The Happy Hippo Readers

 Welcome to my last blog. The tendency of The Catcher in the Rye being nominated to must-read recommendation lists for high schoolers surprised me. Therefore, when I inadvertently came across the book in the Mahomet library, I immediately checked it out. In a nutshell, The Catcher in the Rye is an account written by the main character himself, Holden Caufield, during his stay at a mental hospital. The narrative talked about the days he roamed around on the streets and hotels of New York after he got expelled from Percy High School in New York. More specifically, the narrative focuses on his emotional struggles and anxieties about adulthood, and how he wants to preserve his innocence because everything he has heard about adulthood is corruptive and chaotic.  Honestly, I found his worries relatable. During the days of aimless roam, Holden constantly looked for help from adults, whether it was teachers, prostitutes, drivers, or old friends; however, no one took the time to act...

Hi everyone, and welcome to my final blog of the frosh year. Let's finish the year with a bang, and a bang it'll be for this blog about some books that I plan to read for this coming summer. All of these books have been taken from reading other people's blogs, either from their reviews, recommendations, or even from THEIR summer reading list.  1. Scythe: I have already read this series once before, and it's still my favorite series. I always wanted to reread the series, but never found the time to do so. But blogs from Robenas and Krishna (off the top of my head) have inspired me to read this amazing sci-fi/dystopian book again. Also, I have seen that Neal Shusterman has added a prequel to the series, so I plan to read that as well. If you want to check out what the book is about, I recommend looking at Robenas or Krishna's blogs. 2. Dune: So far I have noticed many people that have read, are reading, or plan to read dune. To bve honest, I have very little knowledge...

We’ve almost made it through another school year at Uni! Unfortunately, this means that it is finally time to say goodbye to our beloved Language and Literature 2 blogs. To complete my set of blogs, I thought it would be fitting to share my opinion of these blogs themselves. One thing I appreciated was that these blogs forced most of us to read something . Outside of the literature we read for class last year – Akata Witch , Macbeth , and whatever you read for the Banned Book Project – I didn’t read anything else. Yet this year I picked up 7 books to read in my own time, in addition to the 4 books we read together in class. And I happened to enjoy it – I had the freedom to choose whatever I wanted to read, and other people’s blogs provided great recommendations for what to read next. But there were times where these blogs weren’t so fun. In my last blog, for example, I mentioned that I forced myself to plow through Animal Farm in one evening because I needed to write my blog soon –...