Exercise #3

The book reviews that I read all seemed to be of a similar overall make up. They begin with a personal note about either how they came about the book or what drew them to read it. After this anecdote generally the begin with an analysis of the literary set up of the book, what kinds of styles the author uses and how it is different or similar to other books by the same author. After this the general trend is to go into a summary section, being careful, of course, not to give too much vital plot information away. And then they all seem to conclude with another personal statement, their advisement either to read this book immediately! or to save it for a last resort.

Book Reviews:
The Hunger Games
Mackingjay
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Reading Response

This week I read from the book Moneyball, which was recently turned into a big name movie. I read from the beginning to page 153. The book begins talking about the life a boy named Billy Beane, Billy had all the makings of a big name ball player, but he doesn't have the drive to enjoy baseball. He eventually fails as a baseball player but is able to get a job in the front office of The Oakland Ball club. He works his way up slowly to the position of a General manager of the baseball team. He is in the process of scouting new players, and is using a very unique system to scout his new players.

Exercise 2

6.) Lynda uses lyrical words and is poetic.
2.) "...because her little sister will NOT shut up she will NOT shut up SHE WILL NOT SHUT UP and Roberta is about to BASH her little sister's HEAD IN IF SHE DOES NOT SHUT UP."
2.) The setting takes place on a "cruddy street on the side of a cruddy hill in the cruddiest part of a crudded-out town." 

The best blog post that I read was by  Drop The World

Exercise 1

In this excerpt from "Cruddy" by Lynda Barry, she expresses a poetic vulgarity in her wording which can be seen by phrases like "Once upon a cruddy time on a cruddy street on the side of a cruddy hill." The author seems to tell of the girls' discontent with her life by her description of everything around her as cruddy. Her referring to everything as cruddy helps to communicate the pent up rage of a grounded young girl taking her anger out through writing.

Reading goals

1.) Read at least 150 pages a week
2.) Finish the Hunger games trilogy
3.) Read at least 4 books

Thematic Statement

The theme of my Anthology will be Relationships, the relationships between, friends, enemies, family, and lovers all will be discussed. I choose relationships to be discussed because of how impacting our different kinds relationships are on our everyday lives.

Reading Response

I finished the Second Hunger Games book, Catching Fire, this week. It was an extremely interesting book with an exceptional number of twists and turns. While they are in the arena Katniss and Peeta have allied with some unsuspected people in, Finnick, Johanna, and their friends nick named nuts and volts. They figure out the secret of the arena, realizing that it is in the design of a clock where at each different time a different disaster happens. They formulate a plan to kill the other players, or so Katniss and Peeta think, The actuality of the plan is to escape from the arena and escape in a hovercraft with the others to start a revolution against the Capitol.

Reading Response

I just started the second book in the hunger games series Catching Fire. In this exciting thriller Peeta and Katniss are back. They are thrown unceremoniously into the arena with men and women off all ages who have previously won the hunger games. This seems to be the result of the plot of the evil President Snow who hates Katniss due to her actions that always incite riots and the wrath of the citizens of the districts and so actively captivate the viewers in the Capitol. As he becomes more desperate to make her break he begins injuring and tortured in front of her in an attempt to get her to comply with his demands.Once she is in the arena Katniss and Peeta seem to align themselves with unsuspected allies who have secret extraordinary talents themselves.