Mr. Linden's Library

In the newspaper

The first picture I cut out was a picture of an Evangel football player. I cut this picture out because it reminds me of how much I love football. Every Friday I go to a Hillcrest football game to cheer on my step- brother and my boyfriend. I love the excitement of a close game, but I love the joy you get once the clock hits zero and your team has won.

This picture I cut out because I love food and I love to always try cooking new things for my mom and sister. My favorite food is lasagna, so whenever I get the chance to make that I do. I think it would be fun to go to culinary school, but I wouldn’t want that to be my profession.

This picture represents how I love to go see movies when they come out.  The last movie I saw was Insidious 2 and it was really good. I go to a movie every chance I get and I probably couldn’t even decide what my favorite movie is. I have seen so many it is hard to pick a favorite

Don't quote me on that

I like these quotes:

Memorable Passage

This passage is from the book Delirium. “It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium indentified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientist perfected a cure. Everyone else in my family has had the procedure already. My older sister, Rachel, has been disease free for nine years now. She’s been safe from love for so long, she says she can’t even remember its symptoms. I’m scheduled to have my procedure in exactly ninety-five days, on September 3. My birthday.”

This passage means a lot to me. I don’t believe in the passage that they say love is a disease. I believe love is a beautiful thing. Without love what feeling will you have for your family members, spouses, and children in the future. I think love is a very important part of our society and I am interested in this book/passage because I want to know what the world would be like if love really was a disease and you were able to cure it. Maybe this book will change my mind, but I doubt it.

Famous Lines from Famous Books

I write this from the kitchen sink…

This line is from the novel I capture the Castle, which was published in the year 1998 by the author Dodie Smith who lived from 1896 to 1990. This author is also known for other works, including 101 Dalmatians and The Starlight Barking. 

I Capture the Castle is a novel about a poverty-stricken family that is living in an old decrepit castle. The 17 year old daughter, Cassandra, practices her writing skills by keeping a notebook. She writes about her older sister, who is desperate to marry rich, her once famous author father, and Topaz, her father’s young wife. 

It was a fine cry- loud and long- but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

This line is from the novel Sula , which was published in the year of 1973 by the author Toni Morrison who lived from 1931 to 2013. This author is also known for other works, including Beloved and The Bluest Eye.  

This novel takes place just after World War 1 and the author tells seven different stories about how each person dealt with the after math of World War 1.

 

Famous lines starting and ending my story

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. I’m hiding from the world around me. I’ve lost my entire family and I don’t know if anybody else’s is alive outside of my apartment. At least I have my dog, Roofus, with me. I think it was a week ago, I’ve lost track of time, that the world started crashing down. We always learned about the apocalypse, but it didn’t happen the way they said it would. They said the volcanoes would all start to erupt, earthquakes happening everywhere and the oceans taking over continents. What really happened was a disease broke out, nobody knows from where, and one by one people started dying. The twist to this was that once some had died they would come back as zombies. Zombies that hungered for human flesh. Naturally the zombies started killing people, taking the human race down one by one. This brings us back to why I’m sitting in my sink with Roofus all alone and scared to leave. If I had another person with me then might say I’m going crazy, but what’s a girl supposed to do when she’s scared out of her mind what could happen. How will I find more food? Is there anybody else there like me just hiding out? These are the questions I write down. I sit and over think every answer and possibility to these questions. Over thinking is probably the reason why I’m going insane. So I just sit in my sink; it’s the only place I feel completely safe. I can see all windows and doors from this position, so I feel protected. I just sit here and wait for what will happen next. I can feel the tears running down my cheeks. It is a fine cry- loud and long- but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

Writers as Readers

#1 When I am reading something I like to be in a warm and cozy environment. I like to have a little background noise on, so I normally turn the TV on, but have the volume down low. I also need a light snack. I prefer having a 6 inch Subway sandwich with me, but if that is not available I settle for some cookies or chips. To keep me warm and cozy I always have my blue and orange puffy blanket. The lighting in the room as to be completely on. I do not like reading I dim light, it strains my eyes and I get headaches. I also enjoy reading in the car. Reading in the car passes time and while reading in there I always have my blanket and a snack to go along with it.

#2 The genre that I am interested in is a total cliché. I am interested in dramatic romance novels, just like most teenage girls. I like the personal connection that I feel with the characters and that I can relate to what most of the characters are going through. I am drawn to these books because I like the mushy gushy romantic setting and I like getting to the end of the book and finding out if the couple lasts o if the conflict of the story tears them apart.

#9 When I finished reading Everyone Sees Ants, I was sad because the main character, Lucky, doesn’t end up bringing his grandfather back from the war.

