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This semester, I challenge myself to read two to three English books to improve my English reading skills. So I went to the library to buy three books that I'm interested in. These are the three books I'm chose

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Summary:Strangers is a mystery novel about three people: Ursula, Gareth, and Alice, who do not know each other at first. Each of them have their own personal problems. Gareth takes care of his sick mother and gets strange messages about his missing father. Ursula feels guilty about her past and lives with a rude landlord. Alice is a single mom trying to find love again. In the end, their lives come together because of a serious crime and realize their not alone.

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My thoughts: After finishing these three books, this is the one I like the most and really got feelings reading it. Because it's so emotional, it shows how people can feel lonely and how strangers can help each other. It made me think that sometimes strangers are important in our lives.

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summary: This book tells the story of a young girl, Liesel, who goes to live with a foster family. She learns to read and starts stealing books, finding comfort in words during a time of war. Her family also hides a Jewish man named Max in their basement, which brings danger but also deep friendship.

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My thoughts: I think The Book Thief is sad but beautiful, a little bit too dark and sometimes sad for me. It shows how powerful books and words can be. Even in dark times, people can show kindness and love.
Liesel’s bravery and her love for reading touched me deeply. This book made me think about the value of stories and hope.

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summary: In a Glass Grimmly is a dark and funny fairy tale by Adam Gidwitz. It talks about Jack, Jill, and a talking frog named Frog as they go on a dangerous adventure.They want to find a magical mirror that shows the truth.On the way, they face giants, mermaids, evil creatures, and many scary tests.The story is based on classic fairy tales, like Jack and Jill and The Frog Prince. It is not a sweet fairy tale—it is scary, silly, and full of surprises.In the end, the characters learn that being perfect or popular doesn’t matter, being true to yourself does.

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My thoughts:I think this book is exciting and meaningful. It’s not just a fun adventure and a happy fairy tale story we used to see, it also teaches a lesson. I liked how the book was funny but also deep. Jack and Jill make mistakes, but they grow stronger and kinder. This story reminded me that we don’t need to be perfect, we just need to be honest and brave.

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After listening to hip hop albums, I'll go to Genius to learn the lyrics(3-4 albums per week)

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After listening to hip hop albums, I'll go to Genius to learn the lyrics(3-4 albums per week)

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I'm a hip hop head and have a hug passion and love for hip hop. Not those trap music or rap songs about drugs, money, and women. I prefer conscious, soulful, and jazz hip hop. Also, I'm an album guy, and lyrics are so important to hip hop. So I'll go to a website call Genius which I can learn more vocabulary and meaningful lyrics.

This is one of my favorite album: Be by Common. It talks about he want to be grateful, faithful, and live a gifted life. It's really jazzy and soulful an the lyrics are so powerful and make you feel you can accomplish everything in your life.

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list some albums which I study the lyrics, Black on both sides by Mos Def

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list some albums which I study the lyrics, Black on both sides by Mos Def

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Watched modern family(1.5 hours per week)

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Watched modern family(1.5 hours per week)

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Thoughts: I really like to watch this film while learning English. Because it's very relaxed and interesting. Also, they don't speak really fast so with caption it helped my English skills

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My Thoughts: This film is full of humor and it's so funny. It made me want to keep watching it, same as modern family it doesn't speak really fast so it's easy to learn from watching and listening. RIP captain Holt

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My thought:I learn a lot from this Ted talk because he told us about his rapping career and how to overcome those mental issues and keep moving foward

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I studied vocabulary and the TOEFL test every week

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summary: This article is about African players have some huge success in NBA and change their lives and give those African teenagers a dream to chase.

My thoughts: It's great to see more African players make marks in sports because most of them live in poverty and have financial problems. But now they can change their lives in different ways

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Listened to NFR podcast(2 episodes per week)

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Listened to NFR podcast(2 episodes per week)

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NFR podcasts is a perfect podcast for hip hop heads like me, listening to these two guys talking about music every week can make my English listening skills better.