English Outside Reading Books by Soham Ray https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl en-us 2017-03-20 19:43:24 UTC 2026-01-05 11:46:55 UTC hello@padlet.com The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway sohamr3722 https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161315533 Summary:
The narrator, Jake Barnes, describes Robert Cohn, a rich Jew who graduated from Princeton with low self-esteem, had an unsuccessful marriage, lost most of his inheritance, and moved to Paris with an exploitative woman, Frances, to write a novel. Jake plays tennis with him.
Novel Opinion:
I would like to read this because the main character seems relatable and complex.
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]]> 2017-03-20 19:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161315533 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston sohamr3722 https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161315783 Summary:
Their Eyes Were Watching God follows the life of Janie Crawford, a girl of mixed black and white heritage, around the turn of the century...which was not an easy time to be of mixed race. As an adolescent, Janie sees a bee pollinating a flower in her backyard pear tree and becomes obsessed with finding true love. (Because there's nothing hotter than a little bee-on-flower action.)

From there, the novel documents her emotional growth and maturity through three marriages.

Janie’s first marriage, to farmer Logan Killicks, is planned and executed by Janie’s well-intentioned grandmother, Nanny. Unfortunately, Nanny's plan doesn't go so well. In this marriage, Janie chafes under the uninspired but reliable Logan.

Make that uninspired, reliable...and abusive. After he threatens to kill her for not obeying him, Janie leaves Logan for the suave and ambitious Joe Starks.
Novel Opinion:
I would not read this book because it is focused around love and the pursuit of it.
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]]> 2017-03-20 19:46:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161315783 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath sohamr3722 https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161316019 Summary:
The Bell Jar is the story of 19-year-old Esther Greenwood, the breakdown she experiences, and the beginnings of her recovery. The year is 1953 and Esther Greenwood, having finished college for the academic year, has won a one-month paid internship at Ladies Day magazine in New York City.
Novel Opinion:
I would not want to read this book because it does not really have a unique story and is more like a biography.
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]]> 2017-03-20 19:47:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161316019 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou sohamr3722 https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161316108 Summary: When Maya Angelou was three years old and her brother was four, they were sent from their father in California to their paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Their grandmother runs a store there, which is the center of life in the Negro community of the town.
Novel Opinion:
I would not read this book becuase I am not really interested in the California setting and the plot.
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]]> 2017-03-20 19:48:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161316108 This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald sohamr3722 https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161316312 Summary:
Published in 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel focuses on the early life of Amory Blaine. The novel is organized into sections represented by various learning experiences that have an impact on Amory. Ultimately, illustrating the trial-and-error path to adulthood that is meant to be representative of many of the young American men ''coming of age'' in Amory's generation in the years leading up to and following World War I.

Amory is mostly raised by his flamboyant, independent mother, who is also somewhat of a hypochondriac. At the age of twelve, she sends him to live in Minneapolis with an uncle. As a young boy, Amory is charismatic and likes to ''pose,'' or tell white lies and exaggerations to impress the people around him. For high school, he enrolled at the St. Regis boarding school, where he has trouble making friends at first because of his egotistical personality.
Novel Opinion:
I would not read this book because it it too similar to the plot and style of Great Gatsby which i did not enjoy.
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]]> 2017-03-20 19:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161316312 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote sohamr3722 https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161316578 Summary:
In this adaptation of Truman Capote's seminal true-crime novel, ex-convicts Perry Smith (Robert Blake) and Richard "Dick" Hickock (Scott Wilson) hatch a plan to rob a wealthy Kansas family, the Clutters. The men enter the Clutter home expecting to find a safe filled with cash, but in fact find no money at all. Enraged, they kill the entire family and flee. While on the run, they face not only the realities of their terrible crime but also their own earthly impermanence.
Novel Opinion:
I would read this novel because I enjoy crime books and the aspect of cruel death adds an intriguing element to the plot. 
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]]> 2017-03-20 19:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161316578 Tortilla Curtain by T.C Boyle sohamr3722 https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161316690 Summary:
Delaney Mossbacher and Cándido Rincón live totally different lives, but share Topanga Canyon as their home. Delaney is a middle-class liberal humanist and Cándido is a homeless illegal Mexican immigrant. The novel begins with Delaney unexpectedly hitting Cándido with his car. The accident really startles Delaney, but instead of making sure Cándido gets proper medical attention, Delaney gives him 20 dollars and hopes he will disappear from his life. Delaney does not choose to call the police because he does not want to blemish his perfect driving record and Cándido chooses not to seek medical care because he is afraid of being deported. The men part ways; however this unfortunate car accident causes Cándido and Delaney’s lives to be influenced by one another from that point on.

Novel Opinion:
I would read this book because the life of an immigrant sounds interesting and the hardships seem appealing to a story.
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]]> 2017-03-20 19:50:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161316690 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides sohamr3722 https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161316817 Summary:
The Silver Spoon. Middlesex opens with Cal Stephanides (also known as Calliope) introducing herself/himself. Cal was born a girl in January of 1960 in Detroit, Michigan to a Greek-American family. (S)he is a 5-Alpha-Reductase pseudohermaphrodite, which he discovered when he was sixteen.
Novel Opinion:
I would read this book because its interesting how a charcter developes as it goes though life differently. 
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]]> 2017-03-20 19:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161316817 Empire Falls by Richard Russo sohamr3722 https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161316922 Summary:
Empire Falls is a 2001 novel written by Richard Russo. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2002, and 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.
Novel Opinion:
I would not read this book because of its similarity to stories that foucs on one person and his or her surroundings. 
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]]> 2017-03-20 19:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161316922 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood sohamr3722 https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161317088 Summary:
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian and theocratic state that has replaced the United States of America. Because of dangerously low reproduction rates, Handmaids are assigned to bear children for elite couples that have trouble conceiving.
Novel Opinion:
I would read this because it seems interesting how the US was replaced and made into a different form of goverment]]> 2017-03-20 19:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161317088 The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan sohamr3722 https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161317249 Summary:
In San Francisco, a group of aging Chinese women (Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, France Nuyen, Lisa Lu) meet regularly to trade familial stories while playing Mahjong. In a series of sixteen vignettes that spans generations and continents, this adaptation of Amy Tan's bestselling novel explores cultural conflict and the often-turbulent relationships between four first-generation Chinese-American women (Ming-Na Wen, Tamlyn Tomita, Lauren Tom, Rosalind Chao) and their mothers.
Novel Opinion:
I would not read this book because there seems to not be an exciting adventure.
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]]> 2017-03-20 19:52:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161317249 Native Son by Richard Wright sohamr3722 https://padlet.com/sohamr3722/jyrtipmnbptl/wish/161317298 Summary:
Native Son, novel by Richard Wright, published in 1940. The novel addresses the issue of white American society’s responsibility for the repression of blacks. The plot charts the decline of Bigger Thomas, a young African American imprisoned for two murders—the accidental smothering of his white employer’s daughter and the deliberate killing of his girlfriend to silence her. In his cell Thomas confronts his growing sense of injustice and concludes that violence is the only alternative to submission to white society.

Novel Opinion:
I would read this book because it is about the racial challenges one faces in a American society and how a character develops to adjust to his situation.

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