Spring Break

This week i finished reading Brisinger. They had a big battle, and eragon and saphira dominated, but there teachers were killed in battle, so now Eragon and Saphira are the only dragons fighting for the Varden anymore. before they died though, the dragon teacher gave Saphira his heart of hearts, which gives you strenghth and keeps the dragon alive after it dies. This is how Galborax gets all his power. So now, i have to wait till the 4th book to see how it all ends.



I started to read White oleander by Janet Fitch. So far, the auther has just introduced the characters and let you know how they think. The mother got into a relationship with a guy named Barry, which is against all her "rules" about men. When Barry broke it off, the mom went crazy. She went into Barry's home and did things to his computer, and his house. When Barry came over to confront her mother about what she did, and she stabbed him in the arm after her tried to break in. Then one night the police men came over and took away the girls mother, but her mom wasnt worried, she said the police men couldnt hold her, and she would be home. she never came home, and now the daughter is living in a home. she took some of her mothers writings, and when another kid in the home was looking at it, she got really upset, so this other kid started ripping out pages. The child tackled this other foster kid, and could have killed her, she held a pocketnife to her neck, but she just told her not to touch any of her things again, and let her go.



Time Read: 54 hours

Books Read:
Brisngr- Christopher Paolini- 748 pages
Last Days of Summer, a novel- Steve Kluger- 353 pages
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas- James Patterson- 266 pages
Book of the Dead- Patricia Cornwell- 405 pages

yay for spring break!

This week i continued to read Brisingr. Eragon went to the dwarves place, and when he was there and the dwarves were trying to pick there next leader he left behind the Varden and all their trials against the empire. Eragon went to visit the dwarves without Saphira so that the Empire didnt know that Eragon wasnt there. While Eragon was gone, Roran, Eragons cousin, got into a couple of battles. Rorans first battle came against wandering soldiers of the Empire. This is were he began to prove himself as a warrior and he jumped off his horses back into the middle of a bunch of wagons and fought and killed 5 warriors by himself. His next battle, was agianst soldiers that wouldnt die, and he and his group of soldiers got wounded pretty bad and his comander got his hand chopped off. Because of this fact, his band of soldiers got a new leader who was a real nazi. he didnt let anyone get away with any creative thinking, (a.k.a. jumping of a horses back into the middle of a bunch of wagons.) so when Roran went into battle with him, and they were out numbered and a bunch of people were dieing and Roran didnt want to die by being shot a bunch of times by arrows and did some creative thinking he got in trouble. Even though everyone would have died without this creative thinking by him, oh, and he killed 193 soldiers all by himself here to. so when he got back to the Varden he was punished for not getting everyone killed by getting 50 lashes. then a day after this he was told he had to lead a charge of humans and urgal soldiers out for a raid, and convince the urgals that humans still wanted to align with them even though one of the humans just went and killed 4 urgals in there sleep. No worries, the Varden hung this human. So after Roran got all the muscles of his back torn off because he lead people, the magicians healed Roran enough so that the muslces scabbed over. So after Roran sucessfully lead his urgals and humans to victory, he found a couple of urgals torturing a soldier tied to a tree. Roran yelled at them for this, and then one of them challenged Roran for the leadership role. now you have to realise that urgals are like giant over-grown rams that walk on two feet, and they have really big teeth and claws and stuff. So luckily Roran beat the urgal and they pledged to follow him because Roran proved he was a fit leader. while all of this was going on Eragon got attacked by people in the dwarves place, and if any dwarf leader orders an attack on a visitor its a huge no-no. so once everyone found out that a leader ordered this attack, he was shunned and then Orik was ellected leader over the dwarves. Then Dragon Saphira came to the dwarves place to congratulate Orik for victory, fixed there most precious item the Arya and accidentally broken the first time she came. then Eragon and Saphira flew to learn more the thier elf teachers because Murtagh had made them realise they needed more skill to beat them. So When they got there, Eragon first learned that his father had been Brom, not and evil guy that worked for Galborax, and that Murtagh, was only his half brother.


Well next week I plan on finishing my last 128 pages of brisingr, and then i'll read White Oleander by Janet Fitch. If i happen to get done with that i'll probably pick yet another book off of the 12 bookshelves in my house and read it.

