Here's questions that occurred to me as I was reading: Q1: What is the Channel? (I know, English Channel, but from what context does he make this comparison? Is his 3rd-story window close to the channel? Q2:What's so great about Ophelia? Just her hair and eyes? Q3: What is Richard's job? (providing a title would make it more believable) Q4: Richard's a doctor? ("Janice instinctively tried to push him away, finding the doctor's grasp inescapable.") Something in the language earlier doesn't clu...

To get started, here's the questions that came to mind as I read: (question reference: Qp3p5 means page 3 paragraph 5) Qp1p1: What kind of school is Brody attending? What kind of building? What does the classroom look like? Qp1p6: Why does a "free-thinker" stand out so much in this class? Are they all in uniform? Does everyone else conform to some image? What is that image? Qp1p7: why "mini-Kafka"? Does Brody admire Kafka? What inspires him to make this reference? Qp2p4: Why is the professor ...

Questions/Suggestions I have While I read: (key: Qp2p4 means "question for page 2, paragraph 4") Qp1p1: "jolted back to the world of responsibilities" - is work not a responsibility? What is this work? Qp1p2: What does the vision of Mark look like? Sp1p2: The second sentence is confusing. Qp1p3: "adjusting his eyes" - is there a device or technology that allows him to do this consciously / manually? Or did you mean "his eyes adjusted"? Qp1p4: Where is the sound of the dogs coming from? (close...

Questions/Suggestions Occurring to Me As I Read: (key: Qp3p5 means question page 3 paragraph 5, S means suggestions) Qp1p4: What do the "remains" look like? Why is it too close to the border? Has the border changed? Why a "superb" collection of craters? "Pitch black" - overcast? Sp1p5: "were I human again" - this sentence is confusing and long; try breaking the ideas into shorter declarations. Qp1p7: "Battle Drone" - the word "drone" implies that it's an autonomous device - is the narrator a ...

Questions I have while reading: (key: Qp2p4 means question for page 2 paragraph 4, "S" means suggestion) Qp1p1: "much younger" is relative - how young? toddler? teenager? What is Union City like? How does it contrast to Chicago, in the young narrator's eyes? Qp1p2: How small is the house? How many bedrooms? How does it compare to the narrator's house? Qp1p3: How does the narrator know about these events? At first it sounds like he/she is in the room with them as they sleep, or overhearing thi...

Questions I have while I read: (key: Qp1p3 means Question for paragraph 1, page 3) Qp1p1: I pictured a modern water-park at first, but it sounds like this is an actual hill with some sort of slide built into it - can you describe the set-up? Are there tubes curling around in crazy patterns or just a straight slide? Or is it just a ditch with mud in it? Q: What's at the bottom of the hill? Q: What's "trucker talk," exactly? What was he tempted to say? Q: What do his friends look like? Are they...

Questions that came to me AS I READ: (key: Qp3p2 means Question for page 3 paragraph 2 - each page is 300 words, I think; sometimes I lose count of the paragraphs and just write Q: ) Qp1p1: Where does the wine glass shatter? How big is the room? What does this man look like? (all we've seen are his lips, so far) What is he wearing? Qp1p2: The smoke is in the image in the mirror or outside? What color? What does the girl look like? Qp1p3: Is the cousin there? Where are they in relation to this...