The Even Newer Book

I decided to take time out of listening to OF Tape Volume 2 just long enough to start reading my fourth quarter blog book and download OF Tape Volume 2 off of itunes best $14.99 I spent in a while. Anyway The book i'm reading this quarter is Going Bovine by Libba Bray. This book I honestly just picked up because it had an interesting cover. I know shouldn't have done that the whole "don't judge a book by the cover thing." But that is what usually motivates me to read a book. I don't care about the fact that it is on the New York Times Best Seller list. I am the reader that would like to read the book either before it becomes popular or years after it's popular. I got a Hipster mentality avoid mainstream society at every chance possible.Anyway the book Going Bovine is about this 16 year old kid named Cameron. Cameron has a normal life average grades in school a job at a fast food restaurant, the occasional pothead. A normal life for a teenager, that is until Cameron finds out he has Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease or more commonly known as the human form of Mad Cow Disease. So Cameron has to travel across the country to find a man known simply as Dr.X, who is the only one with the cure to Cameron's disease. Along the way Cameron meets this dwarf named Gonzo who follows him on this quest. And along the way Cameron battles fire Giants, escapes a bowling happiness cult, and face a mysterious foe the Wizard of Reckoning. I wish i could say more but....

Conflicting interest

The book Please Ignore Vera Dietz contains many examples of the literary element : conflict .

Conflict is in between multiple characters but mostly between Vera and some other character . "Is it ok to hate a dead kid? Even if I loved him once? Even if he was my best friend? Is it okay to hate him for being dead? In this quote Vera has a conflict with Charlie post-humous. In my opinion conflict is the important part of a novel. Conflict adds excitement to a novel.

Picture book minus the book

the book

death of a friend

Vera's way of coping

Vera's Job

Her mom was a stripper

Charlie had a habit of writing notes to himself and burning them not allowing others to get a chance of seeing them

the setting of this book takes place on the california coast

Link Up

http://www.as-king.com/html/vera.php
This is the link to the authors website. This link gives exerepts from the book and information about the author.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665671-please-ignore-vera-dietz
This link provides a summary about the book. This link also provides you with websites to purchase the book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1c4d5kSX6c 
This is a link to a book trailer on Youtube.
http://www.cmlibrary.org/readers_club/reviews/tresults.asp?id=7798
This is a book review by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Libary.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/please-ignore-vera-dietz-a-s-king/1100290601
This a link to purchase the book from Barnes and Noble's website.
http://thebooksmugglers.com/2010/11/book-review-please-ignore-vera-dietz-by-a-s-king.html
This a book review by the Book Smugglers. The Book Smugglers review mostly young adult literature
http://www.foreveryoungadult.com/2011/01/18/please-dont-ignore-vera-dietz/
This contains yet another book review. This review gives a little more in depth information on the main and supporting characters.This site even provides who the author of this this article would want to play the characters in a film adaptation.
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/196759/please-ignore-vera-dietz-by-as-king
A link to purchase the audio book.
http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/teacozy/2011/02/17/review-vera-dietz/
This is another book review. I particularly do not think this should be the review before you read the book because it gives away key details on the plot.
http://www.thecompulsivereader.com/2012/01/cover-talk-please-ignore-vera-dietz.html
This link show the difference in the two covers of the book Please Ignore Vera Dietz. The cover with the lighter I think is more visually appealing.

Some Musicial Help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6frJ5IEA2Q&ob=av2nThe song that I chose to represent the book Please Ignore Vera Dietz is Sooner or Later by N.E.R.D.
This song has a said tone to it but an uplifting beat throught the song. This is similar to the book because the characters are showing sad emotions but do not show them on the outside. And this song actually states "its over leave it" which is opposite of what Vera does concerning Charlie.

The New Book

This quarter I am reading The book Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King. This book is about a girl named Vera Dietz who is your average High School senior  with a not so average life. This is because her best friend Charlie Kahn dies mysteriously. And Vera knows it has something to do with the new crowd Charlie began hanging out with. This book consists of many flashbacks to times when Charlie was alive.That is all the information i'm willing to disclose on the book.

SparkNotes is not a substitute

SparkNotes is reading without really reading thats how I think is the best way to describe it in my own words. I think SparkNotes is a good idea for reading incredibly long novels and you can not follow what is happening in the book. But you should only sparknote a few chapters if you are behind on reading. Sparknotes should be used used along with the reading to help you better understand the text you are reading. Sparknotes only focus on the main points in the story not the novel as a whole.


SparkNotes take away from the experience of reading the book for yourselves. Sparknoting is good in the way it can help you focus on the main points of a chapter. But is also bad because of that same reason because that is the only thing you get from the spark notes. Sparknotes take away from the actual reading because you just have the climax of the the chapter and very little or nothing leading you up to that point. In conclusion sparknotes are not a substitute for reading the text but they are an aide in helping you understand it.