Push

The book Push is about a girl named Precious who faces a lot of troubles in her younger years involving her parents and school. Precious does not have any friends and her mother beats her. Her father rapes her almost every night. She goes to a special school and ends up getting transferred to a different school because she is pregnant. This is where I have left off in the story. I feel like the book at sometimes is hard to understand because the way she talks and the way that the book is written. It can be hard to stay with at times also because she goes in and out of a lot of detail about certain happenings in her life. There are some parts of the story that I feel are not necessary to have in there. For example when Precious gets to the new school she describes who everyone is in a lot of detail and she also talks about some of the exact conversations that people had. I feel like they are unnecessary but the explanations might be helpful later in the book.

Liar 1

The book is called “Liar” and it relates to its title very well. In the beginning of the book Micah warns us that she is a compulsive liar. She tells us that lying has gotten into that situation she is in now with her boyfriend’s murder. Micah also believes that this lying condition of her is inheritable. She says that she got it from her father. She makes everyone in her class believe that she is a boy because the teacher had mistaken her for one. She is the new kid in school so no one knows exactly who she is. Micah has short hair cut down against her head and she wears no makeup. One thing that I dislike about the story is that you never really know if she is telling the truth or not so it makes you want to keep reading. On one of the first pages of the book she makes a promise that she will not lie anymore and that she is there to confess what she has done.

week 3, me as a reader

The book I just finished reading is called "By The Time You Read This". It is a story written from a man that knew that he did not have much time to live to his daughter. Lois (the daughter) did not receive this book the summer she turned twelve. The book is referred to as "The Manual". In the book the father tells his stories about growing up and gives advice to his daughter about boys, friends, school and family. His advice is very touching, and I wish I had read it sooner so I could make his advice useful to myself. This book tackles all of the "big questions" you can think of, from marriage to sex, race, religion. I think that the strangest part of the text would have to be some of the things the father writes, it can sometimes be very tacky and awkward but other times you can really tell what he is trying to get to. There are some parts of the text that had dealed with a few things that weren’t so modern, but for the most part it is a modern book. I really liked this book because it dealed with a lot of problems that teenage girls have these days and I could see myself in that situation as I was reading it. After reading this book I thought back on my past and wished that I would have had someone there to tell me these things like her dad told her. I wished I would have been more outgoing in high school, been a little careless. I wished I wouldn’t of been to worried to stick up for myself.