Did the book come to a satisfactory closure for you? Why/Why not?
--Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl had a good ending. Johnny was in love with Delia who broke his heart long time ago but he still wanted to help her with anything. The book didn't answer a lot of question like how was Delia sex encounters were so memorable, what were her secrets about her life,or what was in those letters. The story didn't even tell what happen to Rick after he got caught by the police trying to kill Delia. But I'm kind of sad it didn't have a Cinderella story, because the whole story is told by Johnny and it makes me feel like I know him. Before I read what Johnny was thinking, I already knew before I read it. Johnny didn't get the girl, Delia divorced Brad, and she moved to away to another state. The story leaves the reader to make their own conclusion of the end, rather its an happy one or not. But as a whole the story/book was good.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
5th post
"He was married, but he wasn't really clean with her about it. Just let her assume he wasn't. Then she ran into his wife and found out. It really set her off. She and the wife had words, I don't know exactly what, but it was unpleasant. A few weeks later the wife commits suicide. I think Rick blames Delia for some of that the wife commits suicide. I think Rick blames Delia for some of that, and Delia blames him for it too"(p288 Groom).
--This passage is the beginning of the down fall action in the story. Johnny and Brad start to figure out who been blackmailing Delia. The blackmailer was always with them and it was Brad friend Rick, who is a police investigator. The passage explains Rick motive and shows him in a different light. I guess Delia's so called "honesty" has hurt everyone she meets.
--This passage is the beginning of the down fall action in the story. Johnny and Brad start to figure out who been blackmailing Delia. The blackmailer was always with them and it was Brad friend Rick, who is a police investigator. The passage explains Rick motive and shows him in a different light. I guess Delia's so called "honesty" has hurt everyone she meets.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
4th post
"What is it with this project? Burr continued. It has to do with that TV girl right? What?Are you obsessed with her or something? I mean, look, this is heavy material, Johnny, You've created a very complicated character here. That's what I said I was going to do. And that's exactly what I told you not to do, right? It'll be okay, Toby, be patient, I said" (p 154 Groom).
--Johnny is suppose to work on his friends script for a movie, and instead of working on it like his friend wanted him to Johnny put his own twisted in it. Johnny is so ramped up in Delia, it is messing up his work and his friendship. As I'm reading this book, Delia is persuasive. I just hope Johnny remembers that Delia has two sides to her and she is a married women.
Will Delia revel herself?
Will Johnny get over Delia?
--Johnny is suppose to work on his friends script for a movie, and instead of working on it like his friend wanted him to Johnny put his own twisted in it. Johnny is so ramped up in Delia, it is messing up his work and his friendship. As I'm reading this book, Delia is persuasive. I just hope Johnny remembers that Delia has two sides to her and she is a married women.
Will Delia revel herself?
Will Johnny get over Delia?
Sunday, November 16, 2008
3rd post
"It seemed strange to me at the time that faculty advisers would take their female students out on dinner dates, but it has become much clearer to me now. Among the names on Delia's lover list was one Horest Vining, English Department, Columbia University"(p 88 Groom).
--In this passage Johnny figures out that Delia had a thing going on with her teacher. His love or lust for her is blinding him to see the real Delia, but makes him see only the Delia that he remembers. But at this point I think the reader and Johnny will realize and the story will revile some aspects of the past life of Delia.
Who is Delia?
How did Delia become this mysterious person?
What is her secret?
--In this passage Johnny figures out that Delia had a thing going on with her teacher. His love or lust for her is blinding him to see the real Delia, but makes him see only the Delia that he remembers. But at this point I think the reader and Johnny will realize and the story will revile some aspects of the past life of Delia.
Who is Delia?
How did Delia become this mysterious person?
What is her secret?
2nd post
"It had been strange, almost creepy, sitting there discussing Delia with one her bedmates. And what was the sex thing with her he didn't want to to talk about? That seemed peculiar, especially since he'd brought up the subject on the first place"(75 Groom).
--Johnny has taken the charge to find all Delia past lovers, to see who is blackmailing her. And every time Johnny asked the ex-lovers a series of questions, the subject about their sex encounters with Delia keep coming up. But when the ex-lovers see that Johnny doesn't know about it, they seem mad and quick to drop the subject; one even stormed out. This passage in the story brings us two steps back or forward, from knowing who is Delia and what are her intentions from all these men.
Why do Delia keep leaving men when they to close to her?
