Heading Back...

Mostly the reason I think the text in Guardians of Ga'Hoole was starting to drag was anticipation for our upcoming novels to read. Not necessarily for this class, but for adolescent lit.  In this class though, I had received Love, Stargirl in the mail and was/am very excited to read it.  In our adolescent lit class though, we started Walk Two Moons a novel in which I started in 8th grade and fell in love with, but never had the chance to finish. After searching over the summer to find out what that novel was called (couldn't remember after 6 years), when the novel was put in front of me and I saw the title, I knew that was the book. So, when it came time to finish Guardians, it is not that I did not like it as stated in previous posts, but it was more of the fact that it dragged on simply because I was anticipating other books, as well as reading other novels I was excited about. It is hard for me to do the fantasy genre, I mean, I do love it but it is hard for me.  Last year I read through the first Harry Potter and I LOVE, repeat LOVE Harry Potter and even at times I found that a little dry. Now that could be because its been so long since I read it, or maybe even the fact that I've read it before, but grasping onto some fantasy concepts, learning about a new culture, and even learning a whole new vocabulary for a book can be tough for me. This is why I think that Guardians kind of dragged on.  I feel like I did not do the book justice, but eventually I'll go back and reread it and I'll be a lot happier with it.