Outside Reading

For my 150 minutes of reading this week, I chose to read something of my moms called The Commoner by  John Shultz, I read a lot of my biology textbook, and I read 20 minutes of my french chapter book, Junie B. Jones: Amoreuse.

So far, The Commoner is about a young japanese girl, Haruko, who is living in the aftermath of World War II/ the Occupied Japan. After the bombings, Tokyo is incinerated and there are many living in poverty. Haruku is fortunate though; she lives in a wealthy family, plays tennis well, and speaks French excellently. She is not exactly a "commoner" compared to all the other distraught Japanese families during that time. I have not gotten very deep into the plot yet, because it is a long book, but I predict that she is a "commoner" to the royal family, who she will eventually wed into. I like this book, I am learning history of Japan that I have not read about before.

Reading Junie B. Jones: Amoreuse is kind of silly. It's a different feeling reading a baby chapter book and in french, also.  I don't exactly enjoy it though. Twenty minutes may seem like a short amount of time, but when your reading something with a rudimentary plot, you get bored. I'm not looking forward to having to read more of it this week.