Swallowing Stones Book Review

I’ve never been in a situation where I had have been asked to lie to the police about hiding a gun because my best friend just shot and killed an innocent man, but novelist Joyce McDonald made me feel like I have. In this book “Swallowing Stones” by Joyce McDonald made me feel as though I have been in Michael’s position and following his every move throughout this whole book.
A suspenseful book about the death of Charlie Ward, Jenna Ward’s father. Jenna and her mother were heartbroken to know that Jenna’s father and her mom’s husband had just died in the blink of an eye. This is the type of book that keeps you on the edge of your seat and you don’t dare put the book down. But it’s also a book that if you doze off for .2 seconds, you’ll miss out on a lot of detailed information. You just have to pay close attention.
Joe is probably my favorite character and the reason I was excited to read Michael’s chapters because Joe stayed true to Michael’s friendship. He was asked to lie about the evidence and fake a crime scene just to protect his best friend. Yes, Joe is an accessory to a murder, but he was risking his life to save his friends. Michael’s chapters are so much more exciting than Jenna’s and they make you want to keep reading.
“Swallowing Stones” is filled with interesting characters like Amy Ruggerio. I say this because she hooked up with Michael while he was in a relationship with Darcy. Besides Joe, Amy was the one person Michael felt comfortable with, despite their little arguments. Michael would go over to Amy’s house because it was the spot where he felt most at home.
There are many themes that go along with this book, but the one that keeps sticking out to me the more I read the book is “Honesty is the best policy”. Being honest and telling the truth is so much better than hiding the evidence, staging a fake crime scene, and risking the people you love lives. I feel like if Michael would have just been honest and truthful, he wouldn’t have had to keep all these secrets. Yes, he probably would have gone to jail for manslaughter, but honestly, he deserved it. He killed an innocent man by making a dumb decision.
“Swallowing Stones” is a suspenseful thriller that I highly recommend reading. The way Joyce McDonald wrote the book, made me feel like I was apart of Michael’s life and I was the one keeping all of his secrets. As I read the book, so many emotions and thoughts swallowed my brain. I loved this book. I highly suggest you give it a read.

Flowers

Flowers

The flower danced and sang as it blew with the wind.

It had such a bright color that I had to get sunglasses just to look at it.

Flowers are as pretty as a full moon on Valentines Day.

They grin from ear to ear after rainstorms.

Pretty purple petunias paint pictures.

My Poem

He was born in Charles City County Virginia U.S.

He had 6 girls and 8 boys

Married to Mary Armistsead Tyler

Elected in 1840

John Tyler

America’s 10th president

Was the first vice president

He was elected to legislature at 21

Before he died he got elected for confederate congress

My New Years Writing

2013 was the best year for me because a lot of things happened that I was really excited about like my softball team going to the championship.  How about I start here.  Early Saturday morning we got a call saying that our team is playing in the championships and that it will be 2 days.  After we got the call we were so excited to go to Henderson and play against tough teams.  As the day goes on we were down to the last game for the day and everyone was hot and tired but we never gave up after we won that game we all went to eat at the Jalapeno Tree it was delicious.  The next day we played and we won all the other games and it was down to the very last game and last batter.  Our pitcher pitches and the batter swings but misses everyone yelled and cheered and it was the best day ever.  Next was me and my sister went to Oklahoma for a week to visit our grandparents they always take us out to eat or the movies and even theme parks.  They have a big swimming pool and every day me and Brittney (my sister) would swim 24/7.  We also get to see my Aunt Alli and she also takes us places to get ice cream and snow cone and our favorite Italian restaurant.  When the week is up my parents come down and get us and we go back home.  My 3rd best of 2013 is my mom,me,Brittney,Brinnlee,and my dad went to go see my moms side of the family.  We get to ride horses and ride the razor.  When we went last year my uncle and little cousin came from Austin and stayed for 2 nights and when they got there we had a big bonfire outside and didn’t get done till 11:30.  Then the next day we had to pack up and hit the road back to White Oak.

December 7,1941

People were very surprised

Early in the morning [8:00]

Attacked on December 7,1914

Roosevelt was president at this time

Led the United States to World War ll

Have a memorial that lays across one of the ships that had been sunk

Arizona,Nevada,Pennsylvania,Oklahoma

Reeves,Thomas James

Bombed by Japan

Oahu

Remembrance Day