Book

Dear diary today I read the first 100 pages of my book they were about, The narrator(death) sets the scene. Liesel, her mother , and her brother are on a train to the Hubermanns house. Along the way her brother dies so they stop the train and bury him, after the burial a book called the grave digger's handbook falls out of the grave diggers pocket and liesel picks it up, when they arrive her new foster mother acts very rudely to her and her foster father treats her nicely. Every night Liesel has…

but also teenagers. In my dusk jacket I wanted to display the racial and stereotypical profiling of minorities. I also wanted to incorporate Chinese culture. Contemplating an idea for book jacket cover was very difficult. I did not know what I wanted my cover to look like. So, I did some research. Looked at book jackets and decided how I wanted mine to be original but still appeal to the same demographic. Advertising and appealing to the audiences sense of pathos, logos and ethos is hard. The…

Going through high school with a little amount of friends is something that will affect your life and high school experience. Something I did to keep myself busy was watching movies, more specifically Harry Potter. I know this essay is about how books changed my life, but it started with a movie. At night time I would find myself engulfed in the world that is Harry Potter. Watching the movies made me feel happy and included in something more than myself. Yet I came to an impasse, I had watched…

rocking chair. Nothing would dare interrupt this seemingly infinite moment, this harmony, this love so pure that it could only come from the very depths of one’s soul. Throughout the The Book Thief, Liesel encounters many unique characters with different ways of expressing affection. Narrated by Death, The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak, is a story about a young German girl named Liesel Meminger, who is given up by her parents to live in the town of Molching…

good book… oh no, not that one. All over the world, books of all varieties are being banned. The ban of books should never happen, because it stops the world from having a variety of material to learn from. Books should not be banned based on a group's beliefs, the ban denies an author freedom of speech, and the laws which prove whether a book is obscene or not are very unclear. Books should not be banned based on a single person or group's religious, moral, or political beliefs. Many books…

their own life, it is beneficial to them to be able to see their favorite characters face the same problems. Some teens enjoy being able to find those answers in books, Patricia McCormick, young adult author of books such as Never Fall Down and Cut, agrees that teens enjoy problem-solving and states “Part of the reason they want to read books about homophobia or trafficking or alcoholism or teen pregnancy or whatever…is because they are curious about finding solutions.”(Is Current). Teenagers…

holding several hundred books in a small electronic tablet. Though many people enjoy using these tablets for reading, there has been a large and vocal percent of readers who refuse to forsake the world of rustling pages and bound covers. I, personally have no issues with this and indeed would prefer Ink and paper to the electronic copy if I had a choice. Because of this stance I find it particularly discouraging when readers are…less than kind about another’s choice of eReader or book. There…

Overall, I really enjoyed the Merritt Tierce reading. Unlike David Trinidad, I felt that her reading the book actually helped add to it in a way that made me enjoy her book for once. It was amazing to have Tierce reading her book to us aloud. She read with what felt like such passion and emotion that I wouldn’t have been upset if she decided to read her entire book to us. I really liked how since she was the author she was able to read it in the way that it is supposed to be read; pausing at…

Without sounding terribly cliché I honestly have to say that this book found me, rather than me finding it. I was having difficult time picking the right book. As I’m sure many of you are aware, a title on a list isn’t really much to go off of. One day I found myself in the library after school reading Catch-22. The book is probably good in its own right, but I might have been crushed under the weight of its 453 pages. Then, Mrs. Maynard the librarian taps me on the shoulder and hands me a…

In my opinion, the book was fair. Though it has an exciting climax and detailed events, the ending was confusing because the book ended in the second year of world war two. I really wanted to know what is going to happen to Sophie and her family because if you know very little about world war two you would want to know when did the Allies free France. In other books, authors tell you about the whole years of world war two with important details. In this book, I think there are some parts that…