Why is Delia sex encounter so private? I thought men boast about things like that.
Is Delia a man or something?
--Johnny has taken the charge to find all Delia past lovers, to see who is blackmailing her. And every time Johnny asked the ex-lovers a series of questions, the subject about their sex encounters with Delia keep coming up. But when the ex-lovers see that Johnny doesn't know about it, they seem mad and quick to drop the subject; one even stormed out. This passage in the story brings us two steps back or forward, from knowing who is Delia and what are her intentions from all these men.
Why do Delia keep leaving men when they to close to her?
Why is Delia sex encounter so private? I thought men boast about things like that.
Is Delia a man or something?
Saturday, November 1, 2008
2nd Book
"She got up and headed for the phone at the end of he bar. Whoever it was, the conversation was quick, but when Delia returned she was ashen and glanced around nervously as she sat down, as though she expected something or someone she didn't want to see"(p.10 Groom).
--I'm reading a book called Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl. The passage I guess is the rising action for the plot. I didn't think the rising action would be in the first chapter, but the book is still good. The narrator/main character is a man name Johnny. Johnny and Delia are old flames and they haven't seen each other for fifteen years and the irony is that the meet up in a bar unexpectedly. So right now the book is very interesting.
Who was Delia talking to?
Why is Delia so disturb?
And what is Delia hiding or what secret does she have?
--I'm reading a book called Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl. The passage I guess is the rising action for the plot. I didn't think the rising action would be in the first chapter, but the book is still good. The narrator/main character is a man name Johnny. Johnny and Delia are old flames and they haven't seen each other for fifteen years and the irony is that the meet up in a bar unexpectedly. So right now the book is very interesting.
Who was Delia talking to?
Why is Delia so disturb?
And what is Delia hiding or what secret does she have?
Friday, October 3, 2008
Final book blog.
Comment on the perspective from which the book is told and how the author’s choice affects your relationship with the book’s content.
--Karrine, to me, is an alright author. She persuaded me not to judge her life in a really negative way; if she can persuade me, she can persuade anybody. She has done most of the degraded things,but kill her mother and sleep with her father, in her life and she still has my respect. "I was wonderful, his friends and peers in the industry would soon prove to him that the image I portrayed was all an illusion" (Steffans 117). Karrine sets the scene with her early childhood experiences and troubles. "There was always someone trying to compete with me and trying to eliminate me-it started with my mother and continued throughout my adult life" (Steffans 127). I wanted to read this book not to found out who she had sex encounters with, but to find out what happens behind closed doors in the music music/entertainment industry. Believe it or not, I learned something important about life by reading this book; a person is what they think, go for, and what he/she do. So I thank Ms. Karrine Steffans for writing this book. Because of her, people will see more then they see on T.V., but realize the truth behind some of these "superstars".
--Karrine, to me, is an alright author. She persuaded me not to judge her life in a really negative way; if she can persuade me, she can persuade anybody. She has done most of the degraded things,but kill her mother and sleep with her father, in her life and she still has my respect. "I was wonderful, his friends and peers in the industry would soon prove to him that the image I portrayed was all an illusion" (Steffans 117). Karrine sets the scene with her early childhood experiences and troubles. "There was always someone trying to compete with me and trying to eliminate me-it started with my mother and continued throughout my adult life" (Steffans 127). I wanted to read this book not to found out who she had sex encounters with, but to find out what happens behind closed doors in the music music/entertainment industry. Believe it or not, I learned something important about life by reading this book; a person is what they think, go for, and what he/she do. So I thank Ms. Karrine Steffans for writing this book. Because of her, people will see more then they see on T.V., but realize the truth behind some of these "superstars".
Monday, September 29, 2008
post 5
"Within the first four months of my relationship with G, I had lost forty pounds and weighed a pitiful ninety-six pounds. The stress of the physical and verbal abuse had taken a toll on my body and spirit. Life at our house was torture. It was common to see me with bruises up and down my body" (Steffans 87).
--I guess this could be the down fall of Karrine, but it s also the turning point in her life. G's beating her made her weak and made her strong. And when she conceived a child by G, she wants her life to be different.
Why when she gets a child she wants to change her life?
Is her own life not important anymore?
--I guess this could be the down fall of Karrine, but it s also the turning point in her life. G's beating her made her weak and made her strong. And when she conceived a child by G, she wants her life to be different.
Why when she gets a child she wants to change her life?
