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 22nd, 2014.
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I read The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, and the the Fault in our Stars by John Green. Both of these books inspired me greatly. The Notebook was an amazing love story that brought me to tears. This book was based in the 1920 which really helped you get that true sense of old time love in this book. The rich and the poor can't be defined in this story and it really tells you what true love is. The Fault in Our Stars was even a more amazing book it was a story beaded of a girl named Hazel who has lung cancer. She is ready to die until she meets her true love. He used to have cancer and as the book goes on they fall more and more in love in time they learn his cancer has come back and soon he will be gone. Both these books have amazing love stories and have inspired me greatly.
I read the book, Ember by Tess Williams and Chosen by P.C Cast and Kristen Cast. I liked the fictional read of both. I always liked books with fantasy characters. I liked these books because they made me think about friendship and people to trust and people that trust me. Having friends is important because no one wants to be alone. The book, Ember, was about a girl who finds her true self with the help of two friends. I think that is important. It demonstrates friends who care. The book, Chosen, was about a teenager who realizes that she is the only one who has the key to save the world. Her friends were the ones who encouraged her to do so and helped. Friends make a huge difference in one’s life.
I read the book, "Where the Stars Still Shine" by Trish Dollar and "Thou Shalt Not Road Trip" by Antony John. I love books based around the teenage life and romance novels. I loved "Where the Stars Still Shine" because I can somehow relate to the main character, Callie and her predicament with her parents.Even though Callie's mom kidnapped her from her father, both of our mothers are terrible influences. On the other hand, both of our fathers are very similar. They are both very successful and love to help others. The book, "Thou Shalt Not Road Trip", was not one of my favorites,only because it was based around a religion that I do not believe in. A teenage boy wrote and published a Christian book. Throughout the book, he struggles with a book tour with his ex-girlfriend, his older brother, and his brothers girlfriend. As he discovers the life of a celebrity, he learns to love someone for who they are and not their past and gains a best friend along the way.
This summer I read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau. In Pride and Prejudice I really enjoyed being able to get a glimpse back in time and learning what was expected of young men and women of the age. I also enjoyed how Jane Austen made me vividly aware of what the characters were feeling. The Testing on the other hand was completely different from Pride and Prejudice. In the Testing I loved how Joelle Charbonneau made me feel in suspense the entire time, I never knew what was going to happen next! In both books I learned that trust can be hard to come by and that trusting the wrong people can be your downfall. These books content can teach us many lessons and show us what to do and who to trust.
1)Over the summer I read Speechless by Hannah Harrington. Speechless is about a girl, Chelsea, who was best friends with the meanest most popular girl in school, Kristen. She could make or ruin anyone's life. After Chelsea finds out that a guy she sees at a party is gay she tells Kristen. Kristen tells her boyfriend and he chases him down and beats him up. Chelsea decides to stop being friends with her and Kristen ruins her life. She was at the top and moved to the very bottom of the popular chain. Chelsea ends up being best friends with the guy that got beat ups best friend Sam. Sam is really nice to her even though he knows she was the source of his friends gang beat. Chelsea stops talking to everyone and at the end she makes things right by going to court and telling the judge who beat him up. Sam and her start dating too. I also read Beautiful this summer by Amy Reed. Beautiful is about a girl, Cassie, that moved to a new state. Her new school is totally different than her last. At her old school the preppy girls were the most popular, but at this school the popular kids are druggies. Because of her beauty they let her in and she starts doing drugs. Her new best friend Sarah hooks her up with a guy named James and they almost dated but got in a huge fight. By the end of the book she realizes she can’t be friends with these people anymore and she makes new friends.
2) What I liked about Speechless was that it was never really boring for me. I liked the concept and the problem and how Chelsea reacted to the problem and her feelings. I could imagine what she was thinking and could get into the her head. I learned that you should never be mean and never be friends with someone who is mean. I learned that unpopular kids are cool to. But mostly I learned that if you know something about a problem that harmed someone or hurt someone you need to speak up. The most important thing to me about the book concept is that a girl who ruined a kids life still was forgave and still was loved by many people. Even though people hate you there will always be people who love you because you were honest. What I liked about Beautiful was that it was completely opposite of Speechless. Cassie is trying to fit in with the popular kids even though they are bad people to become friends with. Her biggest thing was to be liked and that's what most girls do these days. I like that about this book because she ends up doing her own thing like people, not only girls, should do. I learned that being yourself and confident about yourself is the key to your own happiness. It does not matter if other people like you it only matters if you like you. That's also hard for girls these days to feel secure about themselves. The most important thing about the books concept is that to be yourself you have to make sure that you are with people who will except you for you, not for what they want you to be.
