Hustlin': Getting Deep

In the book Hustlin' by L.Divine is a book in which Jayd has to face drama in her life, by using her heritage of the Williams woman to help her out. Recently Jayd's friends have gone their separate ways because of jealousy and because they disagree on many issues. Recently Jayd's friend Mickey is pregnant with a baby and she doesn't even know who the father is, since she's been with her boyfriend whom will buy her everything she pleases, and she is fooling around with Nigel whom she truly loves. She is still indecisive of what she should do with that baby: keep it and raise it with pride, have an abortion and graduate, or she gives birth than gives it up for adoption. Whatever choice she makes, she will never know which choice is the RIGHT choice logically since after she chooses a choice she will have to go through that road, and she can't later go back and choose another option to see which option is the right one. Jayd uses "voodoo" to help her out trying to make the right choices, but ultimately what she is doing is taking away her friends freedom and Jayd uses her ethics as well as her opinion on what the right choice for her friend is, but then takes away the freedom of her friend ultimately.

What is the "right" choice to make? And how can we ever look back to know if we made the "right" choice if we don't know where the other options might lead us? Logically we can never know which choice is the "right" choice since we can't go back in time and fix a mistake. If Jayd takes matters in to her hands, she wouldn't be doing Mickey a favor, if Jayd makes a spell that gets rid of the baby, then Mickey wouldn't learn to fix her mistakes. And what id Jayd is doing the wrong thing by getting rid of the baby? Well of course no one would know if they did since she can't go back in time and choose another path.

Hustlin'

Not much has happened from reading, except that Jayd's enemy Laura has stolen Nellie back into her side, making it even harder to keep her friends together. Mickey is still being stubborn and ignorant, but at least Jayd has finally set her straight when Mickey made her sign a piece of paper excusing all the absences that Mickey and Nigel have done when shipping school. Jayd's working at Netta is being even more magical then she expected, because of the cleansing she has to do before she can start working. Jeremy and Rah are still on Jayd's track and honestly, Jayd does not know what to do about either one of them. Jeremy is such a gentlemen but his racist family will not be good for Jayd since she is of a darker complexion, Rah knows Jayd from head to toe, and they have shared so many things with each other, especially the history they have from Family Christian, their old school, before Jayd transferred out, but Rah's morals and ethics don't match up to be like Jayd's and they constantly disagree on how matters in life should be taken into hand. Jayd's teacher is hot on her trail, and apparently he knows too much of her line of heritage, and it seems as if he is pressuring her to do something although what isnt clear in the book.
How can we prevent life from unraveling itself to us, once we get to see the negative outcome of the situation. a lot of the times, once we make a decision and we see, the decision made wasn't the best choice for oneself, then we want to change it, but we can't, why? If we so have such a "voice" in our own decisions why can't we know what the outcomes might be of making a decision? Jayd helped Misty out and that back fired because Misty was being ungrateful and started spreading news to the school, that Jayd was a witch, by putting a spell on voodoo. And Jayd has dreams but her dreams don't tell her how to avoid it, instead her dreams usually end up happening to her.

Hustlin'

In this book, Jayd has been dragged into yet more drama: 

1. Mickey's man is stocking Jayd and trying to seduce her
2. Mickey and Nellie are still not getting along
3. Jayd's understudy for the Shakespearean play Macbeth, is hating on Jayd and is trying to get Jayd in trouble so that she could get kicked out of the play making, Laura the understudy, Lady Macbeth in the play.
4. Rah is going to present Jayd his baby, and the baby mama isnt happy about it...

So basically what i wanted to talk about was spirituality, How can we influence positive "vibes" in our life? For example some people use yoga and they try to stay away from drama, but what if you are already in a situation, what do you do next? So basically on my book Jayd kind of helps her friends and loved ones with a little help of her powers, but how do you know when you should help someone, and how do you know the RIGHT solution to their problems. Since we are in a philosophy unit, how do we know when the RIGHT decision has been made before you actually see the outcome?

