10 February 2008

Grace's journey

This is the first book which I have ever read before for such a so short time even in Chinese...
This is the first book which I have ever read before since it is a kind of thick even in Chinese...
This is the first book which I have ever read before in such beautiful language in English...
This is my first real English novel...
It is Alias Grace by Margarte Atwood...


I like reading this novel...although there's lots of difficult discerptions, especially at the beginning of the novel...To read this novel I have just used dictionary twice during these two weeks...I've learnt that it is possible to read a novel without looking up in the dictionary all the time...I enjoy this experience. Also I've learnt some expressions from this book what I want to use in my free writings sometimes...A very big BUT, I am not satisfied with my reading part because of the time limiting...I jumped several parts so that I could catch up with our group members...So, I mark myself 6...

I enjoyed the discussion time bescause I like to collect different opinions from different persons and then think them over in my mind. I am a thinking person, I guess some of you have found that I prefer listening to speaking...I know it is not good for me in some areas, but I really like to listen...In this case, I put 7 on my discussion part...

Written review is a nice part of the novel project because I have learnt some skills of writing this kind of articls. And also from this section, I can present some of my points of view. To be honest, I was satisfied with my book review(:One of the reasons was that I finished it in the lab...^__________^ So that I gain an 8 for myself...

The most disapointed work is presentation. I thought I was back to the time before Advanced One. I don't know why...I just was speaking without organization...I knew what I wanted to present to my audience, but just...I don't know...absolutley have no idea what has happened...It was awful...I have 5 on 10 for my presentation. But as an audience, I like others presentation pretty much. For Obasan, I found it was easy to understand and the presenters are very nice(: For Cross Bone, I was interested in it because it was similar to DaVinci Code...For Life of Pi, I was absolutely attracked by these two presenters. I was brought into the novel and thought about it...I want something philosophy, I like something psychology...I'd like to read it Life of Pi!!!I, an audience, was 7. For my whole project, I marked myself 6 again.

3 comments:

jung said...

don't forget bring alias grace!!
kakakakakaka!!!

Davidwang said...

hehe,good writing~~~
dont worry
everything will be fine

Helen said...

Alias Grace is really a challenage to readers (especially foreign readers)...When I read our first part, it's too hard to understand so that I choose to use dictionary sometiomes. But it's not very useful, because too many new words I have to look for...Therefore, I gave up using dictionary, and began to realize that I have to finish it in one week so that it's impossible to focus on all the details...No matter what, I really enjoy reading this book, but not in one week...