Blog Response #5
With the introduction of the new novel, share in your blog what attracted you to this novel. What is the primary focus in your novel, and how are the main character or characters handling this situation? After reading the first few chapters, what are your initial thoughts about the book? Slow start? Jumps right in? Share your first impressions.
a thousand splendid suns its the slowest most boring book to read nothing really attracted me to this novel the main focus so far is about Mariam and her life and her arranged marriage. my first impression on this book is to not want to read it
ReplyDeleteWhat was your rank for Thousand Splendid Suns when we were introduced to the books. Who are some of the other characters, where do you see the book going as you read more. Hopefully the book will become more enjoyable for you to read.
DeleteI am reading A Long Way Gone, and it is also boring
Deleteit seems that the vast majority of people don't like their books which is very telling about how these book sessions are going to be.
Deletemy book also started slow and boring but it ended up getting interesting
DeleteI agree with you. This book is very boring but for me it is a lot more confusing then boring. The first part was not too bad, but the second part is. The first part was just very messed up.
DeleteI agree its a very boring book and is pretty hard to keep reading it.
DeleteThe reason I wanted to read I am Malala, is because I have heard of the story a few times before. I support her beliefs and want to know more about her struggles and experiences. Now that I have gotten the chance to read a little further, I would say I like the book, but it can be a little slow and confusing at times. It's hard to tell what parts are going to be most important later in the book and also difficult to remember the names of the characters. The traditions and the form of language used is far different from what I am used to. Malala and her father believe in education for women and having a school with the proper resources for everyone. Malala is a very intelligent young girl who performs very well academically and not afraid to speak up for herself and express her thoughts, even though some believe she is too much of a goody two shoes. Although I feel the book is very slow at times I am excited to learn more about her journey and story that goes along with it.
ReplyDeleteI feel like the story goes back and forth a lot between Malala's childhood experiences and with the politics. I would say the history and politics is what really makes the story slow and confusing. But I find that Malala's side of the story is the best part and I am Also exited to know more about her.
DeleteIn a boy solider it kina does the same thing were it moves back and forth and it does make it slow but it helps understand what happens further in the story.
DeleteYes i very much agree with you both the book is good but it can be very slow and confusing especially with the politics she tells us all of these names about politics about what happened. I don't like how it bounces between Malalas childhood experiences and everything that happened in the past. I am reading I am Malala and also am very excited to learn more about her journey and what all she will do next. I like learning about her story and where and how she got where she is today.
DeleteI am reading the book A Long Way Gone and nothing really attracted me to this book at all. If I had a choice, I wouldn't be reading it. My initial thoughts on the book are that it is not good at all. I get very bored reading it and I don't like reading it because there is nothing good going on, and it would not be a book I would choose to read.
ReplyDeleteDo you think that the book will get better later, or do you feel that the book is always going to be bad. If so, did you feel that way bout your previous book?
Deletei agree that the book is boring and i would rather have a different book if I could choose
DeleteI think that this book is boring and it will probably be boring until the very end.
DeleteI am reading the same book, but I think it has gotten more interesting and I am on chapter eleven. I didn't want this book either but I think it will continue to get better.
DeleteIm reading A Thousand Splendid Suns and its pretty boring and hard for me to stay focused while reading it too.
DeleteI agree with everything you said. I don't understand this book
ReplyDeleteI was attracted to the book Night because i was wondering if it was like the other books and movies I've read and seen. it interested me to see if they were the same or not. So far its been the same as every other book/movie ive seen. Everything happens so fast to them. but the book takes some time and describes everything in detail.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the part about detail. Elie writes a really descriptive story that helps the reader understand the book better
Deletei also agree that the book is going very fast.
DeleteDo you like the book more over the movies so far?
DeleteWhat there are movies on this book. days do go by fast in this book. The detail they put into it helps out you understand what the writer is talking about.
DeleteI'm reading the book a long way gone and, in my opinion, I would not have picked it if I had a choice to pick which ever one, I wanted. It's very boring and there's nothing interesting that happens and when I read nothing really makes sense to me when i and reading and don't know what I read when I'm done.
ReplyDeleteMy book is very boring to and a wish I would have got a different one.
DeleteI would agree that this book is boring and even confusing. This is because it is them just going from village to village trying to out run war.
DeleteThe beginning is pretty hard to read, its a lot of time jumping/skipping and info that is needed to set up the book but it is hard. eventually around chapters 11-13 it makes it much easer to read. It also gets interesting if you like more of the war stuff.
