#aplit16summerchoice

[alexaaalonso]

The Kite Runner's thought-provoking, insightful, and meaningful plot makes it the perfect book for your curriculum. Although it starts off slow, The Kite Runner has the ability to make readers think about their own values and its ability to make readers interpret the message on their own. Here's a perfect example- "And under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. (?)"

[kaitlyngornick]

This was a really good book, but for someone who doesn't like sci fi books or futuristic books, this isn't for you. Sci fi isn't my first choice by any means, but this was a really good one. During our discussion in class yesterday with people, the first thing people said when I told them which book I read if they never even heard of it was, "ohhhhh I've heard of that!" Or something like that. They said it like they knew it was sad, so maybe that's an effect the book has on people. It was really sad and kind of dark, but I do think it should be taught. It's a lot different than what we normally read in school.

[ochronowski9]

Before I came to class today I really thought my book should be taught in schools I mean like it already is so I didn't think my argument was going to be too hard. But after having to convince people that is should be taught in schools I realized how much I really didn't like the book. I get it's a classic and all but the writing is just too dry and boring.

[flogryp]

Cloud Atlas: should be in the curriculum? I think... YES. 

     This book would be ideal for an audience that loves, just ABSOLUTELY loves a powerful voice (well make that six powerful voices). This book is extremely innovative in portraying societal themes, holding up a mirror to not only society but ourselves, its brilliant in its structure and character development, and has ONCE AGAIN, INCREDIBLY POWERFUL VOICE. Every story absorbs you and every character comes to life as you step into six different worlds of beautiful writing. Just like the praise on the actual cover says, the whole time you’re reading you’re asking yourself, “how the hell did Mitchell come up with all of this?!” The only thing that I disliked about this book was the actual story of “Sloosha’s Crossin’ An’ Ev’rythin’ After” because it was so hard to read. But why? Because the voice was... guess what? POWERFUL. The message of the story, however, outweighed the difficulty of reading. Two quotes that I adored and will have you pondering and amazed, 

“Perhaps those deprived of beauty perceive it most instinctively” (Mitchell 212).

“As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrum of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself and moves deeper into the throne swamp of dissent” (Mitchell 17). 

[alexa-hill]

Summa Reading

For my indie summer reading I read Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. After trying to convince other people about how good the book was I realized I wasn’t all that pumped up about it and didn’t find anything really important to talk about. Sure, the book was entertaining and mysterious but the whole book overall wasn’t my favorite and I wouldn’t suggest it for the curriculum due to the mystery of the whole book. The main part of the story is that a girl died and they don’t know how and you never find out at the end what happened to her and this whole time you’re taken on a journey and it just kind of seems pointless now. I don’t think this would be the best book for the curriculum, it also is an extremely easy read and very short, so no challenge there whatsoever! :(

[claudiaaitonean-blog]

Summer Choice

Withering Heights , in my opinion, should not be part of the curriculum because it's not very interesting and engaging, it was really hard to understand it, and doesn't really have a message or a life lesson to it. The only thing reason I would say it could be part of the curriculum is because it's classified as literary merit, so it's written at an AP level, but it's overweighted by the fact that it's so hard to understand and it doesn't pull the reader in as much as it should, at least it's that way for me.

[kyranwilson]

Summer Reading Choice

I don’t think that the Bell Jar would be a good choice to read or be apart because it is super long and boring. Not only that, but it is very depressing and when you figure out that most of the book is based around events that the author went through it makes it MORE depressing. The only thing that I could say good about it is the fact that it’s semi-descriptive because the author actually went through the things talked about in the book, but the fact that it is so depressing outweighs EVERYTHING.

[danny-vincent-aplang]

Three Men In A Boat

I became less convinced over a period of time that this book should be read by our entire class because the authors’ aim is for a specific audience needs to be aware of the his purpose to which was to humorously entertain. This book is not very serious, but still holds a deeper  meaning among all the sarcasm and dry jokes. It is not laugh out loud funny which many classmates would enjoy but still entertaining book. It is very comparable to “Dumb and Dumber” movies because either you enjoy that type of humor or you don’t. I feel this book would have been “hit or miss” with our class and more people would miss.