Grammy behind the scenes look

Here's a behind the scene look on Rihanna & Drake's performance. I can't wait to see the whole thing! I'm so excited to see one of my favorite song's performed by my two favorite artists! Also, as of right now Rihanna has won best dance recording for only girl. After watching the behind the scenes look, all I can say is Rihanna is SEXY!

The DEVIL and SHERLOCK HOLMES

New book, new characters, new beginnings. This book is a stark contrast from my last book. The help was about maids in the 60's and this new book is about, well, Sherlock Holmes. However, it's nonfiction. Also, it's written by David Grann, author of THE LOST CITY OF Z, if that means anything to you (doesn't to me).

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes opens talking about the missing papers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Holmes. Rihard Lancelyn Green, cited as "the world's foremost expert on sherlock holmes" believed that he had solved the case of the missing papers. The papers were believed to be worth four million dollars, and was also said to carry a fatal curse. When Conan Doyle passed, the papers disappeared, with no biography written about him. Although Green was convinced to write a biography on him. After some investigation, Green had found out that the papers had passed through the plans of many of Doyle's family members and he is convinced to find them.

The book has taken a pretty slow start so far but i'm still really interested in it. I really liked the Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Doney Jr. and I hope this book will be something like it. I also like that the book is a nonfiction book because these things are happening. I'm always a little saddened at the end of a fiction book when I realize none of the characters are real, and none of that happened. Especially when Authors make the characters seem so real; but hey, that's their job.

The night before. September 10th 2001.

Paul J. Battaglia was one of the many employee's that were killed on the 911 attacks. He grew up in a close-knit family with a loving mother and father. His was close to his sister and grandfather and died unexpectedly. The night before 911, him and his family had a great night. With his mother going to bed thinking about how blessed she was to have the family that she had; however, once she woke up it was a different story. Paul's office was on the same floor that the first plane had hit, she hoped and prayed that he had been in the lobby but she knew that he had a meeting that morning and that he was in his office. She knew if anything had happend, he would had called her father first, so when she called her grandfather and he hadn't heard anything from Paul she knew he had passed. His mother ended her session, mourning that she had no sense of premonition the night before.

Grammy's

The grammy's are coming up next week! It's my favorite televised awards show there is. I like the AMA's and The MTV awards but I think this is the only credible US music awards show. Winning a grammy is a huge honor, and winning the other ones are too but this is the best of the best.

This year some of my favorite artists are nominated in the Huge categories. My favorite rapper Drizzy Drake has been nominated for best new artist as well as Best Rap Album, Best Rap Solo performance 'Over', and Best Performance by a Duo or Group ' Fancy'. My favorite female artist, Rihanna is up for four nominations also. Best Dance Recording-- Only Girl ( In the World), Record of the Year-- Love The way you lie (Eminem feat. Rihanna), Song of The year-- Love The way you lie, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration-- Love The way you lie, Best Rap Song-- Love The way you lie, Best Short Form music video--you guessed it, Love The way you lie AGAIN! I'm going to be really mad if it doesn't win one grammy. The song was so powerful. Eminem and Rihanna are both known for their backrounds in domestic violence and for them to collaborate and take their roles, and tell their stories as abuser and the abused is EPIC! My favorite male singer, Chris Brown, was also nominated. Ironically, Chris brown was Rihanna's ex boyfriend who beat her, and she sings about him in Love The way you lie but I still love his music. He's nominatied for Best R&B performance with group-- Take My Time , Best comtemporary R&B Album--Graffitii, and Best Rap/Sung collabo--Dueces (one of my personal favorites). Chris Brown and Rihanna are going head to head in the rap/sung collabo category with Love the Way you Lie and Dueces, i'm rooting for Em and Ri.

