Blog 50!

Yay! I am finally on the 50^th blog of the summer. For my last blog I wanted to share my opinions about the readings. I started reading the summer books back in May. My goal was to get all of my blogs done before July. Obviously that did not happen. However I managed to write down my thoughts and opinions and was able to type them all out. (Which is why I posted them all in a few days). I think this was an okay approach. I mean I was able to finish before school starts (:

I thought the books for summer reading were better than last years. I still did not like them though. The books The Old Man and The Sea and The Moon is Down were so boring. I understood The Old Man and the Sea pretty well. I was able to comprehend the story and was able to write lots of blogs discussing the book. Unfortunately the Moon is Down did not go as well. I could not get myself into the book. I really tried but it just would not work. You can see this through my writing. I only did about ten blogs on the book. Catcher in the Rye was a good story. It did not seem like a book I was being forced to read and I really liked that. You can see I enjoyed the book because close to half my blogs are about it. I think that I understood this book more because I liked it.

The authors of the books affected my opinions of the book before I read them. What I mean is The Moon is Down is written by John Steinbeck who wrote one of my favorite books of all time. Therefore I expected to really like this book. Ernest Hemmingway wrote The Old Man and The Sea. I hate Ernest Hemmingway’s writings. I expected to totally hate this book. Honestly I was right about this one. I didn’t necessarily hate it but I didn’t like it. It was fine.

Overall I thought these books were okay. I survived summer reading!