- 11.23
- Title: Bear Town
- Author: Fredrik Backman
- Page # 36
- Reflection
- The beginning of the story was establishing an ice hockey town, Beartown, where ice hockey was everything for the town. I love the setting of the town and how the author described it in a peaceful tone, reading for the huge conflict later on. Everything was quiet and went the way it should have worked, but everything was being poised for the point to explode together.
- I love the sentence “people are standing in silent lines with their eyes half-open and their minds half-closed” in p2. Instead of saying people’s mind eyes and minds are half-open (or half-closed), using different ways of expressing the “half” made readers have the intention of their eyes being more open and their minds being more closed. This is where I think the author chose the word cleverly and suddenly made the imagery vivid.
- 12.3
- Title: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- Author: Sherman Alexie
- Page # 230 (finished)
- Reflection:
- When I first began to read the book, I found it similar to Diary of a Wimpy Kid with the humorous tone and optimistic viewpoint of the protagonist’s unfortunate life. However, I didn’t really enjoy reading it and treated it like homework for English class that I must finish. My reading speed is also really slow.
- Until last week, I found I had only about five days to read and 200 pages left, I finally began reading it fast. Surprisingly, I fell in love with the exciting plot and was eager to keep reading. I was always worrying if the whites are going to be mean to Junior again, but they turned out to be pretty nice and encouraged him to keep trying.
- For example, when he wrote about how poor he was and he had to ask Roger for help to pay his money. I imagined that his girlfriend would break up with him after she found the truth. However, she and Roger helped him out with this poor situation. The contrast of their attitude before and after moved me. Even though they had a bias in Indians, after they find out his unique personality, they began to like him. This is also how I liked, the way Junior survived in the whites.
- 1.4
- Title: Bear Town
- Author: Fredrik Backman
- Page # 78
- reflection:
- The story is still building up the town with descriptions and information about the images of a group of characters. Although the exposition is quite long and maybe unnecessary, I really like the style of it like how the author developed vivid personalities for all characters. He is creating a small world among and this is what I seek to read. The story goes as if life is normal and calm as usual in a town.
- 3.2
- Title: Murder on the Orient Express
- Author: Agathe Christie
- Page: #33
- reflection:
- It is a bit confusing in the beginning and I’m quite struggling with all the characters appearing since they seem random and hard to remember. Besides the main character, the detector, other people are with different ages, races, and characteristics and their complex names are so hard to distinguish. I guess if they will all involve in the murder afterward.
- 3.26
- Title: Murder on the Orient Express
- Author: Agathe Christie
- Page: #68
- reflection:
- I just got to the part where Mr. Rachett died. This is so weird that he hided his real name and real identity and that he mentioned he’s being threatened. Also, the depressing night with all other noise sounds mysterious and it must be when the murderer murdered him. I guess the murderer hided in the old lady’s room since she was claiming someone being in her room. It seems quite easy to handle since no one can get on or get off the train, so all suspects are on the train.
- 4.23
- Title: Murder on the Orient Express
- Author: Agathe Christie
- Page: #128
- reflection:
- This whole part is basically the evidence part, where suspects are confessing who they are, where they were, and what they did during the night. Everyone seems unrelated to the case now, I wonder if Agathe will hide the murderer at the end, but that is quite boring if she did. Or it’s the least possible person? I hope the truth won’t be coming out into some random rigid routine.
- 5.16
- Title: Murder on the Orient Express
- Author: Agathe Christie
- Page: #233 (finished)
- The truth is actually really really surprised that all 12 passengers were involved in this well-organized plan. However, I didn’t feel like they are bad or something to kill Mr. Rachett because he’s obviously unlikeable and he did so many bad things. These people who killed him were actually doing a good thing. Overall, the mystery is catching my eye since this locked-room mystery helped it focus on all suspects instead of they still need to find the suspects. And I’m attracted by how this murder was operated and it’s really deliberate. It gives me a fun read.
