Over the semester I really showed how big of a book nerd I was. Totally around 11 or 12 books read I think we can all agree that it's a decent number. I love books and I had a diverse selection of novels that I devoured. You may be asking how do you find all these books? The answer is I don't really know. I pick out my books almost unintentionally, I go to Barnes and Noble to buy a book for class and walk out with 3 others that I had collected while searching. The criteria I have is nonexistent if I like a book description it will worm its way onto my shelves. The books that I completed included Let It Snow, The Art of Wishing, Killer Instinct and The Bourne Identity which you already know due to my blog posts. But I also read a few others, A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby is an honorable mention because it was really out of my comfort zone. It was adult fiction, a satire and tackled big issues that really aren't present in my life. Despite all this, I liked the challenge and I'm glad to add it to my 'read' shelf. I feel like I accomplished a lot of reading this year and many of them are stories I will remember forever.
My blog posts did evolve over the semester, I apologize for the first few that happened to be clinical and no-nonsense. They weren't relate able but as the semester moved on I got more comfortable showing my personality in my blog posts and allowing them to be more interesting. I honestly think that they became a higher quality the further into the year we went. As the rubric states, "The writer uses a variety of syntactical structures and effective diction. The writer's voice is present in all pieces..." I achieved this in my blog posts, I love to utilize diction to get my point across. I remember in one of my Bourne blog posts I used the word insurmountable to emphasize just how hard reading the book seemed. I think that in most of my blog posts I have portrayed a voice across, connected with the reader. I try to make them seem casual and laid back. In my "Worst Thing About My Book" Post I had a comment praising me on the voice I included.
I have to admit my faults, I'm not a prefect blogger,and I need to fix things in my blog in order to get better. I have goals that I would like to achieve many of them relating to time. My blog posts are sometimes on time but I do have quite a few that aren't. Next semester I aspire to be on-time, to deliver the posts when they are do and not a few days (or weeks) late. Another goal has to do with the textual evidence that I use in my posts. I do include a line from the book I am reading every week but picking through my posts I've come to realize not all of them are relevant. In the blogging criteria it states, "contain compelling ideas, examples and specific textual evidence." I want to work on finding the best piece of evidence for my blog and I hope that it will come to be second nature by the end of the year. My final goal is to utilize my widgets a little bit more. I only update Goodreads every once in a while and by then I generally am not on top of my currently-reading books which is a list available to people on my blog. I want to keep up with that so it is more accurate in the future.
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