I chose to read the book Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. I’m at the midpoint of the book and so far it is struggle to stop reading chapter after chapter. Why? This is because the main characters, Cath, Levi and Reagan can constantly draw me in with the action they bring to the novel. For example, it is fascinating to see Cath’s perspective as a fanfiction writer for Simon Snow and how she continues her everyday life as a freshman in college. Another example would be Levi and Reagan’s complicated relationship. Are they dating or are they not? The most engrossing part of the book for me so far was the way Wren and Cath went their separate ways. You would think twin sisters would never want to leave each other 's side, that wasn’t really the case. Wren …show more content…
I relate most to Cath. I feel like I can relate to Cath the most because she is shy at first, but she learns to come out to people in a positive way. I feel I am very shy at first, but when I get to know people I’m very lively and happy. I can also relate because Cath and I are not the most outgoing people - we both don’t do sports and we both would rather stay home than go out. Lastly, we both have a twin sister! This book reminds me of The Summer I Became a Nerd by Leah Rae Miller. This book reminds of another thrilling young-adult novel not only by the style of writing but the plot. The Summer I Became a Nerd is about a teenage girl who everyone thinks is a popular, perky cheerleader. In reality, she spends time fangirling over her favorite comic book series. This relates to Fangirl because it is yet another book about a confused-stereotyped girl who everyone believes is someone who they really are not. I predict that Levi and Cath will begin to accept their differences and be an actual couple. I think this because although they are very different (Cath is considered a “nobody” while Levi is extremely popular), they are alike at the same time, personality
Crushes. Cancer. Death Crushes. Cancer. Death.
Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger, follows the Permian Panthers, a successful high school football team in Texas, while they do everything in their power to win the state championship. Near the beginning of the book, we learn about the star running back on the Panthers, Boobie Miles, and how he has college coaches all over the state who are offering him scholarships to come and play for them. Unfortunately for both Boobie and Permian, Miles injures his knee before the season even starts which forces the team to fall back on the second string running back. Boobie’s knee injury was not the only thing that bothered him, he deals with a lot of racial discrimination also. “The black population in Odessa was quite small- about 5 percent” (102).
Have you ever thought of yourself as a person who has the guts to do anything, but in reality when it comes time to actually do something you back out of it? In the book Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand Louis “Louie” Zamperini had partaken in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Not long after Louie had competed in the games he had continued on his path to success to join the U.S. Air Forces in 1940, right around when World War II had begun. When Louie and his fellow crew members were flying over the Pacific Ocean in their B-24D Army Air Forces bomber one day in May of 1943, they had crashed into the ocean due to two engine failures. After crashing into the Pacific there were only three survivors; Louie, pilot Lieutenant Russell Allen
Lev was going to join them, but he changed his mind last minute and decided to save Connor. Connor is taken to a hospital, where he unwilling gets a new eye from an unwind and a new arm, but the arm used to belong to Roland. Connor and Risa meet back up at the hospital and Connor is given a fake ID to keep from getting unwound. Risa cannot be unwound because she had become paralyzed from the waist down, and disabled people cannot be unwound. Lev can’t be unwound because of the explosives in his blood, which is slowly being removed from his bloodstream.
This book was interesting for me because it allowed me to relate to a character. I love reading novels that not only allow me to feel a connection with a character, but allow me to relate to their personality or
Louie Zamperini went through more pain and suffering than most people will ever endure in their entire life. In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louis Zamperini was an Olympic runner. He was drafted during World War II . During the war, his plane crashed in the middle of the ocean and he was stranded with little resources to survive. This book follows his incredible story battling starvation and abuse in Prisoner of War camps (POW).
“You’re never alone when you’re reading a book,” was once said by Susan Wiggs.(Goodreads) It’s amazing how you can be able to feel like you are actually inside the novel you’re reading. While reading the book “Ultraviolet” by R.J. Anderson, it felt as if time had briefly paused and I was a character inside of this novel. This book instantly pulled me in. I felt as if I could be in the main character’s position.
My freshman year continued with much confusion. The only reading that I was doing then was just reading Fanfiction, but those stories are just written by kids like me, with the same english skills as me. I found it extremely entertaining, but nothing about it was making me a better reader. I just needed to read more books that would challenge me. Reading is not my favorite activity.
Why is femslash the smallest genre in the world of fanfiction? Why is femslash the most underrepresented relationship type by a sizeable margin? More importantly, why is it that almost all femslash writers are queer women? Male slash pairings are written by straight women, queer women, and even some men (I say “even” because men are rarer than a two dollar bill in the world of fanfiction) and they’re read by a mostly female audience. Femslash has a completely different ideology, because it’s almost exclusively written and consumed by the community it portrays.
So I decided to take her to a Barnes & Nobble to look at some books, and we choose to read Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life (Dork Diaries Series #1), written by Rachel Renee Russell. Sandra and I started our reading sessions at her house every
Like when Janina and Misha were hiding from the Jackboots, I never wanted to stop reading so I could find out what happened. Overall, this book was great and it taught me alot about what people were feeling throughout this horrible
In Neal Shusterman's Unwind, unwinding a child is almost thought of as normal. Unwinding a child is taking the body parts off of a unwanted, troubled, or dead teenagers body and transplanting them to somebody that needs the body parts. The individuals that receive the body parts are known as the " unwinds. " People believe that unwinding a child is not murder because the transplanted body parts live on in the unwinds life. Unwinding children first started right after the Heartland War.
As the story progresses more and more relationships
Edward Martin Period 2 24 March 2017 AP Psychology Mr.Franklin “There’s a Boy in Here” AP Psychology Book Report “Autism doesn’t come with a manual. It comes with a parent who doesn’t give up.” In the book, “There’s a Boy in Here” by Judy and Sean Barron, Sean is diagnosed with autism(a mental condition portrayed by trouble in conveying and framing associations with other individuals and in utilizing dialect and conceptual ideas) and his mother, Judy Barron, has helped her son overcome the obstacles that have he had to go through his whole entire life. Sean was born in 1960.
Being a Fan Staring on pictures, late sleep at night, daydreaming. These are just some of the things a fan girl does but what really makes a person a "fan"? If we look inside a dictionary, According to Merriam Webster’s Dictionary, A fan is a person who is enthusiastically devoted to something or somebody, such as a band, a sports team, a genre, a book or an entertainer but if you ask me what makes a person a fan is. When you first saw that one and only guy that makes your heart beat fast without even a word it’s make me nuts. Yes.