   When I finished reading Bitter End, I was angry afterwards because I didn’t know that the book was a part of a series, so when I got to the end of the book it left me hanging. I got really angry afterwards to find out the second book in the series hasn’t come out yet. By the time the second book comes out I will probably have forgotten about it, so I won’t ever get to finish the story,

   When I finished reading All the Things I’ve done, I was happy because the story was really good and the book had a lot of action in it. The ending of the book in my opinion was the perfect ending for it. That is what made me so happy; when I read a book and it has a good ending.

#7 The first book I remember was a part of the Junie B. Jones series. These books were my life when I first started reading. I had every single book that ever came out. The very first book I read of hers was Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus. This book got me interested in reading because I had found out how exciting reading could be. It showed me that when you find the right book you can get lost in it and think you are the actual character.

#5 I have picked up a book and been excited to turn the next page. This book was actually a part of a series. This book was called Perfect Chemistry.  This series also had two other books Rules of Attraction and Chain Reaction. I read this first book in a car ride on my way to Kansas City, by the time we got there I had finished the first book and I wanted more. I made my mom stop at a Barnes and Noble so I could purchase the next two. This series was full of romance, mystery, and action. The way the author told the story is what kept me so intrigued.

Maya Angelou

Question 9: Things that I occupy my small mind with is I put music on low or turn the TV on, but I have to have the volume down low. I also have to have my laptop in front of me with a glass of water and a Subway sandwich. My biggest distraction is my mom and my sister. When I try to get something done they always talk my ear off. I also can’t have my phone out because all I will do is getting on Instagram or Twitter.

Question 10: Yes, I agree with the quote. The hardest thing for me about writing is actually what I want to write about. Also starting out my writing, I can never write a good introduction. The easiest thing about writing is once I get started I don’t have a problem with finishing it.

Question 4: I do think dreams reveal things about us that we may not realize is true. I can recount a dream that made me realize something about my life that I didn’t realize before. This dream I had when I was little I had a dream, in this dream I was an athletic trainer/physical therapist. Not only was I an ordinary athletic trainer/physical therapist I was the head one for Kansas University Athletics. In my dream I was having so much fun being able to help players get back on the court or field. Since that I dream I had realized that I wanted to be an athletic trainer/physical therapist when I grew up. So in a way my dream told me what I wanted to be once I graduate high school.

Question 5: In my opinion I think I could live this way to a certain point. I would be able to not talk when people say stuff in most cases, but sometimes you just have to say your mind if someone is making you really mad. I think I talk too little, a lot of the time I don’t speak my mind as much and that leads to me being a push over. I could learn more about what’s going on in the world around me if I listened more and spoke less. If I started speaking more I could grow as a person more because I would start sticking up for myself more and having more self-confidence when talking to other people.

 

Dreamthread

And then I bought a boat…while I was on vacation with my family in Greece. I had just won the lottery a week ago back home and I was splurging on everything I could find. Little did I know the boat, more of a yacht, I bought had been stolen from the previous owner. This owner happened to be a mob boss. While in my villa with my family, I received a box containing a dead rat. A dead rat means “All thieves will die”, upon receiving this message the FBI put me and my family into the Witness Protection Program.  After a while of hiding out, word had gotten out where I was located. Three days later the Mob boss’ men had captured my family. We were all tired up in a warehouse, but when nobody was looking I would work towards untying our hands. When the guard for the night was dozing off I told my family to run until they get to safety. The guard woke up and was chasing us. My family had made it out of the warehouse and finding a safe place to hide out. I was almost there, but then I died.

Dreaming Up A Lifetime

I daydream about my future. Sometimes I only dream a day ahead on the future and plan what I am going to wear the next day or about events that are coming up on my weekend. I also daydream about my life after high school. I daydream about being accepted into Kansas University and finding the love of my life. I also dream about what my wedding will look like, my family I hope to have, and having a successful job. A recurring dream I have is from the movie The Parent Trap. I used to have the scene where the girls are piercing ears and the movie shows it where they zoom in on the needle coming down. When I was little the needle scene used to scare me. No matter what dream I was having that one scene would find its way into it.  Typically when I dream I dream of my future and what I want it to become or I dream about one of my fears and it turns into a nightmare. Those are two reasons I think a person’s hopes and fears cause dreams. The best dream I’ve ever had is one where I’m surrounded my family members and we are all laughing. A book I’ve read about dreams is one from the library and it said if you dream of unicorns, then that means good fortune is going to be coming to you soon.

Haiku

Ripe Pumpkins

Starbucks has it now

Warm, tasty, making me smile

                                                Pumpkin Spice Latte

My Room

Inviting and warm

Keeping me out of trouble

My private sanctuary