Over the summer, you were asked to read at least two novels of your choice.
1) Briefly tell me what you read, including the titles and authors.
2) I want to know what you liked about the books, what you learned and, more importantly, what matters to you about the books' content.
*Make sure to adhere to proper conventions and proofread your response. If, for some reason, you did not read two novels, tell me about two novels you have read and answer the above. This blog post must be completed by 2:30p.m. on Friday, August 23rd, 2013.
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Over the summer, I read two different books. The first book I read was "I Am David" by Anne Hawthorne. This was a historical fiction that took place in the Holocaust. It displays the journey of a boy who was put in a concentration camp at a young age, grew up there, and then was given the chance to escape. I enjoyed this book because it was historical fiction, and well, I am a history freak. By reading this book, I learned that hope can shine in the darkest of times. This is important to me because this story is so inspiring even though it didn't actually happen. The second book was "The Day I Almost Destroyed The Boston Symphony" by John San'Ambrodgio. This book was an autobiography written by the retired principle cellist of the Saint Louis Symphony for 30 years, as well as a member of the Boston Symphony. I enjoyed this book because I am a cellist, and this was funny and both influential at the same time. I learned many things about my instrument, and about life as a professional symphony musician. This book's content was very refreshing, and inspiring. Because of this book, I want to play in a professional symphony orchestra when I grow up.
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This summer I decided to read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. What I enjoyed about both of these books is that they are both fiction, but very realistic and captivating. With these books, I definitely learned to pay attention to detail because it can determine how you interpret the book. These stories were FILLED with amazing detail and structure and I literally have not read any others that I have loved more. The Fault in Our Stars was very important to me because it really changed how I look at things, especially life and how easily it can be taken. To Kill a Mockingbird is obviously a true classic, and I especially enjoyed reading the humorous portions of the book. I hope soon I'll find other books as well written as these.
Over the summer, I read definitely more than two books, but for my summer reading assignment I read:
Hush, Hush; by Becca Fitzpatrick
Crescendo; by Becca Fitzpatrick
These books are about a girl named Nora who is getting stalked by a boy named “Patch” in her science class and she knows something isn’t quite right. Soon, she finds out he is a fallen angel who is getting into some trouble. Will she be killed by her own true love, or die trying to stay in her crazy relationship? This is an amazing series with turns around every corner. The thing I learned most from these book is that looks can be deceiving. Especially in life, you can't always judge a book by it’s cover. I love these books because of its genre, which is realistic fiction mixed with scientific fiction.
This summer I read Dear John by Nicholas Sparks. I really enjoy all of Nicholas Sparks’ books because they keep you reading. Each book is different, but they all have something that will keep you hooked; a tragedy, a summer romance, or even an adventure. I also read Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth. Divergent was so intriguing that I picked up Insurgent (the next book in the series) the day after I finished Divergent. Veronica Roth does a great job including a sequence of events that will keep you hooked!
Over the summer, the books I chose to read were “My Sisters Keeper” by Jodi Picoult, and “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green. I enjoyed both of these books a lot, and, even though they were fiction, they were really realistic, and they helped me realize how lucky I am to be healthy. In “My Sisters Keeper,” the main character, Anna, was conceived to donate her organs to her terminal sister, Kate. When Anna is told she has to undergo a surgery that could potentially be harmful to her, she feels she needs to draw the line, and she invests herself in a lawsuit against her family. The book made me realize that organ donation is something that goes on around the world, and maybe there’s more going on below the surface then we will ever know. “The Fault in Our Stars” also features another terminally ill patient, Hazel. She spends most of her time moping around and wondering when her life will end, until she meets Augustus. Augustus teaches Hazel to live everyday like its her last, and I think the book taught me that, too. Both of these were books that I really enjoyed, and they both taught me a lesson about how lucky I really am.
