A Brief discription of the Giver:

By: Maxx Gillhamer!

Jonas lives in a world were every aspect in life is already desided for him. What he is gonna be when he grows up, who he will marry, and how many kids they will assign him. These dicission makers are called the Committee of Elders. These Elders all live in a place called the House of the Old. When Jonas and the other "Elevens" become "Twelves" in December, they are then presented their life job. Jonas is assigned the most important job or assignment of them all. He is assigned the "Reciever of Memories". This is were the one person in the community is incharge or all of the memories of the past. he knows things that no one in the community has acces to, or remembers. With this ability also comes all of the burden and pain of what these memoring bring.

Jonas starts his training with the reciever, whom he calles the Giver. At first the Giver gives Jonas happy memories that Jonas has never know before. But then, these momories soon become unbearable. So together Jonas and the Giver come up with a plan to change the whole community that their forfathers have tried so hard to protect. He decides to flee to the Elsewhere were Jonas has only heard of. If Jonas leaves, then all of the memories obtained by the Giver will leave Jonas and make their way back to the community were all of the residence will soon find out what they have been missing their whole lives. After a long journey to the uncertain, Jonas sees salvation in the distance and is confident that he has reached his destination.

if i had to ask the Author questions about this book, it would have to be how he even started to think of the story line, how the final product impacted him, and if there is any kind of hidden meaning to life found in this book.

Autumn Buttke's Book Blog: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

I have read the fiction book Twilight (The first book of the series). Fiction is the most interesting type of book to me because I can imagine every aspect of what takes place in the story, in my mind like a movie. Where as in a non-fiction book, the story is factual, so you don't get that same imagination spark as you do in a fiction book.
I chose this book because a lot of people kept creating this huge hype around me about how great they said this book was. I finally got tired of not knowing what all the hype was about, and once I found out that we were required to read a few books for my english class, I decided I'd read Twilight and free my wondering mind. Also I had heard Twilight was about vampires, and vampires to me, sounded like a rather interesting subject for a book.

Twilight is indeed about vampires, but there is more to that once you read further into the book. Bella, a mortal, has just moved in with her dad in Forks Washington and starts to go to a new high school. During school someone catches Bella's eye, and that someone is named Edward Cullen, whom is a vampire. At first Edward stays far away from Bella, but after some time they start to socialize. Edward and Bella soon fall in love, and Bella finds out some big secrets about Edward and his family. Apparently Edward has a thirst for Bella's blood, but loves her too much to take her life and be without her forever. One day Edward has Bella over at his house, and some other "different" vampires creep into the area, one of whom becomes very lethal to Bella. Edward and his family try to protect Bella from this vicious vampire, she ends up with a few injuries toward the end of it all, but is still alive. Bella gains knowledge of how to become a vampire and she begs Edward to help her transform, but he will not do it for her. The story is left at a cliff hanger from that point on, so I must read Twilgiht's sequal New Moon to find out what happens next.

The title of the book Twilight only apears about two times throught the book, and I don't think that it has to do with anything inparticular toward the story. I think that the author had some reasoning for the name, as in maybe something significant takes place at twilight (a part of the day, such as evening, night, afternoon etc.) but it is not clearly stated in the book.

If I could ask the author three questions they would be: 1.) Why doesn't Edward want Bella to become a vampire? 2.) Will the other "bad" vampire come back? 3.) What will happen if Bella is turned into a vampire? [These questions might be answered in the sequal]