Book talk between Sam and Quinn

Sam read Lebron James: Rise of a Star.

Quinn Read the Da Vinci Code.

Quinn: Sam, how did you like your book and what was it about?

Sam: My book was about Lebron James and his friends in high school. It is the sequence of events of how he got to be the number one pick in the NBA draft.

Quinn: Very interesting, sounds like a good read!

Sam: What was your book about?

Quinn: My book is about the death of Jacques Saunière, and how he leaves a trail of clues to try and find the mysteries behind who killed him and the secret to the holy grail.

Sam: Very cool!

Quinn: What are your favorite aspects of reading this book?

Sam: My favorite part of reading this book are the amazing statistics of his game averages as well as others. What was your favorite part of reading this book?

Quinn: I liked how the book kept my attention and was a real page-turner. The mystery of finding out what will happen next really kept my attention.

Sam: Wow, I should read this book, it seems excellent!

Quinn: Seems like both of our books are pretty different, since yours is non fiction book with statics and mine is a historical fiction book with mysteries.

Sam: Also, you still haven’t finished your book and I finished mine in about three days since I loved it so much.

Quinn: That’s amazing, three days?

Sam: Yeah, it was a really good book.

Quinn: I think that in a way our reading experiences were similar.

Sam: How so?

Quinn: First off, we both love our books and can’t stop reading them.

Sam: Good point there! I also think that both books were written very well.

Quinn: That’s true.

Sam: Is there anything about your book that surprised you?

Quinn: I think there are things that surprise me all the time in my book since it is a mystery.

Sam: That’s very interesting, but I meant in reading the book.

Quinn: Oh! Well at first I thought the book was very long and would drag out, but now I can’t stop reading it!

Sam: Awesome! I felt that the statistics in my book surprised me as well as where all of Lebron’s high school friends ended up.

Quinn: I looked at some of those statistics and their outrageous!

Sam: I agree.

Quinn: I think that’s all!

Sam: It was great working with you, and I will definitely get The Da Vinci Code!

Quinn: and I will definitely get Lebron James: Rise of a Star. See ya!

Sam: Bye!

Kelsey, Nandita, Joanna book talk

Kelsey: Hi girls, lets talk about ours books.. What are your books about?

Nandita: My book is about a group of kids who contract a virus and gain supernatural powers. They help save their school and the research institution campus they live on.

Joanna: My book is about the brain and how it reacts to different emotions. Also how we can change emotions so quickly.

Kelsey: Sounds great, my book is a story about a 17 year old girl who is spending the summer with her father, along with her little brother, and their journey when she meets a boy she falls for and her relationship with her father grows throughout the story. What do you like most about your books?

Nandita: It is full of action and very intriguing.

Joanna: Its interesting to learn knew things.

Kelsey: I love how much I am into the book and I can relate to it in many instances. A major difference I see among the three books is that they are all very different due to the type of book that they are and themes. This causes us to each get a different reading experience, where Nandita gets more of an adventure, and action, Joanna and I are able to have more of a heart felt, and emotional experience.

Joanna: I agree, however I do think that our books, The Last Song and The Emotional Brain, can relate in similarities because there are a lot of explanations as to why Ronnie, the main character, is emotional like she is and why she feels the way she does sometimes. It also relates because

Nandita: Has anything surprised you while reading your books?

Kelsey: Not much was significantly surprising, but there are exciting events that are unexpected and enjoyable to read about.

Joanna: I have learned a lot, my book is fun, I get to learn about the emotions in your brain and why certain things make you feel the way that you do.

Kelsey: This all sounds great, what a lucky thing it is for us that we all ended up with books we enjoy! Maybe we will get a chance to read each others books later on.

Blogging Dialogue

Spencer: My book is about the experiences of John Irving in his childhood with his fried Owen Meany who has laryngitis.

Max: My book is about Mikael Bloomkivist and Lisbeth Salander. The book has two main characters each with completely different stories. Bloomkivist is a journalist who has accepted a job to discovered the mystery of a murder and Lisbeth is doing research on a man named Wennerstrom."

Spencer: "One of my favorite aspects is that in the first chapter you know that Owen Meany, this little innocent kid, is going to kill John Irvings mom. You can see it coming but every other time you see him your like oh my! he's going to kill someone. It then changes your perspective of everyone else's characters. Also the humour that the book implies."

Max: My favorite aspect of the book is its mysteriousness. For example when you find out that Lisbeth was a degenerate in high school, like she dropped out, she did drugs, she raved, but she's a genius. Also when you learn of Mikaels love triangle you begin to learn about some of the oddities of the book.

