...Racing down the hallway with a plastic sword in my hand and a cover hanging off of my back I shouted “All for one, and one for all!”, a motto used by the adventurous antagonist trio in my favorite book of all time, The Three Musketeers. As a child, I've always enjoyed reading classical books such as, Huckberry fin and Swiss family Robison. However, none of these classics seemed to top The Three Musketeers. I fell for the story and the writing in a big way. This book is just full of adventure which was perfect for an imaginative kid like me. The amount of adventure and thrill this book provided really blew my mind. I wasn't much of a reader as a kid, finisihing about half the books I started, but this book caught my eyes. I dare you to take the time to read this outstanding book if you haven't already had the privilege, from the moment that you begin reading the first page you will be propelled into a world of action, quests, love, and brotherhood. In the beginning of the story D'Artagnan is introduced to the three musketeers when he incidentally insulting all of them. They each challenge him to a duel because of this, but while he is dueling with one of the musketeers, the cardinal's guards threatens to arrest them because there is a law in which says there is no dueling. D'Artagnan and the musketeers then join forces and drive the guards away. D’Artagnan then becomes friends with the other two musketeers. I always found this a interesting way to start off the story because...
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...“The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.” –Beatrice ‘Tris’ Prior Reading dystopian novels always keeps me on the edge of my seat. The idea of a declining society led by an oppressive government can be devastating, but the way it is depicted in young adult books of today makes the topic quite stimulating and intriguing. For some odd reason, instead of straying from such stories, I become emotionally attached to them. Veronica Roth, through the Divergent series, did that same kind of magic to me. I do not know how it happened. It just HAPPENED. The Divergent series follows the story of Beatrice ‘Tris’ Prior as she struggles to make difficult choices about love, family, and sacrifice. The faction-based world she lives in turns out to be a lot different from what she has always known and she is determined to unravel the intricacies of life and fully embrace her Divergence. I may be alone in this, but Allegiant, the third and final book of the trilogy, is my favorite of the pack. It is filled with a lot of thrilling twists, unexpected revelations, and meaningful lessons that got me holding my breath up to the last page. In the first two books, I have seen a lot of Tris’ hasty and self-destructive decisions which caused her so much trouble (Like when she took it upon herself...
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...My Career as a Reader Throughout my career as a reader, I have read many books from when I was a kid to the present. I have read many different types of books including children’s books, comic books, drama books, adventure books, autobiographies, fiction and nonfiction. In my career as a reader, my reading experiences as a child, my favorite book as a child and the books I read in grade 9 have influenced my reading career. My reading experiences as a child are one of the three things that have influenced my reading career. When I was very little and had a hard time reading, before I would go to bed my mom or dad would read me a story. The books were about 15 pages long and were an adventure story. My mom and dad read books to be almost every day of the week and sometimes on the weekends. When I was able to read all by myself I got a library card so I could sign out books that I wanted to read by myself. I usually signed out either sports books or adventure books. These books were usually fiction. At school there were times where we could read, so I read a lot at school. My favorite book as a child is the second thing that has impacted my reading career. As a child I would read a lot of different kinds of books, but one of my favorite book series as a child was the books Brady Brady. When I was growing up as a kid I loved to play hockey. I loved the book Brady Brady because it was about hockey and as a kid that’s all I thought about. I also liked many other sports books...
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...During my free time I have mian hobbies I enjoy doing. I may not be the only person that enjoys these things because they are very common.These may seem like ordinary or even boring to other people but, I love reading, drawing, and developing my relationship with God. I love reading because I can go on adventures I never dreamed of before.My favorite types of books to read are mystery books because they keep me intrigued.Two of my favorite authors are Carolyn Keen, and Donald Bain. Carolyn Keene wrote the Nancy Drew book series, and this was the set of books that got me interested in reading mystery books.Donald Bain is one of my other favorite mystery writers. He wrote the Murder She Wrote series. There's also a tv show about the Murder She Wrote book series. There are some other people I like too such as R.L Stine with the Goosebumps series. No matter who writes the book or what type it is I would...