The two books that I read this summer were It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzinni and Heaven is For Real by Todd Burpo. The first book was a fiction novel is about a boy who is depressed and quickly checks himself into a mental hospital after he was thinking about committing suicide. The book explains his journey through overcoming the hospital and finally becoming better again to make it back home. The themes were peer pressure, being yourself, and finding out who you are. I liked that this book was so real, as this is based off of a true story that happened with the author himself. It really makes the story more real. I learned that depression is okay to have, as long as you take care of yourself and take the right medicine, but it is nothing to be ashamed of.
The second book is about a little boy’s journey to Heaven and back written through his father’s eyes. Now this is one of my favorite books that I have ever read. Colton, the little boy who went to Heaven and back, told his family his amazing journey about 3 months his scare in the hospital as he traveled to heaven during an emergency operation. He mentioned things about heaven that no little 4 year old would ever know. I really liked it because it proves so much that was in the Bible is true and really strengthens my faith for God and Christianity. I learned so much about Heaven, God, faith, and Christianity. I am very glad that I had the opportunity to read this book. The whole book in general matters to me about the book’s content, from cover to cover.
Summer reading reflection: I read The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks I also read A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks. I loved how in both books it was kind of that sappy love story but it had a great story line and some really good lessons. In The Notebook I learned that no matter how far apart to people can become there will always be some what of a bond still there that can fill any gap in the relationship. In the book A Walk to Remember I learned that no matter how different two people can be there will always be some thing for them to bond over. in both of the books they had sappy love moments but through out the whole book they showed the struggles that can come from love which i loved because it had truth and wasn't just a " and they lived happily ever after" story. Both of these books were great because they kept a good story going the whole time and they literally never had a dull moment which was great. Over all I loved both books!
I read the books Last Chance and Out of the Cold both by Norah McClintock. I am very picky about books. I can't have odd commonly used names like Johnny in a book or cheesy names like Billy. That’s why I can't believe I liked these books.The main character’s name is Robyn hunter and her boyfriend's name is Nick D'Angelo and her two friends names are Billy royal and Morgan Turner. I enjoyed this book so much because it was my first book where I was stumped on the mystery. I am never stumped in mysteries! They are so predictable to me, but this one was completely unpredictable. I also enjoyed the romance in the story. I cried and laughed to the stories (I have never cried to a story in my life) I learned that life is always going to be an adventure no matter where you go and all problems have an answer to them. the author kept me reading and I thought that was great.My mom was surprised that I was reading because I rarely read due to how picky I am with books.I also learned that you can't judge a person off of what they look like, whether it be a homeless guy or a guy dressed in all black in a group home. I loved them both so much and wish the author would make more books to the series.
Over the summer I read "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman and "Prey" by Michael Crichton. "The Graveyard Book" was about a young boy who became an orphan after a man named "Jack" killed his mother, father, and older sister. He had crawled his way up to the graveyard near his home and was taken in by two spirits there. I found most of the book enjoyable, some parts drawn out, but still good. I suppose I didn't learn much from the book that would likely help me in real life. "Prey" was about a stay at home husband after he had been fired for his boss’ misdeeds and had been later offered a job to work at a plant out in a desert in Utah. He did not find out about the nanobots until they arrived on his first day and killed a rabbit. As the book progressed it became more interesting and in turn more enjoyable. It was a book that took a long time to get into. I don't believe I really enjoyed it until the nanobots started to affect the story. Honestly, there was a lot of information about technology and behaviors of some animals and insects that could be used during a study of predator and prey behavior. They were both good books and I'd recommend them to anyone looking for a new book.
Over the summer, I read “The Fault In Our Stars” and “Looking For Alaska”, both written by John Green. When I was reading “The Fault In Our Stars”, I enjoyed how the characters were flawed, and not portrayed as perfect, which is common. Just the plot of the story, since most of the characters were diseased, inspired my greatly. When I was reading “Looking For Alaska”, I enjoyed that John Green wrote the book so precisely, that I could actually imagine the characters in the novel as if they were nonfictional people in our everyday lives. The way he wrote the dialogue, it was extraordinary. It felt like I was listening to real, nonfictional conversations. What I learned from “The Fault In Our Stars”, is that not all endings are happy, and there are some things in life that can’t be changed, which I thought was very significant. And as for “Looking For Alaska”, I found the overall message (or at least the message I received) relatable to my own life. It explained how you can think someone is an open book, but it turns out there’s so much more to them than you could ever recognize. And that you can never really know everything about someone.