Deletewhat really got me interested in this book was that it is set in a place I don't really know much about, this along with the fact that it is about a big problem that is still happening today. after reading some chapters in it had a really understandable beginning, happy life ripped apart due to war, flinging him around the land fleeing the wars wherever he could, it also started with refuges arriving and foreshadowing the dangers yet to come.
ReplyDeleteWhat book are you reading?
DeleteAt the the start it was very descriptive on the scenes and it was a little hard for me to get attention beecause i cant really relate to what hes going through.
DeleteI am reading the book Kite Runner and my opinion of this book is it's hard to understand and is very boring so far. The main focus of the book is a kid with a wealthy dad that don't really care about his son much. This is because his mom died at birth and his dad thinks it's because of his son.
ReplyDeletemy book is very interesting so far, sorry that yours is not the same.
DeleteI'm reading the book night and my book is opposite its very interesting the family don't have much money but they all care about each other
DeleteI'm reading kite runner too and the book is very confusing and isn't very interesting.
DeleteThat is an interesting main focus but i found it to be more focused on the relationships between the characters and how they need to protect each other no matter what situation there in.
DeleteI feel the same the book is so random and hard to understand making it very hard to read.
DeleteI don't understand the book everything is so random to me
ReplyDeleteMy book is also one of the worst books i read so far to.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book night, and the reason I was attracted to this book is because it is about the holocaust, and I have read a lot of books about WW2 and the holocaust, so I thought it would be the right fit for me. So far, it has hooked me. The book is about Elie's experience with the holocaust, and he doesn't really know how to handle it, although he is doing a good job so far. The first few pages are slow but as the German army slowly takes control over Elie's village, it gets more intense. I was shocked at how fast the book moved; within a dozen pages the book was already extremely intense.
ReplyDeleteWhat did he do to get you hooked on the book
Deleteyou are right the writter gets straight to what he is talking about and does not have you on a loophole getting lost in the book.
DeleteDo you think you will understand the book more ass you read deeper into the story? or have you already given up understanding the book?
ReplyDeleteI am reading "A long way gone" what made me what to read this book was i did not know about the war that was taking these kids and turning them into killers. It was something horrific and new and i wanted to give it a shot. The first chapter set up the atmosphere of the book and taught basic things that was needed to read the book and show the calm before the storm. The van scene with the baby was horrible and it just keeps getting worse this book definitely got me hooked!
ReplyDeleteThe concept of children becoming killers is definitely interesting, traumatizing for them but interesting. How would you rate this book so far and also what happened in the van scene that made things worse?
DeleteI agree that the author describes scenes in this book in full detail, which keeps you hooked and want to keep reading to see what will happen next.
DeleteWhen we chose our new books I wasn't here and got the book A Thousand Splendid Suns. The main focus of the book is about Mariam who is also the main character. She saw that her mom had hung herself and she doesn't come out of her room then she gets married to a guy named Rasheed and they move to Rasheed's home in Kabul. Overall the book is slow and Im not really into it and its kind of boring.
ReplyDeleteHow do you think the marriage is going to play out? I feel like Mariam might try to escape. I agree the book is pretty bad so far
DeleteI can understand how your book is bad. Do you think that it will eventually get better or catch your eye?
Deletedo you think that the pacing of this book is what makes it boring for you? or is it the content of the book that is disinteresting? while i may not be reading this book i can understand how slow pacing can really lower the quality of a story
DeleteThe book I am reading is a Long Way Gone. Broadbent actually got me interested by explaining how the book is chaotic and how this boy has to experience so much at a young age. The main focus in my book is survival. The main character is doing a really good job because of what he has learned prior to the war arrived in his life. This book already has me hooked because within the first chapter there is a lot of action. The book moves really fast and sometimes skips up to a month at a time. I think that A Long Way Gone will be one of the best books that i read ever, because of how it has gone so far.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that there is a lot of action in each chapter and that the book moves really fast at times.
DeleteI am reading the book A Long Way Gone, and I was attracted to it because it is about a 12-year-old boy that is surrounded by war. I thought this sounded interesting to read because the main character, Ishmael Beah tells the story in his point of view and gives an excellent description of what was really going on around him. The primary focus of this story right now is finding a way to survive the attacks by the rebels. Ishmael and his friends are doing pretty good right now escaping the villages that the rebels attack. After reading the first few chapters, I enjoy reading this book because it is full of action and crazy experiences that the author has gone through. The book started out a little slow, but now the story is moving really fast as I continue to read it. I was shocked by all the detail the author gives about the wars and his experiences.
ReplyDeleteI was attracted to A Long Way Gone because of the fact that there was a twelve year old in the middle of a war as well.
