Entry 4
Entry 4: Looking for Alaska
My sister and I were looking at the list of books that I could choose for my summer reading project and when she saw Looking for Alaska she told me I needed to read it because she read it in high school and loved it. Also we already had the book at home. My attention was drawn to the book Looking for Alaska because my favorite type of books to read is fiction and also this book has won an award so I thought it must be very good.
A personal connection I could make is how Pudge moved schools and didn't know anyone but then ended up being best friends with all of them. When I switched dance studios the same thing happened to me but now we are all so close.
I would recommend one of my friends from another school named Catherine to read this book because she loves to read books that are somewhat sad. Catherine feels this way because she always feels like there is something in her life even if it was in the present or past that she is able to relate to the book with. I think anyone that likes sad books should read Looking for Alaska. It has been one of my favorite books!
Monday, August 11, 2014
Entry 3
Entry 3: Looking for Alaska
"The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party. To say I had low expectations would be to underestimate the matter dramatically. Although I was more or less forced to invite all my "school friends," i.e., the ragtag bunch or drama people and English geeks I sat with by social necessity in the cavernous cafeteria of my public school, I knew they wouldn't come."
"My parents 'SUV was parked in the grass just a few feet from my dorm room, Room 43. But each time I took those few steps to and from the car to unload what now seemed like far to much stuff, the sun burned through my clothes and into my skin with a vicious ferocity that made me genuinely fear hellfire."
These two sections are on page 1 and page 4 so, the very beginning of the book. I thought this was an attention grabber because within the first few paragraphs I was interested. Normally if I am not interested right at the beginning of the book then it either takes me a while to start to like the book or I just never really get into the book. Looking for Alaska in my opinion was a good book from the start.
Entry 3: Looking for Alaska
"The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party. To say I had low expectations would be to underestimate the matter dramatically. Although I was more or less forced to invite all my "school friends," i.e., the ragtag bunch or drama people and English geeks I sat with by social necessity in the cavernous cafeteria of my public school, I knew they wouldn't come."
"My parents 'SUV was parked in the grass just a few feet from my dorm room, Room 43. But each time I took those few steps to and from the car to unload what now seemed like far to much stuff, the sun burned through my clothes and into my skin with a vicious ferocity that made me genuinely fear hellfire."
These two sections are on page 1 and page 4 so, the very beginning of the book. I thought this was an attention grabber because within the first few paragraphs I was interested. Normally if I am not interested right at the beginning of the book then it either takes me a while to start to like the book or I just never really get into the book. Looking for Alaska in my opinion was a good book from the start.
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