Blog #5

For this blog I read more of New Moon by Stephanie Meyer. Lately Bella has been noticing Jacob acting very strange. He seems very upset about this new group of guys hanging out with Sam Uley because he is taking his friend from him and he never hangs out with him anymore. This really upsets Bella because she cares about him and she can tell it's hurting him. She is also noticing that she depends more on Jacob to keep her from hurting when Edward isn't around. One day, Bella goes to a movie with Jacob and Mike which was not a good situation because the two guys both like Bella and were competing the whole time. They go to a horror movie because it is the only one Bella thinks she can see without it reminding her of Edward. On the way home Bella notices that Jacob looks like he doesn't feel too well and she feels his forehead and notices he is burning up. He insists he will be fine and leaves. Bella starts to get worried when Jacob doesn't call her for a few days and doesn't return her calls. She now spends most of her time worrying about Jacob and what is going on instead of thinking about Edward which demonstrates how much Jacob means to her. I am confused as to why Jacob won't answer and think that he is hiding something from her because he wouldn't normally act like that.

Blog #4

For this blog I read from the book New Moon by Stephanie Meyer. As Bella continues to try to adjust to life without Edward around, she discovers that when she does dangerous things or things that get her adrenaline going she can hear Edward urging her to stop in her head. She is not sure why she is hearing his voice or if she is going crazy but she continues to act like this because it is the only way she can remember his voice. After finding and fixing up the motorcycles, Jacob teaches Bella to ride them and just as she expected Edwards voice came back in her head and advised her to stop. Of course she keeps going and ends up crashing pretty bad and getting hurt. While driving back home, Bella spots people jumping off a cliff in the distance. She thinks they are committing suicide and as she is about to run and stop them Jacob explains to her that they are cliff diving and it's something they do for fun in La Push. He does not seem to like these people very much at all though. Bella asks Jacob to take her cliff diving one day.

Blog #3

For this blog I read chapters 4-6 of New Moon. Where I left off Bella had just recieved the news that Edward was leaving her and staying out of contact with her for the rest of her life. She wandered off into the woods and fell asleep because she was so disoriented and was discovered by Sam Uley when Charlie her dad had sent out a search team to look for her. Edward left no memory of him in her house and had no contact with her. She spent the next 4 or 5 months doing nothing but school, homework, making dinner and going to bed so that she could keep her mind off of Edward. Charlie starts getting upset with her for being so lifeless and tells her if she doesn't start acting different he would send her to live with her mom. Bella decides that what she needs to do to get her mind off of Edward is something risky, so when she sees two broken motorcycles for sale on the side of the road she takes the oppurtunity. Since Charlie wouldn't allow her to ride a motorcycle, she sercretly begins working on fixing them up with Jacob Black every day in his garage. I predict that Bella is going to start doing reckless things and Edward will find out and come back to help her.

Blog #2

For this blog I read chapters 2-4 of New Moon. After the accident at the Cullens house on Bellas birthday when she papercut herself and Jasper tried to attack her, Edward has been acting very strange. From the night after her birthday and for a few days after he had been keeping his distance from her, not coming to see her and not acting like himself. Bella has a really bad feeling that something is going to change and she justifies her instincts by convincing herself that Edward is just upset about the accident. She is taken by surprise when he asks her to hang out after school one day and wants to go on a walk. Along the way, he stops her and reveals that his family is moving because they have been in Forks too long and people are starting to get suspicious. Bella assumes that he wants her to go with but he tells her that she is not coming and that he doesn't want her to come because he is tired of pretending to be human when he knows that he is not. This is the worst thing Bella could have expected and she is unsure of how she is going to move on without him in her life. I predict that Edward is only saying this as an excuse because it was so sudden and I think that there is something else going on that the Cullens aren't telling her.

Blog #1

For this quarters blog I am reading New Moon by Stephanie Mayer, the sequel to Twilight. I loved reading Twilight so I am excited read this book. Twilight ended with Bella's close encounter with death when she was lured into an old dance studio by a vampire, and was saved by Edward and his family. Although she wasn't killed by the vampire, she was bitten by him and the Cullens had to decide whether or not to let her change into a vampire. Edward refuses to let this happen and takes the poison out of the bite. New Moon opens with a dream Bella is having on her 18th birthday where she is looking at an old woman she thinks is her dead grandma, and soon realizes that she is looking in a mirror at herself when she grows older. This dream reflects Bella's fear of getting older because she wants Edward to turn her into a vampire so she can stay his age and be with him forever. For this reason she is not in a good mood on her birthday because she feels like she only has a short time frame of a couple years when she could convince Edward to make her non-human before she gets a lot older than him. I predict that in this book they are going to get in a lot of arguements about this and he will eventually cave in.