This summer, I read to books that I thoroughly enjoyed. The first was a book called Divergent by Veronica Roth, and it is the first book in a trilogy. This has to be my favorite book by far. It takes place in future Chicago, when the world is in chaos and everything outside the barricaded walls of Chicago will kill you. Basically, everyone inside Chicago are some of the last humans one earth. The people inside the city, though, don't call it Chicago anymore. Instead, the once grand city has split into four groups, or factions as they call them. There is Dauntless, fierce and angry people who defend the city's borders. There is Abnegation, who are very selfless people. There is Erudite, the faction where scientists, bookworms, and engineers go. There is Amity, which is on the farthest reaches of Chicago. The people there are very peaceful and loving. And the last one is Candor, where very honest people go. When kids turn 16, they are forced to go the Choosing Ceremony where they will determine their faction for the rest of their life. This is what happens to Beatrice, known as Tris, when she leaves her home of Abnegation and heads for Dauntless. There she meets and 18 year old boy named Tobias, and they end up falling in love. In the very end, Erudite trys to kill off all the Abnegation people, because they believe their selflessness is very dangerous. They do this by putting every member in Dauntless under their control by giving them a special serum. But Tobias and Tris resist the serum, which makes them Divergent, people the Erudite hate the most, as Divergent people can not be controlled by anything. Tris and Tobias end up saving a few Abnegation people, but in the fray Tris lost both her parents. Now the Erudite knows of them, they must be on the run and try and leaves Chicago. I really love this book because of the love story incorporated with lots of fighting and action. My second book was Inheritance by Christopher Paolini, and it's the last book in the Eragon series. The last book just tells about how Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, get ready to face off the evil king Galbatorix, and his evil dragon Shruikan, and kill them and rid Alagaesia of tyranny. But along the way, Eragon must come to terms with who he really is and what his destiny is after he defeats the dark king. In the end he realizes that he and Saphira must revive the Dragon Riders, which fell decades ago because of Galbatorix. Eragon finds dragon eggs that were never thought to exist because Galbatorix had them hidden away. Eragon and Saphira take the eggs out of Alagaesia and into the unknown, where they must rebuild the Riders and restore harmony to the world. This book kept me up all night because of how much imagination and creativity went into it, and this book also has some slight romance. I highly recommend both books if anyone loves action mixed with love.
Over the summer I read three books but the books, Night by Elie Wiesel and The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants by Ann Brashers, were the two I found most interesting. Night is a story of a young boy living in Hungary, during a very horrific time in our world's history. World War 2. Elie tell his story in his point of view of what he had to go through at these camps called concentration camps. Many people died and were persecuted for just being Jewish. Overall this book was a tremendous piece of writing. I loved hearing his point of view. It made me realize how horrible people can be to each other. The other book I read was The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants. It was a story of four best friends who are spending the summer away from each other. They find this pair of pants that magically fits all of them. During the summer the girls stay in touch by writing letters and sending the pants to each other. The four girls each find their destiny with the pants. Overall this story is a tale of friendship and hope. I recommend reading both these book because they both have a very good perspective on life and they are both amazingly written.
