One thing that I have noticed about the author's way of writing and the way the book is set up is that it goes back and forth between Hannah talking in the tapes and Clay giving his feedback. I have learned to love the way this book is set up because it shows us Clay's reactions to everything Hannah says and it makes the book even more suspenseful. That is another thing that the author does well; suspense. He always keeps the readers on their toes and stretches out the stories to make us wanting to read more, and it works. I have not been able to put this book down and in my opinion, he is one of the best authors that I have read from. Jay Asher, the author, does a great job at capturing everyone's voices throughout every little story in the book, and especially Hannah's. Yeah, he is a male author, but I think that no one could capture Hannah's voice better than he did. He made her seem so realistic and it allowed us to connect with her.

  One connection I have that I have been noticing through the book is that my mom's friend commited suicide. I knew the girl and her name was Evelyn. She seemed perfectly normal, like the average human to everyone and not even her mom knew she was going to take her life. Her mom and everyone else thought she was just a happy, perfect girl. She seemed to have a perfect life to the people who didn't know her well. She was beautiful and had a great, loving family. They had lots of money and had a lot of fun together, so it seemed to me like she was fine but she wasn't. We have to remember fun and money can't buy everything.
  This reminded me of my book because everyone at Hannah's school thought she was just an average, or even above average, perfect girl with nothing wrong. She was very pretty and the people at her school named her the prettiest girl in the school. She was always happy, or atleast seemed like it. Everyone who went to school with Hannah thought she was perfect, just like Evelyn. So, what is making these girls want to take their precious life?

   Right now, I am on page 118. I feel like this book is getting more interesting page by page. The character of Clay and Hannah are both develpoing well. Hannah has been showing more and more of herself through each and every one of her videos. As Clay listens in to them, he gets more worried and connected to her. When he talks to people about her, he is very protective and sticks up for her words and thoughts. All he seems to do is listen in to the videos and find more clues about why she commited suicide. He is basically dedicating his life to her. That shows me what a great character he is because even though she's gone and doesn't know what part he had in the suicide, he keeps trying to find more clues and he cares about her a lot, even though he barely even knew her when she was here.
   Hannah has been revealing more and more clues and thoughts that were going through her head. She has been showing more emotions and we are getting closer to finding out why she did what she did. I am so excited to keep reading this book and see how Clay develops through the story and to see more reasons Hannah felt the way she did.

  While reading my book today, I found one line that stuck out to me. Hannah was talking to Courtney in the tape and she said, "I don't think you do this intentially, Courtney. And that's why I put you on these tapes. To let you know that what you do affects others. More specifically, it affected me." At this point in the book, Hannah is talking about how Courtney uses people, and used her, for popularity to be the 'Most Popular Senior'.
  In the book, it swtiches back between Hannah's words and Clay's thoughts, while he pauses the video. In this part of the book, Clay thinks to himself, "'Courtney does come off as genuiely sweet. Hearing her story here, on these tapes, must have killed her.' A shiver crawls up my back. 'Killed her.' A phrase I will now drop from my vocabulary."
  This quote is very important because it shows how everyone's actions effected Hannah's death. Clay barely knew her, but still even he can't talk about her suicide without shivering.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/columnists/krista-ramsey/2014/02/08/krista-our-kids-tell-the-story-of-why-preschool-is-a-must/5328181/

               In the column I read, the author tells the readers how it is very importamt for your child to attend preschool, She talks about how they learn quicker in the long run and pick things up faster later on.

"At an art table, Ashlyn arranges and rearranges handfuls of brightly colored feathers. "I'm going to make a collage of a parrot," she says, cheerfully unaware that collage isn't really a 5-year-old word. Her vocabulary is just one of the things that's exploded since she started preschool two years ago. Now she ranks advanced or very advanced on every measure of kindergarten readiness. She can connect letters to sounds. She's doing beginning addition."

I think this is the best quote because it really shows the reader how quickly the kid who went to preschool, is picking up on the things a lot faster than usual in kindergarten. It shows us that if a kid that age can learn things quickly, it will change their life forever, by them getting in the habit of being ahead and quick learning. 

Something that I noticed about Ramsey's writing style, while reading the three columns, is that she asks a lot of rhetorical questions, like, "Did your child benefit from preschool? Would he have done just as well at a caregiver's house? Would your daughter have made the transition to kindergarten as easily without it? Would your grandson have read as quickly had he not gone? Could your niece have developed the same social skills at home?"

Questions: what made you want to be a writer?

What's your favorite writing style?

What's your best way to brainstorm ideas to write about?

Right now, I am on page 70 and I am loving this book. It is getting more and more interesting. Hannah, the main character, had sent out a map, and every time she talks about a place in her video, Clay finds it on the map and goes there. Every clue/film gets more interesting, and most of the people she talks about had no idea they were a part of the reason she took her life. Hannah barely knew most of the people she talks about in the films and I find that pretty strange because you would think they knew eachother very well to have that big of an impact on her. I was surprised when I found that out because I thought that the people causing her actions were her family and friends, or enemies, maybe bullies, but she was the coolest girl in school, so it gets me wondering. What made her want to take those awful actions?