The Perfect Shot

     The perfect shot was one of the best books i have ever read. Legitimetly it was crazy how much i loved it. It had the perfect mix of basketball, drama and even crime. The book was mostly about how the main characters girlfriend, girlfriends mom and girlfriends brother were all shot and killed and now they were doing a case to figure out who did it and the main suspect is the girlfriends father. Also a lot about basketball and how his team does in games and how they play together. There is even parts focusing on school projects and homework and stuff like that. Its a very well spread book in general.

     There was also a social action issue i realized that was similar to the one I chose for my picture book. It was basically how police discriminate people over race and stuff like that. Something in the book that was an example of discrimination was that a kid who was black was driving in an all white neighborhood and got arrested for not reason. Then they strip searched him and messed around with him a lot for no reason at all. It was absolutely ridiculous because they didnt even have a reason to do this to him they just did it because he was black and thats what they expected. The kids name was Julius and he was always kind of treated just like all of the other white guys on the basketball team and all of his friends. He was never picked on because of his race before this. That event happening made him change a lot because he felt he has to act more like a black person because thats how they were treating him and he thought he should just have to deal with it. When really it shouldn't have been happening at all. It was not only an act of discrimination but also police brutality. An amazing book and i recommend it to everyone.

The Perfect Shot

     Right now in my book that i just started the main characters girlfriend was murdered and so was her mother and little brother. No one knows who did it but now about a year later they are saying that her father did it but the main character does not think so. One thing he is also doing is he is putting the blame on himself because he thinks he could have somehow stop it.
     To me this can be a problem in real lifer because i feel like some people when someone close to them dies they try to think of ways they could have stopped it even if the couldn't have no matter what. I feel it is a weird thing your mind does to you to try and fix what's going on even though you know inside that you could not have really changed anything. But in the moment you feel like you possibly could have if only you did one thing different.
     Overall I'm only a little way into this book but it seems really good and I'm interested to see what else happens.
    

Response to Grier's post

     I was looking through different posts by my friends and i read griers and it really got my attention. His post was about how he loved series books. I agree 100% some of the things he said why he loved them was because he got so attached to the character and he knew how they felt in every different book in one series. I couldn't agree more because when i read a book i really like to get sucked into it but with a series you don't just get sucked into one but from like 2-10 or however many there are in a series.

     One other thing he said though was that he didn't like the fact that when your character is in a life or death situation you know they cant die cause you know there is a book right after it and he has to be in it.When i read a series i feel like once i read one book in the series i have to finish all the other ones or its like I'm ditching my character i don't know if Grier feels the same way but he probably does considering that's what it basically sounded like in his post. Overall i thought Grier's Blog post was awesome and every one should check it out!

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