Hi! I'm Alex Kippenbrock. This is my first blog ever, and I don't know exactly how this works. As a Junior in Mrs Hayes English, I have to read a book every quarter, and blog about it. This is going to be a daunting assignment. It's not that I don't like reading, it's just that I am going to have to read and study for all my other classes, and I will have to read the other books in English. Another scary aspect about this project is the blogging part. I have never done anything like it. Mainly, typing on the computer I might forget about punctuation. Hopefully it won't be as hard as I am imaging it and by the end of the year i will have millions of followers.
The reason I am blogging is for the Read for a Lifetime program. Mrs. Hayes has assigned us to read a book per quarter. It doesn't seem that hard except for the reasons mentioned above. The book i choose to read and write my first blog about is Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi. I choose this one mainly by it's cover. It's really unfortunate that it happened that way, but it did. The brief summary about the book says that it is a post apocalyptic book about a boy who spends his days scavenging old ships that floated ashore when everything shut down. This book does have potential to be a very good book that I will want to read more often than SSR on Tuesdays.
Several interesting points that I want to talk about when blogging in the future is character analysis, how the story is progressing, and just the main overall quality of the book. Because i have not read the book and barely skimmed the analysis i am not 100% sure what the book is about. But when i start to read the book, ideas will come to my head thus making the blog amazing, intersting, and engaging. But for now I'm still not entirely sure what some topics will be. Hopefully, I will be able to make my posts appealing and maybe even humorous.