Reading, Courtin' Jayd

In this book, Mickey has announced that she is pregnant, and the news have traveled about her upcoming baby really fast. Nellie is feeling anger because Mickey is doing something unfair: telling the person that has the money to support her and her baby, that he is the baby. But is Nellie angry because of the baby or because she is still feeling for Nigel, her man and possible baby daddy. Now Jayd has to be in the middle of the two best friends, once again, fighting each other.  Jeremy and Raheem are feeling for Jayd but Jayd is so confused about her emotions because both guys have their pros and cons, and now she has to decide, which one has the morals or values Jayd has.
This is why I am writing this. Since this week is about morals/ethics, I thought that the situation in my book would be perfect to write about. Raheem sells weed on the streets, making quick money, because his mother isnttheir to support Rah and his little brother emotionally. Jayd understands that he needs to make money, but she also believes that there are other ways, which are clean, and legal. Jeremy's family is very twisted up. Between Tania being pregnant with his baby and his family not accepting the baby as its own because of skin color is a big issue to Jayd. I mean, of course its an issue since she is colored. If Jeremy keeps on acting the way he does not taking responsibility for his baby there will be no Jayd and Jeremy. If Rah doesn't stop being a cheeter and can tie himself down to just one girl and 3 others, Jayd can work things out beside the fact that he is dating his providers sister for the cheap blunt and the quantity as well as quality of it.
I think that everyone has there own values in certain issues, but I also think that when it comes to thinking like a society, most people can agree on something. In the books, Jayd has her own values and the people her life is intertwined with have very different aspects, and she is there because she needs to set them straight and live life to their fullest, but also letting them know the wrong things they are doing.

On the 5th book: Courtin' Jayd

Do you guys remember at the beginning of me reading the books about the stereo types and all that stuff. Well surprisingly I'm liking the books and the pending drama in each chapter. And sometimes you see Jayd come to the rescue and help the ones that need her thanks to her legacy of a William's Woman, the voodoo queen. Jayd with her best friend Mickey pregnant and not knowing who the baby daddy is and with Misty getting kicked out of her home and onto the street, with Jeremy and Raheem, their ex's wanting to get back together, and that's just the first 20 pages, so their is definitely more drama, and by the end the drama will be resolved or getting solved. 

The book has a lot of those ups and downs that makes a sistah's ghetto life complete and even tough a break from that drama is necessary somehow they can't get out of the drama or prevent the drama from ever happening to her. Something tha I found very interesting is that fate seems to be  big topic, since Jayd's power is to dream the future. And if the future always happens then its destiny. A little confusing to take all at once but its fate and Jayd that make a great team in trying to help out her friends and watch out for enemies.

I actually want to acknowledge something the character said which was: Why do woman be picking out wrong guys? But really do woman pick wrong guys or are they there to be changed or to change the character into being a better person in their next relationship, whether friend or partner.

Finished second chance

I'm late in announcing this because i finished on Thursday night after my last blog post. But now that I'm here I finished!!! At the beginning of the series I was complaining about the stereo types of  ghetto people but really I've grown close to drama, which is what I wanted to discuss in today's post.
Why is it that I am so enticed in the drama that is going on in Jayd's life, even though I know she is fictional? Sometimes when i get to the romantic parts you get the tingles, and when she has a choice to make (usually about 2 boys) you can't help but say out loud the answer. I think that I really liked this book, and i think i like it because there is so much drama, and the drama is so big, in their lives, and I kind of don't understand how author's write books. I mean how the hell did this book get in my hand in the first place?
What I love about the author's way of writing is probably how she attracts her old readers by never ending her books, but by ending right at the end of a problem but arising another drama. And so if I want to know what is going to happen I need to read the next book in the series.

Second Chance: conflict

Conflict or drama in Jayd's life (the MC) has shaped her and has made her a better person by learning more on the crew and the crowd that tries to gain on her as well as she knowing who the true players are. In this book we see that Jayd's grandmother is a very important character because she believes in the power of voodoo so it is very interesting to see how based on the grandmothers knowledge and past Jayd can know what to do with the drama that gets in her way. It also helps her make better choices to avoid future problems.
Due to this drama with KJ, Trecee, and Misty, Jayd knows not to trust Misty with anything, not even feeding her a little bit of information. She knows not to be with KJ because he is a liar and a macho man, who thinks he is all, and not going out with KJ it avoids problems like Trecee.
And with this teacher Mrs.Bennett she knows who not to mess with, like Jayd, who doesn't let anyone make fun of her or mess with her.

Reading a new book called second chance

The main character Jayd has continued being the MC in this book from the first book The Fight. So to in the last book KJ- Jayd's ex-boyfriend- broke up with Jayd over the phone after Jayd call, because he wasn't calling, so then KJ broke up with her because Jayd wouldn't have sex with him, so KJ moved on and was with another girl, Trecee. Trecee is crazy over KJ and will stick up to anyone to protect her man. So Misty has been saying stuff about Jayd secretely still wanting KJ back and seducing him, so there was supposed to be a fight at the end of the first week of school. When the fight was supposed to happen someone told both of them that Misty really wanted KJ all to herself and so Trecee ended up beating Misty. Now in this book Jayd has moved on and started dating Jeremy a rich white boy. So far Jeremy has been caught selling weed at lunch because Misty, the bigmouth, led the security guards to them. KJ wants Jayd back, and is trying everything to get her back. Jayd's teacher Mrs. Bennett is being racist to colored people and Jayd is filing a report against this teacher. And Jeremy's mother doesn't really like Jayd. And Jeremy has a certain taste for girls with darker complections and people have been saying thta Jayd is the flavor of the month. And Jeremy's ex is flirting with Jeremy in front of her.
Jayd is also being worried that people are judging her because she is going out with a white boy when she is black, but her true feelings are because he is a gentlemen and she is not hurried for sex like KJ and black men in her life do.