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...Read whole book Speak- Lauren Halse Anderson - Read 28 pages Vampire Academy (#1)- Richelle Mead – Read 39 pages Charlotte’s Web- E.B White- Read whole book 2. I choose this order because the easiest book I read was Charlotte’s Web so that goes at the bottom. The hardiest one goes at the top. This was in my opinion of how hard the books I read were. 3. My favorite book was The Host. This was my favorite because it was very interesting and I didn’t know what the author’s next move was going to be. This book made me keep flipping pages and reading. My second favorite book was Vampire Academy. I love books with mystery and romance. This book was exactly that. Also I’m in love with movies or books with vampires! 4. 878/10 = 87.8 pages per week I noticed that I read better at home than school. This is because I’m less distracted. B.) Personally I love reading. Especially when it’s something I’m interested in or about someone I look up too. I love reading romance books. I also like mystery because it’s just very interesting to me and you never know what’s going to happen next. I enjoyed reading in class because it gave us time to relax and not write as much. I learned about myself that I read better when I’m comfortable under my blanket at home than a hard chair at school. I could suggest that you should let the students read outside more because that was fun! C. 1. Yes, I meet my trimester personal goals. I finished two books and started two. My trimester...
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...What is your favorite time of year? Why? My favorite time of the year is naturally the time when I have the most fun. To me, that time of the year falls during the December holidays, or rather, it starts during the last term of school. It may sound strange of me to include the period of examinations. But I like the way teachers leave us, students, by ourselves to do our own revision. There is hardly any homework to be done but there is a lot of studying to take up our time. Finally, when the examinations are over, we can all heave a joyful sigh of relief and look forward to the seemingly eternal holidays stretching out before us. Just before school breaks up for the holidays, there are a host of post-examination activities, among which is mass dancing in the school hall. This is something I enjoy very much as I get to dance to the newest pop music with all my friends. The opportunity to “break-free” from serious activities of school and to sing and dance there is a truly welcome event. The last day of school comes and goes and the holidays start. The first thing I do is to go to the library and borrow as many books as possible to fill my holidays. I simply love reading book after book without having to worry about putting aside time for schoolwork. I make it a habit to read books of a particular author each holiday. Within the second week of the holidays my birthday arrives, I enjoy helping my mother prepare my favorite food for my birthday. I do not have big birthday...
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...I have to admit that I am not as prolific of a reader as I used to be. My current reading mainly consists of reading news and science articles from the internet, and occasional bed time stories with my son. I enjoy reading news rather than watch or listen to news, mainly because it allows me to gather and analyze information from various sources without the filter or the bias of television or radio networks news anchors. In addition to news and various articles I prefer to read short stories. My fascination with short stories began at around age 12 or 13. At the time, since access to television in Iran was very limited. We had to entertain ourselves and being a mischievous child I spent a lot of time in my room (being punished) either listening to radio or reading. My favorite books at the time were horror books. I remember buying these paperback books and reading them cover to cover in two or three days and be scared out of my wits for a few days. I recall at the end of some of these books were teasers about the next story that was due to arrive next. However, at the end of one of the books there was a short story by Edgar Allan Poe titled “The Cask of Amontillado”, I read that story several times and every time I found something new that I Had missed previously. That was the reason I got interested in short stories. My fascination with short stories always have been with a given writers ability to develop main characters, , story plot, and a that in novels might take chapters...
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...novel “The Kite Runner” is a fantastic book written by Khaled Hosseini and published in May of 2003. The book takes the genres of Bildungsroman, and redemption, and the main character speaks in a first person view. The book was written in Los Angeles, and the publisher was Riverhead Books. The narrator is Amir (the main character) and started telling his story 4 days after many decades of his eventful life events. The plot of the story takes place in 1975 and continues to 2001, first the place of the setting is in Afghanistan but transitions to the United States then to Afghanistan then back. The novel has a relatively small group of characters that remain significant to the story. The Protagonist is Amir, a full blood afghan that has a wealthy family and lives in a large house up in the hills of Kabul. His father, Baba is very known and popular because of his good deeds and donations to the city that they live. His father also has servants that look after the house and cook for Amir and Baba, Rhyam Kahn was the oldest...
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...Clifford the Big Red Dog written and illustrated by Norman Bridwell is my favorite childhood book. This was my favorite childhood book because when I was four years old I got a new puppy and she was very small, but it did not take long before what I thought what was huge. She was the biggest dog on my road like Clifford was the biggest dog on Birdwell Island. My dog’s name was Lucky and she could do tricks, fetch, and scare off the bad guys, just like Clifford. She would chew shoes, chase animals, and dig up flowers. I would keep Lucky over any dog, just like Emily Elizabeth would keep Clifford. The illustrations in Clifford the Big Red Dog caught my attention as a child because the pictures were very bright and happy. I enjoyed how Norman...