Spencer: "well your book is about a financial murder and my book is a story about kids fooling around, peeing themselves, and having weird experiences. So clearly they are similar."

Max: The major similarities between our books is that we both find them interesting. ALso a major theme shared between our books is that we both have weird people in them.

Spencer: "the biggest surprise i found was that Owen is very serious and hes a tiny little man with laryngitis so it is just interesting to see."

Max: "MY biggest surprise was that.... Well i dont really have a surprise the book is mysterious in it of its self so theirs nothing really that could surprise me."

Sheena and Lizzy's Witty Banter About Books

What are both of your books about?

Lizzy; Most people know what my book is about because I’m reading Harry Potter. But, it’s a book about a young boy who goes to a school for wizards and he goes through a lot of situations that he tells about in the book.

Sheena: Well my book is on the serious side, it is about a private investigator that faces the challenge of finding a girl who has been kidnapped for the second time in her life.

What are your favorite aspects of reading this book?

Lizzy; my favorite part about reading this book is how easy of a read it is and how much I am enjoying flipping through the pages quickly.

Sheena: My least favorite part about reading the book would be the swear words; however, I do enjoy the mysterious side of the book.

What major DIFFFERENCE can you identify between your reading experience and your partner’s reading experience?

Lizzy; The big difference is that I find my book easy to read, however, Sheena finds it a little harder considering they curse all the time in her book and she doesn’t approve of cursing.

Sheena: Yes, I do not like the bad words.

What major SIMILARITY can you identify between your reading experience and your partner’s reading experience?

Lizzy; I find that we both enjoy reading our books, but, mine is better.

Sheena: I agree with Lizzy. Her book is a lot more interesting than mine

What has surprised you about reading this book?

Sheena; I am beginning to enjoy the book, and now that the mystery is being brought up, the excitement begins.

Lizzy; I LOVE MY BOOK. I can’t stop reading it and I’m so surprised that I’m already finishing the second book. I can’t wait to keep going and keep reading the books and I’ve become a Harry Potter nerd!

Packing For Mars and Night

Brendan: Sup?

Gina: Hey

Brendan: What are you doing?

Gina: Reading

Brendan: What Book?

Gina: Night by Elie Wiesel.

Brendan: Radical. What's it about?

Gina: It's a historical fiction story about the Holocaust.

Brendan: ooooh.

Gina: What's your book about?

Brendan: It's about what happens when you do weird things in space. It’s called Packing for Mars.

Gina: Ohh like what?

Brendan: Like...do you know what happens when you throw up in space?

Gina: No, what?

Brendan: It would float around like any other matter. The problem is, since it isn't completely leaving your mouth, you could inhale some throw up, which could lead to pneumonia.

Gina: Ew!!

Brendan: Yeh...............

Gina: How are you enjoying the read?!

Brendan: It’s hard to find time, but once I start I can’t stop flipping the pages. I feel like I’m in the story when she writes.

Gina: Me too! Sometimes I have to force myself to read, but once I get into the story again, it’s hard to put the book down. Also, I like how it is based on history but it did not actually happen to one person.

Brendan: My book isn’t like that; my book is full of fun, random facts. It is also in the first person point of view.

Gina: Really? Mine is in the first point of view too.

Brendan: Was there anything that surprised you in this book?

Gina: I never knew how terrible the camps in the Holocaust were. It is very sad. Is there anything that surprised you in your book?

Brendan: Yes. There were a lot of really weird facts that are pretty much are the only thing that keep me interested.

Gina: Sweet. What do you wanna do now?

Brendan: Let’s play some Chutes and Ladders.

A Prayer for Owen Meany

I am a former reader. I used to enjoy reading books greatly but now with all the pressures of high school, I have simply not had the time to “indulge” myself. For example there is a series of books called The Secrets of The Immortal Nicholas Flammel that I really enjoy. I simply could not put these books down once I start reading. But then I had to balance work in and out of school along side sports and I felt that reading would have to come later. Over the summer though I did get a chance to hear the newest edition to the series over e-book during my summer job and was completely engrossed in the world of the novel.

Just one more chapter and I’ll help you… drama queen

When I had to make a choice of reading, I immediately thought of finding a short book with little to no symbolism. I don’t like thinking of things metaphorically so I don’t like it when I have to think that the “red curtains symbolize his internal struggle with his childhood”.

Surprise! It’s not a symbol for Racism!

But then I was directed towards A Prayer for Owen Meany, and at first I was skeptical. Maybe it was the size of the book; maybe it was the old, worn out spine that suggested it had been sitting on the shelf for a while. Maybe it was the fact that when I opened it the words were infinitely smaller than anything I had seen before.

This seems like an easy read.

