it, but that still doesn't make me feel okay. 

Readers Response #1

Fade
part 1
Pages: I don't have the book with me right now but about 1-100
Janie gets assigned to work with Cabel and his jobs since she can see peoples dreams, her first job is to try and catch a teacher that is a sexual predator at their school. Cabel feels very protective of Janie and hates that Janies is basically being used as bait to catch the sexual predator.

If I were Cabel, I would also be extremely worried that the person I loved would get hurt, I mean If anybody I loved basically had to search for a creep that could touch her. I would kill someone. But I also respect Janie for knowing what she was getting in to and knowing she can handle this. I love watching Janie transform from always being the one needing help, to the person helping people.

I guess I can relate to Janie in this part for getting over her fears and doing what she has to do. Although I would never ever ever go looking for a sexual predator, I believe that if I had to do a job that was tough for a person who loved me I could get through it knowing I would be okay.