Time read so far: 47.5 hours.

week 10

this week i continued to read Brisingr. Eragon was going to marry Roran and Katrina, but than a suprise attack by the Empire delayed this. Eragon and Saphira fought Eragons "brother" and his dragon. They did not defeat him but proved that Eragons brother Murtagh was not as powerful as everyone thought he was. When Murtagh realised this, he retreated back to the Empire. While Eragon was fighting Murtagh, the Varden's army fought some of the soldiers of the Empire. Somehow Galborax had put a spell on them that kept them from feeling pain, which ment that they would not stop fighting until they were beheaded. Eventually the Varden realised this and destroyed them but after a great loss to their army. Later that day Roran and Katrina insisted that they needed to be maried htat day because they didnt know when the Emprie was going to attack again. After the marriage Eragon met with some of the soldiers that were wounded and could not be healed. While visiting them, Eragon met a man who had been having visions of a light, and somehow this applied to Eragon. I didnt really understand how but it did. It had something to do with 12 stars around his waist and another star, the brightest one, on his finger. His brother, however, was shining but the shining was not coming from him, but from "others." Arya the smartest elf there is currently trying to figure out who these "others" are. Nasuada, the leader of the Varden, told Eragon that he had to go to the dwarfs land, and insist that they pick a ruler soon, and try to sway the vote so that the ruler would favor what the Varden is doing, and decide to support them. Saphira is going to stay with the Varden in attempts to trick Galborax so that he will not attack. The Varden will split into two and go destroy the last of the two cities that are under the Empires control that the Varden has already passed. After the dwarfs pick a new ruler, Saphira will join Eragon, and after giving them their honor back somehow, Eragon and Saphira will go visit the elves, and try to learn a little more from the great teachers of the Elves.



Total Time read so far: 40 hours

week 9

This week i kept reading Brisingr. Sense Eragon got back to camp, hes had to have conversations about why he decided to stay back, and he had to great a bunch of people that wanted to talk to him because he was a hero. He was given a suprise party were Roran, Eragons cousin, asked him to marry Roran and Katrina next month. Eragon asked why so soon and found out that Katrina is pregnant, so they have to have a quick marriage before everyone figures it out. Eragon before had blessed a girl named Elva, but it ended up being a curse, and she felt everyones pain and felt like she had to help them get rid of there pain. If she did not help them she had physical pain. Eragon promised to relieve Elva of this pain, so when he attempted to, he only got rid of the feeling like she had to help them, and the physical pain that she felt. She told Eragon not to fix anything else because she wanted to be able to feel others pain. She basically said she was going to use her powers in whatever way she wanted to, even if that was in an evil manner.



I'm going to appy this book so far to Religion class because Brisingr has alot to do with good verses evil and we are reminded in Religion the daily battle of good verses evil between our new man and our old adam. Eragon could be compared to the the New Man, and Galborax could be compared to the old adam because even though Glaborax seems to have the upper hand, Eragon can always seem to defeat him with the help of his dragon Saphira.


Time read so far: 36 hours

Steve Kluger- Last Days of Summer A Novel- 353 pages
James Patterson- Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas- 266 pages
Patricia Cornwell- Book of the Dead- 405 pages

together with a song...

This week i finished the Last Days of Summer A Novel, by Steve Kluger. Charlie decided that he needed to join the army because of pearl harbor. Joey's friend was able to get out of the concentration camp because Charlie personally went to President Rosevelt and told him that this family was in a concentration camp and shouldnt be. Than Joey's friend played baseball for a little leage team, and when Charlie told the press that he was going to be a star one day, they had to keep him on the team, even though he was horrible at baseball. Joey and Charlie continued to write back and forth. They came up with a way so that Charlie and Stukes could tell Joey where they were going to be stationed by in the second sentence using the first letters of all the words to make the name of it. Once they got moved out oversee's, Charlie sent Joey a letter saying that they wernt going to let him actually fight in combat because he was a big star and didnt want him to die, so they made him do the type writing job. One day Stuke, Charlies best friend, and the other soldiers in his group were under attack and called for backup, but the army decided that it was to much of a risk to go save them. When Charlie heard that, he stole a boat and went to save them himself. When he got there, he let everyone get back onto the boat before him, and at the last second was shot dead. Everyone else was saved. The book ends with Joey explaining that all of the leters before this he was showing his son Chucky. He ended up marrying his gradeschool love intrest rachel, that Charlie helped him to get.





I then started reading Brisinger by Christopher Paolini, the third book in the Eragon Series. So far Eragon has envaded Galborax's castle, helped get Rorans finace, Katrina, back, killed all of the Ra'zac, killed Katrina's father who betrayed everyone and told Galborax where everything was and where Eragon was hiding. He got away without getting to badly injured, and is now back in the Varden and is being treated like a hero like usual.