Is her own life not important anymore?
post 4
"My hips have swayed and popped on MTV while I danced on tabletops and poolside in some of your favorite videos"(Steffans 83).
This passage is funny to me, because I look at of a lot of videos and I have never seen the same girl in most of the videos I watched in the past. And the author makes the statement like that was the best thing in her life. This time the author is showing how she was in the spotlight to help plot.
Can video dancer's dance for a little kid? And if no, is video dancing appropriate?
Why did she give up dancing, when she had the spotlight and every video she was in?
This passage is funny to me, because I look at of a lot of videos and I have never seen the same girl in most of the videos I watched in the past. And the author makes the statement like that was the best thing in her life. This time the author is showing how she was in the spotlight to help plot.
Can video dancer's dance for a little kid? And if no, is video dancing appropriate?
Why did she give up dancing, when she had the spotlight and every video she was in?
post 3
"My mother always made me feel like less than a person. She despised the fact that I received constant praise and she was worthy of none. Before I was born, she was the center and now I had taken her shine. We were in competition from the day I arrived"(Steffans 58).
--I like the way how the author, once again, helps her plot by talking about her past and life experiences. And this passage kind of ask my question in my other post. I think Karrine, the author, was a mistake baby and wasn't planned. I guess her mom had a child so young made her spotlight real short, and she see her child getting all the praise good make a person jealous.
Is the dad jealous too?
How will this situation play out in the long run?
--I like the way how the author, once again, helps her plot by talking about her past and life experiences. And this passage kind of ask my question in my other post. I think Karrine, the author, was a mistake baby and wasn't planned. I guess her mom had a child so young made her spotlight real short, and she see her child getting all the praise good make a person jealous.
Is the dad jealous too?
How will this situation play out in the long run?
post 2
"I was born in 1978 on a hot, sticky late-August day on the twenty-eight-square-mile island of St. Thomas. My mother was an eighteen year old native. My father was fifty-six and lived on the island from 1976 to 1984"(Steffans 33).
--This passage is really stands out when reading it. When a reader read this particular passage they may have to read it twice. Because when you start reading it, you think yea her mom was a young parent, but then she said her dad was fifty six. So again she teaches something about life and tries to make the reader understand her situation and not be judgmental on her life.
Why is the age difference between her parents so far apart?
Was her mother force to have a baby?
Can a fifty five man have sex with a seventeen year old girl?
--This passage is really stands out when reading it. When a reader read this particular passage they may have to read it twice. Because when you start reading it, you think yea her mom was a young parent, but then she said her dad was fifty six. So again she teaches something about life and tries to make the reader understand her situation and not be judgmental on her life.
Why is the age difference between her parents so far apart?
Was her mother force to have a baby?
Can a fifty five man have sex with a seventeen year old girl?
Monday, September 15, 2008
1st post for my book
"I was lying on the hard, cold floor in the bathroom of the famous Chinese bistro Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills. With my head next to the toilet, I was alone, in debt, with no friends and no hope. It had been a long, hard trip that led to this fall. Everything was designer-made, from my jewelry to my makeup to the clothes I wore—even the drugs I'd consumed. The next thing I knew, I was on the floor again".
--This passage came from chapter one. The author starts with a flashback about her life when she was on drugs. In my opinion, that is the cheesiest way to start a biography; maybe a fiction story, but not a non-fiction story. It's funny how she contrasts her nice life, but makes these stupid mistakes. So she is like she using an old cliche that every person has used at lease in his/her life; because a person has money doesn't make them a better or smart person, because they make the same mistakes. And I think the author pushes the reader to picture the character, so the reader know where she is coming from, instead of judging her right away.
Why start with this terrible point in her life?
How did she become this drug addicted and what is her destiny?
Who will help her of the bathroom floor or will she help herself?
--This passage came from chapter one. The author starts with a flashback about her life when she was on drugs. In my opinion, that is the cheesiest way to start a biography; maybe a fiction story, but not a non-fiction story. It's funny how she contrasts her nice life, but makes these stupid mistakes. So she is like she using an old cliche that every person has used at lease in his/her life; because a person has money doesn't make them a better or smart person, because they make the same mistakes. And I think the author pushes the reader to picture the character, so the reader know where she is coming from, instead of judging her right away.
Why start with this terrible point in her life?
How did she become this drug addicted and what is her destiny?
Who will help her of the bathroom floor or will she help herself?
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