Well, this is my first blog post for interim terms 'reading for the fun of it' and I really don't know what to write about. I've been staring at this blank page and the book on my lap about 10 minutes now trying to think of some interesting topic having to so with a girl who can taste the feelings of people through food. Sure its an interesting idea and a pretty good booktoo, but trying to write a great article about how this relates to me or something I enjoy is really hard work. I know we are allowed to write soley about the book, (which by the way is The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender) but I think i would feel bad if I did that...and I'm pretty sure it would affect my grade in some way.

I guess I have to write something though and that's all I can think of doing. So here it goes ( I really hope I don't get graded badly). The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is, as I said before, a book about a nine year old girl who discovers she can taste the feelings of her mother as she eats the lemon cake made by her. Even though her newfound gift attracts the attention of her deatached brothers bestfreind and her secret crush, George, it's hard for her to bear. She knows the only person who she can talk to about it is George and even he doesn't understand her pain, he see's it only as a gift. She has to deal with it all alone, everynight when eating her moms roast beef or baked chicken she can feel the sorrow and bitter lonliness, but whenever she asks her mom states she's fine.

By the time she's 12, as she's taking a bite into dinner she was overcome with sadness as she realizes her mom is having an affair. However, little Rose can't do anything about it after promising it would never happen again after an incident when she through herself on the ground screaming after tasting her moms apple pie FILLED with her lonliness, she was sent to the hospital, her mom thinking she had gone mad. She didnt talk about her 'gift' anymore but it still hurt her. Now she's seventeen (which is ironic because the reason I had wanted to read this was it was in seventeen magazine) and i have just started part two about her brother Joseph (the first part was about food). i havent read anything past that but it's a pretty good book so far!