Personal Effects

Personal Effects was my favorite book and form of multimedia we have used this year. To confess, I actually just finished the story during spring break (most of the time if I am behind on the reading I would not bother to finish, but this book kept my interest far after the class was finished reading it). The book was fun and interactive. I think Personal Effects was attractive to the readers because of the level of involvement that each reader possessed. Besides having over a dozen clues including, ID's, painting, pictures, ect. throughout the book more and more clues would continue to pop up. These clues were much more exciting for me because when I picked up on them, I felt excited. It was fun to have a class site where we all kept track of the clues because then other people picked up on clues I did not and after a while all of the pieces of the puzzle started to fit together. I was very disappointed by the end of the story, but that does not take away or degrade what a fun and different type of story Personal Effects was.