I read the books, The fault In Our Stars, by John Green, and Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks. Both books were completely opposite from the other and I enjoyed going from a loving and playful book,The Fault In Our Stars, to a more drama and suspenseful book, Go Ask Alice. The Fault In Our Stars was an amazing read because of the mix of romance and heartache between two teens with lives very differently lived, and much more appreciated, then the average teenager, because of Hazel and Augustness, the main characters, cancer pasts and presents.From the book I learned how differently life is preseved when it is uncertain for how long it will continue on for. Augustus and Hazel do an outstanding job of teaching the reader to get out in the world and take impossible chance, before there is not time left. Go Ask Alice, was a page turner. Each chapter was filled an exciting new story and life experience from Alice, the main character,. The book is a diary of a normal teen who gets overtaken by drugs, alcohol, and so much more. Alice shares all the details and stories from beginning to end through her diary and it teaches the reader an important lesson to not go down the same path Alice chooses. Overall each book taught me so much and were amazing summer reads full of love laughter and sorrow.
I read two novels this summer. The first one was the Fault in Our Stars by John Green and the second book was entitled The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. These two books were very entertaining books and I thoroughly enjoyed reading them. The first book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green was a beautiful love story of two young teenagers with cancer. In the beginning of the book I did not enjoy how Hazel Grace, who is one of the main characters, does not make life the best it can be. About the time that she meets her true love Augustus Waters, she starts looking at life in a new way. Hazel starts living her life to the greatest that it can be. This book really inspired me to never give up and never stop loving people even when they are gone. The second novel that I read, The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, is a tragic love story of two people who have been separated from each other. When they find each other again they realize that they had never stopped loving one another. This greatly effected me because it shows how you should never stop believing and never stop loving someone that you have great feelings for. Overall, these two books were a fantastic edition to my summer.
The first book I read this summer was My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult. This book was really eye opening for me, it was this way for me because it showed the struggle of others. The book was based off a girl named Kate who had Leukemia, but instead of having the book from Kate's perspective it was from her family and all the others that were involved. The book had other major events that showed the struggle of everyone else. The second book I read was The Fault In Our Starts by John Green. The book focused on a young girl who has cancer that meets a young boy her same age. The book goes into detail about there love story that is very inspiring. While going through this love story they encounter several things that makes things hard for both of them. These two books were so amazing in different ways, although they were both about cancer they were based on different peoples point of views which made them so different but so good.
I read the book "The Hunger Games" and "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins. I really liked these books. They taught me a lot of about how good my life is and how bad it could be. I really liked how in the book Katniss volunteered in place of her sister. It also showed me what a true friendship is and also how much you really care for your family. It also made me think about if I could actually volunteer my life for my family.
I read The Fault In Our Stars by John Green and The Summer I Turned pretty by Jenny han. I loved both of these books because they both had great meanings behind them and I love that everything that happens in both book could happen in real life. The fault in Our Stars is about a teenage girl named Hazel who has cancer and her struggle to get through it as well as the struggle of the people around her to get through it. I love this book because it really shows how things like having cancer can really change your take on life and how important every moment is. The summer i turned pretty is a love story about a girl, Belly, who goes to a beach house every summer. I love this book because there is also some tragic things that happen as well and it really shows that family can be so important in really hard times.
Over the summer, I read the books Paper Towns by John Green and Looking for Alaska also by John Green. I thoroughly enjoyed both books and would have to say John Green is my favorite author because of his writing style. I learned how the style and type of writing an author chooses makes them unique and inspires you to look deeper into the other books that the author has written. Since both of the books I read were by John Green, I've learned that Green writes like a poet to me. The way that he describes every little detail in his books all the way to how he divides his “chapters” by days in Looking for Alaska is amazing. I would highly recommend all books by John Green to people looking for a great read.
This summer I read If I Stay by Gayle Forman and Delirium by Lauren Oliver In these two novels I really enjoyed both of them. These two authors are new to me and I loved their books! In the book If I Stay I loved how it showed and was written in a basically ghost perspective and helped me realize to really use different perspectives because you don't know everyones story and what is going on in their lives. I wish one day I could be a ghost and figure what everyone is thinking because you don't know what is in everyones mind. In the book Delirium it was about how this country thought that love was a disease. So every one would get "cured" at the age of 18 and the people running this program would choose a husband for you and you couldn't be with anyone else. If you were found with someone else before you were cured you had to get cured the next day! We live in a good place where we get cured for sicknesses but not love. Even though in the book they thought love was a sickness/disease. Both of these books were very good and I
This summer I read Nantucket blue by Leila Howland and Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo. Nantucket Blue is a summer love story about a girl, named Cricket who plans to stay at her friend, Jule’s beach house on Nantucket this summer. When something terrible happens to Jules family it changes all the plans for Cricket’s summer. With her determination she manages to find a way to Nantucket, she finds the guy of her dreams at a party but later finds out he hates her. Leaving Cricket with no friends she settles with Jules younger brother. This love story is incredible. I love it because it shows how to be a true friend and what first love really is. Through this book I learned that friendship isn’t always a piece of cake but in the end it will always be worth the battle. This was my favorite book I read out of the two, and I love how easy flowing the pace was and the word choices and combinations was fantastic.
