Jane Eyre

I've made a little more headway in Jane Eyre. The book is good but a little on the boring side at the moment. What really overwhelms me is that the font size and the amount of pages. The book itself is not very big at all. But the font is so tiny and the pages are so compact that I'm not reading nearly as much as I am used to. I get very disappointed when I've read for an hour and have only read around 30 more pages. What really gets me upset is that Jane thought she was leaving her aunt's house for a better life but she was completely wrong. It almost seems like she is in a prison. She gets not nearly enough food, she's constantly cold and she's miserable. Her principle lady, Miss. Temple was speaking to the man who "owns" the place, Mr. Brockelhurst about how the girls many times do not have edible food and he does not care at all he says that making them eat the edible food will make them stronger in life and that you cant cater to their every needs. How awful is that! I really hope I'll finish this book over Thanksgiving break. Off to more reading...

Jane Eyre

I decided I would read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. It's a great book about a governess in the 1800s. I have gotten around 30 pages in. The language is very different and archaic. It's very wordy and sometimes I find myself reading over certain passages and sentences because they are so long and have a ton of adjectives and interruptions. So far, I have understood that the main character is named Jane Eyre. She is an orphan, her mother's brother was a man named Mr. Reed. He died when she was one and she has grown up with Mrs. Reed and her three children, Jane's cousins. Jane hates her life at the house and she hates all her cousins. She feels like an outcast and wants to get out. In the first scene, she is not allowed to be with her cousins and aunts in the drawing room so she hides in the breakfast room behind a curtain reading. Her boy cousin, John "Jack" Reed finds her and hits her because that's what he continually does, and then throws a book at her head. She gets punished and sent to the red room where Mr. Reed died and where everyone is scared to enter. She gets scared because she is only 10 and she calls for help. The nurse and servant come but so does her evil aunt. The next thing you know Jane is sick, visited by an apothecary, and is shunned from the family for nearly three months. After about three months, she is told by her evil Aunt that she will be attending school. That is where I left off. This book is very interesting and really is a classic. The copy I am reading is from 1983 and was $1.75. If I went to buy that same book now it would probably cost me 20 dollars, things really change! The type is really small so it takes me a really long time to read the pages so 30 pages seems like a little but it was a lot of reading. Until next week, Allie

End of Quarter Blog

I looked over my previous blogs for the quarter and I was actually impressed with myself. I have never had to blog before and it is an interesting way of reflecting what you are reading. I have noticed that if I really like a book, I blog tons more then I need to. I also like to blog in the morning on Fridays because that way I have a whole night to digest the reading that, I hate to say it, I do most of on Thursday nights. Last year, after a book was completed, I would make a postcard for that book. The cover was always my favorite part and I'd spend more time picking a picture and formatting a quote onto it then I did the actual writing part. It wasn't like the writing I did was bad or anything, it just was empty. I wrote what was required. I also notice that I talk more about the book then I do about my feelings about the book. Sometimes I will spend a whole blog just writing on and on about the book and maybe say "I like the book so far" with no reasons I just go on and on about what's going on and I mean there aren't strict rules for how I can or cannot blog, it's just a common trend of mine not to include my feelings.

As for my goals for next quarter. I would like to start to include more quotes and show how these specific quotes really enlightened me in some way. I don't write down many quotes because I don't read with pen and paper next to me so the quotes that I do truly love I get up to either write down or put a post-it on. My goal for the next quarter is to talk more about favorite quotes and about my feelings of the book while reading it as opposed to just writing about what's going on in the book. If someone really cared about what happens in a book, they would buy spark-notes or just read the blurb. I am done with The Alchemist, it was an okay book it's just not a book I was into at all. It included so many deeper, hidden meaning connections. It was thought provoking but I didn't like it. You never even find out the main character's name they just call him the boy the whole book. You actually only find out two peoples names the whole book and the book ends where it started--what is the whole point of the book? Maybe it's just for someone else.