Books

 I just finished The Chosen by Chaim Potok.So I thought that I would post my review on here as my post for this week.
The Chosen whose author is Chaim Potok wrote 291 pages. Those pages were very hard to get through. At the beginning of the book there was nothing to hook me into it. Chaim Potok constantly used Jewish terms that were sometimes hard to understand and remember what they meant.

This book is about two Jewish boys and their lives together during WW II. These two boys Reuven and Danny are playing baseball when Reuven gets hit in the eye with the ball Danny hit. Reuven is rushed to the hospital to get pieces of his glasses out of his eye. The two boys soon become really good friends because of this incident. Then Danny’s father, Reb Saunders, forbids Danny to talk or by Reuven over a rally that Reuven’s father held. Once the tension lifts from the 2 Jewish parties they can once again talk to each other. Reuven is afraid to tell his father that he doesn’t want to become a Rabbi. Buy his father tells him that he already knows and that he is fine with it. Then Danny and Reuven part ways and go and pursue their dream careers.

That’s a brief summary of how the novel goes. As you can see there isn’t much excitement that happens in this book. I would recommend this book to someone who wants a challenge. This book was hard to understand with all the Jewish terms and hard to get into. There isn’t really much of a plot. The biggest complication was either having glass in Reuven’s eye or them not being able to talk to each other. So if you want a challenging book or you like a slow book or you like both then this is the right book for you to read. Personally I didn’t care for this book at all.

That is the end of my review.  Now I’m having a hard time figuring out what book to read next. Thompson said that the book for horrors English would do something with reading a book in class then doing a group reading. I actually don’t remember exactly what he told me, I was half listening and half not. I should really get out of the habit of zoning out whenever a teacher talks to me... Yea that would be a really good idea. Anyways so if you know any good books to have me read for school please tell me, because I am stuck trying to figure it out. I want to read something new, I have read many books and I can’t figure out what to read next. I like mystery and adventure books. I like the books that you can’t set down and you want to continue reading to see what happens next. So if you know any books like that please tell me. I would greatly appreciate that. Thanks