Reading Great Expectations was a task for me, partly because I had to interrupt my reading every few moments to insert a sticky note for annotationg. As a result, I spent less time focusing on the content of the novel and more time scanning for things I could annotate for. Dickens took a very long time to come to his point, and used more extraneous details than I would like. The book seemed like it was devoid of emotion for the most part, and while you were reading, you felt like an impartial deity watching over events with a cold eye. It was hard to feel any emotions for the characters, and the plot seemed like it could have used more action and examples of the theme.
I read whenever I had time, whether it was on the soccer bus at 10:30 or after school in the library. I read more for the assignment than for enjoyment, and that's generally not the case for "assigned" reading. I felt like the annotation system promoted skimming and skipping sections. As discussed in the previous paragraph, it detracted from the overall experience of reading and throughout the reading, I felt like just stopping annotations and simply reading the book itself. Hopefully units in the future will have a different structure regarding annotations and discussions.
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