If i had to compare my reading this week to a song i would compare it to Here comes goodbye by Rascal Flatts. This song would compare with The Last Days of Summer, because it was kindof like the whole book was Joey's last goodbye to Charlie.



Total Time Read So Far: 32.5 hours

Steve Kluger- Last Days of Summer A Novel- 353 pages
James Patterson- Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas- 266 pages
Patricia Cornwell- Book of the Dead- 405 pages

Week 7...

I'm still reading Last Days of Summer and so far, Joey and Charlie have gotten closer. Joey had to write a story about if my father was president, and sense Joey doesnt really talk to his father he used Charlie instead of his father, and Charlie got an award for father of the year. Then Pearl Harbor was bombed, so Charlie decided to enlist in the military. So this made Charlie realize that everyone getting married so he proposed to Hazel, and got married and Joey was the best man. Joey has a crush on a girl named Rachel, but Rachel doesnt like Joey, but he doesnt get that. Joey's best friend Craig had to move, and him and his family got thrown into a japanese concetration camp.




total time read so far: 28 hours

week 6

So far i think that this project has made read more than i usually do. I used to read alot when i was little, but now i just seem to not have enough time to read like i used to. I really enjoy this project so far becuause its made me realize that i can make time to read.



In my reading this week i've continued the book Last Days of Summer. Joey has just continued his writing with Mister Banks. and the two have had dinner a couple of times. Joey's teachers have now started to write to Mister Banks telling him to not teach him "vulgar ideas." Banks only writes back to say that these are not ideas but the truth. It's about time for Joey's Bar Mitzvah, and sense his father is not around, he convinced Charles Banks to do the father portion of it. The Rabbi has agreed to it, so now Joey is trying to teach Charlie how to read Hebrew.

Time Read So Far: 23 hours

James Patterson-Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas-266 pages

Patricia Cornwell-Book of the Dead- 405 pages

Let's add some pictures!

This week i read Suzanne's diary for Nicholas by James Patterson. It was about how this guy named Matt broke up with his girlfriend Katie for no apparent reason, and then he left this dairy for her to read on the front steps of her house. Katie had met Matt when he had come to her to publish some poetry that he had written. The night that Matt had broke up with Katie she was going to tell him that she was pregnant. Once she started reading this

journal she became attached to Suzanne and her life. Katie felt horrible when Suzzane had a heart attack at a very young age in the middle of the park and almsot died, and she felt the same way Suzanne did when she met Matt. When Katie learned that Suzanne and Matt also had a baby, she began to imagine that she could have had the life that Suzanne had. She read and realized how much Matt and Suzanne had loved eachother, and when Suzanne found out from the doctor that having her child would be a risk for her life. When Suzanne decided to keep her child, so did Katie. Suzanne ended up having a boy, Nicholas. She was writing this journal to Nicholas so that he could know how his parents met, fell in love, and how he came into there lives. After Nicholas had been born, Suzanne got pregnant again. This child for sure would be a risk to Suzannes health and once her blood count started to get low, nothing good could happen. Suzannne had another heart attack, and lost that baby. After Suzanne got out of the hospital she came home. About this time it happened to be Nicholas's first birthday! Suzanne decided to drive into town to get supplies to make Nicholas a cake, and she took Nicholas with her. On the way to the store, she had another heart attack and she drove off a bridge and her and Nicholas drowned. The diary comes to a close with Matt making to final diary entries about how much he misses them and how he wishes that he would have been there. That maybe if he was there he could have saved them, and they wouldnt have died. Once Katie finished reading this diary she noticed that there was a letter taped to the back cover of the dairy from Matt saying that now she new why he broke up with her. Katie decided the least she can do is go tell Matt that she understands at that she is very very sorry for him, but when she gets to his house, hes not there. She tells his neighbor to let him know that she was there, and head back to New York. About a week later, Katies assistant becomes hysterical and says that she needs to come and look out the window. When Katie looks out the window she sees that Matt is outside, kneeling, like Suzanne did when she was asking for forgiveness. When Katie runs outside, her and Matt end up getting back together, and as far as we know, live happily ever after.






