I am really enjoying this class so far. It's like the best book club in the entire world, not only that but we, as students, are bouncing ideas of what we like and what does not appeal to us - Like McDonald's, I'm lovin' it!
A few bring ya' up to dates... I'm taking nine hours again. That seems to be my cap as a Grad student. This semester they, my classes, are all the same general thing, they are all about reading. I'm excited, it's three versions (three professors) teaching me using different techniques. I'm gonna' enjoy this and I hope to take from it techniques I want to use to teach my class.
The whole point of this blog is to tell you why I didn't like Zachary Beaver, which makes it sound like I didn't like a person, but it's a book.
The plot was too much, too many things goin' on in the book. These are some of the conflicts just to name a few: Loneliness on many accounts, war (set in the Vietnam era), small town life, best friends, only child, broken home, alcohol, coming to terms with faith, etc. Too much for me to care about it all. Some authors can pull it off, don't get me wrong, but your involved enough in the main problem so the rest of the conflicts don't really get in the way. This lady didn't pull it together enough for me to get too interested! I was disappointed.
So now it's on to The Book Thief. Oh my goodness it's a can't put it down. I've never read anything so rivetingly written. I love the narrator - really, in general it's a great idea of a book and I'm only fifty pages in. Come on, I can only imagine how great it really gets. I'm in love... so far.
I'm obviously a picky reader so I'll keep you posted on the books that intrigue me... if you're interested.
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