So far i haven't quite been pleased with my reading progress. i have only read one book while i had planned to read two at least by now. the book i have read "The Life of Pi" was a really good book and i enjoyed it a lot more than i thought i would
"The Life of Pi" was a good thought provoking book that showed a lot of insight into how people think and come to their decisions it talks about religion and many other things. while i don't share all of the views expressed in the book it was very interesting to read and learn about all of them in the book. The book talks about all sorts of struggles from choosing what to believe in and leaving behind your home without a choice. i can see this as a book that almost anyone can relate to and would recommend it to anyone who can understand whats going on in the book.
So while i haven't been so pleased with how fast i have been reading i have been pleased with my book choices so far and i am excited to see how the book progresses and then see what i read next.
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Friday, April 1, 2016
Truth behind Moby Dick
So far i have been very pleased from my reading progress i have read a total of 4 books this semester and have pick a few genres that I already knew that i enjoyed and a few that I wasn't so sure about. one of those books is the nonfiction book that i read Wild Blue while it was an interesting book about the history of blue whales and whales in general i struggled to get through parts of it as some parts would be full of information and other parts would be about how we tracked their reproduction and not a lot more than that. So overall i have been pleased with my reading progress.
The book Wild Blue was a very interesting book about humans progress in whaling to overcome many limitations to be able to hunt many different whales to how we have been able to help them recover from our killing of almost 95% of all whales. This book is definitely not for everyone as it is full of information about whale mostly blue whales and while that can seem cool for a while it gets old and boring, but if you stick it through you'll find that there's more to the world's largest animal than there seems to be.
The book Wild Blue was a very interesting book about humans progress in whaling to overcome many limitations to be able to hunt many different whales to how we have been able to help them recover from our killing of almost 95% of all whales. This book is definitely not for everyone as it is full of information about whale mostly blue whales and while that can seem cool for a while it gets old and boring, but if you stick it through you'll find that there's more to the world's largest animal than there seems to be.
Monday, March 14, 2016
What is the real last frontier?
So far I have talked about challenging myself in just one was how much I have been reading, and on that front I have been doing very well I have read 2 books in just 3 weeks much more than my usual. Now that I have made good amounts of progress there I am going to start challenging myself with the difficulty and genre of books be it books that are interesting to me but take too long to get started to help me be more patient or books that have more complex thoughts and words in them I want to start doing this so that going further in my classes it will be easier to learn on their more advanced materials.
Recently I have finished a book called Armada I found it to be a very good book, it's about a boy named Zachary who gets a chance to live his life's biggest fantasy when he gets recruited to join a military society in a game he plays that is actually a simulator for controlling drones that earth intends to use to defend itself from an oncoming alien invasion. Later on in the book you discover that the entire invasion was just a test from a highly intelligent group of alien species to determine if the human species was worthy of joining their group, and the only way to do this is to show that humans can ignore their barbaric instincts and use logic in the face of an unbeatable threat. One thing that I would like to know is that if the humans never attacked the aliens how long would it have been until they invaded on their own because in the book the only reason the invasion started was because we attempted to destroy the aliens home, but if we never did that would they have waited for some other kind of proof that we have peace in us or just kept us in a arms race until we became smart enough to figure out their scheme and learn of them that way. I also noticed that even though near the end the author leads the reader to believe that the entire conflict started because Nixon sent a nuke to destroy the moon that the aliens were believed to inhabit, but the alien ambassador said that they were going to threaten to kill humanity no matter what we did it would be nice to know if that would have gone any differently if we hadn't attacked them right after we found them.
Recently I have finished a book called Armada I found it to be a very good book, it's about a boy named Zachary who gets a chance to live his life's biggest fantasy when he gets recruited to join a military society in a game he plays that is actually a simulator for controlling drones that earth intends to use to defend itself from an oncoming alien invasion. Later on in the book you discover that the entire invasion was just a test from a highly intelligent group of alien species to determine if the human species was worthy of joining their group, and the only way to do this is to show that humans can ignore their barbaric instincts and use logic in the face of an unbeatable threat. One thing that I would like to know is that if the humans never attacked the aliens how long would it have been until they invaded on their own because in the book the only reason the invasion started was because we attempted to destroy the aliens home, but if we never did that would they have waited for some other kind of proof that we have peace in us or just kept us in a arms race until we became smart enough to figure out their scheme and learn of them that way. I also noticed that even though near the end the author leads the reader to believe that the entire conflict started because Nixon sent a nuke to destroy the moon that the aliens were believed to inhabit, but the alien ambassador said that they were going to threaten to kill humanity no matter what we did it would be nice to know if that would have gone any differently if we hadn't attacked them right after we found them.
Friday, February 26, 2016
My experiences looking for Alaska
Entry 2
I have started reading looking for Alaska i found it to be a really good book to the point that i have read around 3 times my normal goals for reading. I greatly enjoyed the book until the major event of the book happened which changed to tone so drastically in the book it doesn't feel like the same book anymore.
Now even though i greatly dislike the change in the book i feel that it was a really smart move on his part to show how fast the world can change, but it was not without its fair warning the main bit of foreshadowing was the quote "We did not say: Don't drive. You're drunk. We did not say: We aren't letting you in that car when you are upset. We did not say: We insist on going with you. We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait." This is a good example of the author foreshadowing(Spoilers) the death of Alaska. even though i dis like the turn of the book i will continue to read it and see how it ends.
I have started reading looking for Alaska i found it to be a really good book to the point that i have read around 3 times my normal goals for reading. I greatly enjoyed the book until the major event of the book happened which changed to tone so drastically in the book it doesn't feel like the same book anymore.
Now even though i greatly dislike the change in the book i feel that it was a really smart move on his part to show how fast the world can change, but it was not without its fair warning the main bit of foreshadowing was the quote "We did not say: Don't drive. You're drunk. We did not say: We aren't letting you in that car when you are upset. We did not say: We insist on going with you. We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait." This is a good example of the author foreshadowing(Spoilers) the death of Alaska. even though i dis like the turn of the book i will continue to read it and see how it ends.
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Hi my name is Matt Ferguson I'm a student at Hebron high school. I am not the most ambitious reader, but I have wanted to become more of one recently. Outside of school I don't read much unless I find a series that I really enjoy then I will read around four books in about a week. So as for my overall goals I don't quite expect myself to read that much but I want to read at least one book in two weeks currently I'm reading a non-fiction book called wild blue it's about blue whales and how they have progressed in life after we hunted to near extinction. The book includes people's methods of hunting them, and what we used them for. Currently I like the book but at times it can be a little hard to read but I'm going to stick it through because its a required book.
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