But as I started reading it I was hooked on the interesting story and relatable characters. Owen Meany is in fact, not the narrator, but rather a friend of the narrator. Owen is a very small child and has laryngitis and must therefore yell through his nose to speak. How this is accomplished I still have no idea, but the idea still intrigues me. The narrator tells the story of the narrators family and how they are the founding family and how the grandmother is extremely opinionated and therefore hates the Meany family for being “union men” and working at a quarry. The book shows the dynamic of old blood having to mix with the new families and how tradition enforces everyday decisions. This book takes lots of interesting twists and throws in some humor along the way. I highly recommend this so far.

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http://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/books/prayerforowen.asp
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Packing for Mars

I am a former reader. Before we got assigned books to read in school, we were able to pick our own books, and do things like this. I am a very picky reader and it usually takes me a while to find a book that I actually want to read.

For the person choice reading project, I picked the book Packing for Mars by Mary Roach. I made my decision to read this book when Ms. Maza said that the book was full of gross and exciting facts that someone may be curious about. When I first started reading the book, there was nothing like what Ms. Maza said. The woman who wrote the book, Mary Roach, is on in Japan to learn more about Astronauts ways. She starts off the book in the first chapter by talking about the proper slipper etiquette in Japan, and how it is confusing to flush a toilet because there are so many levers in a stall in the bathroom. She tells the reader what life is like in Japan, and really not very many facts about Space travel itself. But as the first chapter ends, she asks a very interesting question, which goes along the lines of, “would a human be able to fly all the way to mars? Would they be able to last the very long time in a very condensed space without personal crawled up in a ball, unable to join the natural pleasures of life, and looking out of the window only to see void nothingness and maybe some orange dirt, all without personal hygiene.” And that made me ask myself if there was anyone even willing to do this, and if they would be able to survive. It made me want to flip the pages and read more about how and why they would do something like this. The book is not very challenging, and I like the way it is formatted because usually when I see a page full of so00oo0o0oooo many words, I push my way through the page only to find another page full of words. But for this book, Packing for Mars, there is a picture before every chapter to get a visual in your head of what is to come and to keep you entertained, and it doesn’t feel like I’m reading the whole bible when I’m making my way through a page. The best part of this book is that there are no dull parts of it. It always is intense, and keeps asking you questions to keep you involved in the reading. It is overall a very fun read and I recommend it to people who want to know more about space and astronomy or just want to know random facts.

The Emotional Brain

My reading identity is a voracious reader, I tend to read books a lot and put them over homework and other important things. Last year within the time we were supposed to read Pride and Prejudice I went through 3 different books instead of even reading the school book. The book Im reading now is called The Emotional Brain by Joseph LeDoux. My first encounter with reading this book I was actually at high school swim practice, so my coach never makes me swim since I do club but I always have to be there so I decided I was just gonna read this book to pass the time. It was extremely loud obviously because there was a whole team swimming in the pool, but when I started reading the book all the noises stopped and I was so into the book that after reading for an hour, it felt like it was only 5 minutes. I’m really looking forward to reading the rest of this book because it’s talking about how our brain can change emotions in a split second and how we can feel certain ways. I’m not sure how to say this in a non-nerdy way but the brain and how it can even possibly do everything it does is probably the coolest thing I have ever even thought about it. The best part about reading this book is knowing that everything your reading about is actually happening inside your head right now. The way that the left side of your brain only controls the right side of your body and the right side of your brain only controls the left side of your body is actually happening in your body as your reading this post. Learning about how something so little in your head is actually controlling every little thing you do is probably the best part of reading this book.

Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane

I would describe myself as a former reader. Previously, I was a voracious reader; I would read all the time and have completed multiple books in a week. Since I have started high school the free time that I had previously spent reading has been replaced by homework. Personally, I would love to read more if I had free time.The book begins with an unknown man following a teenager and he also mentions how he has bugged the young mans house. He then narrates the teenager’s life and uncovers his hidden tragic past. With three DUI’s and the last one causing his girlfriend to become a vegetable in the hospital the teenager life has not been the easiest. The unknown man then meets with the teenager to inform him that he was hired by his parents to ensure that he will not commit any more reckless act that will cause him jail time. And by him appearing to this unknown valley his parents worst fears have become true.I chose this book because the story line intrigued me. The fact that this girl has been previously kidnapped and she is gone missing for the second time really grabbed my attention. I also enjoy books that center themselves on solving crime. My first encounter with the book has been pleasing. I have thoroughly enjoyed the story line, and I cannot wait to read it further. Also, I am curious how this storyline with the teenager will play into the crime mystery. Further in the book, I am looking forward to reading about how this girl has been kidnapped for the second time.

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