Five Books

OK, so this is my third blog today and I'm running out of things to write about... I got something. I know we read books for Mrs. Musick's class and quite a few but that's not really enough for me. I'm actually in another Lit. class that reads a book every two weeks; I think this week's book is Moby Dick. This week I finished five books (none of them were for my other class) and hope to finish Ben Hur by Saturday but am not counting on it. One of the books was Black Like Me (which I really liked). And the rest of them were the Tolkien series The Lord of the Rings, including the Hobbit. Now truthfully I don't really like fantasy or whatever you call the series but I was feeling really bad because I've never read any of the books and they are really famous, and because my brother has to read the Hobbit for Lightning Lit. and I wanted to have a race, which I won. Back to the point. I never realized how many different authors pulled for Tolkien in their writing. When you start reading more and more books you find that you recognized aspects of a character or setting in other books which actually helps you understand the second guys book because you can see where he got his inspiration. I just think it's interesting that the more you read the more you can understand other authors and their writing.