EAST OF PECULIAR

There are 379 pages in the book.
I’m now on page 25.
I understand about 65% of what I read.

The novel talks a bout a woman’s life. She is Hannah Garvey, and she’s 43 years old. She lives in Valhalla Springs, a central Missouri retirement village described as “East of peculiar”, in Chicago. She is working for a coffee-bar, but she hates her career, hates her clients, and her employers, and she decides to quit. She wants to join in voting to become the resident manager.

There are a lot of characters in the novel: Hannah, and her friends include Tom, Rob, Jack, Jeez, Delbert, and some people who are described as Hannah’s neighborhood, or someone whom she know. I just read chapter 1, and there are not so many information about them, but I think the most interesting character is Hannah. The author talks about her a lot. She is main character in the novel. She’s so confident and makes the decision fast. I like the way that she solve the problem, it is so smart.

I think the next chapter will talk about some things that Hannah has to solve after she quit her job, and tries in a really new-different-life. May be it will describe more about these characters, and something that affect her life or her success.

Vocabulary words and definitions:

a) Diagnose (v): to find out what illness someone has, or what the cause of fault is, after doing test, examinations etc.
b) Vision (v): ability to see.
c) Cottage (n): a small house in the country.
d) Veranda (n): an open area with a floor and a roof that is attached to the side of a house at ground level.
e) Glorious (adj): having or deserving great fame, praise, and honor.