Althea And Oliver Book Reflection

At the beginning of this novel, we were introduced to Sarah Nickerson, a Harvard graduate, with a good paying job as the vice president of Human Resource at Berkeley Consulting, three kids, and a sweet husband. However, she was career-driven and dedicated to her job to afford to live in Welmont and to be able to take care of the family as her husband is trying to survive the second round of lay off at his work. However I noticed that this job put a lot of stress and strain on her and her family, as she didn’t get to spend a lot of times with her kids or husband. In the morning on Friday, she would get her kids ready for school but her and her husband would rock, paper, scissor on who would take the kid to school and when she didn’t have to, she was pretty happy. The day of the accident was when she didn’t have to take her kids. As she was trying to make a phone call, she crashed and ended up in the hospital for eight days. I like how this book go into details of her life before the accident and then illustrates her life afterward.

Everyone has encountered a problem during their life whether a book had made them think about it or not! Some have bullies that won’t leave them alone others have who knows what kind of problems. However a book can make you think differently about yourself as you are and it can make you see things and feelings toward how other people feel. If you have never read something,

Many people have memories from when they read their first book and how excited they were. They remember everything like the palm of their hand, although I honestly do not recall when I read my first book. I just began to read and loved it. I would read for hours and hours, my parents would take books away from me, because I would not sleep from how much I read. I have read an abundant amount of books, but my all time favorite book is, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. I relish the way Harper Lee demonstrates every character's emotions and thoughts so clearly to the reader. This book exemplifies how we should not judge anyone until we step in their shoes and walk in them. There are books that are not pleasant for

Two things stood out to me this week: the first was just how much emphasis was put on the Gomery inquiry, and its impact on Canadian politics and its similarities to current Canadian politics. The second was how larger the concept of neoliberalism loomed in the global community in the two years before the Great Recession, which has come under fierce criticism in contemporary politics both in Canada and internationally.

Yet without realizing, you are becoming more committed and dedicated to the plot. When reading, Night, my heart was beating fast with adrenaline of what horrible event would happen to Eliezer next. The inspections at the doctors office would always make me sit at the edge of my seat while the public hangings would make me grab for the tissue box. On the other hand while reading, Little Women, I felt more of a personal bond with Jo. She is a flawed hero making mistakes as she goes along. She would get her only pair of gloves dirty and burn her dress. These events made me connect with her since I am clumsy in that way too. Learning the ins and outs of the characters simply cannot be done to this extent if it’s not a

Before we divulge into the topic of this essay, let me begin by stating that neither the author of the main source, Steven Johnson, nor I intend to devalue books or look down upon them. In his book, Everything Bad Is Good For You, he starts off talking about the importance of books. He says, “We should all encourage our kids to read more, to develop a comfort with and an appetite for reading” (Johnson 21). Reading provides many different benefits, some including “concentration, the ability to make sense of words, to follow narrative threads, to sculpt imagined worlds out of mere sentences on pages” (Johnson 23). As an avid reader myself, I have always had an interest in books.

Throughout the past two weeks, I have wrapped up the book, Chew on This and started a new book called The Overachievers by Alexandra Robbins. This book covers the negative effect of the high standards, teenagers are forced to meet. I finished Chew on This by reading the last 36 pages in the span of 40 minutes. And got to page 223/405 in the book The Overachievers out of 295 minutes. Overall a total of 335 minutes of reading this week. I failed my goal of one book every two weeks, because of a few factors. The book is incredibly long, longer than anything I have ever read before. And I slacked in IRT, because of three all-nighters in the past two weeks, which made it extremely hard to concentrate - especially in the mornings. When reading this

During our recent winter break, I started reading as many novels, novellas, and biographies that piqued my interest. Once I sat down, curled up on the couch, I would start a story and wouldn’t stop reading until I was done, whether the book was 80 pages or 573 pages. Even if the book was horrible, I would still finish what I started. Although I’m concentrating on college and succeeding, I’m falling in love with reading again. Just during our winter break, I read over fifty novels, biographies, and novellas ranging from science fiction, paranormal romance, history, and classical horror