Also, this year has some of my FAVORITE peformers ever! My two favorite artists right now are peforming together, Drake and Rihanna! Most likely performing a medley with their smash hit What's My name. As far as other performers go, Usher is performing this year! Unfortunatley, he's performing with Justin bieber; thus, ruining his performance. I might not even watch. Anyways, I am super suprised for the grammy's this year! I don't think i've ever been this excited. Personally, I think the grammy's is better then all other awards shows, even better then the Oscars and the Tony Award becasuse as an artist a person gets to display their true feelings and tell their own story; while actors become other people, and while you can sometimes relate to their characters,  you can rarely relate to them. Music tells a story, and the grammys are simply a celebration of music. That's why i'm tuning in.

Btw, Did I tell you Drake and Rihanna we're performing together? I can't wait!

The END

Reading this book has been a journey. It took me back to the 60's where racism was intact and I felt like i could relate to the characters. I'd recommend this book to anyone. Well, I guess you want to know what happened, here we go.

The BOOK WAS PUBLISHED! Sadly, that was just the beginning of everyone's problems. The book started off as a small release but it got very popular once it was featured on a TV show. The book suddenly caught on fire then, and everyone in Jackson was reading it. Everyone from Hilly to Miss Leefolt.  At first, Miss Hilly was going around falsely accusing maids of being in the book, but once she read Minny's chapter she realized her reputation would be ruined if she told everyone so she went around telling everyone the book wasn't about Jackson. People still speculated and thought that the pie part was about Hilly, and some even believed she deserved it. And here's the catcher, the book was even called 'help', coincidence, huh? Miss Hilly knew though, and she wouldn't at anything once she found out who did it. She came after Miss Skeeter, and immaturely tried to tell her mom on her. She came after Minny, she got her husband fired. Minny's abusive husband then locked her in the house  and threatened to set it off on fire. She came after Aibileen, and falsely accused her of stealing silver from her house. Unfortunately, Miss Skeeter Believed her.

Will Miss Skeeter's mom find out about the book, and maybe die because of the shock? Will Minny's own husband kill her? Will Aibileen be sent to jail and forced to leave Mae Mobley? I know everyone hates a cliff hanger but if that's what it takes to get someone else to read this book then it's worth it. This book can teach anyone good values. This was one of my favorite books. It was like To Kill A Mockingbird through the eyes of Calpurnia. This book really inspired me to be kinder to everyone, becasue everyone is just another person. Doesn't matter if they're tall, short, white, black, red, everyone is just a person.

The Benefit

I can't stop reading this book. I only started reading it 3 weeks ago and now I only have 30 pages until i'm done! I must say, i've done alot more reading than I have done blogging so this blog is going to be over about 5 chapters. Instead of doing a synopsis on every chapter, i'll just cover the most important things that have happend.

The biggest thing that's happend recently is the benefit. This was the one chapter where every single character was together in one place. Minny was scared to see Hilly, while Miss Celia was too busy trying to be Hilly's best friend. Miss Skeeter had recently been casted out of the Ladies Society because of a tiff with Hilly, so she just sat in the corner. After agreeing to post Hilly's intiative in the newspaper, she purposely said to have people drop off their toilets in Hilly's yard. The next morning, Hilly was greatly embarrassed, and with all the toilets in her yard, she became the laughing stock of mississippi. Along with her Hilly troubles, her boyfriend broke up with her. Minny and Aibileen served at the benefit as help. When the time for the auction came, Hilly won a chocolate pie made by MInny. Thinking it was a prank by Miss Celia, she embarrased Miss Celia infront of everyone making her and Mister Johnny go home. Later she found out it was her own mother that signed Hilly up to win the chocolate pie.

