Shen Zuobi's Book

By doing this, the author made the book less enjoyable so I did not want to keep reading like I do with other books. Reading this book became more of a task rather than a

When we were required to read books for school, other classmates complained about it, but it was one of my favorite parts of class. Even though I didn’t always like the books, I liked to read books that I wouldn’t have picked out to read. I liked being surprised when I enjoyed a book that I didn’t think I would like.

To start off, some of the chapters were not as interesting to me. When you read an interesting book it tends to move faster, but “Touching Spirit Bear” it moved very slow in my opinion. Another reason that ties onto the first,is when a book moves slower it’s harder to follow along or keep track of what has happened. My last reason is when the chapters ended the left you on the end of your seat and you really wanted to read on.

The approach to the reading of the novel would be varied. It is anticipated that the class study would begin with a shared reading of the opening chapter to foster students' interest. A prepared reading by the teacher is usually much more involving than a hesitant reading-around-the-class activity (Sykes, n.d.). The aim is to motivate each student to read the

A book from the Sky (Tianshu) is an installation work by Xu Bing, first exhibited in 1988. It consists of three hanging scrolls vertically draping across the ceiling, hovering over columns and rows of books systematically arranged on the floor, surrounded by walls covered with similar scrolls. The books, which are all equally spilt open and spaced out, mimic a wave like motion, and the hanging scrolls in the ceiling appear to be delicately falling from the sky. At the front of the installation, a book with its front page opened signals the name of the artwork, followed by a couple other closed books, all over a short wooden block like table. Each hanging scroll and book is filled with several small Chinese characters, a contrasting black ink on white paper, that Xu Bing carefully printed using traditional Chinese wood blocking technique. To produce the columns of text, the artist hand carved over a thousand individual character on blocks of wood, then arranged them in a specific sequence before stamping them ink on paper. Since its first appearance, A book from the Sky has been displayed in several locations around the world, with slight variation on the arrangement of the elements (for instance, a forth hanging scroll may substitute the ones on the wall). It is arguably one of Xu Bing’s most significant artworks, and it focuses on visually exploring the limitations of written language and the transformation of traditional practices to convey postmodern ideas.

A book is like a puzzle, it contains many different pieces to make it into a whole. Thomas Foster, in his book “How to Read Literature Like a Professor, discusses the many aspects to decoding a book. There are many aspects included in the book, including the importance of weather and Foster incorporated lots of content in his book, but the two that stand out are irony and symbolism.

Foster keeps the reader interested in reading. He broadened my horizon on the variety of fantastic novels that the world has to offer. He hints that there are millions of other things to discover about novels, secrets hidden in the code of words, and it is up to the readers to crack it. It was a great way to end a great novel.

He even fought with his teachers, getting into a lot of trouble. But one teacher who caught him reading silently in class at a non-reading time did something unusual. She gave him a frosty look—and a better book to read. Soon he had a secret reading life.

Alexie wrote “I read with equal parts joy and desperation.” (130) This quote had an impact on me because I could relate to it. I like Alexie also read with joy and desperation. I believe some want to read to find and escape and imagine a

The book had affected the narrator to a great extent. At first he did not care for the book, until the stranger selling Bibles said “the number of pages in this book is literally infinite. No page is the first page; no page is the last”. This intrigued the narrator’s mind. After he had bought the book, he began investigating. He noted down things in the book. He began losing sleep from the investigation and when he actually got sleep, his dreams were about the book. As it states in the short story, “At night, during the rare intervals spared me by insomnia, I dreamed of the book”. He had grown an obsession with the book, which altered his lifestyle and forced him to hide the book in the library.

An essay titled “Book War” by Wang Ping tackles about the time where reading is banned, and how dangerous it is to posses any types of books. It didn’t exactly tackles the benefits of reading, but it did portray the essence of finishing a book and the

Many Americans are currently working in China, about 70,000 in mainland China alone. Most are in the medical or education field and are in the larger, more “Westernized” cities such as Beijing or Shanghai. My story is a little different. Mine is one of a FRP (Fiberglass Reinforced Plastics) inspector for FSE (Fiberglass Structural Engineering). The simplest way to explain to most people not in the industry is to refer to it simply as “Fiberglass Inspector” (and NO not the pick stuff in your attic). I was working at a facility located in Lianyungang which is located in the Jiangsu province of Eastern China. Located about halfway between Beijing and Shanghai. Lianyungang is mostly an industrial city.

Zu Chongzhi is a famous Chinese mathematician and Astronomer lived in 429-501 A.D., Zu had do various of mathematics in his life, he improve Chinese mathematical, and made China become a powerful mathematical countries in 1000 years ago. Zu has many contributions in Chinese mathematical and astronomy such as 7 digits of PI, zhuishu(Method of Interpolation, The definition of zhui is method of ancient Chinese astronomy, shu is book), and the Daming Calender. but Zu is live in a war age that caused many of Zu’s inventions and story have been lost in the history.

However, towards to end of the book, couldn't he have talked about his marriage with America and Maxon instead of staging a dramatic exit, that I will never understand. I also felt that the book ended so abruptly that I couldn't believe my eyes when I read the acknowlegments

     Without giving away the ending, it is hard to explain what a tremendous job was done in the conclusion of the story. Simply put, the last fifty pages have to be read in one sitting—it is impossible