Something different...

So I wanted to mix it up since it's the LAST BLOG POST! I am going to blog about a book, that I haven't read yet.. Let's see how this goes!
 So I have always wanted to read to Kill A Mocking Bird. Apparently, it is not about physically killing a mocking bird. Thank goodness! And it is supposed to be a love story. I am ready to read this!
It is not about what the title says it to be. An example of not judging something by its cover. But I wondered why she decided to name it that.

So in a Yahoo!® answer(which is probably not the best source) they refered to a line in the text, "Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father’s right," she said. "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."
I'm guessing that this was a pretty important line in the text. But the only way to understand is to read it!

Woah...what just happened?

Have you ever read a book where in the beginning, you have no idea what's happening? I bet you have. But have you ever had a book where, a guy commits suicide, the main character wakes up in the hospital with a gunshot wound to the head and no memory, and the doctor gets shot in the chest by a mysterious woman with spiked hair? I don't think so; unless you've read The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown.
"Langdon watched in horror as Dr. Marconi staggered backward into the room, falling to the floor, clutching his chest, his white lab coat drenched in blood." (25)
That was the last sentence of Chapter One of The Lost Symbol. This author sure knows what he is doing, because from that point on, I was hooked to that book. You have to have good beginning to get your reader hooked. Without a good beginning, it will be slow and it will be hard to get your reader to keep reading your book. I have personally stopped reading books because it was so hard for me to get into it. If you ever right a book, and I highly doubt you will, but just in case, write a good beginning that stays with the reader and makes them blog about it!