1. Your first post

Today you will begin your blogging about your independent reading.

Before you begin, read the POST EXPECTATIONS described on the page on the toolbar above. 

As your first blog post:

1. In the first part of your blog post, identify three qualities you expect from a 'good book'.

2. Describe whether the book(s) you have read so far contains these three qualities you listed in the first part of your blog post.

3. Use the proper MLA style you reviewed in the exercise above to identify the book(s) you described in 2. (You are encouraged to include more than one book here) but be sure to alphabetize by author.

eg. Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire. New York: Scholastic Press. 2009. Print.

Here is a student sample:

In a good book, three qualities I'd expect it to have is description, suspense, and emotion. The book should be able to deeply explain anything in order for you to actually imagine it and feel as though you're not just reading the book but you're part of it. It should also include suspense because I find it's just something every kind of book needs to allow the reader to think about what could possibly happen next instead of the author just telling you. And by arouse your emotions I mean, if it's a sad part and it's meant to be terribly sad it should make your heart melt and tears welt as though it was a loss you had suffered as well.

The book I'm currently reading is The Communist's Daughter by Dennis Bock. I think since it's a book based on a medic in the war it contains the descriptive feature, it does have quite a bit of suspense here and there, but it hasn't had any sad parts that have made me cry. In this part of the book it built up some suspense because you ask yourself 'what's going to happen next!?!' this is the part:

"We felt the walls and on we walked, using the flame only when we became unsure of our footing or when we found another door. Your mother reached for my hand in the dark. I couldn't help smiling. The world was ending and here I was, smiling because a pretty girl was holding my hand. The Lord's mysterious ways, as my mother would say. I felt the walls with the other hand, reading them as I read the inside of an open chest or abdomen. Now we were inside the entrails, and here I was smiling." (Bock 29)

Works Cited MLA

Bock, Dennis. The Communist's Daughter. Canada: HarperCollins, 2006. Print