#aplit17pickingthework

[bridgetcona-blog]

the winning book for the “big boy project”

Approaching this project, I thought that I would just pick a popular, classical book assuming it would have a lot of criticisms. So, I chose 1984 by George Orwell. It was already on my list to read, so I thought I’d use this project to finally get to read it. When we went around the class sharing what books we picked, I shared it and Kreinbring immediately gave me the “Eh” look. So, yet again I was on the prowl for some fresh fiction prey. Actually, that hour I turned to Amanda and asked her for a recommendation only saying that I like science fiction and emotional stuff. About ten minutes later, she told me about The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. It’s about a human who visits another planet and none of the beings have genders there. I haven’t gotten far in it, but I think it’ll be about clashing cultures, gender roles, and the back kind of hints at a little romance between the human and a native. I checked with Kreinbring, and I had a new book by the end of the hour. Although I am disappointed I won't be reading 1984, I'm excited to read some renown science fiction. The book has won the Hugo and Nebula awards for best science fiction novel of the year, so it can’t be a total stinker. Also, there’s quotes on the back, front, and inside cover from different newspapers and critics calling the book a masterpiece. I’m excited to read something different from the natural curriculum.

[graceannehorton-blog]

The Posionwood Bible

There isn’t much significance in how I came across this book & decided to read it. Mr. Kreinbring recommended it to me during a completely unrelated conversation. Later, I found it on my sister’s bookshelf and thought why not. It seemed interesting and my other idea was like 650 pages long so I thought this was the better option.

[bri-the-good-blog]

the edible woman

after reading The Handmaid’s Tale, I was very interested in reading another book by Margaret Atwood, because I fell in love with her style. I thought the final project was the perfect time to do that! So, I thought about reading The Edible Woman, and I ordered it, hoping that I would be able to find some literary criticism about it.

[withersyd-blog]

FINAL

Last year for AP Lang, I read another book by Jesmyn Ward. A nonfiction book called Men We Reaped. This book was amazing and I wanted to pick another book by the same author. Salvage The Bones is the fiction book I decided to pick. It won the National Book Award for Fiction books and I am excited to get started on this book.

[rohithaa]

Got lit crit with Rach on Friday it was pretty LIT 🔥

[candadiangirldoll-blog]

The secret history

So I knew that I wanted to do something southern Gothic  because A. I like it B.We dont do a lot of it in school and C. I have a lot of opinion about it. The problem is Southern Gothic comes in 2  forms- short story and long long long epics. I needed something that had more than 2 pages and less than 50000. I narrowed down to We have always lived in the castle as i lay dying and the secret history. The secret history won cause Faulkner gives me a headache and We have always lived in the castle gives me the spooks . cant wait for some greek and murder . 

[krispykrew-blog]

The master and margarita

I was looking around a lot for a book and honestly I was having a lot of trouble finding something I would be interested in. I looked on a list of classics or something on good reads and the cover for this looked so gross I was like oh baby this looks spicy. After reading the synopsis and finding out it was about Satan visiting Soviet Union Russia I was like oh this is the one for me I've found her.

[jalenh531-blog]

Oryx and Crake: Picking the Work

The book that I have chosen is Oryx and Crake by Margret Atwood. I wanted to read a dystopian book because I feel like sad, depressing, horrible future books are the books that im the most interested to. Personally, I dont like reading. In 5th grade, they used to force us to read and i think thats where i lost interest in picking up a book for fun, so finding a book that looked or sounded “Interesting” to me was hard. At first, i wanted to read 1984 by Orwell, but it was already taken. My second pick was Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, but apparently it was “too middle school” for me. 

In class, we had just finished reading Handmaid’s Tale and it was pretty interesting. The whole dystopian concept had me intrigued, so i decided to read another book by Margret Atwood. Oryx and Crake has a dystopian futuristic trilogy. I am NOT reading all three books unless i am totally in love with this book. Apparently, the world the main character lives in was affected by a plague and him and everyone is trying to survive. Theres some sort of love story going on and what not, but anything with a bad future that sounds relatively close to what mine will look like after failing this class sounds pretty interesting to me so, time to give this book a shot!