Heaven is for Real is a non-fiction book about a young boy named Colton Burpo has to have an emergency surgery on his appendix. After his surgery Colton keeps talking about how he took a brief visit to heaven. This book took me through such an amazing journey. The description in this book is incredible, I never wanted to put the book down. The author was amazing at using his senses to tell the story. I learned that even though some people don't believe in heaven, there is something because Colton did not make anything up.
The two books I read over the summer are The Chance by Karen Kingsbury and the Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. The Chance was about these two kids named Ellie and Nolan who grew up together. The were best friends and in love, even though at a young age they didn’t want to admit it. One day Ellie’s dad took her and left to another state. She somehow gave Nolan her new address but never stayed in touch. This book is about two kids who lost connection but somehow over 11 years found a way back to each other. The Book the Notebook, had the same type of plot, two people who knew each other but then got split up and one way they were able to get back together. What I liked about these two books was that even after many years of not seeing someone you still can find a way to be with them again. What I learned from this book is even in hard situations don’t give up hope and keep trying. These two books content had good detail on what happens every inch of the story. The authors left parts out so you would want to keep reading to figure out what happened next. Both of these books were great to read and I would read them again.
I read How to Love by Katie Cotugno and Girls Don't Fly by Kristen Chandler. How to Love was a good book, but was long and kind of repetitive. There was no big exciting adventure that drew me in more. Though the story line was interesting which made me pick up the book in the first place. How to Love is about a pregnant 19 year old who's boy friend disappears then reapers again. The main character has to decide to love him again or ignore that he is even there. The second book that I read this summer was Girls Don't Fly. When her boy friend dumps her, she signs up for a scholarship to go study birds. When to find out that her ex-boy friend is there she is determined to beat him. I like Girls don't fly better just because of the exciting plot so I would definitely recommend that book.
I read the last books 2 in the How to Train Your Dragon(HTTYD) sires by Cressida Cowell and the last 2 in the Wings of Fire(WOF) Southerland. I loved in HTTYD how they started the book at the middle. In the WOF they are continuing the story in huge detail. I learned That most people can change. Both of the books. To me what matters is the idea with dragons in the story making a difference in peoples lives. Also seeing something so fierce can change into something so sweet and adorable
I read the book Looking For Alaska by John Green, as well as Land line. Both of these books made me look at my life much differently. I became more thankful fro the things that i have and have had.
I read the book Looking For Alaska by John Green, as well as Land line. Both of these books made me look at my life much differently. I became more thankful fro the things that i have and have had.
I read The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks and The Fault in or Stars by John Green. The Notebook was a great book about two people in the 1920's who have fallen in love in the past but were forced to separate because of money. Later on they get back together but she is engaged so once again they have to split up. The Fault in our Stars is also a love story but has a completely different back story. They both have had or do have cancer and met at a youth group for kids with cancer. My favorite book was The Fault in our Stars because I wanted to read it before I saw the movie so I had a reason to read it. I would recommend both books.
Over the summer, I read The Giver by Lois Lowry and Looking for Alaska by John Green. The Giver is a science fiction novel that takes place in the future. In the book, the government controls every aspect of the citizens life and made everyone the same. Everyone is colorblind and does not even know what death is. I liked the novel because it was suspenseful and intriguing. What mattered to me the most about the novel was the main theme it taught. The main theme is, when everyone is the same it not only keeps bad experiences from happening it also keeps good experiences from happening too. The next book I read, Looking for Alaska by John Green, was a realistic fiction that took place in present day Alabama at a preparatory school. In the book, the main character, Pudge, meets a girl named Alaska. When Alaska dies in a drunk driving accident, Pudge and his friends must find out why she choose to leave and weather it was a suicide or not. What matters to me about the books content is the quotes in it about life and how you should live it. One quote in particular that stuck out to me is “I go to seek a great perhaps” which is what I am doing this first year of high school.
