Reading Log Post #3

Sorry I've been so neglegent recently.  I've had science fair and all that jazz; I won, though!!  And Christmas is only, what, four days away!  I hope you're all in holiday spirit, unless you're a humbug.  If you are, please exit the website by clicking the exit arrow in upper right hand corner of your browser and don't come back until you've realized that being a humbug is not nice...  Just kidding!

Book:  Flowers for Algernon
Author:  Daniel Keyes
Pages:  221-245 (it's part of a textbook)
Icon:  Details

Note:  It was a really good story and we read it in class a couple of weeks ago, so I thought I should do it justice by posting about it.

Charlie Gordon is a 37 year old man that faces mental retardation.  He wants nothing more than to be smart, and when he is offered the oppurtunity to become smart, he snatches it up.  Throughout the story, Charlie's intelligence is seen to slowly increase, then rapidly increase, then slowly deteriorate away.  In this time, Charlie learns that his "friends"  really laughed at him, not with him, and many educational things as well.  He writes in his notes that he is curious as to what would happen (when he is more intelligent) if a genius would have their intelligence tripled; what would happen then?

So many questions; the world may never know the answer to them...

Reading Log Post #2

Alright, second post within the hour!  This is also for last week, and for those of you who really like reading that don't have an account on this website, I suggest you visit the link I'm going to add to this post! It's great!

Goodreads link: www.goodreads.com

Book: Flowers for Algernon
Pages: 221-231 (it's part of a textbook, cut me some slack.  I work enough when I have to analyze and connect to it.)
Icon: Lips icon (dunno it's proper name.  Ha, irony in the face.)

This story is about a man named Charlie Gordon, a man of low intelligence.  He has just had an operation that is supposed to raise his intelligence three times its original number.  You can see that the operation is working throughout the story as you watch his vocabulary and grammar improve greatly.  Originally Charlie would spell "operation" as "operashun", and then after the alter to his brain, he spelled corectly.  And then  for the word "I.Q.", he spelled it (or, more really, wrote it) "eye-q" and then, after the operation, spelled it correctly.

You all can expect this week's posts tomorrow.  Sorry, but there's stuff I gotta do; I hope you enjoy th posts and keep blogging!

Reading Log and Some Changes

So, I'm going to change things up a bit on here.  I hope you've all noticed the total blog views, now up in the upper right hand corner.  I've also decided to start listing new reading logs for every month; for example, this reading log post is for last week, which was the start of December.  So, this reading log post being for last week would be reading log post #1.  Yeah, I was way busy and didn't get the time to post anything for last week.  Hope I'm not confusing y'all here.  Any Q's, leave a comment.

Book: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Author: Ahaha... kinda lost the link to it, since I'm reading it online...
Pages-no, chapters: 1-8
Icon: Details.  Yup.

Dorothy has landed in Oz, where the author desribed as diferent from Kansas, the land which Dororthy hailed from.  Compared to the gray, empty land of Kansas, Oz is a beautiful land (in the Eastern part, anyway) of farms and pastures.  A picture perfect land of beauty.  The inhabitants are a mix of strange people: Munchkins, a living scarecrow, a tin man, and a talking lion.  There are also witches, good and bad alike.

Allen's Challenge for the Blog

Okay, so I'm going to post the same book (Middleworld) in other depth and complexity icons.  Like ethics and stuff.

Details: Did that.
Lips Icon: Definition of a word I did not know: Xibalba- Mayan name for the underworld
Big Ideas: Did that.
Patterns: Max and Lola continue to experience the power of Jaguar Stones every time that a stone is inserted into its slot at its respective temple.
Questions: 1) What will Max have to pay as tribute? 2) What happened to Hermanjillo and Tzelek? 3) Will Lucky Jim get to come back?
Ethics: Max is a great videogamer and also turns out to be good at exploring and diversions, but has a temper and he gets mad at the smallest of things.
Multiple Perspectives: Lola sees the monkeys being inhabited with the souls of Lady Coco and Lord 6-Dog as utterly horrifying and so do the monkeys themselves; Max sees it as hilarious.

Yes!  A ton of depth and complexity icons but yes!  It is done!