Kreativ Blogger Award - Friday 56 - Friday Find

I'd like to thank Vicki over at Reading At the Beach for sending this lovely award my way! 

My favorite 7 things are:

Family

Books (of course)

Chocolate

                                        My Pets

                                        House MD, Bones, CSI

                                        Camera

                                        Playing Games

And I'm awarding this to:

Laurel at, well she has 13  blogs so I'll pick my fav  http://rainysnowday.wordpress.com/

Sassy from Alternative-Reads.com

Lisa from Book Blab

Amy from House of Seven Tails - Love her kitties!

Tea from I Love To Read

Thanks again Vicki!

Over at Sassys site  she  posted Friday Finds hosted by MizB of Should be Reading.

I found  The Magicians Elephant  and  Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story by Wally Lamb.  Couple more for my Christmas list!

Laurel  and Missy posted The Friday 56

The Friday 56 is hosted by Tonya at Storytime with Tonya and Friends .

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of this blog.
*Post a link along with your post back to this blog.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

Mine comes from Double Cross: A Novel  by James David Jordan:

"Hold on, Ms. Mason,"  Sandra Said.  "Nobody is accusing you of anything. I'm just trying to figure out what happened. The fact is that you two found the note, and part of the paper is obviously missing."

I love these little memes! Whats your Friday Find or Friday 56??

Happy Friday!  

Friday Finds

Friday Finds is hosted by Book Reviews by Bobbie:

We’ll chat about a fascinating book, audiobook, movie, blog, website, etc. It might be trendy or unpopular, old or new…it’s sure to be interesting and it’s hosted by yours truly! Please offer your thoughts on our Friday’s Find and share your own.

My Friday find is an audio book called Burn Journal by Brent Runyon. I came across this book perusing the NetLibrary site. A true story about a depressed boy who tries to commit suicide by dousing his robe in gasoline and setting on fire. He is detailed when talking about the burning, the hospital and how he feels throughout the ordeal.

I found a video of Brent talking about his book:



From Booklist
*Starred Review* Gr. 8-12. On the sixteenth page of this incisive memoir, eighth-grader Brent Runyon drenches his bathrobe with gasoline and ("Should I do it? Yes.") sets himself on fire. The burns cover 85 percent of his body and require six months of painful skin grafts and equally invasive mental-health rehabilitation. From the beginning, readers are immersed in the mind of 14-year-old Brent as he struggles to heal body and mind, his experiences given devastating immediacy in a first-person, present-tense voice that judders from uncensored teenage attitude and poignant anxiety (he worries about getting hard-ons during physical therapy) to little-boy sweetness. And throughout is anguish over his suicide attempt and its impact on his family: "I have this guilt feeling all over me, like oil on one of those birds in Alaska." Runyon has, perhaps, written the defining book of a new genre, one that gazes as unflinchingly at boys on the emotional edge as Zibby O'Neal's The Language of Goldfish (1980) and Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak (1999) do at girls. Some excruciatingly painful moments notwithstanding, this can and should be read by young adults, as much for its literary merit as for its authentic perspective on what it means to attempt suicide, and, despite the resulting scars, be unable to remember why. Jennifer Mattson

Burn Journal Website