Emily’s Comments (group member since Jun 21, 2012)

Emily’s comments from the Ms. Okes's Classes 2012 group.

Jack wrote: "One of my favorite book when has to be A Walk In the Woods. It's a book about how these two men hike the Appalachian trail. It is a nonfiction book and they run into a bunch of troubles. It made..."

This sounds like an interesting book. Why was it funny?

Triston wrote: "one of my favorite books iver ever read, has got to be "Milkweed" by jerry spinelli. The book has an amazing story line, its a book that unlike most others, isnt easy to figure out, the ending that..."

What is about? I need more information!

Caisie wrote: "One of my favorite books is 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. It's a book for anyone! I really like how that caterpillar just keeps eating and eating! And after all that eating, he turned into a beaut..."

I don't know whether to take you seriously or not...

Arik wrote: "My favorite book is The Green Mile, by Stephen King. I like this book because it is funny, but it is also really sad and serious at the climax. The characters are perfectly created and I think Step..."

I never thought of this story as funny. What parts are humorous?

Ashley wrote: "My favorite book would have to be the Transall Saga. This book had a lot of twists and turns in it, but the best part is the ending. You don't expect it all. The author has a very good imagination,..."

Tell me more!

Trevor wrote: "My favorite book is "The Two Towers," by J.R.R. Tolkien. I love fantasy and this book is not only fantasy, it is so deep and has wonderfully developed characters. It is truly amazing how the auth..."

Why do you like this one best of the trilogy? I confess that I was very frustrated by The Fellowship of the Rings because it seemed like the characters were lost in the woods for 1/3 of the novel, about to be discovered or getting high with sylvean hippies. I really wanted them to just move on in the plot.

Isaac wrote: "My favorite book is Loius La'more's Last of the Breed. This book was full of action. It was exciting and alittle Romantic at times. The story was about a man getting captured buy a russian major."

Of all the Louis L'mour books, why this one?

Tori wrote: "I think that my favorite book is "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." It is the seventh and final tale of Harry Potter and his friends. I think it is a great book because it involves magic, myst..."

J.K. Rowling did an excellent job making us readers feel like we grew up with the characters. The number of years it took to publish the books (and release the movies) means that we truly did age at about the same rate.

Alex wrote: "One of my all-time favorite books is The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. I read it a few years ago and it has really stuck with me. I enjoyed reading it and will probably do so again in the future.

The..."

Why do you like it so much? It is an excellent book.

Jake wrote: "One of my favorite books was How to Train your Dragon/. It was an awesome book because of the fun and aventure that was in it. The conflict in the story explains how to face bulleys and fears hea..."

I did not know this was a book. Is the movie of the same name based on it? I loved the movie, but usually I believe books that came first are better.

Courtney wrote: "One of my favorite books is "Black Beauty." I spent much of my childhood fantasising about having a horse like the one in the book. I absolutely love horses and that's mostly why i really enjoyed ..."

Do you have horses now? Do you ride?

Tyler wrote: "One of my favorite series are the "Cirque du Freak" books. Somehow I related to the characters. The main character stole a spider, with his friends, from a vampire. The spider ended up biting hi..."

I know these books are quite popular. They sound like enjoyable, easy reads.

BryAna wrote: "One of my favorite books is Pride and Prejudice. I read this book when I was in eigth grade. I really enjoyed it, not because of it being a girly romance book, but because you can really see the ..."

Many people have trouble tracking the characters in part because of the society's rules on calling people by their titles. Ex: Miss Bennett is only Jane until she is married. Her younger sisters are called Miss Elizabeth, etc.

Sarah wrote: "One of my favorite books is Inheritance. It was the last in the Eragon series and awnsered many questions that had been building, (which is one of the reasons that i liked it)but also left some una..."

How difficult was it to have new questions brought up? Were they answered by the end of the book, or were you left hanging?

Allie wrote: "1.) The book i chose to read for my IR project was "Pretty Little Secrets". I chose this book because it is part of one my favorite series.

2.) This book is part of the Pretty Little Liars series ..."

Does the book make it difficult to fit back into the TV series? Are there any gaps in plot trying to fit the two pieces together?

Kristen wrote: "1.)The book i chose for contemporary fiction was "A Light In August". I chose this book because it seemed to be intesting about an unheard of lifesyle for the time period.

2.) This book is about a..."

Did you learn anything about the 1920s? How did they treat an unwed, pregnant teenager then?

Allison wrote: "1) I chose "Please Ignore Viera Dietz" for my contemporary fiction. Truthfully, I chose it because the cover caught my eye, but when I read the summary it intriuged me.
2)The book was about a girl ..."

I've never heard of this one, but the plot sounds intriguing!

Merci wrote: "I chose Water for Elephants as my book. I chose this book becasue I loved the movie and I figured the book would be ten times better. This book is about a young boy named Jacob whos parents die so ..."

What do you qualify as an "older person"?
Look over your writing before you post. You have run-ons and sentence fragments.

Clayton wrote: "For my independent reading project I chose Two Little Girls In Blue by Mary Higgens Clark and I chose it because Clark is a very good author.

The book is about a group of people who break in and k..."

Read over your posts when you are done to look for disjointed (bumpy) writing. For example, you could shorten the first sentence to avoid repetition.

Ashley wrote: "I read The Color Purple. The book is about two sisters who get seperated. Celie has a very hard life, but in the end they are reunited. I didn't really enjoy the book because the dialogue was writt..."

What do you mean by "back in the day"? Why did you choose it?