Over the summer I read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and Enshadowed by Kelly Creagh. Both books were very intriguing and were hard to set down. Each book was pretty different. Ender's Game is the first book in a series about a boy named Ender who was chosen to fight off these things called Buggers and basically save humanity. There had already been 2 previous Bugger wars; therefore, the commanders wanted to end it, once in for all. Ender is only a little boy when he is sent away and he grows up unlike anyone else! This book was really interesting and unique, so I liked it a lot! I'm usually not into science fiction, but I could not get enough of this book! It was full of settings I had to completely imagine in my head because they were like no other. The other book I read was Enshadowed. It's about this girl who goes to this dream world where the stories of Edgar Allen Poe come to life. Everything starts getting out of hand, so she has to destroy the portal (which was her boyfriend's journal) but there's still a problem. She thought that the guy she loved was in the human side, but he got trapped in the dreamworld. She has to go to Baltimore to a special graveyard at a specific place at certain time to try to get him out. I didn't learn a lot from this book because it was fiction and I highly doubt any of the things I read about could really be true. Either way, both novels were very interesting!
I have read the "Fault in Our Stars" and I really enjoyed the story because it showed my what true love truly is. The story is by John Green.
This story really caught my attention because all of my other friends have read it. I learned one thing from this book, "Life is to short to wast it". I think that is the theme of the story. This book will always be one of my favorites because I never got bored, I always wanted to keep reading.
I have read the "Fault in Our Stars" and I really enjoyed the story because it showed my what true love truly is. The story is by John Green.
This story really caught my attention because all of my other friends have read it. I learned one thing from this book, "Life is to short to wast it". I think that is the theme of the story. This book will always be one of my favorites because I never got bored, I always wanted to keep reading.
Over the summer I read Stealing Parker by Miranda Kenneally and Playing Hurt by Holly Schindler. Stealing parker was about a girl who started out with the perfect life. She was almost valedictorian, made all star softball, and had plenty of friends! But family issues changed her life dramatically when her mom moved out and nobody would talk to her after they found out what happened. She quits softball and drops a bunch of pounds. She soon joins in to help the boys baseball team and ends up falling for the coach. Which gets them both in trouble and she realizes that its not worth it. The end is quite a plot twist when she ends up falling in love with the guy who initially, she hated in the beginning. I also read Playing Hurt. Playing Hurt is about a high school student who used to be the Pro Athlete in Basketball and was the best of them all. Until she slipped in a game and broke her hip, which caused her to never be able to play again. She goes off on a camping trip with her family at a camp for her senior gift. She has a personal trainer there who also quit a major sport due to something that happened in his past. After weeks of loving and hating each other, she ends up falling in love with him. Even though she has a boyfriend back home. And the rest of the story is to be told the next summer because she wins a free stay for winning a contest. Only to go back and be with the boy who she had fallen in love with at camp.
Over the summer I read two books that were both fiction. The first book I read was "Island of Desire" was about an island pageant for men and through out the whole book they're(the pageant men and security guards surrounding the island)trying to figure out who killed one of the pageant contestant. It ends in finding the man who killed the contestant. The second book I read was "The List" it was about a high school who had a bunch of girls who create a list of the ugliest and prettiest girls. Later on in the book the list becomes an issue and everyone has and issue with there high school life. In the end the list gets destroyed and everything almost gets back together.
This summer I read The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a story told by Nick Carraway, who was once Gatsby's neighbor, and he tells the story sometime after 1922,Jay Gatsby loves Daisy Buchanan who is married to Tom Buchanan. The narrator, Nick, is Daisy's cousin, and he is sweet on pro-golfer Jordan Baker. Nick becomes acquainted with Gatsby, a neighbor. Gatsby throws lavish parties in his huge mansion just to try to impress Daisy and woo her back. He begins an affair with her. Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, who is married to George Wilson. One day after the group of them Gatsby, Nick, Daisy, Tom, and Jordan go to a hotel, an argument leads to Tom realizing Daisy has been unfaithful with Gatsby. Gatsby lets a drunken Daisy drive the two of them home, and she is involved in a hit-and-run accident that kills Myrtle. She drives off, and a few minutes later, the 2nd car with Nick, Tom, and Jordan comes upon the scene. Tom learns that his mistress has been killed, and tells George it was Gatsby's car that killed Myrtle. Tom knows George will get revenge on Gatsby, and doesn't bother to tell him that Daisy was the one driving the car. George drives to Gatsby's home and kills him. Out of all of the thousands of people who had attended Gatsby's many parties, only 3 people came to his funeral.
