When I first started reading I was dreading the next 400 and something pages. It didn't interest me and I kept thinking how so many books had convicts in their stories. I also got bored with the way Dickens's wrote the novel. The bad English from Joe grated my nerves to an extreme degree. As the pages went by and the plot was more developed, I started to really like his style of writing and the characters. It wasn't like all the teen books I spend my time reading now. None of them have crazy, heart broken woman in them. All of them have the same style of writing and the vocabulary is for people who have limited knowledge of words. The setting really had no effect on me. It couldn't of been any big city and I wouldn't of minded. I know a lot of people loved biddy or the convict, but my favorite had to of been Miss Havisham. She brought a lot of color to the book and spiced it up. I think her life story was the most interesting and had a long lasting impression on me. I always felt so sorry for her that the one person she loved only used her for her money and then just wrote her a note confessing that he didn't want to get married. That's like kids now days that break up with there significant other over text because they can't face them in person. I never felt bad for Pip. He brought a lot of the not so good stuff that happened to him upon himself. I liked figuring the mysteries out on my own. I didn't want spark notes to interfere with any good parts of the book. It ruins books when you cheat yourself by getting the answers before they happen.
I made sure to read every night like the sheet said. There was only one night where I forgot to read and it was a big mistake. I didn't like having to read extra. I finally started reading the weekend chapters on Thursday night's. Even though it added on to my already stressful homework load before Friday, I discovered that I liked being ahead of the game. There was never a certain time I would read. It just happened whenever I found the time to do it after I finished the rest of my homework. I usually do my homework at the kitchen table because I like being in the warm kitchen with my mom when she cooks. That wasn't always the most peaceful place to read. I would get distracted easily which didn't help with understanding the book. Also having my phone with me was a HUGE distraction. Whenever I got a text, I would be more focused on reading that than Great Expectations. The number one best place to read was in my room, late at night, when I had my phone not by my side. No one bothers me when i'm in my room so there was no one to come in and take my mind off the book. When it was late the house was silent and I could concentrate the best. If my phone wasn't by me, I wasn't interested if I got a text or not.
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