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...When I look back to my journey throughout AP Lit, it’s hard to believe it has been a whole year already. At the same time, I can’t believe it has only been a year. This class has made my days brighter and has been a great way to start the morning second semester. My favorite choice book to analyze was The Handmaid’s Tale. I think it might have to do with the fact that we did the journal project with it, so I had to go more into depth than normal when writing about it. I actually ended up recommending it to my sister to use for her final project in English. The not so distant future described in this book absolutely fascinated me. I’ve always been a fan of dystopian/utopian societies, so when I heard about the concept of this book I...
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...In The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, my favorite story was the story within Chapter 5 (The Elevator in the Ranch House). In this story, when Pausch was an adolescent, he asked his parents if he could paint his bedroom walls, and they agreed to let him do so. Even though his mother was reluctant into agreeing, she decided to because Pausch’s father loved the creative idea. Pausch decided to decorate his walls with items that matter to him. For two days, with the help of Pausch’s sister (Tammy) and his friend (Jack Sheriff, they painted most of the room. For example, he painted it with the quadratic formula and a large, silver elevator door. They painted a panel with floor numbers one through six, and the number “three” was illuminated. In addition, they drew a simple rocket ship, chess pieces, a submarine, and Pandora’s box (Greek mythology). Since it was the late 1970s, Pausch also wrote the words “Disco sucks,” but his mother painted over the word “sucks” because she thought it was vulgar language. Friends and family who came by the room were often impressed by the creative paintings. As the years passed, his mother never painted over the room, and it was always a treat when Pausch would come to visit his childhood. He was able to sleep in the same bunk bed his father...
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...have a great deal to learn. In my opinion writing fiction is one of my strengths, for example, I quite enjoy writing short stories in my free time just for fun. I often share them with one of some of my friends. Although they are not the best stories, writing them is one of the few tasks that I can do for hours without getting bored. I also enjoy writing argumentative essays, finding evidence that supports my claim is interesting to me as well as finding a counter claim. My favorite part is finding the evidence I need to prove the opposing side wrong. Just as I possess writing strengths I also feel like I have some weaknesses. I believe my weakness is writing essays on topics with no background knowledge or information. I like to know what I'm writing about. When I write essays I like making a bubble map or just simply writing down ideas on a piece of paper. This helps me so when I'm typing I actually have an idea of what I'm going to write down. Most of the time I dislike reading books due...
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...dystopian futuristic fiction book, it is the second book in the series. This book is about a girl, Sloane, and her boyfriend, James, who have escaped and are hiding from this hospital called The Program which treats people who are suffering from depression. This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith is a realistic fiction book about this girl, Ellie, who falls in love with this famous actor after he emails her accidently. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han is a realistic fiction book about a girl, Isabel, who every summer visits her mother’s best friends beach house, her mother’s best friend has two sons who both like Isabel, but she doesn’t know that and you see their journey together over the summer. Everyday by David Levithan is a fiction book about a spirit who wakes up every morning in a different body and has to go throughout each day as a different person. Jerk, California by John Friesen is realistic fiction about this boy, Sam, who is a senior in high school struggling tourette’s syndrome. Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews is realistic fiction book, about this boy, Greg, who’s friend is diagnosed with cancer....
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...and nonfiction books but I didn’t like historical stories, research, or long books. I’ve never a finished a book until high school because I never found a book I liked considering I never tried since I didn’t have an interest in reading. Although, now I can say I like to read if I find the right book when i use to say that i hated reading. The youngest I remember writing was in 6th grade when I would write letters to my dad. I wrote letters to my dad after my parents got divorced since I didn’t get to see my dad from it. My letters would be about how much I missed him, how school was going, and how things were different. I wrote...
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...The book starts off with Ender getting his monitor off. A monitor is something that they but on the back of these peoples necks to see if they are a good candidate to be a general to fight the buggers. The buggers are aliens. Well, since he is not monitored anymore people who have always wanted to fight him can now fight them. He ends up winning all of the fights and he goes home. As it turns out taking off his monitor was a test to see how he would handle people that fight him. A general then explains that he want to send Ender to battle school so he can learn how to fight in space. Ender decides to go. When he gets there he finds out that it is very tough. He ends up killing 2 kids and breaking count less numbers of bones in the 4 years that he is there. While he is there he plays a virtual reality game. When he beats the game the computer makes up a place called the end of the world. There are some very disturbing things here. Eventually Ender graduates battle school (2 years earlier that anybody has ever graduated, he's a genius.) He then goes to command school were he learns how to control fleets of star ships. They put him in a simulator and he is given many missions to fly. Then one day his inspectors say that today is his final mission before they grade him. He up agents a whole planet and a vast number of ships. He ends up winning by using a secret weapon on the planet that blows it up. When he finishes the battle he realizes that everyone is cheering behind...
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