The Second Book i Read was Someone Like You by Sara Dessen
Halley and Scarlett Thomas live in directly opposite houses and both had jobs at Milton's Market. At the beginning of the summer, Scarlett started dating Michael Sherwood but they decide not to tell anyone, with only Halley really knowing, because Michael recently broke up with cheerleader Elizabeth Gunderson and he claims he didn't want her to get upset .
For the last 2 weeks of summer vacation, Halley has been sent away to Sisterhood Camp even though she doesn’t want to go by her mom who is having. Then something bad happens and Halley gets a phone call from Scarlett telling her about how Michael died and Scarlett asks Halley to come home and be with her. She was able to convince her mom. Going back to school on the first day, Scarlett states she feels like she is going to throw up. Halley goes to class and finds her new schedule is wrong so she goes to the guidance counselor’s office to sort it out. There she gets talking to Macon who jokes around with her and teaches her the "Jedi Mind Trick”. Later that day, she finds out they have P.E together and from then on, she starts to have a crush on him.
Macon eventually mentions a party. She and Scarlett later go to the party, where Macon fails to show up. He later turns up at her window and tells her he did go to the party but he was in the attic. He then kisses her and Halley's nerdy ex-boyfriend, Noah Vaughn, is watching from the kitchen window. The next day, while she is doing her chore of mowing the lawn, Macon turns up with a giant mower to help, which pleases her father but makes her mother angry as it is supposed to be her job to mow the lawn. Her mother keeps asking Halley about who the boy was mowing the lawn. Halley and Scarlett are working when Scarlett pulls Halley into the bathroom and tells her she is pregnant. They are going to tell Scarlett's mother and her mother books an abortion. On the day of the abortion, Scarlett decides she doesn’t want to and calls Halley to pick her up from the clinic. Halley asks Macon to drive her there and he does. When they have picked up Scarlett, Halley's mother sees them and assumes they are just cutting class. Halley is then grounded. Halley has a birthday dinner the next day with her family, and Scarlett. Later, she sneaks out with Macon. Halley’s mother is forever asking her about Macon and she dislikes him despite never having met him. Halley is forbidden from seeing Macon. And everyone at school finds out about the pregnancy because Ginny, who can't keep secrets, overhears them talking in the bathroom. Later that night Halley and Macon get into this huge fight so they leave the party. While he is driving her home, he is too busy shouting at her to watch the road and they get into a car accident. Before going into the emergency room, Macon holds Halley's hand tightly and says, "I love you." Halley is seriously injured and taken to hospital. Macon didn't visit. Her mother is disappointed in her because she does not know the truth about what really happened.
After Halley gets out of the hospital, Macon comes to see her at her window. Halley breaks up with him, which breaks his heart because he then realizes he's in love with her. Her mother comes down and starts to shout at her for seeing Macon and then Halley explains what has just happened. She also tells her mother how she feels about all the restrictions she has put on her and they come to an understanding: both of them will try harder to get on. Scarlet goes into labor at prom. Halley and Scarlett try to leave but the only way to get to the hospital is Macon's car. Macon takes them to the hospital. After the birth, Scarlett names the baby Grace Halley Thomas and everyone shows in the waiting room. After Halley leaves she just walks by herself and thinks about what Grace Halley Thomas life will be like!
