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.