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The end is near for Julie. Throughout the cancer and the change that she had gone through, when she found herself yelling a lot, her younger sister Rosie became afraid of her almost. I was worried that it was going to end that way. Julie would be gone and Rosie would only remember her yelling. The last chapter for Julie ends with a moment between the two sisters where they are happy and smiling at one another. I think that would give Julie some ease as she lets go, knowing that all was right with her baby sister. My heart just breaks as I write this and it is hard for me to hold back tears and not think of how I would feel if I was in Sam’s position. The dance company that Sam and Julie dance for is going on tour and they put on a big banquet to kick it off. Julie made sure she was there. “ Jules found time alone with each dancer in the company, holding a hand out for her to take and listening carefully to her words. Then Jules would speak, and even though I couldn’t hear what she had ...

The reason I wanted to read this book was because it was about two best friends that both share a passion for dancing. I danced for a long time and it was as much a part of me as it is for Julie and Sam. This book just kind of pulled me in right from the beginning. Nothing spectacular happened or anything that I could relate too, I just enjoyed it. It’s written with such clarity and explanation. There aren’t really chapters but its set up like there is. Each is titled with Julie, and Sam. It switches back and forth from Julies view, to Sam’s. Davida explains the important parts with such depth. I have yet to fully cry but I have definitely been getting teary eyed throughout this whole novel. I was only sixty pages in when I started to tear for the first time and I still have two hundred pages left to read. Julie gets cancer. It is multiple spots and it spreads and gets bigger. The bond between these to girls is so strong and so intense that its heart breaking when that bond starts to c...

At the end of the third paragraph of my last post I said that I wanted to cry. Well, I did. There is a moment near the end of the book where Mia’s grandfather is talking to her body. He is whispering in her ear and the author doesn’t drag out this situation but her choice of words just makes it so sad. I was trying so hard to hold back tears but I no longer could and I just let them stream down my face as I continued reading. Her grandfather is talking to her about the decision she has to make and it’s really sad. For starters, just having to make this kind of a decision would be a terrible thing to go through. I actually started thinking about the decision myself. What would I do? How would I even begin making this live or die decision? I liked the end of the book because it was happy and VERY romantic! I just wanted to read it over and over again. Love is truly what saved Mia’s life. I did how ever think that the author could have kept going for at least a few more pages because the ...

The last time I made a new post I was only 27 pages into my book. I hadn’t gotten very far in the past few days because I was only reading it when I was in English class or if I had nothing else to do in another class. I am currently on page 133 and I still plan on reading more tonight. I decided that I better kick up my reading pace a few THOUSAND notches since I still have another book to read and they are both due back to the library on Friday :/ YIKES! I didn’t really understand this book at first. I liked it. It wasn’t a chore for me to read but I couldn’t really understand it. Each new chapter is titled with a different time of day and a new chapter doesn’t begin on a new page. It simply continues on. This makes it longer because every page in the book is a full one. This kind of makes it dull to me because I enjoy when each chapter has a relatively worded title. It makes me stop and think about what is going to happen in this chapter, therefore, getting me more interested in the...

I have currently begun reading If I Stay by Gayle Forman. I am 27 pages in and it’s already not what I expected. I life changing event has just occurred in Mia’s life. When I read the part where Mia and her family go on a drive I had to go back to the beginning of the chapter and re-read it because I wasn’t expecting this to happen and I wanted to make sure I had read it correctly. I don’t want to ruin the book for anyone, just in case you want to read it, but it sort of reminds me of the movie with Reese Witherspoon called Just like Heaven. I’m not expecting the entire book to be like the movie but the incident that happens is greatly similar. I can’t help but feel horrible for this girl while reading the book. You can’t even begin to relate to her situation but it is still so horrible and heart aching. It doesn’t make me look back on my relationship with my family because it doesn’t involve them fighting and arguing all the time, but it makes you want to chaeish what you have becau...