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WARNING, this blog post are for SWEDS only
or at least people who can understand swedish
Thanks to Baby Seniorita I found this videoblogger, A Petersson. He is a blogger who does some awesome videos. I’m in total love with this guy! haha.. Maybe even more than my BF.
Well, if you are week for Romantic comedies this may be something in your taste. If you’re in to anything else like deep drama etc this is no movie for you..
I’m going to watch Street kings now. I’ll try to tell you what I think about it after I’ve seen it.
What do you know about this movie? Do you recommend it?
Love love love! Love it, just like Rachel Zoe would say.
I actually ordered all the books at a book shop today, can’t wait to read them all!
Published in 2000
About the author: Jerry Spinelli (born February 1, 1941 is an author of children’s novels on adolescence and early adulthood. He is best known for the novels Maniac Magee and Wringer.
Spinelli was born in Montgomery County of Norristown, Pennsylvania and currently resides in Wayne, PA. At the age of sixteen, his love of sports inspired him to compose a poem about a recent football victory; later, unbeknownst to him, his father had published it in to the local newspaper. It was at this time; he rationalized that he would not become a Major League Baseball player, and decided to become a writer instead.
Spinelli graduated from Gettysburg College in 1963, and acquired his MA from Johns Hopkins University in 1964. He married Eileen Mesi in 1977, and they have six children along with sixteen grandchildren.
Other books by this author: Blue Ribbon Blues, A Tooter Tale, Knots in My Yo-Yo String, Loser, Milkweed: A Novel, My Daddy and Me, Eggs, Love, Stargirl, Smiles to Go.
About the book: This book is easy to read and understand which is great. This is a book for people over 10 years old, but also for young adults. It is very realistic, except for the supernatural Stargirl, with the high school drama and all the other elements such as the description of the school, the students and the whole environment.
There are a few parents who would say that this book isn’t good for middle school children due to the character Stargirl, but there will only be a few. Stargirl is verbally attack when she is attending the show Hot Seat and there is a romantic relationship developed between the two main characters, but that is completely innocent.
In a celebration of nonconformity, Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of popularity–and the thrill and inspiration of first love.
Review: As Spinelli introduces Stargirl, everyone, including Leo, is struck mute by her existence. Who is this girl? At quick glance she is a 10th grader, who has no sense of human conformity, follows no set of unsaid social rules, and dances to the beat of her own ukulele. Leo – drawn to her whimsical nature, admires her continuous strings of selfless good deeds and passionate energy, finds himself torn between his growing love for Stargirl and his own need to just fit in.
Stargirl is a tale about innocence, young love, and the fight to belong in a world that isn’t completely accepting of non-conformity. Is it possible to be just like everyone else without completely losing yourself? Leo, a typical teenage boy just wants to be accepted by his friends but knows the cost of loving someone so different, may mean having to live without.
Plot: Leo Borlock follows the unspoken rule at Mica Area High School: don’t stand out–under any circumstances! Then Stargirl arrives at Mica High and everything changes–for Leo and for the entire school. After 15 years of home schooling, Stargirl bursts into tenth grade in an explosion of color and a clatter of ukulele music, enchanting the Mica student body.
But the delicate scales of popularity suddenly shift, and Stargirl is shunned for everything that makes her different. Somewhere in the midst of Stargirl’s arrival and rise and fall, normal Leo Borlock has tumbled into love with her.
Excerpt: And the shunning – it was clear now – had come to me. It was less absolute for me than for her, but it was there. I saw it in the eyes that shifted away from mine, the shoulders that turned, the chatter that seemed less loud around me now than before. I fought it. I tested the limits. In the courtyard between classes, in the lunchroom I called out to others just to see if they would respond. When someone turned and nodded, I felt grateful. If someone spoke to me, especially if I had not spoken first, I wanted to cry. I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.
The story takes place in Mica, Arizona mostly on Mica Area High School. It is somewhere between 2000-2010, it starts of when Leo was 12 years old and at the very end, the last chapter, they move forward 15 years from when Leo is around the age of 15.
