Time has finally caught up with me

So I guess I can't just do poems for all three of my blogs, no matter how much I want to, so I'll have to talk about some book now. The last one I read, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, was so fabulously good that I went to Barnes and Noble and tried to buy another of her books, but they were out so I bought a different one that the lady assured me was sort of similar called The Interestings which is good so far. Anyway, the Goon Squad was a good book. I don't think it was very AP Lit worthy, especially compared to all of the other novels that we have read this year, but I think that it might be able to work for some prompt at some point, however I know that I will write about Invisible Man almost definitely for the exam this Thursday. This book was ordered so strangely and there were different weird points of view and narrative styles and it was all so complex and seemingly unconnected but then it ended up all being tied together. Juilee thinks it was a cycle but I totally disagree. One thing that I thought was weird was how in the first part of the novel Lou was like seemingly super important because he came up a lot but then in the second part he wasn't there at all. But then there was Lulu which sounds an awful lot like Lou and they were both pretty similar. Lulu is like the less greasy, more respectable version of Lou. They both have the innate ability to influence and almost control people. So that was weird. And then the way that the book began and ended with Alex, a character that did not appear in the novel anywhere other than the first and last chapter. That was weird too because what was that supposed to mean? Something like how even if you think you have just a small part in the world you actually have a big part and you are at the beginning and end of someones story??? I don't know. There are a lot of things in this book that I do not really totally understand. Like the general's chapter (which for the record was my favorite chapter) how did that fit into anything? I get where Dolly and Lulu and Kitty fit in but why did it all need it be centered around a dictator? I don't even know. Maybe this book was totally lit worthy and I just didn't try hard enough to analyze it because I enjoyed it too much. Hm. From now on I will never read a book the same way I did before this class. I will always connect fire with knowledge and point out the light and dark parts and it will annoy me forever, but I will always remember this class.