Readers Journal #16

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

         I have already started and almost finished with the book “F My Life” by Maxime Vallete, Guillaume Passaglia, and Didier Guedj. The reason I picked out this book was because on the front of it, it had a very nice and catchy title that just made me so curious as to what it is about. A quote that I found and really liked was on the bottom cover of the book where it said, its funny, and it’s true, except when it is happening to you. The reason I like this quote and it is so significance is because it is actually true where everything is funny except when it is happening to you.

     There were six things that I did before, while, and after reading this book (2 for each). First there were two things I did before reading this book. One thing I did before reading this book was I closely looked at the cover of the book and notice a big “F” over a person, which gave me the clue that this book will have embarrassments in it. The second thing I did before reading this book is I skim and scanned through the whole book slowly just to get a clue on what the book will be about. Second I did 2 things while reading this book. One thing I did while reading this book is I pictured everything that was happening in this book in my head as if it were a movie. Another thing I did while reading this book I also notice something about how the author write his books. He puts the funny where if it the paragraph is really funny it will in very hard bold. Where if it isn’t as funny then it wont be bold. Basically, it shows you how funny it is based on how bold the paragraph is. Third I did 3 things after reading this book. I cannot say what I have done after reading this book since I haven’t finished reading it yet

         The genre of this book is non fiction humor. The characteristics of this book being humor is that it shows real life, funny events of peoples lives. Once a guy made a website where people would post embarrassing events of their live to express themselves and then the author said that he should make a book on all of these events since there were so much. The main idea of this book is embarrassing events that happened to people in real life and are funny ones to (implied). If I was to give this book another title I would say “Does This Only Happen To Me!” because people who get embarrassed very often are always thinking if this only happens to them. The Only supporting detail found in this book would be the FML at the end of every paragraph because it is paragraphs written by other people. And this is sensory.

The essential message of this book is to notice what happens to other people lives and see if it matches to you and don’t make the same mistake.

A cause and effect in this book would be where a lady fills her cart at the grocery store and the man says look like you are going to have a fun party and the effect would be the lady replying that it is for after my mothers funeral which embarrassed the man.

One thing that would be compared between me and some things in this book would be me and the man trying to be funny and made a fool out of himself. One thing I could contrast between me and some things in this book would be me not making most of these foolish mistakes.

I was able to find only four different text features in this book.

Bolded letters- helps you notice something important

Title- a topic in about 1-6 words on what the book will be about.

Sub- topic- tells you what the rest of the passage will be about.

Illustration- explains what you read in a picture format.

The pattern of organization of this book is cause and effect because it talks about an action, and then say the effects.

The authors purpose for writing this book is to entertain readers with funny and embarrassing events of other people.

There is no authors perspective because it is necessarily his writing.

Every word in this book was simple and I understood each and everyone clearly.

(text-to-self) This book reminds me of some of the mistakes I have went through in my life.

(text-to-text) this book reminds me of another book called “that’s what she said” which is also humor

(text-to-world) this book reminds me of the mistakes of other people that I know.

I would recommend this book to people over ages 13 and older as long as they are mature about what they here in this book. If I was in any of the people shoes I would never overcome it and will be very humiliated.

 If I was to rate this book I would rate a 10 out of 10 because all of the information was actually funny and I am really enjoying it.

                           Sincerely,

                                    Ofek Peer