Now why am I writing a post about DNFing a book, when really it just sounds like I’m pulling this one book apart. The reason is that I have always felt that I need to finish a book I’ve started. I still feel like I should finish this book, even though you reading this now can see how much I was not enjoying

My family was traveling to southern Indiana to see our cousins for the weekend, so I had a long time to read the book. I read almost the entire way there, and I couldn't put it down. I finished the book and immediately wanted to read another one. I was very anxious to get to school on Monday so I could start reading the second book in the series. This book was about the main character playing football, and how he had a chance to win the city championship. I again read this book within a couple days and then started on the third book. This became a regular pattern for me. I was now reading at least one book a week, and my opinion on reading had dramatically changed within a few weeks. I went from disliking what I was reading, and picking out a book was nearly impossible, to now loving what I was reading. I didn't have to worry about picking out a book because I could just read the next book in the

Later in life, grown up Celaena learns out in the first part of the book that her guild is up to nothing amazing that she shouldn’t be proud of and her enemy/boyfriend Sam will help her out. Throughout, the story she gets beaten up and tormented all the way trying to find peace and righteousness and always when she thinks she can’t take it, a solution comes along and then see triumphs and feels happy. Meanwhile, in her adventures, she assists a countless number of good-hearted people and her heart grows lighter every passing second. After you finish this book, you won't be able to stop thinking about it, especially since the ending will send you in tears or just in sadness and make you want to immediately read the next book to see what happens, sadly I can’t tell you why the ending will get you or it would spoil a big part of the book and your addiction to the

In a way, literature offers one of the least harmful ways to feel all these emotions at once “by simply turning a page instead of turning our lives upside down” (Meyer 1). If we are given this opportunity to prepare for the worst, we should take advantage of it and treat literature with utmost respect rather than replace it with other subjects to fit in with our generation.

My reading experiences have always been enjoyable. I love to read when I find an interesting book. It’s easy for me to be sucked into a book if the story catches my eye. I mostly like to read teen romance novels. They appeal to me simply because of my interest in a love story. My parents hate buying me books because they know I’ll be finished reading within a week or so. Reading has always been really easy to me. It seems almost natural to be sucked into other worlds. The words start to flow over the pages and suddenly it feels like I’m not even reading anymore. Unless I have to read a book for school or it doesn’t catch my attention, I might have a hard time bringing myself to read it.

I agree with Victor Nell a psychologist of the pleasure of reading, he says “ when readers are enjoying a the experience the most, the pace of their reading actually slows.” I have noticed this from personal experience when I am reading a book and I am enjoying it then I slow down while I read I take my time to really try to imagine and feel what the characters are going thru or try to picture their situation as if I was them. When I have a good book I picture the settings,the charter, their homes their lives. I usually read books that are about teens going through difficult situations my favorite author is Ellen Hopkins. Her novels are very different she talks about things other authors might not feel comfortable writing about her writing can make a person feel that they are right there with

The more I was being forced to read, the less time I spent reading for enjoyment, until eventually I no longer spent any of my free time with a novel in hand. Reading became a chore; it became boring. Sometimes the simple act of being forced to do something makes you despise it. As a child, I enjoyed several different genres of novels and many different topics intrigued me, so it wasn’t necessarily what I was reading that disinterested me. One required novel I remember reading was The Outsiders in seventh grade. This was a type of book I feel I would normally enjoy because of the mystery and action; however, I couldn’t bring myself to truly become engaged in this novel. Reason being-it was a forced act, with multiple worksheets and homework to accompany the reading. Fast forward to high school when I’m reading my required lengths in an anatomy and physiology textbook. Science has always been an interest of mine; in fact, I’m now majoring in Human Physiology. Yet reading this text wasn’t something I enjoyed. Again, because it felt forced; it was not something I was doing simply out of interest. This is how I continue to feel about most of the reading I do today as a college student.