MY LAST BLOG! (:

            This is my very LAST blog!! I am so excited to finish these things.  Writing blogs are a pain in the butt to have to do but I think it has helped my writing.  I am able to put my thoughts down on my computer without having to think too much.  This summer I have read four books, two of which were required while the other two were optional.  The books I read were: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck. 

My favorite book that I read was The Old Man and the Sea.  This is because I just love reading anything that Ernest Hemingway wrote.  He is such a fantastic writer.  Hemingway writes with enough description to be able to picture an image in your mind but not too much to the point that he loses you.  In some novels, the authors are so descriptive that it takes a whole paragraph to write about a rock.  I have to say I have not read about a descriptive paragraph on a rock, but I thought it was a good example.  I just felt that while I was reading The Old Man and the Sea I did not get lost and that I was able to understand it.  I hate when I read a book and I have to go back and try to understand what I just read.  I have had to do that before especially with Shakespeare. 

            I just wanted to say thank you to my English 332 teacher, Mr. Langley for having us read these books.  You have made me read the classics with a whole new attitude.  Plus I have been able to keep my brain from turning to mush from not being at school to learn.  Even though writing fifty blogs that were three and twenty-five words or more was a pain, I am glad that you chose for us to do that.  I am proud to say that I have finished my fiftieth blog and I still have two more days of summer left!! Yay me!  Farewell fellow bloggers! (: (:

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Del Rey Book, 1991. Print.

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner, 1952. Print.

Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951. Print.

Steinbeck, John. Novels, 1942-1952: The Moon Is Down ; Cannery Row ; The Pearl ; East of Eden. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 2001. Print.