This summer I read a book called "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom. This novel is about an elderly guy named Eddie who took his life to save a little girl who was on a broken ride at a pier on the beach. In this book, he meets people in Heaven who significantly impacted his life on earth. I really enjoyed this book because I haven't read anything like it and I did not know what to expect. The biggest thing I learned in this book was that every person I meet will have a reason for being in my life either if it is a good or bad thing. The second book I read this summer was "The Notebook" by Nicholas Sparks. This book is about a teen summer romance involving Allie and Noah that ends at the end of the summer even though they are madly in love. Allie ends up meeting a new guy who she soon gets engaged with and she has to eventually choose between Noah and her new fiance. This story showed me that if something in life is meant to be, it will be. And don't ever force anything in life to happen, just go with the flow and what happens, happens. Both of these books taught me valuable lessons that I will always remember. I loved them both.
I read the book "The hunger games" Suzanne Collins. It was such a good book and i never wanted to put it down. I liked all the words Suzanne used. I don't really know what i learned from this book. I don't really think there is much to learn about the hunger games except like that some of the cultures in the world do some sort of game like the hunger games which is really sad.
I also read "This Present darkness" by Frank E. Peretti. I was really cool to see like the spirtitual darkness in this world and how the angles and demos fight over a town called Ashton.
I read on the day I died by Candace Fleming.this book was really weird though. This book was about the stories told by dead teenagers who are telling the stories on how they died. I think the most captivating part about it is that most of the death were because of other people's mistakes I think this just goes to show you how kids don't pay attention really well.
Over the summer I read one fiction and one non-fiction/life story. My non-fiction was The Vow. It was about a man and his wife got in a car crash and she forgot who he was. The husband wrote it. My second book was called 13 gifts. It was about a girl who had to go to her cousins for the summer and she lost her money so she helped a lady find objects. I enjoyed The Vow more because it was interesting and a true story
I read "Girl Stolen" and it was honestly a really good book. I have a really hard time choosing good books but I really enjoyed this one. i liked the way it was written and just the story overall.
Over the summer I read "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and "Of Mice And Men" by John Steinbeck. I enjoyed the larger-than-life aspects that Fitzgerald showcased in Gastby. He really captivated me by his usage of adjectives to describe each scene. Same goes for "Of Mice And Men," Steinbeck's alliterations and descriptions of scenery really brought me into Salinas Valley.
The two books I read over the summer where really interesting. One of the books I read was Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo. The second book I read was Double Identity by Margret Peter Haddix. What I liked about Heaven is for Real was I got engaged in this book when I am not really into reading books. With Double Identity it was the same because the book was about this girl who had an older sister who was dead and she never knew about her. Then her parents leave her with an aunt she had never met before. She spends most of her time with her aunt so she finds out the whole story behind her sisters death. At the end it is really interesting.
About a month ago I fell in love. I fell in love with someone who "Enjoys looking at beautiful people, and decided a while ago not to deny himself the simpler pleasures of existnce," Said the beautiful Agustus Waters, on page 19 of "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green. Agustus Waters is a cancer surviver. He lost his leg from the cancer, but is still living without it. His best friend Issac, has eye cancer and is going blind, so he went with Issac to a support group in what they call, 'the heart of Jesus,' weird. I know. At this support group he met Hazel Grace Lancaster. (We call her Hazel Grace, she prefers Hazel.) Hazel has Thyroid cancer with mets in her lungs. Hazel is the main chareter of this astonishing book. This brilliant piece of writing makes your heart sink. I didnt ever set it down. I was in love. With everything. The way they talked, thought, texted, fell in love, everything made me never want to read those final pages. When I did I cried that this beautiful love story came to an end. I really enjoyed this book because the title tells you, the fault in our stars. It shows that not everythings perfect all time. That life has struggles and its not always fairytales. I love how it tells you that. John Green shows you how the good and bad parts of life, and combined them. I love this book so much. Its become my favorite and I dont even know how many times I've read this. The second book I read this summer was The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. I really enjoyed the authors writing stile and how she adressed all of the girls worries and problems and life styles. It was however confusing when she switched with chaecters because you didnt really know who she was talking about. I really liked the books I read this summer!(:
The second book I read was angles vs. demons by Dan brown witch is a book of the movie it was good I liked that it took place in the most holiest of places in italy
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