Exercise #3

1: Absolutely Maybe - Lisa Yee
2: A Walk to Remember - Nicholas Sparks
3:Blue Sky July - Nia Wyn

1. Describe the beginning of the book. It makes the reader a little more interested in the book.
2. Don't tell the reader too much of the book so that they know exactly how the book is.
3. Talk about the authors choice or words or writing style, it may interest the reader in some of their other books.

Reading Log: Catching Fire

I'm only half way into Catching Fire. It seems as if this author always starts her books out boring and slow. After I got through the first two or three chapters it's beginning to pick up. Katniss has to go into the games again which I never saw coming. I'm really excited to finish up this book and start the third. I have no idea how these will end but they keep me interested. Just when I think Katniss' life is back to normal, something happens to change that.

Exercise #2

1: Barry comes across as a bitter woman with the constant negative and degrading word diction saying "Roberta was writing the cruddy book of her cruddy life."
7: The bull "loose-skinned brindle Brahma-cross identified in the program as Little Kisses." 

6: Lynda uses lyrical words and is poetic. 


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Exercise 1

The diction in "Cruddy" is abrupt. It has a type of simple-slang. Lynda uses lyrical words and is poetic.

Reading Log: The Hunger Games

I just finished the first book of the Hunger Games. I was really pleased with the way it turned out. The two things I didn't like is the fact that you already know the ending because there are two other books, and the fact that the beginning was really boring. Once you get to the games, the book begins to speed up. Katniss forms allies, she loses friends, and she "finds love." She's troubled with trying to pretend she is in love to save the life of her tribute, Peeta. Eventually, they both win the games, and both return home to their families. But just when everything seems to be going back to normal, something is wrong. The end of the book makes you want to keep reading which is something I like. I'm currently in the second book.