Still Reading....

Well, I'm still reading the same book, The fight, and I've grown to kind of find a double meaning than just a stereo type, not only does the book tell us about the authors interest, but we can also see how spirituality can actually work in our lives and even though we might not believe in spirits and ghosts well there are things in our lives that can actually be in our lives. For example in the book Jade's Mama gives her a lot of cleansings and how can we not if we have any issues, we must clean ourselves and get our own weight or guilt (if there is any) off of us so that we can tackle a problem.
There is also a lot of reminding Jade who she is, which can be very powerful to a person that has a very low self esteem, or even just out of pure comfort we need to be reminded just how important everyone is and so when one tries to put you down their words won't get to you because you already have an understanding of who you are.

Drama High: The fight

I'm reading Drama High which is a ghetto book with a whole bunch of black characters that are always running into some sort of drama. My emotions for the book are mixed up because I kind of find the language they use is a little of a stereo type. Because the characters at one point say, "Well I'm sorry if I'm too smart to be black..." giving a specific standard of knowledge a black person should meet.
In the book the drama already starts as the first day of school starts as Jecee already wants to start a fight with Jayd for "wanting" her man, which is not true but in fact a rumor. And just a couple of days Jayd, broke up with her boyfriend KJ for cheating on her with her "best friend".
Of course Jayd was not going to get trampled by the crowd so she stood up for herself.
At home though her Mama is a witch or something, where she creates potions that actually work. REALLY???? I find that kind of dumb to write in because it just makes the book way more fake than realistic.
I do think that the setting of the book has a lot of meaning, because these people are at a "white" school but there are a whole bunch of African Americans that have been placed there to stop the ghetto black community, but in a way they are still there trying to fight it. I think it is more Ironic more than 1 family had this idea so that a whole crowd of ghetto students ended up in school. I also think that setting has to do with background. If you look closely at the text there are a lot of broken families, whether or not you were born from a broken relationship or from one that broke due to you, or one that broke after you were born. This kind of unites us readers because there are mostly people that come from failed relationships that struggle, but I also think it gives us a clue of what the author's purpose of writing the book was.

Finished Faking 19

Knowing that life is a rush the book faking 19 tells us that even though our economic differences or apparent differences we are the same. In the book Faking 19 two girls from different backgrounds are friends and even though M is rich with an untouchable reputation in school, and personal charm she is the same as her best friend, a poor but good looking girl, lacking the side of her father and a mother that doesn't seem to care enough of the life of her failing daughter.
I feel that the author let me down in that the story was bland and although the ending wasn't like a Disney ending it did give us a glimpse of hope, which was inappropriate for the plot or problem of the book. At the end M makes up with her friend after blaming her for marijuana M was hiding, even though she did not do it.Another issue is that M's father was cheating on his wife with another woman and she is completely blackmailing him with making him pay over used credit cards, and after telling her mom about it they still remain an intact family, because the mother did not want to give up her live as a rich girl. I understand that for many woman in all sorts of social classes go through this but the fact is that the author just wanted to support her statement in which M and the poor girl are actually quite the same. Another thing that happened was that the poor girl won $10,000 after creating a story that and a scholarship to college after she was failing every class because of not caring, it just not happens like that.
I guess that all of the things that ended up happening to the characters could have happened but I was expecting a more dramatic ending that totally left every one in the ruins as a consequence for  their actions and decisions they made through the life span of the book.

Faking 19

Faking 19 is about a 17 year old daughter who has struggle just like many people do. In her case she has an absent father, an uncaring mother, and she is on the merge to failing high school and not get graduated if she doesn't get her grades up.
During a conversation between Alex and her mom have a quick conversation about woman and history and now. Her mom states that woman have taken big steps since she herself was a child to now. But Alex looks at it as if woman have taken big steps in society not in a loving relationship.
I agree with Alex and her mom because woman have taken steps to more independence but I feel that woman have not taken a complete step to stop burdensome social rules, for example sex. People at this age have sex whether its to experiment or to have a sexual relationship. But girls that experiment it for multiple times are called sluts, while guys are usually awarded with "stud". Why is this so, shouldn't both or neither be awarded the same?
Some other rules that society has implemented is the whole going out thing, on a date the man has to pay usually while they would be a gentlemen, while if a woman payed the bill they would most likely not get another date any time soon, for being "rude", or there is the whole first move thing, a man has to either ask or gain in on the woman to do something where if a woman does it they are considered desperate or manly.
So making woman vote really bumps them up socially but there are still other social rules that woman are usually targeted for doing, and with a growing community of LGBT's what can we expect and are we actually pushing people to become LGBT.

