Reading Response #3

The ship has been delayed at an island for three days because they lost a man. He was found murdered. The captain had to fill out some papers before they could set sail again. I believe this is significant and could be foreshadowing. A stop like that couldn't be a coinicidence. Maybe something will happen because of their loss of time. This could also mean that there will be a few more stops along the way, and the adventure won't quite be the way they expected it to be.

Reading Response #2

The book has taken a turn that I didn't expect. Instead of there being a flashback, there is a novel being read in the book. Hence I am reading a novel-within-a-novel.

The new main character's name is Victor Arledge. He has boarded the ship Tallahassee to go on an exploration. He wants to go because he heard Hugh Everett Bayham will be going. He has been interested in him since his friend sent him a letter explaining how he had been kidnapped to Scotland. Arledge does get to meet Bayham while on the ship. He also meets his companion Florence Bonington and her father Dr. Bonington, who Arledge suspects is the man who kidnapped Bayham.

The book has been pretty confusing. There is not much dialogue, yet not a great deal of description either. Most of it is just explaining what has been happening. Everything goes by so fast it's a little bit hard to keep up.

Reading Response #1

The book I am reading is called Voyage Along the Horizon by Javier Marias. It was originally written in Spanish.

The book has been interesting so far. It is written in first person, and the main character's name is not yet known because there has been no dialogue. The main character so talking about the past, and is about to flash back to it. The book is a story within a story. I find this intriguing. I know the basic idea of how the book ends, and I know that the main character survives. This leaves me to focus on the setails of the story.

I quote I have found interesting is: "The feeling that you have made a fool of yourself, that you have wasted an opportunity you have sought for so long, that you have acted dishonorably, forever ruined a very well laid plan, failed to rise to the occasion, lacked tact and self-control, seemed impertinent and unpleasantly obvious, lost someone's respect--in short, the feeling that you have behaved like a perfect lout, is perhaps one of the most painful and humiliating sensations a man can ever know" (10-11). I have felt like this before, so I can relate to the character. This also gives me an outline on what will happen during the book.

Yay!

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