Genre Plans, Experiences And My Top Pick Book For Quarter Three

For the fourth quarter, my genre goal is to read a mystery novel. So far, I have experienced historical fiction and memoir. Overall, my experience with trying new genres has proven to be positive for my growth as a reader. I found that by broadening the variety of books I read, I was able to find independent reading a positive experience. One book that I particularly liked was Beautiful Boy by David Sheff, which I read during the first quarter. I found that this book was well written, and that David Sheff did a wonderful job at weaving in factual information with his own personal struggles that he faced with his son's addiction. Overall, I found that this book really conveyed just how much addiction affects your life and the ramifications that come with the family's responsibility to help the son recover from his addiction. When reading my historical fiction novel, however, I found that my experience was not as enjoyable as reading the memoir. The historical fiction novel I read for the second quarter was The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee. While the story was interesting, I found that the overall plot of the novel did not grasp my attention as much as I would have liked. Overall though, I still found that the novel was well written.

This quarter, the best book I read would have to be Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin. What surprised my about this novel was how well I enjoyed it, despite the fact that it was a classic. At first, I was a little hesitant to try it because I thought that it may not hold my interest, but as I began the novel I realized that the plot of the novel was engaging and was easily something that I was able to enjoy. This book stood out from some of the other novels I read because I liked how Jane Austin described her characters and how the personalities of Elinor, Marianne and Margaret were portrayed in the novel. It was interesting to see though that Marianne and Margaret were very much alike, yet Elinor seemed to be more of the mature one of the bunch. Jane Austin simply just made all of her characters seem so different from one another that the reading experience was more enjoyable because it made it more interesting to see characters with different personalities react with one another.

Overall, this quarter has been very successful with reading and I find that though there is always still more room for improvement.....next quarter, I am hoping to read more books!!