The word choice was amazing, the main characters well developed, and over all a really great book. This week, after I finished The Firm- finally- I read Every Day by David Leviathan. It was so good! It is about a boy who wakes up each day in a different body in a different place, and, after he meets this girl, how he stays in touch and explains his situation to her. It was emotional and funny and deep and serious all at once and it genuinely one of the best books I have ever read.
Leviathan's description of all the main characters (all the people the boy "occupies" for a day) was really good and it isn't too much so that the book got really boring but just enough throughout the whole chapter to get you to know them well enough to picture them in your head.
Back to The Firm: the end was amazing:) The first 150 or so pages of this were really boring to me because of all the background info and description Grisham puts into his work. I mean, it really helped me get to know the characters, and, by the end, be very animated in the actions performed by them- I was trying to tell them to turn back and to not do something that could get them killed and so on. I was pleased with the last 275 or so pages of the book because it started moving and turning into, well a page turner that you just HAD to see if Mitch would do this or that. I really liked it.
My research, well I am working on that still. Ha ha I have some more to do, but have gotten a good bit done.
Times:
Monday- 10 minutes- The Firm by John Grisham, 12 pages
Tuesday- 110 minutes- The Firm by John Grisham, 120 pages (finished it!)
Wednesday- 10 minutes-Every Day by David Leviathan, 15 pages
Thursday- 10 minutes- Every Day by David Leviathan, 13 pages
Friday- 280 minutes (includes in class reading times)- Every Day by David Leviathan, 294 pages (finished it!)
Research times:
Tuesday- found 3 books for sources and wrote the bibliography, going to annotate later, 30 minutes
Wednesday- annotated and got note cards for a book, 30 minutes
Saturday- Monday: went to library and found 2 new sources, going to annotate either Tuesday or Wednesday- 20 minutes
Total: 500 minutes, 454 pages, and 5 new sources
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That sounds like a really good book. Lots of good books seem to start off with a slow beginning but then end up being really great. That is what happened with the Harry Potter books. In the first book, the beginning was a little slow, but once you got about 100 or so pages in, it got really, really good.
ReplyDeleteWow! That is a lot of reading and researching! Great responses!
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