Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Back to The Hanging Tree
I took a break from the hanging tree becuase I got caught up with other books I was reading for diffrent classes and I finally picked this book back up and read a few more chapters and it is starting to get really slow.. unfortiounatley. SO there is really not much to blog about except that I am a little disapointed that the book is getting slow becuase I am getting less and less intrested and I just want to know what happend to Gracie and who Hung her or if she hung herself. So I am trying not to jump ahead but just read faster through the boring chapters that do not really give much excitment to the story but just meaning less fluff.
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Ellie, You probably know that good readers don't read every page with the same attention and intensity. If things feel slow, see if you can figure out what brought that change about for you? Is the author using a different technique? Are you missing the relationship between other characters? Once you've tested those observations, there's nothing wrong with skimming or scanning the slow-moving pages to move along more quickly. I do that myself a lot. Then, if I find out that I missed something important, I go back and find it. Usually, that works for me. Let me know how it works for you if you try it.
ReplyDeleteI actually did start doing that last time (skimming) and it does help. At this time I have not noticed anything that I have missed that is of super importance! but I am moving along... I really did not realize how long this book was but it is to good to ditch! I am getting there slowly but surely. I have not really figured out why it got slow I am still going with my idea that it is just fluff and filler because Gruley needed to write a long novel but it is okay because it is still remotely important detail.
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