Reading Journal-10

BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY by HELEN FIELDING
First published 1996 by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmilan Ltd Pan Macmillan, 20 New Wharf road, London N1 9RR.

*Genre: Fiction

*Source: From High School Library

*Rating: 4.7 out of 5

*I have read 3 chapters

*2 New Vocabulary words:

1. Tabloid- Newspaper that has small pages, short articles, and lots of photogrpahs. Tabloids are often considered to be less serious than other newspapers.

2. Fraudulent- A fraudulent activity is deliberately decitful, dishonest or untrue.

*Question 16 : Design a starter of your own

As everyone can see from the title, which is 'Bridget Jones's Diary', all the story is organized as form of the many diaries. So, the reader can know the whole stroy from Bridget Jones's 1 year diaries. I think this form of the story is really special for the all readers. Not like every other stories, the narrator is the main character who tells the whole story of the book. So, the reader can easily see the main character's feelings or mind because Bridget tells about her everything to her own diaries.

Reading Journal-09

"Truth Or Dare" by Celia Rees
published by Macmillan Children's Books 2000 in the New WIndmill Series 2001.

*Gnere: Fiction(horror, mystery)

*Soure: High School Senior Library

*Rating: 3 out of 5

*I read 8 chapters from this book.

* 2 New Vocabulary words :

1. Minnow - A very small FRESHWATER fish

2. Tarry - (old use or literary) to stay in a place, especially when you ought to leave; to delay coming to or going from a place

*Question 14 : If you disliked or found something you read very boring, explain why?

This book has interesting story in it, but I disliked how this story unfloding. The reason why I disliked how the story unfloding because the book unfold the stroy too slow. Of course, unfolding too fast is also bad, but still, the specific story didn't come out even though I have read chapter 8. The book was concentrated to tell the reader about the setting, main characters and main character's history and past. So, if the story unfold faster than now, I wouldn't dislike or bored while I reading this book.

Reading Journal-08

"China Flies High"by Bill Powell from "Time" August10,2009.

*Genre: News(Magazine)

*Source: Book Store

*Rating: 3 out of 5

*I read whole article

*2 new vocabulary words

1. Recession- n. a difficult time for the economy of a country, when there is less trade and industrial activity than usual and more people are unemployed

2. Zeitgeist- n. (from German, formal) the general mood or quality of a particular period of history, as shown by the ideas, beliefs, etc. common at the time


About few months ago, the world's economy had gone into a deep hole and it didn't seem like there were any answers. However, some people are now looking for another country which can save the world.
China is known for its very wide land, world-side language and its big population. The world is watching China. A few years ago, this would have sounded really ridiculous. However, now, China has developed really fast. From the Time article 'China Flies High', it is mentioned that China looks like a picture of economic dynamism.
Although China is recieving high expectations from the world, there are sill some problems now. I have learned that China's current situation is similar to the U.S's. So some people are worrying that China may fall into U.S's. current situation.
I think the world economy has become better than before. I hope we can find more special ways to recover our economy.

Reading Journal-07

"One Giant Leap"
by Craig Nelson from Rocket Man
July 2009, Singapore. The magazine READER'S DIGEST
*Genre: Magazine

*Source: Book Store

*Rating: 3 out of 5

*I read whole article

*2 New Vocabulary words:
1: Manoeuvre-n. A clever plan, action or movement that is used to give somebody an advatage.
2: monochrome-adj. (of photographs, etc.)using only black, white and shades of grey.

*The picure of Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin.

*The Moon Landing Conspiracy
1. Footprints in the extraordinarily fine lunar dust, with no moisture or atmosphere or strong gravity are unexpectedly well preserved- as if made in wet sand.

->The dust is silicate, and this has a special property in a vacuum of sticking together like that.

2.The flag placed on the surface by the astronauts flapped despite there being no wind on the Moon

->The astronauts were movin the flag into position. The flag's rippled appearance was form folding during storage, and it could be mistaken for motion in a still photogrpah.

Reading Journal-06

"About A Boy"
by Nick Hornby. Published by the Penguin Group in Great Britain, 1998.
*Genre: Fiction

*Source: High School Senior Library

*Rating: 4.7 out of 5

*I have read whole book

*2 New Vocabulary words
1: vertigo- n. the feeling of DIZZINESS and fear, and of losing your balance, that is caused in some people when they look down from a very gigh place

2: Abstracted- adj.(formal) thinking deeply about something and not paying attention to what is around you

*There is also movie which is based on this fiction.
(Directors are Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz).

*Best Line: No man is an island
Human must live together, leaning on each other.

*Comment on the opening. How effective?
How does it try to hook you?
What is introduced?

This book starts from introducing 2 different main characters, Will and Marcus.
There are huge differences between Will and Marcus. Will, who is thirty-six but acis like a teenager. Because of his father, although he has no job to earn money, he owns amount of money and play all the time. He reads the right magazines, goes to the club and knows how to get the score from the women. However, Marcus, who is only 12-year-old, is strange. He listens to Mozart, looks after his mum and he doesn't know what is popular now around all the other teenagers.
After the introduction of these 2 characters, the book implies about the future of the 2 peopel- Perhaps if Will can teach Marcus how to behave a teenager and Marcus can help Will to be grown up.

Reading Journal-05

"Foxspell"
by Gillian Rubinstein. First Published as a Trade Paperback in 1994 by Hyland House Publishing Pty Ltd in South Melbourne.*Genre: Fiction

*Source: From Ms.Farrer

*Rating: 4 out of 5

*I have read 3 chapters from this book

*2 New Vocabulary words
1: Haphazard- adj.(disapproving) with no particular order or plan; not organized will

2: Stammer- v. to speak with difficulty, repeating sounds or words and often stopping, before saying things correctly

*Question 9: How is this text similar or different to other things you have read?

I have read one book series called 'DARREN SHAN-CIRQUE DU FREAK'.
This serious is consisted of 12 books. This serious is a bit similar to 'foxspell' because foxspell's plot is about a boy who become half fox and half human. And Darren Shan's plot is about a boy who become half vampire and half human. However, the difference is completely different. Foxspell's main problem and story are to select to become fully fox or fully human. But, Darren Shan's main problem and story are about after the main character select to become fully vampire.

Reading Journal-04

I am so glad to write review of this book!!!!!:)
The book that I am going to write review is 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen.
Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors. Although I only read Pride and Prejudice , I'm going to read another books of her- such as Persuasion, Emma....etc.
Of course, Pride and Prejudice is also one of my favorite books and I watched the movie too.

*PRIDE AND PREJUDICE BY JANE AUSTEN.
PUBLISHED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PEARSON EDUCATION LIMITED

*Genre is Romance, fiction. I found this book from High school library and I also have read when I was in Korea.

*My rating of this book is 4.8 over 5.

*I have read whole book

*My 2 new vocabulary words are...

1. unjust: adj. not deserved or fair.

2. bewitch: verb. to attract or impress somebody so much that they cannot think in a sensible way.