I read the book, "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher. I really liked this book because straight from the beginning I was hooked. From the book I learned about the snowball effect, metaphorically speaking. One of the two narrators refers to rumors and the spreading of them as dropping a snowball. "Thirteen Reasons Why" is a book that matters to me because it is a real life situation that can be prevented. Also, it is very relatable to teens in this generation.
The other books I read was titled, "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson. This book had a very different style of organization, which made the story more interesting. This story also deals with real life situations of a teenage girl.
"The Mortal Instruments; City of Bones" by Cassandra Clare is a book that shows a different side of Nephilim (part human, part angel)and shows that you can have a good relationship with your mom and will go to great length to take care of her or to rescue her. That is one of the reason that I like this book is because yeah there is a love story in it but it follows a girl finding who she is and trying to save her mom in the process. One of the things I learned in this book is that if you stay stubborn and know what you want to do you will reach your goal, but it is alright to get help along the way and have people assist you.
I also read the whole Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling. This series has to be my favorite books because it shows you that sticking by your friends even in hard times will make you stronger and the end result so much better. Also, the books shows you that even in hard times and you feel like their is no up from there, but their is you just have to think differently and make it happen. These books follow the journey of the trio as the battle different obstacles from a simple quidditch match to battling the darkest wizard and shows you that every different person adds a piece to the puzzle.
I read the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, and "Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom. Both of these books were captivating and unique. "To Kill a Mockingbird" was abut two young siblings, Scout and Jem, who lived in the sleepy old town of Maycomb, Alabama. It showed adventures, life lessons, and struggles of these two young kids, as well as their friend named Dill. Down the street lived a shallow, hidden, and terrifying man known as Boo Radley. It shows these three kids adventures throughout the summers of trying to get Boo Radley to come out. Later in the story you see the true colors of Maycombs racist white community. Atticus (Jem and Scouts dad) takes on a case to defend a black man. With the whole town of Maycomb being against blacks, it takes hard work and courage for Atticus to win Toms case. I loved this book because it showed/taught me what life was like back in southern towns when African Americans weren't respected. I value that this book didn't hold back and the author put as much detail and slang into the book to make it so real. The other book "Tuesdays With Morrie" was my personal favorite. Morrie Schwartz was not only Mitch Alboms college professor, but also his role model and mentor. As Mitch had lost track of time and gotten out of touch with Morrie, he soon rediscoveries where he is and gets to spend every tuesday of morries last weeks left on this earth with him. Throughout the book, one particular thing came up that taught me more than any book ever could. I appreciated how the lessons were about life and how life is simpler than other people make of it. Morrie explained how as the days, months, and years went by when he was sick, he would look outside his window at an oak tee each day. The seasons would come and go and everything would change. He looked at that tree and would think to himself, everything in life has a beginning and an end. Just like this response I am writing right now. It has a beginning and an end. Just like all things in life.
This summer I read the book Looking for Alaska by John Green. What I really liked about this book was the way that John Green used his choice of words to really descriptive. I learned that some people may do things that aren't necessarily good things to make themselves feel better about something that may have happened in their life. Sometimes you just need to overcome what happened and know that there will always be people to help you and figure out solutions to your problems. What matters to me most about the content of the book is that the book keeps me interested, if the book doesn't keep me interested I wont't continue reading it.
Over the summer I read the book The Fault in our Stars by John Green. I liked how this book gave a different perspective about overcoming obstacles. I also learned how just one person can make such a tremendous impact on your life that it can alter, if not change your perspective completely. Although I am not a teenager who is struggling with cancer, I found this book very easy to relate to. The way that the main character Hazel views the world and her opinions were very similar to my own. I feel as if books that I can relate to in some way are the easiest and most enjoyable to read, and that is what mattered to me about this book.
Over the summer I read the book Love, Rosie by Cecilia Ahern. I think that a lot of people from my generation can relate to this book and I liked how it shows that you can always turn your life around no matter what. The main character, Rosie, didn't make the best decisions in high school and ever since she feels like she hasn't done anything with her life that she wanted to but throughout the book she realizes that you can always move on from your past and have a promising future. I also read The Fault in our Stars by John Green. I loved how this book showed me that you can overcome great obstacles in your life no matter what. I think that a lot of kids my age can relate to this book and although not many people go through the experiences that the main character, Hazel, goes through, the book has a much deeper meaning and moral that I thought was very important.
