First Impressions (post on the discussion board)

After you finish the book, take about 15-20 minutes and write about what you’ve read (notice it’s a time limit and not a word limit).  Please don’t be overly concerned with grammatical correctness or formality.  I want this to be a relaxed type of response.  I’m most concerned that you just get your thoughts down first and foremost, and then that you get them posted so that we all have an opportunity take a look at them.  Here are some suggestions for what to write about although feel free to take off on other thoughts, too.

a)  What are your initial thoughts on this text?  How did you respond to it as a reader?  What did you enjoy?  What puzzled you?  What did you want more/less of?  What questions do you have about the text?

b)  Connect the assigned text to other articles, books, and authors you have read.  How does this text inform others' writing, or spring from it?