Oh no!

I constantly forget things. It is such a big problem that is always been a dilemma with me. For example, I forgot to post my blog! I thought, well, it doesn't matter. One day wont hurt. But that would cause me to get more raveled up in problems. It is a kin to smoking. If you start, you wont stop! On the subject of smoking, I hate that smell! When people smoke, I wish that they would just wash their clothes. Or does the smell just stay?


To complete 500 (Oh and please, please count this as last week! The 8th)

You would never think that one baseball game could effect the rest of your life. Or that someone you thought could easily be your worst enemy at first, could turn out being your best friend. In "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok, just that happened. This book wasn't my favorite, because of the creepy "bromantical" tint it had on it. Lines such as "Danny and I were together almost everyday during the first month of that summer" and "And then I was crying too, crying with Danny, silently, for his pain and for the years of his suffering, knowing that I loved him..." had me alittle giggly. Boy? Loving a.. BOY? How outrageous. But, no, they were best friends. So it is alright. 

Reuven Malter is a jew who liked to play baseball and lives with his father. One day, Reuvens baseball team plays the challenging, unfamiliar, team of Danny Saunders. During a play, Danny hits the ball and it smacks Reuven in the face, which shatters his glasses and a piece of glass gets in his eye. When he goes to the hospital he meets two interesting characters that he makes friendships with. Danny tries to come and apologize, gets rejected the first time, but then the second. Little did they know that that one silly ball game would lead to a friendship that effects both of their lives forever.They end up graduating highschool together and attending the same college. At one point, Reuven moves in with Danny because his father has a heart attack. Reuven is very good at math, but choses to become a rabbi instead. Though Danny is traditionally suppose to have the role of a tzaddic inheirited to him, he instead goes into the field of physcology. 

This book is taking place during the end of World War 2. Because of Reuven's dad, Reuven and Danny are forbidden from seeing eachother for a while. The theme of this book, well, there are actually many. But the main one would be "always be willing to get to know someone, because you never know what a great friend they could turn out to be. If I were to recommend this book to anybody, I would recommend it to anybody beyond the age of 12; mainly because the book is hard to follow at some points. Something different about this book is that it doesn't show the different chapter pages in the table of contents, even though there are different chapters. It also splits the book up into different "books" where it doesn't really make sense to. Since it is in the middle of the story, and it is all contained within one book.