My summer reading choices were Fault In Our Stars By John Green, And If I Stay By Gayle Forman. In Fault In Our Stars I loved the quotes; They showed everything in perspective, it helped me understand that although the ending was sad and tragic it was filled with peace. It showed peace with dying, shown in one of my favorite quotes "some infinities are bigger than other infinities" this meant to me that although they lived short life's there memories are infinite. In If I a Stay I liked the emotion it made me think about what I would do if I was in her position with her family gone but her whole life still ahead of her with people that still love and care for her. This book showed me that even when you are at your lowest moment and you feel like giving up stay and fight through it. This book has a deeper meaning for me then at the surface, the book is about a girl and her cello with a love, a punk family, and a best friend, but the chose she makes when in a coma reminds me a lot about suicide and a deep meaning for living. Both these books inspired me immensely showing me that a tragedy doesn't have to be a tragedy it can be filled with peace and that even at your lowest moments and giving up sound easy stay and stick through it.
Love, anger, sadness, laughter, and happiness, all are potential side effects of different pieces of literature. This summer I was given the task to read two different novels before the treacherous return to school. Although many would sigh at the fact that we have to read over the summer but I personally didn't mind it… At all. Unlike most students, I actually enjoy reading, which is why I chose to read both The Fault In Our Stars by John Green and also The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Neither book was anything like the others (I personally don't think any book can be like another) but both were amazing and I very quickly became addicted to discovering what comes next in each novel. The Alchemist was very adventurous and taught me to think and process books in a new way and The Fault In Our Stars is like a big bundle of the harsh truth to the sad reality of cancer patients that makes one feel empathetic beyond belief and is a great reminder that life isn't a fairytale but even in the worst of circumstances theres always room for hope. Every book has it’s lessons, The Alchemist taught me to not give all of my attention to the oil on the spoon (because you wont see the roses) nor to the roses (because you'll probably spill the oil on the spoon) balance is the key to success whereas The Fault In Our Stars taught me to always make time for the ones you love. Hazel Grace (the main character in TFIOS) began the story depressed, eventually she made friends who would change her life forever and keeping those relationships near to her heart helped her to make the best of all situations, even her own messed up crazy world. Books can help to teach us many things, but in the end we all learn that “It is not the destination, but the journey that really counts.” (The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho)
I read the book "the fault in our stars; by John Green. this story really inspired me. The book was one of the best books i have ever read. In the story there is a gel named hazel with lung cancer. The was very accepting that she was going to die and that all she should be doing is sleeping, until she meets her true love. But by the end of the book his health plummets and he dies.
1.)Over the summer I read A "Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah. It really made me change my perspective on the world and made me realize how much I really have in life. I don't usually enjoy reading but I couldn't put this book down. The best part was how the author included such great sensory detail about the battle ground. I felt like I was part of it and was fighting Ishmaels emotion and physical battles with him.
2.) I also read The Fault in Our Stars by John Brown. It was completely different from A Long Way Gone. It had a mix of romance and heartache. A teenage girl attends a cancer support group and there she meets a boy named Augustus. After that they talked and started a journey he was there for her through everything.
1.)Over the summer I read A "Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah. It really made me change my perspective on the world and made me realize how much I really have in life. I don't usually enjoy reading but I couldn't put this book down. The best part was how the author included such great sensory detail about the battle ground. I felt like I was part of it and was fighting Ishmaels emotion and physical battles with him.
2.) I also read The Fault in Our Stars by John Brown. It was completely different from A Long Way Gone. It had a mix of romance and heartache. A teenage girl attends a cancer support group and there she meets a boy named Augustus. After that they talked and started a journey he was there for her through everything.
I read Gone by Michael Grant, it, is about a small town getting cut off from the rest of the world, everyone over the age of 15 disappears, and children run everything. Sam is the main character in this story and he is put in charge of over 300 scared, lost, and out of control children. All while he himself is a child at the age of 14. He is forced to grow up quickly and take over helping everyone figure out how this all happened. He faces new enemies that he didn't know he had before and he helps others grow up. He has to run this new world, a world of children.
I read a Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard. The book A Stolen Life is an autobiography written about a girl named Jaycee who was kidnapped when she was eleven years old and was found after 18 years. I liked that this book was something that happened and she explained how she felt throughout the book. Its so sad to even read the book without thinking about how different her life would've been if she had just kept walking. The whole taught me that even though we cant explain why terrible things happen to people, we still have to make the best of things and find a way to smile. She is and always will be an inspiration to me. I also read The Duchess by Amanda Foreman. This book is so great because it is actually something that happened in history. I learned that you have to sacrifice special things for people you love. While I was reading the book I hated what was happening, her life was so awful and she had to put up with it. I kept thinking if I was in her place I would've done things differently but now that I think of it she probably couldn't do anything. I read two books with women who have very little control over their lives. But in the end of both books they do what's best for themselves and their loved ones.
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