My apologies for mistakes When we thought about making this book they were quiet ready to help. To all those who get my book and find any mistakes, firstly I apologize. Allow me to offer an excuse as to focus blame on something else other than myself. I did not submit this book to any publishing houses, for two reasons. 1. Since my Heart operation (See how I go right for the sympathy vote) I have been determined to show myself, others as well but mostly for myself, that I can do this. 2. My impatience got the better of me. I could not bear to have rejection after rejection, month after month. Sitting and waiting for the next letter to tell me, thanks but no thanks, making myself too afraid to push down on the keys to unlock the door to the next book. And this leads to the mistakes. My wife helped me the best that she could, I think she read the first chapter of this book, 12 times alone. I believe it starts to lose its magic after the fifth time. Especially when you’re not reading to enjoy, but rather looking for mistakes, misspelled or used in the wrong text. You’re not getting lo...
Murphy,Priscilla Coit. What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring, Amherst. University of Massachusetts Press. 2005
This book was brilliant. There were moments that made me laugh, moments that made me tremble in my chair, moments that made me cry, moments that melted my heart, and moments that made me want to rip my hair out at the roots. This book has it all, and it delivers it through a cold but much needed message.
“The Road Not Taken.” Literature and the Writing Process. Ed. Elizabeth McMahan et al. 8th ed.
This is my personal reflection about this book. First and foremost, I would like to say that this book is very thick and long to read. There are about nineteen chapters and 278 pages altogether. As a slow reader, it is a quite hard for me to finish reading it within time. It took me weeks to finish reading it as a whole. Furthermore, it is written in English version. My English is just in average so sometimes I need to refer to dictionary for certain words. Sometimes I use google translate and ask my friends to explain the meaning of certain terms.
This book really brings to light the neglect that some people are raised with. The thought that someone could come out of such a negligent past with compassion and understanding instead of bitterness is truly inspiring.... ... middle of paper ... ...
The critics who perceived this book's central theme to be teen-age angst miss the deep underlying theme of grief and bereavement. Ambrosio asks the question, "Is silence for a writer tantamount to suicide? Why does the wr...
It is nearly impossible to understand everything the first time around, especially when it comes to stories that are as detailed as The Bright Forever. When reading stories the first time, I believe we don’t understand every element that the author is trying to portray to us. When reading The Bright Forever for the first time, we all anticipated how it was going to end. With each page, we all tried to put the pieces together and tried to figure out who, how and why it all happened the way it did. The first time around, we were all clueless, but after going back and reading the book again for a second, you are able to pick up on things a lot easier. By doing this, you can figure out the meaning of the authors imagery and clues throughout the book.
Although many question it after reading your book, I know that your parents loved you and cared deeply about you. I have come to learn that
I began to read not out of entertainment but out of curiosity, for in each new book I discovered an element of real life. It is possible that I will learn more about society through literature than I ever will through personal experience. Having lived a safe, relatively sheltered life for only seventeen years, I don’t have much to offer in regards to worldly wisdom. Reading has opened doors to situations I will never encounter myself, giving me a better understanding of others and their situations. Through books, I’ve escaped from slavery, been tried for murder, and lived through the Cambodian genocide. I’ve been an immigrant, permanently disabled, and faced World War II death camps. Without books, I would be a significantly more close-minded person. My perception of the world has been more significantly impacted by the experiences I've gained through literature than those I've gained
This is an odd little book, but a very important one nonetheless. The story it tells is something like an extended parablethe style is plain, the characters are nearly stick figures, the story itself is contrived. And yet ... and yet, the story is powerful, distressing, even heartbreaking because the historical trend it describes is powerful, distressing, even heartbreaking.
This book is a very interesting read, if you have some self discipline. I mean that you need some self discipline because this book didn’t really captivate me in the sense that I couldn’t put it down. But after reading it for a while, I started to appreciate the author’s way of describing the characters and actions in this book.
As I reflect on this autobiography project, I feel that I found some reasons for my thoughts and behaviors. I do not follow many of the strict values like religion; I seem to follow the path of the males in the family. My adjustment to blindness was both helped and hindered from both my parents. My father encouraged me to explore and not to be discouraged by failure or defeat, while my mother kept strongly encouraging me to improve my life. As I eventually get married and start my own family, I will understand the importance of expressed emotions and how my upbringing influenced my roles in the present and future families.
Reading No more “I’m done!” was not a difficult task. If anything, this book was a joy to read. A part that I felt was a pleasure to read would be chapter 5, A Year of mini-lessons for growing writers. Especially the pages that included mini-lessons about poetry and riddles. I feel like poetry can sometimes be thought of as a horrible thing, and I liked that there was more than one poetry lesson in the book. I think riddles are a fun activity and can be a good way to get student’s minds thinking about writing. This chapter has plenty of useful mini-lessons (Jacobson,
The story of my history as a writer is a very long one. My writing has come full circle. I have changed very much throughout the years, both as I grew older and as I discovered more aspects of my own personality. The growth that I see when I look back is incredible, and it all seems to revolve around my emotions. I have always been a very emotional girl who feels things keenly. All of my truly memorable writing, looking back, has come from experiences that struck a chord with my developing self. This assignment has opened my eyes, despite my initial difficulty in writing it. When I was asked to write down my earliest memory of writing, at first I drew a blank. All of a sudden, it became very clear to me, probably because it had some childhood trauma associated with it.
Also, without personal opinions and anecdotes, the book would lack a purpose. Style is crucial to having a book that appeals to the reader’s attention span, and if there is no connection to the reader through the author’s personality, then this book is not successful due to the lack of a personal voice from the author.