Diary Of a Wimpy Kid!!!!

I returned to my #1 favorite book... DIARY OF A WIMPY KID!
after depressing myself by reading the horrible true journeys of drug and crystal meth addicts I have decided to start reading the diary of a wimpy kid book. In this book Greg Heffley 's main issue is his own personal economic chaos. Trying to support his virtual family, an online animal support game he tries to please his chihuahua that gets sad or depressed when he doesn't have new stuff. Not enfocusing on the actual book I wanted to discuss a subject: how far would we go to make someone we care about happy.

Many teenagers have a girlfriend or boyfriend that since they "hooked" up they have to be together all the time, and the male in the relationship (LOL) always have to pay the bill or the one that has to sugar coat the female. But why? Why is it that it's just WRONG if we don't? My response to this is simple: sexism and ignorance. From long before in the Shakespeare era, the male always hooked up with the mate, made the charm happen, or made the first move, but what if the girl has to do the first move? Does it really make us less "man" by letting this happen. Are we really trying to feed our ego's to keep doing a stupid ritual?

Many kids want to be known. Plain and simple. They don't want to be hidden away, or in other words, everyone wants to be famous. But how far are you willing to go and actually change who you are to please or fit in with the crowd your in or want to be in?  How far are you willing to go to be cool? I think that one should be themselves because if someone is smart or talented that should be enough good recognition instead of the daring bad recognition one should have to be known out in public.

Don't change or don't stretch yourself  out for other people. Good night bloggers!!!!

Finished Beautiful Boy!!!

As if the book would never end, since the book was based on the author's son Nic's addiction to drugs the book couldn't end until Nic's addiction to drugs was no more. At the end of the book David Scheff learns not to blame himself for his son's addiction because the addiction was really being fed by other problems and missing factors in his life.
David as well other people that loved Nic were impacted by Nic's addiction, so in other words, it was his addiction that was the antagonist. Throughout the book David goes through an emotional journey because he truly loves his son. David had sleepless nights knowing that his son could have wounded up on the streets without shelter, or in a hospital bed due to an overdoses of crystal meth in a world that was still fairly new to him-he was just 21 years of age- There was also the worry of having Nic hurt his loved ones by hurting them physically or by breaking into their houses and stealing money as well as pills and medications. David also had the worry of his son never recovering from his addiction. David felt hurt and betrayed that his son that was a genius in school, loving to write would lose all his aspirations, dreams, and hopes in life.
David suffered an almost fatal hemorrhage, he thinks that it was from his sons addiction that really caused it. David was also very strong where everyone told him give up on your son he isn't getting better, he is not coming back, and he is lost, but how could he give up on something that means so much too him, someone that has a chance even though it's a small one.
David was glad at the end of the book, and he had wished he could have finished his book a lot sooner, but he was just glad that he had his son that was safe and he still hopes that he stays sober. David never gave up on his son and it was that small hope and that fear that kept him trying and trying over and over to help his son get sober.

Review to Blog

In this post I will be writing a review on Sidney D.'s blogpost from 813. Her Blogpost from 5 weeks ago is on a book she was reading called Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin. I have never read this book before but Sydney's blogpost on the book not only showed her passion for reading the book but it also inspires others to read the book.
Sydney says that the book is about a teenage girl who dies and goes to an after death place called Elsewhere. This setting is very unique because unlike heaven or another after death place religion implies,  it doesn't have a cliche setting that people might imagine but a totally new setting that could only be pictured by reading Elsewhere. In this place where dead people go to after dying, people live their years backward, in other words they anti age until they are babies and then sent back to Earth to live their lives with another family. Elsewhere could also be described as very similar to Earth, except that your dead to actual Earth. Because someone would never to be living the same exact life in Elsewhere like Earth it makes the book interesting.
Another interesting thing of the book Elsewhere that Sydney writes is that this girl can't find love on Earth and she is mostly a nobody, but in this place everyone is somebody and everyone is accepted for who they are and they are glorified for the talents they can share with the rest of the community which kind of rises the question, How perfect is this place? and Can this places rituals be adapted to Earth today? and How hard are our worlds issues?
Sydney does not give away so much to tell you the story in her blogpost, but she does give us enough information to grab our attention and gives us information to want the book right away. I also think that the perfect combination of her review and the book itself is enough to make a reader want to read the book.