Reader's Response 5.6.12

Outside Reading Freshman Year Reflection

Over the course of this school year I have read a lot more than I expected I would. I do love reading but I get unmotivated very easily so having be graded on my reading was a great motivator for me! This year I read a wide variety of books. A few of the books I read were nonfiction which was very new to me this year. My grandfather, Henry, always told me that once you read nonfiction fiction is for everyone else. But I did also read a good amount of fiction books just because I love them too much to not read them. 

One of my favorite nonfiction books I read this year was A Stolen Life by Jaycee Lee Dugard. A Stolen Life was such a powerful piece of writing I truly enjoyed every page of it. I also really enjoyed Fifth Avenue, 5AM: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Sam Watson. I found that I loved that book because of the perspective of the story. The book is a biography but in a chronological time line. So whenever you start a new chapter you're on a new point on the time line of Audrey's life and you get a quote that she actually said around that time of the point on the time line. It really kept me interested in the story line plus I love Audrey Hepburn!

My favorite free read fiction book that I read this year was The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han. I know everyone has seen me post about how much I love this book! But my favorite in class book that we read this year so far is MacBeth by William Shakespeare. I love Shakespearean writing and I love focusing in the details of the writing in English classes! Next in my reading I'm going to finish We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee and then I think I'm going to start a book that my grandfather gave me called The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich.

So as my freshman year comes to a close I've noticed a pattern in my reading. I've noticed a pattern of reading three books in one week to having to force my self to read six chapters in a week. I guess it all depends on the week I'm having. I've used outside reading to think about issues in class whenever I read poetry ,for my free read the week my nook wasn't charging, and I noticed all of our patterns that we talked about in class in the poems.

~Reading Times
4.30.12- 90 minutes
5.1.12-20 minutes
5.2.12-15 minutes
We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee