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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Cori Iannaggi, The Secret Life of Bees
Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees. New York: Penguin Books, 2005.
After reading Ellie's review on The Secret Life of Bees, I thought it would be a good novel to add to my reading collection. I agree with the point Ellie makes about how the author does a great job of creating a lot of small plots that all connect to one large plot. My favorite thing about this book would have to be the interaction between the characters. I loved August and Lily's relationship, and I always enjoyed reading about August's overemotional sister May. Although the book is an easy read the author depicts many heavy topics like physical and mental abuse, racism, and suicide. Overall, I think that if anyone is in the mood for a simple read and a terrific story, I would highly recommend The Secret Life of Bees.
After reading Ellie's review on The Secret Life of Bees, I thought it would be a good novel to add to my reading collection. I agree with the point Ellie makes about how the author does a great job of creating a lot of small plots that all connect to one large plot. My favorite thing about this book would have to be the interaction between the characters. I loved August and Lily's relationship, and I always enjoyed reading about August's overemotional sister May. Although the book is an easy read the author depicts many heavy topics like physical and mental abuse, racism, and suicide. Overall, I think that if anyone is in the mood for a simple read and a terrific story, I would highly recommend The Secret Life of Bees.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
S. Melfi - The Last Coyote
Connelly, Michael. The Last Coyote. Grand Central Publishing, 1995.
I read the same book that Jesper Sandsjoe read last quarter, The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly. When I read his review on the book I knew it would be an exciting book that I would really get into.
The book follows a man by the name of Detective Harry Bosch whose life as it seems to be falling apart right in front of him. His house was recently condemned due to earthquake damage, his girlfriend had just left him and he began drinking heavily. On top of all that, he had just put his commanding officer through a glass window and faces an indefinite suspension. While serving his suspension he begins to think of his childhood and how his mother was murdered and no one was ever convicted of the crime. He begins going through old pieces of evidence to try and figure out who killed his mother. I agree with Jesper on the fact that you do get more in touch with Connelly’s personal feelings throughout the novel. It is also a very intense book. The whole time I was reading it was on the edge of my seat. This was a very, very good book and I would highly recommend to anyone that’s into this genre of writing to read it.
I read the same book that Jesper Sandsjoe read last quarter, The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly. When I read his review on the book I knew it would be an exciting book that I would really get into.
The book follows a man by the name of Detective Harry Bosch whose life as it seems to be falling apart right in front of him. His house was recently condemned due to earthquake damage, his girlfriend had just left him and he began drinking heavily. On top of all that, he had just put his commanding officer through a glass window and faces an indefinite suspension. While serving his suspension he begins to think of his childhood and how his mother was murdered and no one was ever convicted of the crime. He begins going through old pieces of evidence to try and figure out who killed his mother. I agree with Jesper on the fact that you do get more in touch with Connelly’s personal feelings throughout the novel. It is also a very intense book. The whole time I was reading it was on the edge of my seat. This was a very, very good book and I would highly recommend to anyone that’s into this genre of writing to read it.
Brendan Gallagher, Raiders Night
Lipsyte, Robert.Raiders Night. New York: HarperTempest, 2006.
Nick DePompei Inspired me to read this book. After I read his blog about this book I knew that this was one for me to read. Anything with me and football goes like peanut butter and jelly. I agree with Nick's review he did a really good job summing up the story and persuading others to read it.
If anyone knows how crazy the city of Massilon is about their high school football this book reminds me a lot of that. I liked how the entire town was crazy about football in this book. Every baby boy that was born in the town is given a football with their teams logo on it from the mayor. This book was very unpredictable. The author did a great job of leading you on that the boys weren't going to get caught taking illegal steroids to enhance their performance, but in the end a lot of senior players got in trouble. All in all I feel like this book didn't have any weaknesses.
Nick DePompei Inspired me to read this book. After I read his blog about this book I knew that this was one for me to read. Anything with me and football goes like peanut butter and jelly. I agree with Nick's review he did a really good job summing up the story and persuading others to read it.
If anyone knows how crazy the city of Massilon is about their high school football this book reminds me a lot of that. I liked how the entire town was crazy about football in this book. Every baby boy that was born in the town is given a football with their teams logo on it from the mayor. This book was very unpredictable. The author did a great job of leading you on that the boys weren't going to get caught taking illegal steroids to enhance their performance, but in the end a lot of senior players got in trouble. All in all I feel like this book didn't have any weaknesses.
Nick DePompei, Beach Road
Nick DePompei
8th Period
Mrs. Brown
18 March 2009
Patterson, James, and Peter De Jonge. Beach Road. London: Headline Book Publishing, 2002.
Dee Brizzolara inspired me to read "Beach Road", and it was as good as he said. He told me that it was going to be a suspenseful, but easy read, and I definitely thought the same thing. I really liked the basketball part of the novel, because I am a big sports fan, so that helped me focus on the reading. Dee did a great job with his blog about the novel, because his assessment was 100% accurate.
I enjoyed most of the book, but the one thing that I did not enjoy was the ending. The outcome of the case was so unpredictable and outrageous that it really let me down. The book was totally believable until the outcome of the courtcase, where NBA prospect Dante Halleyville is acquited of murdering 4 other players. I enjoyed every aspect of the book until the very end, which was very dissapointing
8th Period
Mrs. Brown
18 March 2009
Patterson, James, and Peter De Jonge. Beach Road. London: Headline Book Publishing, 2002.
Dee Brizzolara inspired me to read "Beach Road", and it was as good as he said. He told me that it was going to be a suspenseful, but easy read, and I definitely thought the same thing. I really liked the basketball part of the novel, because I am a big sports fan, so that helped me focus on the reading. Dee did a great job with his blog about the novel, because his assessment was 100% accurate.
I enjoyed most of the book, but the one thing that I did not enjoy was the ending. The outcome of the case was so unpredictable and outrageous that it really let me down. The book was totally believable until the outcome of the courtcase, where NBA prospect Dante Halleyville is acquited of murdering 4 other players. I enjoyed every aspect of the book until the very end, which was very dissapointing
Chris Yanda 3rd quarter, Mrs. Brown 8th peroid
Book: D.A. Stern, The Punisher
Border’s: $6.99
320 pages
I was inspired to read this book by Larry Stevens post about it, so i decided to check it out. His post made the book seem like something i would enjoy and keep me interested rather then get bored and stop reading it mid way threw the book.
I agree for the most part with Larry's review of the book, but there are a few things i disagree on. I agree that the book is more in depth then the movie and that it does fill in some gaps that are sorta skipped over in the movie, like his life before his family was murdered. I did have a little trouble getting into the book at first but maybe that's just me since i have trouble getting into most any book i read.
like Larry said the book is more in depth then the movie and i like that about the book but i also dislike in in some ways because some times i find my self caught up in the details, but this book is fast moving enough to avoid much trouble with that. I also like the imagery used in the book that allowed me add onto characters and scenes I already had an image in my head of because of the movie. It almost makes me wish i had read the book before i saw the movie.
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J Ticer
3/18/09
Mrs. Brown
8th Period
Twilight was a very interesting book. I agree with the review by Jordan. The plot line in the book developed extremely well. I liked the speed of the book as well. The book was definitely geared more towards girls. I would recommend the book to girls. There was a lot of action towards the end of the book, if you can get past all of the romantic parts of the book. It is not your typical scary vampire book. I hope you enjoy the book as well.
3/18/09
Mrs. Brown
8th Period
Twilight was a very interesting book. I agree with the review by Jordan. The plot line in the book developed extremely well. I liked the speed of the book as well. The book was definitely geared more towards girls. I would recommend the book to girls. There was a lot of action towards the end of the book, if you can get past all of the romantic parts of the book. It is not your typical scary vampire book. I hope you enjoy the book as well.
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