DeleteI also caught interest in this book because of the setting these kids get put in
DeleteI was attracted to the book because of the time it was set at and also how it's around a war. do you think the book will take a turn and get even better?
DeleteI picked I am Malala because I have been seeing this book for several years now and I decided this was the perfect opportunity to finally read it. I am liking it a lot so far, I am more invested in Malala's story rather than the politics and history. I feel like at this point in the book, things are still building up and the main problem is how women have less rights in Pakistan than men, I don't feel like the story is close to talking about what happened when Malala got shot. A character that I feel has shaped a big part of Malala's life is her father, Ziauddin. I like him a lot so far because he's different from a lot of the men in Pakistan and he actively fights for education for girls.
ReplyDeletei personally find the parts about their history, politics, and religions to be the more interesting part of the story, but i think her story is rather interesting as well. what about the history, politics, and religion makes it less interesting to you?
DeleteI am reading I am Malala. I was gone the day that we choose the books we wanted to read but i feel like if i was there i would put this book in like my 2nd choice. The reasoning is that her story seems interesting to learn about and i think its cool that she is writing it herself. I just think its cool to learn about her village in the pashtun culture. First they lived in Mingora then after they live in Gulkada which means house of flowers but used to be called Butkara or place of the Buddhist statues. So overall its cool learning all about where she was raised, how she became the kind of person she is today. The main Character of this book is Malala. But she's just mainly telling stories about what happened. My overall thoughts of the book is that i like it for the most part just can be very confusing with all of the names she tells us about like people that's not in the village. It was a slow start but once i got to chapter 3 it was better but it was off and on.
ReplyDeleteI am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns, which wasn't my first choice. The book is going very slow, is boring, and difficult to understand. I'm holding out hope that the book speeds up in the coming chapters
ReplyDeleteAre you on the second part of the book yet? If so, was the first or second part more boring and which one was more confusing. For me the first part was pretty good, but the second part was a lot more boring and confusing until the end of the part.
DeleteI have seen many people say the book is boring, but what has been the most interesting part so far in your opinion?
Deletethe thing that attracted me to the book night sounded very interesting and talked about how his family and him got taken away from their homes because they were Jews. this book mainly focuses on what it was like at the concentration camps as a Jew. the way that Elie and his family were preparing was getting bags ready with clothes, food and other valuable items. at first the book was very slow but now its started talking about the solider coming into to town loading the jews up and taking them away.
ReplyDeleteI am also reading Night, what has been the most interesting part, mine was when they were throwing the infinats in the air and weere just shooting them and killing them.
Deletei also agree that part of the book is very interesting.
DeleteI am reading the book A long way gone. It is about a boy trying to survive during a war with rebels. He handles it by trying to find a place to live at while the war is going on. This book has a very slow start and it is one of the most boing books I have ever read. If I had the choice I would never read this book.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you 100%
DeleteI am reading the book Kite runner and its about this kid with a wealthy dad that doesn't care about him that much because his wife died at birth and the dad thinks its his fault. It was a slow start and was very confusing and wasn't very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI was very confused at first to and it took me a long time to figure out who was doing what and who was related to who.
DeleteI am reading the book Night and it has also started of very slow, but has finally had some interesting things happen.
DeleteKite runner started out confusing more than slow to me putting parts and people together
DeleteMy book is also not good and very hard to understand.
ReplyDeleteA Long Way Gone was not my first choice and it didn't catch my attention when we read a part of each one. The primary focus in the novel is Ishmael's survival through war and so far, he has survived three years going from village to village looking for food. Ishmael has gone through many challenges, but he hopes to see his family again and he seems to be catching up to them. I have read the first ten chapters so there has been a lot of information given. I was very confused at the beginning because he was with a group of five other boys and the names are hard to remember because so many things happen. It's also confusing because now he is with six different boys than before so that is more names to remember. My first impressions were that it was long and boring but now that I am farther into it, it is really interesting. The one thing I do not like is the number of things that happen in each chapter because it makes it confusing.
ReplyDeleteI am reading A Long Way Gone as well and I too was quite confused with all the names they throw at you in the book.
DeleteI also agree that there are a lot of name given to you in a very short amount of time and is confusing trying to remember who is all who
DeleteMy book started off similarly, confusing and boring, but it started to pick up and get interesting as well.
DeleteI wasnt very interested in the start and the book didnt really catch my attention. All of the charcters were a little confusing in the start and i didnt completely understand what was going on.
