Falling Into Place #4

Uh so I just finished reading a sad scene..
Earlier I mentioned how Liz's dad died because he fell off of a roof
Well the scene in a memory
Liz and her father are up on a roof..
And well everything seems okay but he's attempting to fix something while Liz is drawing with chalk.
Two girl.
Her and a friend.
They're never the same, maybe because Liz doesn't really have any friends..
Maybe Liz is really lonely. She misses her mother almost every day and she wished that her mom was home(flashback).
I really hope that Liz is okay though because things seem to be looking worse for her as the hospital says.

Paris to the Moon (part 3)

I was curious about what there is to do for children in Paris (since Gopnik moves with his son). I found a little website that has like playgrounds and parks and kid-friendly stuff that families can do whilst in Paris. I thought it was kind of interesting.

http://babyccinokids.com/blog/2014/01/07/family-life-in-paris/

Falling Into Place #3

So Liz definitely follows most of the symptoms of major Depressive Disorder-
Take a look at them here
Depression Diagnostic Criteria and Severity Rating
But then again, not all of them (like 3,4,6 and 8 aren't present to the reader (yet or at all)).
Whenever the book flashes back I can tell that she has changed a lot and how depression might be affecting her. I would say that she either has moderate or severe depression because she tried to kill herself, but then again, maybe it was so people would care about her again..???

The Girl on the Train 2

Check out the trailer to the movie here!!
 

Alice in WOnderland

So I'm only part way through it, But I'm reading "Alice;s Adventures in Wonderland." Here's where I bought it. It's got really nice illustrations and high quality paper.
I love how you could read it to a child, but it is still just as good to non-children. The illustrations match the tone of the text really well.
I've wanted to read this for a long time as it has always been one of my favorite movies and am glad I am finally getting around to it. There are certain chapters that have parts that weren't in any of the movies. Other parts, the movies match it perfectly. Like when she falls down the hole and the events immediately following. In contrast, there's a whole scene where she talks to some animals and races them that I don't remember from the movies at all.

Looking for Alaska (2)

As I get deeper into the story, I start to love it more and more. Green does a great job of creating "suspense" and twists throughout the story, that in turn reveal a lot about each of the characters. For example, when Alaska was a young child, she saw her mother die right in front of her eyes, which says a lot about her character and how she isn't like a normal girl her age, and how she somewhat lives on the edge. Green makes Miles' time at his new boarding school not at all what he thought his "Great Perhaps" would be, with the "Weekday Warriors" who always bully him and his bad experience  with girls (Lara), but, slowly, Miles starts to fall in love with Alaska, and I think that that will be his Great Perhaps. Although, the new school and his new friends are changing him and how he lives, I think the root of his feelings and habits won't go away and he will fight for the greatness he wants, especially since Alaska already has a boyfriend.
This quote says a lot about the book and Miles as a character, how he thinks and how he feels towards Alaska.

Paris to the Moon (part 2)

Hugh commented about the picture in my last post, but pictures can't be put into the comments. The painting is only found in the beginning of the book and is the only picture in the book. Gopnik describes it kind of looking like the style of Daumier. Honoré Daumier was a french printmaker, painter, sculptor, and caricaturist (I will attach a link to the Metropolitan Museum of Art  and the pieces of his that are featured there). Gopnik often describes the architecture of Paris in detail, and a painting I found by Daumier kind of resembles how I picture it. Titled Der Künstler vor Notre-Dame, the painting shows people moving around the Notre Dame de Paris, which is a cathedral. Gopnik talks about the tall buildings in the city, and the buildings in the painting remind me of the descriptions in the book.

*link to Daumier's artwork* https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_daumierhonorevictorin.htm