A book report consists of three main parts:
(1)information about the author and his times, (10-20% of total words)
(2)a summary of the book (20%-30% of total words). Usually, it is written in the present tense,
(3)comments on the book. (50-70% of words)
Your opinion is the most important part of the report. It may be either your immediate reaction to the book or a judgment based on further study. In either case, your opinion should be definite and clear. It should be supported with facts. You will want to comment on characterizations, plot, and recurring themes. Compare or contrast it to other books you’ve read. The discussion should of course center on the content of the book, but the author’s writing style and techniques of presentation, if interesting, can also be touched upon.
总字数：500字以上
Deadline：第一篇在第7周末；
第二篇在第14周末。
题目统一为: A Book Report of +书名，如：A Book Report of Thirty-Nine Steps
内容的三个部分可以分开写，但不要出现1，2，3字样。
英文中没有书名号, 书名的实词首字母大写，虚词首字母不用大写，但开头第一个单词无论实词虚词首字母都大写。
英语省略号为三点。
常见的表达法：
简写本: simplified version/abbreviated version
故事大意如下: The gist of the story is as follows
主人公: leading role/ leading character/ hero/ heroine
以……为背景It is set on the eve of…/It is set on the background that…
下面是一篇样本：
A Book Report of The Sun Also Rises (小三，加粗，居中)
姓名：学号：成绩：
An introduction to the author
The book is written by Ernest Miller Hemingway, who once sailed to Europe to serve as a volunteer for the Red Cross during World War. On the front, Hemingway suffered a serious injury. This incident provided the inspiration for his novel. After returning from the war, in 1921, he became the European correspondent for the Toronto Daily Star and moved to Paris. There, Hemingway became friends with some famous prominent expatriate writers and artists living postwar Paris. Hemingway’s reputation began to grow both as a journalist and as an author of fiction. His novel The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926, established him as one of the preeminent writers of his day.
Plot summary
The Sun Also Rises set in Paris, it describes the lives of some so-called Lost Generation, who once fought and worked in the World War I. After the war, they suffered great moral and psychological aimlessness.
There are three main characters in the novel. Jake is an American veteran of World WarⅠworking as a journalist in Paris, where he and his friends engage in an endless round of decadent drinking and parties. Although Jake is the most stable of his friends, he struggles with anguish over his love for Lady Brett Ashley, his impotence, and the moral vacuum that resulted from the war. In fact, Lady Brett Ashley loves Jake, but she is unwilling to commit to a relationship with him because it will mean giving up sex. One of Jake’s fiends, Cohn, is quite taken with Brett, and he gets angry when Jake tells him that Brett plans to marry Mike. Brett is unwilling to commit fully to any of the men who become infatuated with her, though she has affairs with a number of them. In the end, Jake seems to have reached a more realistic appreciation of their situation as well as his own.
