Why I Chose my Book

The second book I am reading this trimester is Airport by Aurthur Hailey.  I am on page 31 out of 440 pages.  First, I chose this book because of the topic.  I did not put the page number as the top consideration because I WANT to read this book.  The title of the book and the graphic on the cover looks simple but the summary on the flaps sounded interesting.  I looked up this book on Goodreads and Wikipedia before I checked it out to see if it would be a book I would enjoy reading.  Second, I chose this book because it was made into a movie.  In Bestsellers, our second project must be a book that was made into a movie.  I searched the book and found out it was made into the Airport series.  How do you chose your books?

Text to Self Connection

"The top of the tail is sixteen feet off the ground.  The plane's fifty-five feet long" (Coonts 350).  I can easily relate to this quote because I say this type of information all the time.  I am obsessed about airplanes and research and read the fun facts about airplanes.  Most of the people don't care about the information but hope to impress someone like the pilot did in the story.  I think the facts are interesting just like the A-6 Intruder pilot thinks.  Plane Obsession  What are your obsessions?  Here is mine

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Summer Reading Post
Part A

Even though someone close to you was attacked violently, a way to get back the attacker is not with more violence. That is exactly what Joe did to the rapist. In the book, The Round House, Joe was thinking," I had to do what I had to do. This act was before me. In the uncanny light a sense of dread so overwhelmed me that tears started in my eyes and a single choking sound, a sob maybe, a wrench of hurt, burst from my chest"(Erdrich 264). This supports my central idea of the story because Joe knows it is wrong to kill or to do revenge at all. He knew there would be no prosecution for the rapist of his mom. He stole the gun from his friend's dad, a .22 caliber rifle, and shot the free man on the golf course where he was golfing.

Joe's mom, Geraldine was coming home when she was taken to a scared, worshiped "Round House" and raped along with another woman.  Joe got angry that there was no investigation in this because there was too much fuss over whose land the crime happened on.  The investigation never went on so Joe did it himself.  He found out all the information he needed to know about the rapist and to kill him.  Once he killed him, he gathered his friends up and drove across the country trying to escape from his life. 

The Round House Article