Main characters:
Leo Borlock
Gender: Male
Profession/status: student
Age: a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality: White (American)
How sensitive is this character? Sensitive to others’ feelings
Sense of humor: Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence: Average intelligence, Smarter than most other characters
Physique: average physique
Susan ‘Stargirl’ Caraway
Identity: Female - society
Age: a teen
Profession/status: student
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb: Yes
Eccentric: eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: – an average amount - throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character? Sensitive to others’ feelings - middling sensitive to others’ feelings
Sense of humor: – Strong but gentle sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence: Average intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique: average physique
Setting and style:
How much descriptions of surroundings: Some
Desert? Yes
City? Yes
Small town? Yes
Person: mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death: no torture/death
Unusual Style: a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog: roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Kaun Banega Crorepati?” (2000) (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show’s questions. Each chapter of Jamal’s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show’s seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love. Written by Fox Searchlight Pictures
The widower teacher and baseball and basketball coach Ray Keene lost his wife that died of cancer two years ago. When his teenage son Chris Keene is caught by the police smoking pot, Ray invites him to hike and camp in the woods to increase their bonds. Meanwhile, the mercenary assassin Frank Carden is arrested by FBI after a car accident in the middle of a contract to kill an important target. While Frank is traveling on the road escorted by three FBI agents, his men try to rescue him, but his car falls into a river and is carried by the drift. Ray helps the wounded agent and the cuffed Frank to leave the river, and feels responsible to deliver Frank to justice. The former policeman and stubborn Ray does not listen to Frank’s proposal to leave him alone and travel through the woods with Chris, trying to find a safe place. But Frank’s men and an undercover agent in the team are chasing the group with different lethal intentions
A young man leaves his middle class existence in pursuit of freedom from relationships and obligation. Giving up his home, family, all possessions but the few he carried on his back and donating all his savings to charity Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) embarks on a journey throughout America. His eventual aim is to travel into Alaska, into the wild, to spend time with nature, with ‘real’ existence, away from the trappings of the modern world. In the 20 months leading up to his Great Alaskan Adventure his travels lead him on a path of self-discovery, to examine and appreciate the world around him and to reflect on and heal from his troubled childhood and parents’ sordid and abusive relationship. When he reaches Alaska he finds he has been insufficiently prepared for the hardships to come. Despite making it through the winter his plan is ill-judged and prepares to return home in spring, only to find the stream he crossed in the snow has become an impassable raging torrent and that he is trapped. With no means of sustaining himself adequately he takes to eating berries and fauna, that he identifies using a book. Unfortunately, he awakes one morning to find that the berries he consumed the night before were in fact poisonous, and causes him to starve in his so sought after isolation. Throughout his epic journey the people he meets both influence and are influenced by the person he is and bring him to the eventual and tragic realisation that “Happiness is only real when shared”.
It must be noted that this is not the true story, it is the synopsis of the film. Any background information on the film or its characters and setting can and should be found in the user comments section of this film.
IMDb’s rating: 8,2 out of 10
I’m spending the hole night watching movies with B, we are not going to sleep anything. Well, she may fall asleep in front of the TV but due to the fact that I’m working at 7 and have to leave home at 6.15 I don’t feel like sleeping at 5-5.30……?
Synopsis: Hilary Swank stars in this gripping story of inner city kids raised on drive-by shootings and hard-core attitude – and the teacher who gives them the one thing they need most: a voice of there own. Dropped into the free-fire zone of a school torn by violence and racial tension, teacher Erin Gruwell battles an uncaring system in a fight to make the classroom matter in her students lives. Now, telling their own stories, and hearing the stories of others, a group of supposedly “unteachable” teens will discover the power of tolerance, reclaim their shattered lives, and change their world.
My opinion: This is a really exciting drama with a lot of good stories to listen to. Recommended for all!
IMDb’s rating: 7.6 (out of 10 possible)
My rating: 9 (out of 10 possible)
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