Blog Post #1- Qualities of Books

     In a good book, 3 qualities I'd expect it to have is descriptive, has suspense, and should arouse your emotions. The book should be able to deeply explain anything in order for you to actually imagine it and feel as though you're not just reading the book but you're part of it. The suspense it should include because I find it's just something every time of book needs to allow the reader to think about what could possibly happen next instead of the author just telling you. And by arouse your emotions I mean, if it's a sad part and it's meant to be terribly sad it should make your heart melt and tears welt as though it was a loss you had suffered as well.

     The book I'm currently reading is The Communist's Daughter by Dennis Bock. I think since its a book based on a medic in the war it contains the descriptive feature, it does have quite a bit of suspense here and there, and it hasn't had any sad parts have have made me cry. In this part of the book it built up some suspense because you ask yourself 'what's going to happen next!?!' this is the part:
    

"We felt the walls and on we walked, using the flame only when we became unsure of our footing or when we found another door. Your mother reached for my hand in the dark. I couldn't help smiling. The world was ending and here I was, smiling because a pretty girl was holding my hand. The Lord's mysterious ways, as my mother would say. I felt the walls with the other hand, reading them as I read the inside of an open chest or abdomen. Now we were inside the entrails, and here I was smiling." (Bock 29)

Works Cited MLA

Bock, Dennis. The Communist's Daughter. Canada: HarperCollins, 2006. Print