DeleteI am also reading A Long Way Gone but I think it has gotten better throughout the book. I am on chapter ten, and it makes more sense the beginning, but I agree that there is way to much information given in each chapter.
ReplyDeleteI reading A Long Way Gone by: Ishmael Beah, what originally attracted me to this book was the fact idea that a 12 year old could just be put to war in other countries. I made me wonder how could this happen to these kids at such a young age. The primary focus of the book so far is the kids moving from town to town as the rebels take over towns. My initial thoughts were confused but as the book went on the action in the book got more intense making it a good read.
ReplyDeleteIm reading A Long Way Gone too and I agree with how young these children are
DeleteI am reading Kite Runner and just like you, I am baffled by the life and culture of Amir. The 11-year-old main character in my story. His mother passes away and he is neglected by his rich father who blames Amir for her death.
DeleteI am currently reading A Thousand Splendid Suns. This book was my 3rd choice I believe. The reason I chose this one for my 3rd choice is because it sounded interesting but also confusing. Once I was starting to read it, it was clear to me that this book is very confusing and just very weird. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a very boring book especially in the beginning, then it picked up a little bit and that just went back to boring. This book is also very confusing. there are so many words that we have never heard of so you either have to take a guess as to what the word is with the context clues or just straight up google it. This book is split up into 4 parts. the first part was about a girl, her name is Mariam. The situation she is having to deal with right now is her husband that she was forced to marry. She is trying to please him, and she has had 7 miscarriages and with everyone he gets angrier and more upset with her. Part 2 is a lot more confusing than the first part. There was really no description as to who these people are and why they are in the book. Overall, this is a very confusing book.
ReplyDeleteMy book I am Malala sounded pretty interesting also but also confusing. My book as i read it is confusing also. That book does sound weird does it at least draw you to the book? Because it sounds like there is a lot of things that happen throughout the book. I am always struggling to figure out how they people are in my book also.
DeleteI am also reading a thousand splendid suns and am very confused. Do you think he will continue abusing her and to what extent? I think Mariam will eventually either run away or begin to fight back, possibly using the gun she found in his room.
DeleteI am reading Kite Runner I was interested in the book because I wanted to know what it was like to be friends on opposite sides, but I am not as interested in it anymore as it is very confusing. I find the main focus of the novel being the relationship between Hassan and Amir, they are doing everything they can to protect one another. Throughout the first couple chapters, I was very confused on which person was doing what and the relationships between them, after chapter five it begins to add up and make a little more sense.
ReplyDeleteI feel like no one got the book they picked and alot of these books are letting people down with how boring they are.
DeleteI chose A Thousand Splendid Suns because I thought it was going to be interesting but it's actually boring. It's not what I was expecting.
ReplyDeleteI am reading Kite Runner and I thought it was going to be boring however it is not. Not what I was expecting either.
DeleteI chose the book Night, it started of slow and very boring but has gotten very interesting. The book is takes place during the start of world war 2. The main charracter was taken form his home country of Hungaria by the Nazis. He has been taken to the work camp called Auschwitz.
ReplyDeleteI find the book night interesting and the book gets started right away and i am not board reading the book they talk about their family they talk about the how the ghettos are and how the concentration camps are they talk how they don't eat some days and they don't have clothes to wear and all their belongings are in a sack that they carry on there back and they were not able to bring belongings.
ReplyDeleteI am reading A Long Way Gone and what caught my attention is how young these children are that get sent out to war. The book starts really slow and isn't really catching my interest. I like how the author uses good descriptive details to show the readers each scene.
ReplyDeletemy book is also slow starting
Deletemy book was a very interesting start
DeleteI am reading A Long Way Gone and not overly impressed within the first 40 pages. Book makes no sense and is very confusing at the moment. I would rather read basically any other book than this one and it was nothing like I thought it was going to be when I first read about the book. Definitely a slow start to the book. I hope it gets better or else it is going to be a really long read for the rest of the book.
ReplyDeleteAgreed 100% I am hoping the book gets better
DeleteI'm Reading Thousand Splendid Suns and it caught my attention because it was about the taliban and leaving in Afghanistan. The book started really fast and got right into the action of how the main character Mariams life was. Mariam gets forced to marry a older man when she is 15 and just has to deal with it. Myu first impression with the book is that it is very confusing and hard to follow along with it.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the kite runner i feel the book a is very confusing and hard to understand. along with being very boring. the book is about a kid with a very wealthy dad that does care much, his dad also doesn't pay attention to him much because his mom died at birth, and he thinks it's the kid's fault.
ReplyDeletei think that blaming a kid for the death of the mother is wrong because therer is nothing the kid could have done to fix it. i hope his dad forgives his son for it.
