Brigitte’s “Brilliant” Book Blog

 I have known that The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand was going to be the subject of my AP English final project for at least a week. It has taken me a while to create this blog, so I will fill you in on my thought process to why I have chosen this particular book to read.

Part 1: The short list

The first thought I had after being assigned this project was “how I’m I going to pick just one book to read!” I happen to be a book geek and therefore I thought selecting only one book was near impossible. In order to narrow my book selection field down, I regarded my AP book section on common literature on the AP exam. Out of all those books I discovered five works that sounded interesting by using http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bookstore.asp?r=1 to read reviews of the titles that sounded appealing in the AP book. 

Part 2: The book store

With my list of five works in hand, I dragged Joe to Barnes and Noble to find them and read enough of them to decide which one I liked best. Together we searched out the works, along with a few others we found to be possibilities, and two books that did not fit the assignment, but I wanted to read anyway and made our way to the children’s section and situated all of the books on top of the little table not meant for seventeen-year-olds. For the next thirty minutes, sorry Joe, I preceeded in reading a few pages out of each book I chose along with the first page of each work Joe grabbed for himself. In the end, I brought three (The Fountainhead, 1984, and Crime and Punishment) that I was planning on either using for the assignment or reading for fun, and one novel, Princess Forever by Meg Cabot, totally for fun. Joe, did not buy any…

Part 3: The clincher

When I arrived back at my house, I read a few more reviews and a few more pages and still could not decide, which piece of literature was going to inspire me to write my A paper. At school the next day, I spied my friend reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand! She ended up raving for 10 minutes on how much she absolutely loved Ayn Rand, and how I would be insane not to choose The Fountainhead. Naturally, I succumbed to the peer pressure and convinced myself, that I must now read this “amazing, life-changing” story. 

Part 4: One small problem (the present) 

Even having selected The Fountainhead, I have only been able to read to page 15 so far. It has not been that I have not been reading, but rather I have had to finish the novel I was previously reading, Tamar by Mal Peet. Hopefully, I finish Tamar soon, and then I will begin seriously reading the 694 pages of Ayn Rand.

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