Week 14: FINAL POST

1. This project has changed my views on reading. Now I know that it isn't unhealthy to read. I used to be fearful of it and cowardly hide from it. I actually don't get surprised looks when I walk into the library anymore!

2. I will be an avid library visitor and reader....hopefully.

3. Throughout this project I read....
Seriously... I'm Kidding- Ellen DeGeneres
The Funny Thing Is... - Ellen DeGernes
My Point...and I do Have One - Ellen DeGeneres
Doormat - Kelly McWilliams
Kissing Doorknobs - Terry Spencer Hesser
Jerk - Jonathan Friesen
My Cat Ate My Gymsuit - Paula Danziger
The Last Song - Nicholas Sparks
3 Days - Donna Jo Napoli

I FINISHED MY GOALS FROM WEEK ONE!!!
..but Jensen read more books than me..........
:(

Hours Read Since Last Post: 4 hours
GRAND TOTAL HOURS READ: 46 hours

Week 13: changed thoughts?

Throughout this project, I have actually become a more advanced reader. I always used to pick shorter books with shorter chapters and easier plots. Now, I choose longer books with longer chapters and plots that actually make me think. It was a good experience for me to learn that there's more out there than I Spy books and Where's Waldo. I know I will continue reading more detailed books as I step into Mrs. Jahn's AP English class, but I know that because of this project, it IS possible to read many books in a short period of time.

Hours Read Since Last Post: 0 hours
Total Hours Read: 42 hours

Week 12: inferences

I started reading the book 3 Days. I am not too far into it, but already alot has happened. The girl's dad has suffered a heart attack on their way home from a restaurant in Italy (where they are vacationing). A car keeps driving slowly by, and that's where I stopped. Now, I'm just spit-balling, but I'm going to assume that they kidnap her. And, going by the title, in 3 Days, I think that the little girl will escape. I don't know how or when, but I feel it coming.

Hours Read Since Last Post: 1 hour
Total Hours Read: 42 hours

Week 11: Celebrities

If The Last Song would be recreated into another movie, I think Dolly Parton should play the lead of Ronnie and Robin Wilson should play Will. I think this will help the book/movie appeal to a broader age group, rather than with Miley and Liam it mainly appealed to only the younger generation. The older people will LOVE it. ...maybe.

Hours Read Since Last Post: 0 hours
Total Hours Read: 41 hours

Week 10: SPRING BREAK

Over Spring Break I finished The Last Song. It was super long and definitely a chick book. But I put up with it. It was about a girl who hates her life, moves to her dads in the summer, meets up with the wrong crowd, falls in love with a rich boy, finds out her dad has cancer, then the dad dies. SO MUCH HAPPENED IT WAS HARD TO KEEP TRACK OF. But it's okay. Good book overall.

Hours Read Since Last Post: 9 hours
Total Hours Read: 41 hours

Week 9: Expectations

This week (over spring break) I am planning to read The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. I am only a couple of chapters in to the book, but so far it is really good. I have heard alot of great things about him and his writing and this is the first book of his I have read, so yes, so far, it has not let me down!

Hours Read Since Last Post: 2 hours
Total Hours Read: 32 hours

Week 8: Antagonist

This week's theme is to name and explain the Antagonist of our book.  In my book, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, I think the biggest antagonist would be Marcy herself. She always puts herself down and prevents herself from going anywhere. No other character in the story influences her in sucha negative way like she does. She really needs to stop being so dumb and just have some confidence! COME ON MARCY!
Okay, that's all.

Hours Read Since Last Post: 7hours
Total Hours Read: 30 hours