Currently

I'm reading the Murder Room.

This week I read 173 pages.

My favorite sentences are as follows:

"Bender's face pinked with excitement."
-Bender is a strange guy who's face is like a chameleon.  When he's mad it will turn red and now it turns pink when he's excited.  I like how he's got a color for every emotion!

"Valjean is hauled before the bishop for punishment, but the bishop says theres been a mistake, he gave Valjean the backet of silver as a gift but the ex-con forgot the silver candlesticks." 
-This is my favorite line of this whole book.  Its a segment from a book mentioned in this book and talks about a man who stole a basket of silver from a church but when he was caught the bishop went along with it and added more silver so he could start an honest life.  Its touching.

"They go into the woods but they don't come out."  Spooky.  This is a classic horror story begginning with the gullible people being lured to their demise by a killer in the woods.  I like it because it hints to a future conflict with a sadistic serial killer who will be ver tricky and hard to catch.

The Murder Room

     I still don't get what this book is supposed to be about.  I think its about the whole history about how this society of crime solving people came together, but it presents the story in a really weird way and its getting on my nerves.  Since the last reading there has been more background info on cases, but now its starting to mention the vidoque society more which is the name of the group of people.  So far it has shown the three first cases and then gone into detail for each of these whith no apparent prupose for the plot.  The society meets once a month and each time they have a new case without even solving the previous one.  I think this book may be a prequel to another book where they actually do stuff and this was just meant to give the details on how it was started.  I think i may stop reading it soon because it is just so pointless that i can't stand reading it anymore.  We shall see...

The Murder Room

     This book is rather dull.  Its got a good storyline, though rather mixed up and tumultuous, with three main characters that work together as one perfectly functioning machine of crime solving glory.  First of all, there is Frank Bender who is a prurient sex addicted artist/psychic who uses his gift of "seeing" how a human head would look and then creating a bust of that person for police identification.  Then there is Richard Walter who is a criminal profiler who is Benders complimentary friend and co-worker.  They usually have some tension since Frank is laid back and has many girlfriends in addition to a wife who is okay with his girlfriends, while Richard is an uptight man who always wears a suit and tie.  These two would never have been able to funtion if it weren't for the third character: William Fleisher.  He is the glue that holds the group together and offers his wide range of associates and informants to the group in order to solve the crimes that they are solving.  The group is really well described and the background is really well described.  But it seems like thats all this book is- background.

The Murder Room

This week I started the book "the Murder Room."  It's a pretty good book, but mostly just stories of what has been going on and backgrounds on the characters.  Honestly, I'm pretty confused because it keeps skipping around to a lot of different stories and characters.  In my opinion it is not a good way for a story to be written.  But it's about a group of people who gather on the third thursday of every month who gather to solve a cold case that has been unsolved for at least two years.  The thing is, they have opened with a passage about the murder room but then gone off to stories about murderers and two people specifically.  Although, it mentions three main characters to begin with.  As I said, I'm confused and its really starting to annoy me.  Once I finish the book it should all come together so i can put it together for you.

Currently for week 5

" To hear delly describe it, I had next to no friends because I intimidated people by being so exceptional. Not true. I had next to no friends because I wasn't friendly."

-I liked this sentence because I thought it was funny how the author used a kind of parallelism with a twist. The speaker doesn't like how her acquaintance put it since it made her sound better than she thought she was.  I'm not really sure how to describe why I like it as much as I do, it is ineffable.

"Nepetrov was used to playing highway chicken and winning."
- This passage is from The Silent Man.  I liked it because highway chicken just sound like something that could be suspensefully funny.  I'm a man of simple tastes and humor is what i mainly look for in a sentence.

"'Because whatever happened in the past is in the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance.' He eyes Peeta for a moment. 'Except maybe Peeta.'"

-  This sentence is my utmost favorite because it singles out the one kid who isn't as able.  The sentence is basically a corollary of he cliche about high school student being picked last on a sports team, and, given the seriousness of their situation, it was unexpected and amusing.

Ok so this week finished the Silent Man and have started The Murder Room.  I read  about 65 from The Silent Man and 100 exactly from the Murder Room for a total of:

This Week: 165

Total this semester: 1772

THE LAST SILENT MAN POST

The moment has finally come where I have finished the book and can now stop blogging about it.  The book was good, but I didn't like having to write about it each week when i already knew what was going on.  So anyways, back to the book, the ending was pretty good.  There wasn't much suspense, just a short incursion.  It as a little disappointing... and so was the part after that!  The guy ends up standing at an airport flipping a coin for where to go next.  Terrible.  There was a major disappointment which you'll figure out if you read it but it left me with a vague feeling of emptiness that a book shouldn't give off.  Decent book, bad ending. The end.

Claims of the Day

1) Emerson's chubby cheeks, varying moods, and melodic giggles highlight the sincere, playful, and cheerful innocence of children.
2) The painting “Bold as Love” by Scott Cicero portrays an intense and dramatic expression through the spiritual flow, soothing colors, and compassionate movement emphasizing the complex design.

3) In this photograph, the contrasting colors of the bench and the grass, along with the thoughtful camera angle, communicate a sense of appreciation and respect for the nature that we seldom acknowledge."

4) The music group Ok GO and dance group Pilobolus' smooth and elegant costumes along with the modern aspects of movement portray the lyrically pleasant mood of the collaboration in the music video.

5) The educationally stimulating childrens' game Questionaut incorporates pleasantly jubilant music with whimsically quaint animation to create an inventively playful adventure.

The first claim is from the blog "Lucky" and its link is: http://freefifteen.blogspot.com/

The second claim is from "Back of Napkin Blog" and its link is: http://almostfacebook.blogspot.com/

I liked these two because the word choice was flowing and pleasant sounding while most others were either nonexistant, too long, or was not nice sounding.