DeleteI don't like how he's blaming his son either, when birth is common during birth. I feel that he should have built that relationship with him as his father but also for the love of his mother, because he was a blessing to them.
DeleteI am reading A long Way Gone and it kind of started out the way yours did. Slow and not very interesting.
DeleteThe novel I am reading is Kite Runner. This story is hard to understand in the beginning. however, from what I have gathered, the main character is a young boy who is neglected by his wealthy father. Amir is very lonely without his father's attention, so he decides to become friends with the butler's son. This relationship makes me think there is some Romeo and Juliet type of foreshadowing and these two should not be engaging eachother.
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way, it's like the friendship of Romeo and Juliet, and how they built a bond even though they were from exact opposite sides.
DeleteI am reading the book Night, The focus of this book is about elie's ways through the holocaust, what the days felt like and talks about how it feels to be there. I think elie the main charecter is doing a good job sometimes i am wounder where they are at like the factor or the camp. I am like wow this is what is going on. i feel like i wound never want to experice that. yeah he talks about everyday and what they do.
ReplyDeleteI am currently reading I am Malala, and I wasn't able to choose my book so I won't say much other than I wouldn't have picked this one. this book is an autobiography, so the primary focus is the life of Malala Yousufzai. i would say the primary issue this book discusses is the lack of access that the Pakistani have to education especially the woman, our character is trying to fight these ways and get the people and education. the book tries to hook you by starting with the story of when Malala was shot but overall, it is rather slow.
ReplyDeletei am reading Night and i was initially attracted to the book because it is about the holocaust and i am interested in the holocaust and it was also a short book which makes the book more enjoyable for me. the main focus on the novel is about elie and his fathers journey in the Holocaust so far. so far i have like the first few chapeters because i feel that goes at the perfect speed. i like the book overaall and i am very happy i got this book. some parts are disturbing which isn't fun
ReplyDeletewhat do you mean by disturbing parts
DeleteIn I am malala there is disturbing parts too they put all the bodies of the people who didnt listen to the taliban in the middle of town to rot and burn and people are killed for no reasons and schools bombed
Deletebooks that jump around are the worst. the last book that i read was stotan the author jumped around a lot and what he was saying never made sense. books like that are hard and boring reads because of that. my book, Night doesn't jump around and i like the book a lot more because of it.
ReplyDeleteI am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns and in my opinion nothing really interested me in this book. It was on of my last options. This book is a very slow reading and I hardly understand it. Its very confusing and i personally don't like this book.
ReplyDeletei am reading the book Kite Runner and it is slow at the begining. so far it is about a kid with a wealthy dad and his mom dieing at birth. as it goes along it talks about 2 diferent religons and how they are different.
ReplyDeleteMy book i am Malala talks about religion too and how the taliban enforce the quran on people and do stuff to them that it doesnt say in the book they become sheep to the wolves the taliban are and are taken advantage of because of that
DeleteI'm reading Kite runner and so far, it's about a kid that has a wealthy father who doesn't care about him that much, and his reasoning is because his wife died during giving birth and the father thinks it's his fault, she passed. Amir is affected by his father's absents and then decides to become friends with the butler's son, which is a bad idea because he is friends with someone from the opposite side. That's what made me somewhat interested in the book because, I wanted to see how it would play out, but it's sort of confusing causing the book to get boring. I feel the focus of the novel is about Amir and Hassan's friendship and how they want to protect their relationship.
ReplyDeleteThe primary focus in my book I Am Malala is civil rights because in Pakistan the Taliban take over the country and everyone's rights and men must shave and women must cover there faces and women can no longer go to school and must stay insides so the people of Pakistan are fighting for rights and freedom and Malala wants education Malala is handling this by going and speaking in public about it but many people arent listening because they know the taliban will kill them if they do the book had a very slow start it dug really deep into her childhood with many details which her younger years arent important because she didnt really start doing anything until like 15-16 but all in all i like the book because there is a couple suspensful parts and its crazy how different there life is from ours
ReplyDeletewhat attracted me to A Long Ways gone was the tragic life he is living and how he was reacting to it, i think that its crazy that people can live in those kind of enviorments. It jumps rifght into the bloody scenes and describes everything around him that is happening i thhink he handled his situation very well. This book is describing a differnet lifestyle than anything we know around here.
ReplyDeleteHunter Fosdal I was attracted to the book kite runner because by the way it puts the characters in the way some books do not as a way of perspectives of rich and poor and their different culture and religion and the way of nobles and workers act.
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