Book Club Chapter Summaries

I loved this book so much. There is so much action and is so much better and exciting with so much amazing detail and description. This is one of my favorite books ever. When you read it, you don’t want to put it down and it makes you feel like you are with the characters in the book and you know them so well. I recommend this book to anyone who can read at this level.

I was not really into reading at the time, but I remember that my teacher made us read for at least fifteen minutes at the beginning of every class. If we did not have a book there were many books from her library to choose from. I believe this was one of the first books that I read in her class, and think I chose this book in particular because it stood out. I mean the title itself already piqued my interest. I honestly did not think that I was going to enjoy it as much as I did, It was such a bizarre read with all the strange events and abnormal characters. And in a weird way, the strangeness of the story was what I really liked. I do not think I would have liked it as much if it was not for that. It was one of the first chapter books that I did not have to force myself to finish. This was also one of the first books I read that really got me into loving to read. I just loved getting lost in another world and I wanted to keep reading books that did that for me.

Another thing that I liked about the book is that at the beginning, the wake/vigil/funeral was so accurately described. Funerals are awkward, tiring, and numbing. Meursault

I did actually really like this book. I was not sure if I was going to enjoy it when the project was first assigned, but after reading for a while, I became really interested

For the most part, the novel was very enjoyable. One aspect of it that I loved was that the storyline was extremely intense, which always compelled me to find out what would happen next. For example,

They just got married, and they are moving in together – unpacking a lot of their books

Personally, I did like the book. I’m not normally a reader but, this book was very intriguing and had a lot of interesting turns to it, it kept me wanting to know the end. I, at first, didn’t want to read the book, and was going to pick the smallest book I could find, but after reading about the story behind this author and the book itself I went out and picked it up an haven’t stopped reading it since. It starts kind of slow

I began this book with mediocre expectations. I’m not much for reading novels, especially those as strenuous and non-fictional as the book of our topic. You could say I'm hard to interest. I assumed this read would just be the typical chore that reading books usually is to me, but as I so quickly found myself getting lost in the density written upon this book’s 383 factually packed pages and was engrossed by the photos printed in the middle of the book, I changed my mind. My expectations were pleasantly exceeded! I say with complete confidence that this novel is like nothing I have read before.

It was difficult for me to find time to read it around school and all of my activities, so I stayed up really late every night, because I couldn't put it down. I would tell myself I could only read to the end of the chapter I was in, but in those few pages something would happen that made me keep wanting to read on. That would take me into the next chapter, and I would tell myself again that I had to finish that chapter. This vicious circle would go on until I realized it was almost 12:00 (which is extremely late for me). The author did such a good job of making me feel connected to the characters. Whenever Mare or her friend from Stilts, Kilorn, did something dangerous, I would hold my breath, or when she did something stupid I would get pretty upset. At points, my mom would tell me to go do something like hang out the laundry, and I wouldn't hear her, because I was so involved in the book. I have read some other books like this recently, and I couldn't put those down either. There were parts in it where I was reminded of The Hunger Games, and other parts I was reminded of The Selection. Two completely different books, but Victoria Aveyard mashed them together so

In chapter 10 Jamie goes back to his village and finds out that everyone's worried about him and he has dinner.Then his father talked about how the natives stole some more things up in the coast. After what his dad said Jamie made a connection with how his dad acts and how Tethani`s dad acts. The next day he goes fishing with Tethani after he talks about his brother. And after he decides to play the flute with his brothers bone whistle which Jamie thinks it`s really sad more then usual.The reader is left to believe that Robert will shoot Shadowthai (Tethani’s little brother) later on in the story because Robert thinks that he is a coward.

The one word that comes to mind when I think of this book is complex. Many stories have predictable characters and plot, and there's a fine line between good and evil. This story is different for a change, and I fell in love.

I’m not going to lie I have sat here for 4 hours trying to come up with something good to write. I found nothing. It’s like the bakery is out of flour. I have read the entire book and I am now going through my sticky notes to try and remember the story. I don’t remember a single thing. Not one thing. I really thought that this book was terrible right when I started it and now it is all over and I didn’t like it enough to remember it for more than five seconds. It was boring. I wanted to claw my eyes out. When I first heard this was going to be our summer reading book, I went out searching for people’s opinions. I got mixed reviews. Some people thought it wasn’t worth the time of day and they got nothing from it and then others said that this

The writing style of The Namesake is very simplistic. That made this book very easy to understand and know what the author was trying to have me understand. There were times when she was describing the Bengali culture, she would use words or phrases that I would not understand; but, Lahiri was very careful to explain all of the cultural terms, foods, and events to keep everyone on the same page.

When it appeared in my PO Box, I started to read it straight away. And once I started I could not stop. The plot is addicting, when you start reading and you will not be able to put the book down.

When I asked to review this book, I was expecting it to blow my mind – however it feel short. I was waiting for something more, something big to happen and something did happen, but not what I was expecting and it was a letdown.