In Minny's own chapter, she explained to Miss Celia why Hilly had gone off on her, and told her of the "terrible awful" thing she had done to Miss Hilly. When Miss Hilly sent Miss Walters to the retirement home, she offered to give Minny a job, and then went around telling everyone Minny was a theft so she'd have to accept the job. Minny then told her to eat her poop. A few days later, when Miss Walters was being taken to the nursing home, Minny came by with a chocolate pie just for hilly. Miss Hilly liked it so much that she ate two slices, when Miss Walters asked for a slice Minny told her no, that it was a special pie and only for Hilly and told her that the pie had Minny's poop in it. Minny then left and Miss Walters thought it was the funniest thing in the world, and to get back at Hilly for sending her to the retirement home told her what was in the pie. Miss Hilly knew she couldn't do anything about it because her repuation would be ruined. A few days, Miss Hilly sent Mis Celia a note asking for 200 dollars for damages she had caused to Miss Hilly's dress (she ripped it on accident when she tripped). Miss Celia sent her the note but not before throwing in her own jab. The note section of the check, read for two-slice Hilly. 


The past few chapters have been some of the funniest one's there have been. Lots of drama and laughs. I'm starting to think that Maybe this is a true story. The book chronicles the life of maids, just as the book in the story does. Maybe i'll find out soon. That'll be really cool if it did. I just found out they're making a movie of it. I can't wait to go see it. The actors and actresses that they've picked for it are perfect! I went through the list of actors and matched them to what characters i'd thought they'd be and I was right, they picked the perfect cast! Hopefully the movie lives up to the book!

Title

I've ran out of creative titles, so I just decided to name this blogpost 'Title'; creative, huh? Well onto the book. The last Three chapters have been centered around Miss Skeeter. Like most, of her chapters, nothing too crazy happened. Her chapters aren't like the jaw-dropping Minny chapters.

During the last three chapters Miss Skeeter 13 people sign up to help with the book, all because of Minny. However, Minny didn't tell Miss Skeeter that of course. Also, Yule May, Hilly's Maid, is put in jail for stealing from Hilly. Yule May asked for a loan from Hilly to send her twin boys to college but Hilly denied her and Yule May ended up stealing a cheap ring that Hilly never wore from her. Hilly had Yule May placed in jail for four years, even though it was just petty stealing. People in Aibileen's neighborhood got really upset about this and they all vouched to pay to send the kids to college, along with help write Aibileen's book.

Along with the drama on the black side of town, there was also drama on Miss Skeeter's side of town. Stuart (Miss Skeeter's boyfriend) invited her and her family over to meet his family. His father is the state senator and his mother very overprotective, so the Phlean's did their very best to look good when going to visit.  Upon, his first siting if Miss Skeeter, Stuart's dad brought up Stuart's ex fiancee making things awkward. Later, he brought Miss Skeeter into a room all by herself telling her about this ex fiancee, Miss Skeeter knew little about. When Miss Skeeter confronted Stuart about her, he got very mad but he finally told her what happened. The woman he was with before Miss Skeeter cheated on him and slept with a civil rights activist. Stuart said that he broke up with her for cheating, but didn't go back to her to protect his father's senate seat. Stuart's father doesn't even know the whole story. Soon after that, he broke up with Miss Skeeter, telling her they needed to take a break. Miss Skeeter told no one of this, not even her parents.

Weeks later, Miss Skeeter arrived at Miss Hilly's for the league meeting. Upon leaving, Miss Hilly stopped Miss Skeeter yelling at her and asking why she hadn't put her initiative to have all maids have their own maids in the league newspaper. Miss Skeeter finally stood up for herself saying that she would not put it in but Hilly fought back. Miss Skeeter even brought up that the money for the benefit was going to black people in Africa, and why couldn't they help the ones in her own county. In the end, Miss Hilly one-ups Miss Skeeter by slyly saying " no wonder Stuart broke up with you".

Miss Hilly just get's meaner every single chapter. She's the rudest character of all of them but she wants everyone to think she's some princess. The past few chapters have been alright, but not the heart-wrenching chapters of Aibileen and Minny. Miss Skeeter; however, is one of my favorite characters. Today is being hailed the biggest snow storm of 2011, granted we're only 32 days in, and i spent the whole day reading. Am I obsessed? Nahh, I just actually like this book.