Close Reading Bingo

"Salinger uses words with mainly negative connotations that are easy to understand yet are somewhat hostile." http://bradey.blogspot.com/

Salinger first describes the parents as “touchy as hell”. http://letsgetawesome5.blogspot.com/

The style of writing makes the reader feel as though they are just having a simple conversation with the author, no fancy diction or confusing literary devices, the author just puts it all out on the table.  http://fifteen-to-twentyseven.blogspot.com/


Baker describes the appearance of the lobby of his work as a place with “towering volumes of marble and glass,” and he also uses figurative language when he mentions the escalator “as the handrails slid on their tracks, like the radians of black luster.”  http://mbutchko.blogspot.com/

This suggests that Holden Caulfield is somewhat uneducated.    http://bookwormsfiresidereading.blogspot.com/
Best analysis I read today      http://contemplationsxjones.blogspot.com/

Currently (Ahora)

Book : Little Brother

Author : Cory Doctorow

Pages read this week : 72

Total pages read : 225

http://thoughtful-attempt.blogspot.com/2011/10/style-mapping.html

http://harknessmonster.blogspot.com/2011/10/style-mapping.html

Style Mapping

In "The Mud Below" the Anne Pnoulx uses blunt, discordant language to suggest the blue collar outlook found in the society that the story takes place while showing how uncivilized and rough bull riding can be. In Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" the use of a melodiously scholarly dictum that nearly seems archaic portrays a feeling of older times, more socially dictated times in which one follows the bonds of society instead of breaking the mold. And in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" the language oozed of a fancy intricacy that made the descriptive portions of the book seem like they drug on even though the story line itself was very well written.

Quarterly

I started my etymology reading kinda slow this year....i dont know if it was due to the fact that i wasnt really enveloped in my book or what but i found it hard to just sit there and read. That's kinda been the case my entire life, unless im in love with a book i dont really follow up with it. I found a book called Little Brother and it's pretty cool, im already on page 160 and ive only had it for like a week, and that's a big deal for me. I can see myself actually finishing this book. Im not one of those readers that just goes home, lays on a bear skinned rug all cozy next to the fireplace. I tend to read in school when i finish early with a test or when im just tired of doing what im supposed to be doing in that particular class.....its gonna definitely be a goal to finish this book though.

Currently

Book : Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Pages read (today and yesterday) : 40

Favorite Quotes of the Quarter :
"She's slower than molasses running uphill in the middle of February...." My grandpa talking about how slow my grandma golfs
"We build with our hands what we have in our hearts" - August Burns Red
"Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal." - Little Brother (The Book, not the sibling)


Post:
So i picked up this book called little brother just cuz it looked kind of interesting. It's about this 17 year old kid who's really good with technology (specifically computers) and he finds that all of his hacking makes him a prime suspect in the terrorist attack that occurs in San Francisco. The book is actually really cool though cuz it has a lot of technological terminology that i've maybe heard of in my ventures on the web but really had no idea what they meant. I've acquired a much larger interest in messing with computers and things of that nature, essentially just wanting to know how they work and how to make them my puppets in my plot to become their puppeteer. It's actually made me question a lot about my life. I used to think that medicine was the only thing i'd be interested in doing for the rest of my life but in reading this book, i've realized that i've always had a subliminal fascination with computers and their computing properties. Now i'm certain that i'm going to have to take a couple computer apps classes in college to see if that is a career possibility that i'd like to pursue or maybe even just as a hobby.