1. BLOG POST #1

Today we will begin blogging.

BLOG POST #1: INSTRUCTIONS

Find a quote on the internet that displays well your feelings about books, or your relationship with books. Once you have found a perfect quote, make it the subheading of your blog (give credit to the author of the quote as well).

NOTE: To do this you will need to click on the blogger icon found at the top left of your blog. From this page click on 'settings'. Come up with a creative blog title and add the quotation you chose as your blog description.

THEN as your first blog post explain why you selected the quote you did. Make a personal connection to the quote and what it tells your readers about you and your relationship to reading. Be sure to include the quote itself as well as the author's name and a link to the source you borrowed it from.

NOTE: to embed a link (as above) you can use the Link icon found on your toolbar at the top of your New Post window or you can simply copy and paste a link (as in the example below).

Here is an example of a strong response to this assignment:

"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you." -Mortimer Adler 

SOURCE: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/22395.Mortimer_J_Adler

I do not read books as if it's a competition to see who can get to the end the fastest. It doesn't even have to be books, they can be articles, myths anything written. You can read something quickly countless times but still know nothing of what it is saying. Instead, why don't you take a few extra moments, read it slower, then you take in all of what the words are saying to you and then later you don't keep having to flip back to the text saying: I read this in this part, but what did it say? Then you have to spend more time on it. I know people who race through many books a week and enjoy them, but then you ask them what it meant, they don't know. Some people are okay with not knowing exactly what the book was trying to convey, but that's not me. I would rather read one book and take it apart word for word. If I don't do that, then I don't see a point. Books are written to serve a purpose. If books don't tell you something or if they don't give you that feeling that hits you deep down, then it's not the author's fault, it's yours. So search for it. And let the meaning get through you.

E. M. 2012