Blog 2

Dear Mr. Crutcher,
I thought that the book, Sledding Hill was a great book that just needed a few changes. The first change that needs to happen is to find another way for Billy to talk to Eddie. It can be in the dreams, and his head, but don’t do this bumping thing. The way to fix that is to change Billy to a non important character in the story that Eddie says is just in his head. The next thing that you need to fix is the ending of the story. You don’t just end with Billy saying good-bye. You need a proper ending, like Eddie talking about his life after the book banning. He could even start talking about his next big project of saving something, or trying to get all of the corrupt people out of the school board.
Speaking of Eddie, you need to really try and get rid of him talking right after Billy talks. If you just follow my changes, we won’t even have the problem of Billy talking all that much.
I really didn’t know the point of the story until about ¾ the way through the book. I really didn’t like that much. Maybe you could try and put the issue a little more clearly in the beginning of the book. Also, you spent so much time on the deaths of Billy and Eddie’s dad that it took away from the real issue, the book banning. What good is the book if you don’t talk as much as you can about the issue at hand, the book banning?
My next big question is if you really believe the stuff you say. Like if you believe what happens to Billy after he died. If you do, then I will have to disagree with you. I can’t believe that Billy will bump, as you say in the novels.
My next question is if you really believe the books should really be banned from schools. I know that you think that your books shouldn’t be banned, but what about the others? Do you think that other real life issues should be banned? Or do you think that they should just be banned from schools, and not from public libraries? I think that they shouldn’t be banned at all because they are real life issues, and not just the normal books that have the same plot line, the people have a problem, the people have a problem, the people try to resolve it the first time and fail, then the people try to fix the problem again, and they typically win. Somewhere in there usually someone will fall in love with someone else. It doesn’t really pay much attention to the issues that you pay attention to.
Thank you for listening to me, and I hope that this will help you for your next book that I will read.

Sincerely,
Arae2011