What I learned through Readers Choice-Goodreads

In readers choice I learned how to find more books that I might like with the aid of Goodreads.com. The site allowed me to narrow the book options through genres I like. Then scroll through the pages off books and see what grabs my eye. Also, it was nice to be able to see reviews from the books seeing if it was something I would be interested in. I liked learning and using this website because it helped me figure out books to read during Readers Choice when I really did not know what read. It really helped me figure out an out of comfort zone because I don't usually focus on books to possibly read that are out of my comfort zone. I can also use good reads to write review on novels I have read that I can inform others on. I can use Good reads in the future to figure out what’s going to be next on my reading list, like during the summer and just because. There is an unlimited about of novels to choose from, and it is easier to learn a little more about them before you dive in.

Favorite Places to Read

One of my favorite places to read is outside during the summer. It is the perfect time of the year because the weather is comfortable and it is usually quiet outside and really get into a book. Also a good place to read is on the beach for the same reasons, it is relaxing and nice, and easy to zone out the sound of others with the sound of the waves. One of my favorite places to read when the weather isn’t so nice out is a quite area of my house. The key for me to reading is it to be quiet because then I can get really into the book and enjoy it more, plus understand what is going on without getting distracted.

Favorite Book Quotes.

I recently read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, if I had to choose my favorite quote from the novel it would have to be this quote from Augustus Waters to Hazel: "I'm in love with you and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you." I love this quote because it is from his heart. It elicits emotion from the reader and really makes every girl want to have a guy do this to her. Also, I love this quote because he refuses to deny his love for Hazel, in any situation. And very romantic of him to say to her.

Another one of my favorite quotes would be from Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck: “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. . . . With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don’t have to sit in no bar room blowin’in our jack jus’ because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.” This is more of a friendship quote. It is George reassuring his best friend Lennie that they have a special bond. I like this because George really watches out for Lennie and never denies their friendship. And even though things get tough they have each other.

Lastly one of my favorite books is The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch: “The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.” It is such a powerful quote from his novel. I like how he teachers lessons in almost every line of the novel. The reason why this one is my favorite is because it shows the reader who will do what they need to succeed and who won’t, and who wants it more. Also that just because it seems like it is the end of a struggle, you always have to push a little more.