https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow en-us 2017-03-20 19:41:55 UTC 2025-05-30 03:44:39 UTC hello@padlet.com jessicas0657 https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161315288 "The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights."
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I would not chose this novel because the western and naturalistic style doesn't interest me. 



]]> 2017-03-20 19:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161315288 jessicas0657 https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161315505 "The novel narrates main character Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny." As a young woman, who is fair-skinned with long hair, she expects more out of life, but comes to realize she has to find out about life 'fuh theyselves' (for herself), just as people can only go-to-God for themselves."
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This is another novel which caught my interest somewhat, however I was turned off by the fact that it's set significantly in the past and a bit slow paced. It seems like another single character journey through rough times, and I'd like to read something more out of the ordinary. 

]]> 2017-03-20 19:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161315505 jessicas0657 https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161315689 "Esther Greenwood, a young woman from the suburbs of Boston, gains a summer internship at a prominent magazine in New York City, under editor Jay Cee; however, Esther is neither stimulated nor excited by either the big city or the glamorous culture and lifestyle that girls her age are expected to idolize and emulate." Source: Wikipedia
The idea of a girl in a big city seems cliche to me after seeing it so many times. I'd rather explore a topic I haven't really seen before.]]> 2017-03-20 19:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161315689 jessicas0657 https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161315807 "The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma. The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 16."
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This book has a Little House on the Prairie, old-time type of feeling that I'm not particularly interesting. Having just read The Jungle, I feel like I'm not interesting in reading another novel exploring the lives of poor characters moving through their tough life.

]]> 2017-03-20 19:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161315807 jessicas0657 https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161315941 "Published in 1920 and taking its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post–World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking."
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This novel was my second choice because I very much enjoy Fitzgerald's work and would like to read more of it. However, I am not choosing to reading it because we just finished the Great Gatsby, and I would like to branch off into a different genre. I will read this book in the future.

]]> 2017-03-20 19:47:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161315941 jessicas0657 https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161315998 "In Cold Blood details the 1959 murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas." 
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Although this book is intriguing to me, I just finished a murder mystery called Sharp Objects and would like to read something of a different topic. Also, I'm currently watching Twin Peaks, so both watching and reading murder mysteries would be too much at once.

]]> 2017-03-20 19:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161315998 jessicas0657 https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161316093 "The Tortilla Curtain is a novel by U.S. author T.C. Boyle about middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction." 
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Immigration and xenophobia seems to be a very relevant topic right now; I feel almost oversaturated by it. Although this book is a realistic work, the topic it contains seems like too much for me right now given how relevant is in real life. 

]]> 2017-03-20 19:47:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161316093 jessicas0657 https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161316169 "Primarily a coming-of-age story (Bildungsroman) and family saga, the novel chronicles the effect of a mutated gene on three generations of a Greek family, causing momentous changes in the protagonist's life."
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This novel is my choice because its different than a typical character-goes-on-a-journey novel. The character of this novel goes outside of normal societal boundaries, yet is still a work of realistic fiction. I chose to read it in order to explore a topic not often talked about in society.

]]> 2017-03-20 19:48:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161316169 jessicas0657 https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161316225 "Empire Falls follows the story of Miles Roby in a fictional, small blue-collar town in Maine and the people, places, and the past surrounding him, as manager of the Empire Grill diner."
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I personally enjoy more realistic works than those of made up stories in small towns. I feel like I've read my fair share of small town mysteries/fictions/conflicts and would like to read something else.

]]> 2017-03-20 19:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161316225 jessicas0657 https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161316282 "Set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian theocracy which has overthrown the United States government, the dystopian novel explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain agency."
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Futuristic-set novels do not interest me for the most part; I prefer to read more non fiction or realistic fiction works.

]]> 2017-03-20 19:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161316282 jessicas0657 https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161316368 "The Joy Luck Club is a 1989 novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club known as The Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods."
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While I do enjoy books which encompass games and some mystery, there are other novels which I am considering more strongly.

]]> 2017-03-20 19:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161316368 jessicas0657 https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161316424 "The novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, an African-American youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s."
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This story is something I may be interested in, being a biography focusing on one person's modern struggle. However, I feel like I've read a lot of books about African American struggles and the 20s as of late.]]> 2017-03-20 19:49:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicas0657/9dzqzhijk0ow/wish/161316424