I also started to read a book called Last Days Of Summer by Steve Kluger. The book so far is about Joey, a 12 year old troubled boy growing up in the 1940's in Brooklyn. Somehow he has become to be pen pals with Franklin D. Roosevelt, and his press secretary Stephen T. Early. He gets thrown into Juvenile Hall for peeing in the reservoir, where he becomes pen pals with Charlie Banks, an all-star third-base-man for the NY Giants. So far, Joey has gotten Charlie in trouble with his girlfriend because he made up a story about how Charlie wouldnt come visit him in the hospital, because he was dieing. He also somehow conviced Charlie that he would apologize to his girlfriend if only he took him out to eat with them. Which he did. Joey and his friends also think that there neighbor is a Nazi spy and that her wooden leg in only a cover up for all sorts of weapons, so they spy on her.











Time Read So Far: 21 hours



James Patterson- Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas- 266 pages

Patricia Cornwell- Book of the Dead- 405 pages

Done with Book One

In my book this week, Will Rambo murdered yet another woman. Marino ran away, and no one can find him, and Benton came back from New York to be with Scarpetta in Charleston. Lucy and Scarpetta became friends with the local coraner, who was secretly having a relationship with Scarpetta's secretary, Rose. When Scarpetta was going to see Rose, Drew Martins tenis coach jumped out of a window and killed himself. This somehow led Lucy and Scarpetta to be able to finally know where Will Rambo had been hiding, and getting his sand from that he used and superglued into the eyes of the people he killed. Once they figured this out, they went to the island and found 2 dead people. They found out Will Rambo was Dr. Self's son, and the boy who was murdered that Scarpetta couldnt figure out who it was, was Will Rambo and Marino's ex girlfiend, Shandy's child. They also found out that Shandy had killed "little will." When Scarpetta went and confronted Dr. Self about this she said it would somehow be Scarpettas fault, and then when Scarpetta left, Will attacked her. She was Saved by Captan Poma, from Italy who had been in town to help catch Will.



Christian Persepctive:

Well obviously we shouldnt murder. God says so all over in the Bible as well as in the 10 commandments. But we also shouldnt protect those who do commit crimes even if they are part of our family. They need to be shown that what they are doing is not something that God wants them to be doing. Dr. Self and the father of Will Rambo, Bentons co-worker, were bad examples of this. they knew that there son had killed all these people but they tried to protect him because Will was there son. God wants us to show them they are sinning, not just sit back and try to be blind to what we know is happening.



Time Read so Far: 13 hours
Patricia Cornwell- Book of the Dead- 405 pg

Sorry this is late a day!

First off sorry i'm late a day, i had a HUGE anatomy test that i studied for all night and completely forgot about blogging!



This week i continued the book of the dead. Will Rambo, the killer, killed another woman in this part of the book, a Canadian tourist. Dr. Self had to listen to her mother saying things while taking a brain test, and see how her brain reacted to the sound of her mothers voice. I also learned that Rose, Dr. Scarpettas assistant is dieing of lung cancer.



Time Read So Far: 10 hours

Lets Apply

This week i continued to read the Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell. I read up to chapter seven, and in these chapters you were introduced to Dr. Self a big tv doctor kind of like Dr. Phil of Opera, who appears to hate Scarpetta (one of the Americans working on the murder), and secretly checked herself into McClean. She did this because she had been getting e-mail from someone named "the sandman" who had murdered Drew Martin, the girl who Scarpetta is investigating the murder of. You also get to know some more of the main characters, including Lucy, Marino, and Rose, who Scarpetta works with. You also see another case that Scarpetta has in her own morgue back in the United States. She's trying to figure out who murdered a little boy that was found in a river. Scarpetta talks to the person who found this little boys body, and who actually worked on Scarpettas house before she moved there.



Apply:

So i think the best way i can apply this story to my life is by applying how Dr. Self can convince anyone of anything just to get her way. I feel like this applys to my life because Tv hosts that help people, like Opera, Dr. Phil, Judge Judy, or Tyra, can talk to someone on there show and convince half of the United States of that point of view, and usually convince me to. Maybe because i saw how Dr. Self manipulated the truth, i will stop believing everything that comes out of the mouths of Opera and Tyra.

Total Time So Far: 5 hours

Goals

My goals are to read at least a half an hour a night. i would also like to finish a couple of books that i started and never got all the way through yet. I would like to read more than Mr. Strusz, and enjoy this project.

And we begin.

This week i read Book of the Dead for an hour. These first two chapters where about getting to visualize the crime sceen, and getting to know the killer. It introduces you to the main characters of the book, and helps you to understand how they are thinking. You also see how the people are investigating the crime sceen and that they basically have no clue of who killed this girl, or how he/she did it.

Total Time Read: 1 hour