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.