The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Title: The Rosie Project
Author: Graeme Simsion
Pages read:

The book that I am reading this week is The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. My mother read this book for her book club and recommended that I read it. This book is about a genetics professor with Asperger's Syndrome who is trying to find a wife. He designs a sixteen page questionnaire in order to weed out women who do not fit his specific standards. She must not drink, read horoscopes, be a vegetarian, or ever be late. And then he meets Rosie Jarman...

Paradigm: a typical example or pattern of something; a pattern or model

Media Schmedia

Wish Missed: Miley Cyrus Ruins 7-Year-Old Cancer Patient's Make-A-Wish Moment, Family Demands Re-Do

by Radar Staff

http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2014/03/miley-cyrus-justin-bieber-cancer-patient-make-a-wish/

I chose this to read for my Media Schmedia assignment from an online magazine site. 

|It is about this little girl who has cancer and only has months to live. She wished to meet Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. Justin Bieber hasn't contacted the family back but Miley Cyrus refused to fulfill her wish. Miley's dad said that the girl's family should be grateful to meet Miley in person. They are hoping that those two top celebrities would make her dream of meeting them come true.

The only word I didn't know in this article was actually defined in the article. It was Osteosarcoma which is an aggressive form of bone cancer as in the article, a malignant tumor of the bone as in the dictionary. 

Fast and Slow #1

Right now for my current reading I am reading Daniel Kahneman's Thinking fast and slow. I have just started the book and am on page 23/418. This book describes the activities of the mind and system one and system two.System one is instinctive thinking while system two is controlled thinking. An example of system one is 2+2. No matter what you automatically known the answer while an example of system two is 13 * 123. You experience controlled thinking. I was inspired to read this book from my parents as I am very interested in psychology and science. An odd word I found was orient (Orient to the source of a sudden sound pg. 21). Orient means to direct or position toward a particular object.

Mini shopaholic

The novel I read this week was Mini Shopaholic. The author of this wonderful novel is Sophie Kinsella. This novel has 458 pages. I chose this book because I love shopping, and off course I read the back and it seemed like a very interesting book. There was a word that I didn't know and that I wanted to find out more about what it meant, the word was surreptitious. surreptitious means when something is kept a secret. For example a sentence from the novel: '' I agree, and make a surreptitious swipe for the pony, which Minnie adeptly dodges. 

The Outsiders

The Outsiders

S. E. Hinton

     In class on Wednesday, we finished the novel "The Outsiders." In the last chapter, Ponyboy is sick, and when he goes back to school he starts to get bad grades, and he is having trouble at keeping up with the rest of the class. He then is assigned to write a theme for his English teacher, Mr. Syme, and if Ponyboy writes a good theme, Mr. Syme agreed to pass him with a C. Next, Ponyboy decides to pick up the copy of "Gone With the Wind" that Johnny left for him, and finds a handwritten note inside it, which was from Johnny. Ponyboy read the note, and decided on the topic for his theme. At the very end of the book, Ponyboy starts writing his theme, which started like the whole novel started.

     An unknown word: veered

     The sentence: He veered off to the right, but I caught him in a flying tackle...

     Definition: suddenly change direction.

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

Tittle: Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Pages: 37/682

This week, I started reading "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte. I was considering starting to read something once again, since I have more time now. I looked for American/British classical novels, I looked at "Tale of 2 cities", though I decided to read something else, and ended up with "Jane Eyre". I've also heard that, its a great novel that demonstrates historical and literature importance, it was written by Charlotte Bronte, a women, and was a great astonishment to the public, as it was a work on feminist writing.
A word, that was unclear to me was: equilibrium. The definition is: a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced. SENTENCE: " I toddered, and on regaining my equilibrium retired back a step or two from his chair."

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Peeps

Peeps
By Scott Westerfeld
Pg 307
read 90/307


The book that I am reading this week is called Peeps. This book is about a guy named cal in modern day day New York. It is a really good science fiction distopia book. I found this book when I went to the library and asked Mr Vlad f he had any good science fiction book that I would like to read and they he showed me Peeps. an unknown word in the book that I didn't know was trematodes. I didn't know what it was when I first saw the word but the explained what it is in the book. It is a parasite. A sentence that has the word trematodes is, "The Trematodes lay eggs in the snails eye causing it to have a ginormous craving for food" That is what trematodes actually do. They nest in a snails left eye and they cause it to have a craving for food and when the trematodes are done with the snail they cause it's left eye to be brightly colored so a bird eats it and the trematodes and then the bird poops the trematodes out in a pond and they start the whole cycle over again.