For many students, and adults, reading is something you either love or hate. The difference between loving and hating for some is knowing how to pick out a book to read that you can enjoy. The majority of people you ask say they don't like reading because they just can't get into or interested in the book. Here are a few steps that may help with picking out your next book to read:
1. Find your level of difficulty for your reading. Many people read try reading books that are too advanced for them and cannot understand, or reading books that are too easy and do not challenge them at all by reading.
2. Pick a genre you enjoy reading. For example, if you've never been interested in reading mysteries it wouldn't be a good idea to pick up a mystery book and expect to enjoy it very much. This isn't to say you should stick to only one genre.
3. Choose an author. When choosing an author, find one who writes about stories you're interested in. If the genre you choose is mystery, but you don't enjoy scary mysteries, don't pick an author who only writes mysteries that are scary.
4. Select the book! Find a book by the author you chose, the genre you chose, the difficulty you chose, and about a topic you're interested in.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Thirteen Reasons Why
Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why affected me greatly with its tragedy of a teenage girl.
This book reminds people to think before they speak and to think carefully about what they're going to say to someone and how much it will affect them. Throughout this book one girl, Hannah, is affected more than expected from small comments and incidents that happen to her within a few years. Some of the people involved would never believe that little remark they said would lead her to commit suicide.
Asher does a wonderful job relating this fictional high school student, Hannah, to many student in today's high school world. Also, many of the other characters, one being Clay, are very similar. Clay is an average high school student who still has a crush on the new girl, Hannah. He doesn't realize that their talk at one party, a party neither of them planned on being at, could save her life.
Although this book does not relate to me on a personal level, it could relate to some teenagers who have considered suicide or "bully" others at school often. It only took thirteen incidents to cause one teenage girl to commit suicide, and these events are revealed to the thirteen people through tapes she left on one person's doorstep the night before.
This book is strongly recommended for junior high and high school students and even teachers. It reminds you how to treat others in your everyday life.
288 pages
This book reminds people to think before they speak and to think carefully about what they're going to say to someone and how much it will affect them. Throughout this book one girl, Hannah, is affected more than expected from small comments and incidents that happen to her within a few years. Some of the people involved would never believe that little remark they said would lead her to commit suicide.
Asher does a wonderful job relating this fictional high school student, Hannah, to many student in today's high school world. Also, many of the other characters, one being Clay, are very similar. Clay is an average high school student who still has a crush on the new girl, Hannah. He doesn't realize that their talk at one party, a party neither of them planned on being at, could save her life.
Although this book does not relate to me on a personal level, it could relate to some teenagers who have considered suicide or "bully" others at school often. It only took thirteen incidents to cause one teenage girl to commit suicide, and these events are revealed to the thirteen people through tapes she left on one person's doorstep the night before.
This book is strongly recommended for junior high and high school students and even teachers. It reminds you how to treat others in your everyday life.
288 pages
Monday, October 5, 2009
The Invisible Man
Have you ever wished you could just turn invisible for one day? What about for the rest of your life? In this book, one doctor wishes to be invisible. One thing he does not think of it how others will treat him, or if they'll treat him anyway at all. He comes up with a disguise where no part of his skin, his invisible skin, shows. He wraps himself up front head to toe.
He begins considering all the things he could do unseen. One night, he takes off all of his clothes so no one can see him. The Invisible Man begins getting angry with the world because no one will help him, and no one will believe there could really be an invisible man. This anger builds up in the Invisible Man, and he begins venting out his anger by harming others. Now, the Invisible Man must find someone to help him get the cure, and the town must find a way to catch the Invisible Man before more murders are committed.
He begins considering all the things he could do unseen. One night, he takes off all of his clothes so no one can see him. The Invisible Man begins getting angry with the world because no one will help him, and no one will believe there could really be an invisible man. This anger builds up in the Invisible Man, and he begins venting out his anger by harming others. Now, the Invisible Man must find someone to help him get the cure, and the town must find a way to catch the Invisible Man before more murders are committed.
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