There are a lot of things I could say about writing. I’ve been writing almost as long as I’ve been reading, yet before this year I never really thought about what my writing meant to me. I just wrote. In that way it’s similar to [...]
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I’ve always been a big reader; anyone who’s known me for a while (or not even a while) would know that about me. Having to read for class hasn’t exactly made me read more than I used to, only it’s made me pay more attention [...] The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien (310 pages) I like Bilbo. Right from his introduction I think he’s a very well-written character. We see him wanting to be a good, respectable hobbit who “never had [...] The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien (1518 pages) There’s so many characters that it’s hard to talk about just one, but I think out of all of them the very best character [...] I don’t know what I learned from the Names & Faces project. I thought it was a good idea, but I didn’t like how mine turned out, since I didn’t get much of anything interesting to report in my article from the questions we asked. [...] One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez (256 pages read) Honestly, I think this book is the hardest one to respond to that I’ve read this year. So much happens on so few pages, [...] I admit that I’ve spent the last few classes arguing against the love poems, but I don’t hate them. I understand why we read them: to learn about poetic and social conventions. I just don’t agree with what they’re saying (or more specifically what the [...] The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells (103 pages) There are many things in this story that I think are unrealistic, but nonetheless, I still found it to be a very entertaining, well-written story with some [...] Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett (353 pages) Polly is in many ways what I think a great role model is. She initially pretends to be a boy and joins the army only to find her brother, [...] A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett (278 pages) The theme of A Hat Full of Sky is recognizing and appreciating your talents and who you already are, rather than trying to pretend to be [...] |
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