Week 4 Reading

Divergent by Veronica Roth
Genre: Dystopian Fiction
Review: I really liked this book. I think it captures the struggle to fit in with a specific group pretty well. I think the writing style that Veronica Roth uses makes it pretty easy to read which I very much liked. I liked this style since it was long enough to be a two week book, but with the ease of reading only just makes it more than a one week book, and so I could read through it very quickly.
Next I will read its sequel, Insurgent

Week 3 Reading

Divergent by Veronica Roth
487 pages
Genre: Dystopian  Fiction, Coming of Age
Reading Level: Easy to read, but long
Synopsis: A girl is growing up in a future world that is in present day Chicago. The humans have been split into a set of groups that each value a quality to the extent that they see nothing in a person except whether they have a quality or not. She gets tested and finds out that she fits into two groups, which is dangerous.
Response: I have been reading this as a two week book and I am only one week in, but so far I think that it is a good book. I like it because I think that as long as you are persistent through the slow beginning, the story gets very good. Roth over exaggerates the qualities in some people, like the evil kid is really evil, without any good. Over all the book and characters are good, and there back stories are often very complex.
Next Book: This is a two week book, so I will continue to read this.

Week 2 Book Response

This week I read The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. The Killer Angels is a historical fiction book about the Battle of Gettysburg. This was a hard read for me, because despite the fact that it is only 345 pages and the type is a moderate size, the people in it speak with weird grammar and a lot happens very quickly on every page. I think that people who generally enjoy reading books about war will enjoy this book, especially if they enjoy learning about the Civil War. The book follows six officers through the three days that could potentially be called the Battle of Gettysburg, from the point that John Buford spots General Lee's confederate forces to the point that Lee orders that the confederates retreat.

To Be Read List:
Eldest
Of Mice and Men
White Sands, Red Menace
Green Glass Sea
The Client
Outliers
Divergent
Night circus
Forgive Me Leonard Peacock
Battle Cry
Stranger in a Strange Land
Shooting the Moon
See you at Harry's

This week I plan to read Divergent