REflection...

REflection...

This semester I definitely challenged myself with my reading choices this year. I read books where you'd probably have to reread a page multiple times to understand what happened. Like my new book, Infinite Jest  by David Foster Wallace which contains 980 pages. It's a book set in the future North America and is about a tennis prodigy trying to get into a prestigious college. But since he lacks the academic ability he might not be able to get in. That's literally what I was able to get out of the first 11 pages. It's almost like reading Romeo and Juliet except slightly worse because you almost underestimate it when you first pick it up but when you open it, it almost looks like a textbook. "Ok, that's a lot of words," you think," But it must be easy language. No, It's extremely complex but I'm able to fight through it. Romeo and Juliet was hard at first but you were able to catch on eventually and from there it's pretty straight forward. I'm not even to page 20 yet and I'm still not catching on, but I am going to stick with it. 
Overall my blog keeping wasn't the best I wrote the posts but often forgot to publish them, and then lagged behind on blog five and six. I want to work on my reading speed. I've always been and very thoughtful and slow reader or maybe it's my book choices, but next semester I want to get through books faster. So in the future I want to increase quantity and quality of my independent reading and... let's see what else... Oh maybe try some classics. Like this summer I read the Great Gatsby which I think is considered a classic, and it was really good in the way it got a reaction out of the audience. Like how I was angry at the characters and frustrated at their fickleness, like the character daisy. I know she acts weak and almost childlike because that was how most women were in the 1920's and a girl in the twenty first century would scream at the book , encouraging her that she doesn't need a man to be complete and .."'that all a girl can be is a beautiful fool'" isn't true. ( that line made me cringe.#feminist4life#). Anyway I'll try reading classics or just famous books, like those posters Mrs. Leitsch has on her wall like Animal Farm, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451 , or To Kill a Mockingbird. Books like that.