English 9A Reflection

Although my interest was lost in certain parts of the book, it did teach me a lot about being successful

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

This book was certainly one of the more difficult books I have ever read in any scenario ever. To expand upon, it was mostly due to the fact that I, at the time, was completely unfamiliar with the subject of politics. Thus leading into my first point, I did enjoy this book because I was able to learn new aspects of our world. Even more so, I was able to apply them to the real world in this upcoming presidential election. Of course with the good comes the bad, I was simply overwhelmed with information that the book did come off as confusing at many parts. Not to mention the excessive amounts of examples in history that each theme has occurred, did anger me a little bit.

One book that I didn’t really like this semester was The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. I didn’t really enjoy this book in a few different ways, one of them being that it was so raw and that all the events that had happened to her in the book, had actually happened in her real life since the book was about her life. It didn’t really appeal to me because her family had often moved around a lot and she didn’t have much of a stable home. Also in the novel it talked about how a boy who was a few years older than her had claimed that he raped her; rape is already a difficult thing to deal with but for someone to say that they had done that crime to you, then to force you to be their girlfriend (the term being used loosely) and give you presents

The book I chose to read and do my book journal on this quarter was In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. I really thought that this book was much longer than it really should have been, although it was still a fairly interesting book. The idea that someone you have never met and never heard about could rob and kill everyone in your house is a rather unnerving notion.

I have made it my goal this year to read harder and older books rather than newer and easy books. I think that I have followed through quite well, though I did read a few easy books. Three years ago I purchased an Amazon Kindle Paperwhite I have found it easier to read challenging books. It makes books easier to read because, of the in-text dictionary I can look at the definition of an unknown word inside the book, it takes the words I have searched and, makes them into flashcards that I can go through later. By virtue of this technology I was able to read many challenging books such as the Three Musketeers, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, a quarterly synthetic biology journal, and many other challenging books. Fiction books I read mainly for pleasure, unless assigned or if it's a fiction wrote in an historic time period. I appreciate historic books because they offer an insight on the thinking and way of life of the people of that era. I also think that reading books written in an classical style influences your writing style. It is my opinion that some of today's literature has become more simply worded and not nearly as descriptive as previous eras. I found that in Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne there were many outdated theories that I had never heard of this gave me an insight into the ways people thought. I have two mediums by which I read first of which is my Kindle Paperwhite which has almost every

This book was atrocious and wasted a good majority of my life. The body of the book was tedious, but got better as I read. The information presented became more interesting. I started to somewhat like to read it. It was still boring, but was something that I might like to read. As I liked to read it more and more. In the end I still didn’t like to read but it was a bit more standable.

But, I can tell you how reading this book made me feel. I was restlessly waiting for more, completely mesmerized, and extremely disoriented – which, in turn, only made me crave more and more of a limited page count. It sort of reminded me of reading Brave New World in the sense that, after reading it, I still had no clue what had happened but at the same time knew exactly what was going down. This book baffled me so completely that, even while writing this review, I am still struggling to pull apart what was real and what was

Already I can tell that this book is more difficult than most other novels I have read. It seems as though Roth is in favor of using long sentences and complex vocabulary. I sometimes had to reread sentences a few times because there was difficult vocabulary I needed to look up and the sentences were long. I needed to read each sentence piece by piece to make sure I could understand what the author wanted to convey to the reader. Although the text seemed overwhelming when I read the first few pages; once I began reading sentences in increments I could more easily understand the text.

Over the year in English, what went well for me were the short stories. Normally, when reading short stories, I don't understand the meaning behind them, but this year I was able to piece things together, and I enjoyed talking about them afterwards. What didn't go well for me is reading the Wes Moore book. When reading it, I was constantly lost and never knew what was going on or which Wes was which. Even after discussing the book in class, I could never seem to figure out what was going on, and I always dreaded having to read the book because of that.

The book I choose to read was, Dead Silent, by Robert Ferringo. This was an interesting process, because I had never heard of this book or author before. I am a person who rereads my favorite books over and over, so to start a new book is a major undertaking. Struggling to stay away from my biases was difficult because I wanted this book to be exactly like my favorites.

“Change is the end result of all true learning”. Leo Buscaglia could not said this phrase any better. Learning new things is my biggest feature in life and I continued to show the effort to learn new information this semester. The moment I stepped my foot in English 111 First Year Composition, it has been a humbling experience. As the semester closes, this class gives me a better opportunity to look back at all I have accomplished with. In the beginning, I really was not interested in the course because reading and writing is not my strongest suit, but I did ended up liking this course after all. I appreciated the bad grade I received on one of my papers because it has aided me in becoming a better writer.

For the final summer reading assignment, I chose the book The Kite Runner. I chose this book because it was previously purchased by my older siblings for their summer assignments. This way, I figured I would save money by avoiding the purchase of a brand new book.

Like previously stated, I did enjoy the many things I came to learn while reading this book, although I don't believe that the author took into consideration the time it would take to read this whole book. I did however enjoy that the author related the book to his own life as can be seen in the first couple pages of Chapter 17, “Speedboat to Polynesia.” While I ultimately found the subject matter interesting, I found the reading to be

The book that I read was “The Graveyard Book” by Neil Gaiman. I finished about eighty percent of my book, but I skipped a few chapters and moved to the end because I was running out of time to actually finish my book before the due date. I would recommend this book to a friend, because I thought “The Graveyard Book” was an amazing book with many sad stories to tell. What I enjoy the most about reading “The Graveyard Book” is that it shows the growth of the main character throughout the whole book and explains that the character is growing up to being an adult. The one thing that I did not enjoy was using my time on reading when I could be working on homework or get started on projects.