Response to a response,

     As I was searching through other students blogs I came across Eamon's blog Story Endings. I was reading it and I found it really interesting to think about why I re-read books, since Eamon talks about why he reads books over. He gives several examples of books he has re-read and explains what happens and how that affects whether he reads the book again.
     
     During his response he asks many questions that get me thinking past this blog and into my own reading life. Even though he's not asking us directly, the way he writes about why he thinks the way he thinks it gets whoever is reading this to ask themselves, "Ya, why do I read books over again?" It turns out that I actually sometimes read books over again for the same reason that Eamon does. He says it's because of acceptance, and sometimes   you can't accept the way a book ends, and you hope to find something else in the end that you missed before that would allow you to accept the end the way it is because it would have changed after you have found that thing that you were missing before. Eamon doesn't actually explain what he's looking for, or what exactly he want's to change, but it made me think, and I found out that I normally want a character to be brought back to life. Books have this power to make you bond with the characters and actually feel sympathy for them, even though if you just go back to the first page they would be alive again.


     I really like how he then relates this theory of why people re-read to why people watch movies or T.V shows over again. And I really liked how he though about Video Games. He thinks that people play video games because they give you the ability to control so much more then you can in real life, but you stay safe. I found this very interesting to think about but I personally don't think that that is true for anybody.


     Eamon's past blogs have been well... slightly boring (Sorry Eamon) But I really like how this one was easy to relate to because it was not about one book but books in general that I'm sure everybody in 51 has read at least one book in their life. And the more you read the more interesting you find this blog. So this all depends on how you chose your books and which books you like the most. Without being able to think about these things the less people would enjoy reading this blog and only would because they had to for ELA.