My Reading

My reading, for a long time, has always had sporadic periods. There are many times throughout any given year that I read an outrageous amount and other times that I read none at all. My reading has always been a strength of mine but never a main priority. Since I like to vary my life from a day to day or month to month basis. When I'm not reading I spend my time working or playing games. One might say that my reading is like a sine wave.

However, ever time I've have taken the time to read independently, I read fantasy books. There is a sanctuary that fantasy books provide. I gravitate towards books that have worlds that have no connection to ours other than maybe an atmosphere and humans. However, I do enjoy making connections to the various cultures that authors allude too though they often carry different names.

Diction Observation Guide

In the excerpt from Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine, he speaks in a very business-like and scholarly fashion that depicts an almost heavenly imagistic environment with “escalators of daylight.” Baker’s use of diction such as “towering volumes,” portrays a refined and controlled choice of words. The office’s description of “a pair of integral signs” as escalators “swooping” render Baker as a writer who creates mathematically exact metaphors.   With an almost picturesque illustration on an office in which “marble and glass,” “brushed steel” and “black rubber” meets sunlight to create “long glossy highlights” and “radians of black luster,” Baker draws in readers within the very first paragraph of his novel.

Quarterly

I think that of all the reading I've done this quarter, the Demonwars Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore was my favorite. In his writting his character devolpment was much more in depth than those of the Hels Crucible Duology by Dennis McKiernan. Salvatore made you question the true morals of his characters rather than just outright knowing. I think that McKiernan focused more on flooding his books with characters rather than taking the time to devolop his characters to their full potential. This quarter my reading times ranged from dawn to past dusk with no real reading schedule. I read anywhere from Jaeger's room to my office at home to the band field during practice. My goal this upcoming quarter is to reach 5000 pages, something that I have done in a specific period since my summer between 6th and 7th. Also I wish to finsh all of the Halo Books.

Senior Paragraph

This doesn't relate to Etymology directly but I still wanted to post this for my friends to see. Especially since I couldn't email him at the time.

Band, for me, has been my place to develop a love for playing the marimba. Band also gave me the opportunity to make friends before the school year even started. One of my favorite band related moments is from the first time I went to lunch. I was wandering around like any good freshman should and Andy Mockler, known to more as Stump, found me and told me where most of the drumline was sitting. Another favorite moment belonged to my sophomore year of band. Jesse Blevins, Jake Rupp, Quinn Brenneke, Corey Dixon, Mollie Blevins and I all went to the Heritage Parent Show at the end of their band camp. Then we went to the Whippy Dip for ice cream. Funniest part of the whole night was when we were all trying to be quiet and in the end all we did was laugh for minutes at a time. Oh, and I’ll never forget August 3^rd. And while I would love to take first at state, marching band for me has always been more about making friends and enjoying the time spent with “The largest team at Homestead”

Today's Claims

1. In the song "Your Love Is A Song" by the band Switchfoot, the pensive, tenacious air of the lyrics, along with the mellow drum and guitar accompaniment and the powerful, husky, and dreamlike quality of the singer's vocals combine to evoke an overwhelming sense of breathlessness and euphoria surrounding the song's subject, a love so solemn and earnest it becomes the singer's reason for living.
2.  In this shocking yet comically amusing video we observe an unusually grotesque reaction to some news that set a strange wild boy into a mystifying tangent of caterwauling violently.
3.[In this scene from Vincent van Gogh's Cafe Terrace at Night , his colorful and exciting use of setting, busy but pleasant mood, and inviting cozy buildings]
 portrays [a sense of playful benevolence and lighthearted liveliness.]
4.The educationally stimulating childrens' game Questionaut incorporates pleasantly jubilant music with whimsically quaint animation to create an inventively playful adventure.
5.   In this electrifying poster for the film 300, splashes of blood, open-mouthed screams of rage and anguish, and determined, hostile facial expressions,  deliver  impressive  feelings of wrath, exhilaration, and bloodshed that are sure to be felt in the heat of battle.

My favorites were claims 1 & 2 

Fallingwater

In the scene created by Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house in winter, its bleached colors, flowing movement, calm setting and elegant connection to nature illustrates an awestruck, majestic euphoria.

Currently.

This week, I finished reading the Demon Apostle by R.A. Salvatore and started reading Into the Forge by Dennis L. McKiernan. Unfortunately, Into the Forge is not as easy to get into as Salvatore's book were. However, I am starting a new series so it might take a short while before I enjoy this book.


Sentences of the Week:
1. "He can go pee up a rope." - I found this phrase enjoyable because it is a phrase that I've never heard before.
2. "Ann, was day was up here now its in the low octave."  - I enjoyed this sentence, one cause I said it and two, it was puny. Ann moved the octave in which we played and we didn't like that change and it made my day a little worse.