Debbie asked:


(mind you, its a rough draft)

Ever heard of the saying, an ugly person stands next to an uglier person so that they’d look better? Yeah, I bet you have. Well, that wasn’t the case for me. I was just…me. Normal, average, boy next door. Nothing interesting about me. I was just there walking in the midst of my extraordinary family. Yeah, you heard me. Extraordinary. I came from the Colbert family. Probably one of the most athletic and well known family in my town of Alpine, Texas. My dad national MVP in his old college football team. My mother, champion kick-boxer in her old town, my brother, plays for the Dallas cowboys, and my sister, the head cheerleader on the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. Even once in a while, I’d see her on TV strutting her ass, while I pictured millions of ********* guy viewers watching her. I’d seeth in anger. But me? Me, Keith Colbert? I was not on any team and for that matter I was horrible at sports. I cant even kick a simple soccer ball into the goal right. Of, course, that worried my parents as soon as they saw that my lack of their genes were evident.
“Boy!” my dad used to bark at me. “I want you to give me 20 laps! You need to buff up for the next football season!!”
“But, dad! I **** football! I always get shoved or pushed!” I whined.
“Don’t make me bring out my paddle boy! Get to runnin!!” he’d yell and I’d obey.
That was how it was for my first couple of years in high school. I made the team once just because my brother was on it. But when Coach Gilbert realized I had no football skills whatsoever, I was gently let off the team. I cried in thanks to him. Although, my dad didn’t take it lightly. You see, while my family spent family time, throwing a basketball around in the backyard, I’d prefer it if I was alone in my room trying to find the limit of functions as X approaches a constant. Hard stuff. Calculus. I guess you can see the difference. I loved math. I loved the numbers involved in it and the way you can manipulate it to get different answers. Most people hated math….I breathed it. But my love for the numbers made me only strange to people. Not extraordinary. Even my moods were ordinary. I was always content. If I was angry, I would only stay that way for about 10 minutes then be over the whole situation. When I was sad, I’d be that way for a couple of seconds unless, it was really bad, then maybe for an hour and I’d be the normal optimist and find something else to waste my time with. Emotions were too much energy for me, so why not be content, where it required minimal emotion?
Even though, it seemed that I was pretty content with my life, deep down, in the darkest depths of my heart, I wished I was like my parents, my siblings. I see it like this, when you make something of yourself, you’ll die with your title. Like my family will, when they eventually die in my town. I didn’t want to die as the normal guy that lived his life average. My name would soon fade away. I wanted to stand out for once. When I’d see my brother dive in the air for a football, I’d wish, I had legs like him. When I saw my sister do her crazy double back flips herky’s I’d wish I had a little skirt like that. Hahaha. Just kidding. No, but I’d wish, that I had bravery to do something gutsy like that. In real life, I’d cringe and hit the floor if a ball even tried to come my way.
“Ey! Why don’t you freaking shut up!?” I heard Ryan yell at someone. That interrupted my thoughts abruptly reminding me I had class this morning. I picked myself up off my lumpy bed and trudged into my bathroom. I switched on the light and stared at my reflection in the mirror. My brown flop of curly hair tousled from sleeping. My amber eyes squinting at the bright light above me. Sighing at this terrifying sight, I turned on the water and splashed my face accidentally with hot water.
“ARRRRGHHHH!” I yelled and staggered backwards my back thumping against the bathroom wall. I grabbed blindly for my towel and wiped my face vigorously. I got back on my feet and turned off the steaming water cursing under my breath. After washing up in the bathroom, I walked into my closet and yanked out my clothes while simultaneously grabbing my literature and AP calculus book. It’ been a year now since I’ve graduated from high school, and I currently went to Manhattan College. I even lived in an apartment in New York. It was all a part of my scheme in my quest to become extraordinary. It was working pretty well too. When I first got accepted into Manhattan College, the whole school heard about it, and finally they turned their heads towards me, giving me high fives and slaps on the backs. I felt good, for about 2 hours then soon, I was old news and it was back to my sister pulling off some stunt during a school rally. Most of my school graduated then went straight to Sul Ross State University. It was almost like high school, just with dorms and more privileges. You’d see the same people, and the people would always know me. Kei

MAUS

kwamaba asked:


I read the book, but i dont really understand it.

can someone give me a detailed summary of what happened? im readign it for school, and i get the overall plot, but i fail to understand the emotion part. is taht a big part of the story

LUBINSKI

Autumn asked:


I read the description of it at the end of the second book, and it says crazy things like Clinton joins the rangers and becomes a killing machine, now I’m almost certain they have to be talking about Brodie, because Brodie actually said he was going to join them and Clinton didn’t seem to ever have any interest in it. Please tell me, I like the stories, but I don’t care for Gilbert Morris’s writing style, so I’d rather not have to read the entire book.

FERLAND

onetreehillfrk@sbcglobal.net asked:


everyone keeps telling me a different day and i want to know the real date

INGWERSON

tartbones asked:


it wasnt her book eat pray love, it was something about a turtles view of its life.

SWIFT

halifax2_6_3 asked:


How do you really get in depth with it without telling the story the way you saw it?

BRANDS

pfcmitchell1987 asked:


I would like to know some of the summary or footnotes of the book Our Daily Bread by Enrique Gil Gilbert. I am in a book club and I was unable to read it because of some personal issues. So if someone could tell me most of the story and what happens I would appreciate it.

MOTT

RockChick asked:


I have tried to look for it everywhere, but it seems to be published only in USA at the moment. Do you know if it’s already available in the UK?

PLANTE

marienchenkäfer asked:


WHAT’S EATING GILBERT GRAPE?
“What’s eating Gilbert Grape?” is a 1993 drama directed and produced by Lasse Hallström. The movie was filmed in Manor, Texas. It is based on a novel written by Peter Hedges. The main characters are Johnny Depp( Gilbert Grape), Leonardo DiCaprio( Arnie Grape) and Juliette Lewis( Becky). The running time of the movie is 117 minutes. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is rated PG-13 because it includes mild profanity and sexual situations.
The movie is about Gilbert Grape’s life in the small town of Endora, Iowa. He lives with his obese 500-pound mother, Bonnie, his sister and his little mentally handicapped brother, Arnie. Bonnie has not left the house since her husband committed ******* seven years ago. Since then she has spent almost all of her time on the couch watching TV and she is unable to care for her children on her own. As a result of this Gilbert has taken responsibility for repairing their old house, looking after Armie, who likes to climb up the twn water tower and earn all the money the family needs to survive.
Gilbert himself works in a small, outdated grocery store which has competition from a new, bigger, modern supermarket. To keep the few customers the store still has he makes “special deliveries” to one of the female customers, Mrs. Bette Carver.
Everything in Endora bores him a little until he meets Becky. She is a young and adventurous woman who became stuck in town with her mother when their mobile home broke down. They start an affair that is threatened by his unusal and chaotic home life. “What’s eating Gilbert Grape?”is also about how Arnie and Bonnie’s various problems finally bring Gilbert to the brink of change.
Firstly I enjoyed the movie because of the good acting, especially LeonardoDiCaprio who really played his part well. Although it was funny, it also have a deeper meaning and many heartfelt moments. “What’s eating Gilbert Grape?” is not your average American movie and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who would like to see a movie that inspires reflection and self-evaluation.

WEINTRAUB

sallybenn@sbcglobal.net asked:


Specifically, The House of Winslow Series. I would like to buy a whole set, I know there are at least 25 books in the series, maybe as many as 40.

VACHON