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Over spring break I've read a book called Blessed are the Uncool by Paul Grant. I've read it for an upcoming sociology project that will be due. It defines what cool actually is and goes into the details and motives of wanting to be cool. It breaks cool down and picks it apart into many smaller sub-parts. I found it very interesting. I read for 5 1/2 hours, and then went back to The Davinci Code and read farther into that book for 4 1/2 hours. Things i got out of the project.It gave me more motivation to actually pick up a book and read it. I've always liked reading, but never really found the time to do it. Its definitly easyer to keep going once you start to read again.

Books I've Finished

Atonement
Back Water
Lovely Bones
Going to Extremes
Angels and Demons
Blessed are the Uncool

Books I've Read Partially

Davinci Code
The Dumbest Generation
Various National Geographic magazines


Time over break: 10 hours
Total Time for project: 48 hours

This week I have still been reading Angels and Demons by Joel Shueltze. It teaches what the bible says on both angels and demons and actually gives scripture references to back it up. I find the information to be especially interesting. Over the break i intend to finish this book, and possibly to start on a new one.




Time this week: 2 hours
Total time: 38 hours

This week I've read for two hours, angels and demons. It just goes into detail about the duty of angels and how they came about, and also demons. Very interesting book. Its written by Joel Shueltze.





Time this week:2 hours
Total time this week:36 hours

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I'm still reading my previous book. The class it reminds me of most is sociology. Both the class and the book show things in a more sociological outlook. It gives different veiws for common ideas.






Read this week: 1 hour
Time in all: 34 hours

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This week I have finished the book Going to Extremes by Cass R. Sunstein, and am now getting into a book called The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein. Based mainly on the book I'm currently reading and a term from Going to Extremes, reminds me of a song called Stupid Girls by Pink. These girls in the song are completely wrapped up in their own lives that they don't care about knowing anything beyond it. Pink mocks them in a funny matter, but The Dumbest Generation explains how serious it actually is. Girls like those in the songs could very well be the future generation. With so much technology in our hands we should be able to learn more than those in the past, but it shows technology, along with a few other factors, actually is having the opposite affect.


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Time read this week: 5 hours
Total time read: 33 hours

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This week I've been reading a few older National Geographic magazines for about two hours. I read all about the affects of aging, and how eating just the right things could extent your life a significant amount of time. I also learned how much the processed foods that most all Americans call normal, affect your daily life, and slow down chemicals in your brain. I also picked up an older copy about the swine flu, and how it makes more of an impact on smaller countries.





Time read this week: 2 hours

Total time: 28

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Mr.Harvey, Susies killer, has raped and killed many girls before Susie. Dennace the Menace also does a lot of bad things. ( not quite as extreme, but still ) Dennace never seems to feel bad for the bad crazy stunts he pulls. Mr. Harvey also seems to have no concience.

Lindsey Salmon was Susie's little sister. When people look at Lindsey all's they see is Susie now, and they don't see who Lindsey really is. That reminded me of those trickey pictures that you only see one thing, but if you look close and hard enough you can see that it is actually something different. In the picture above you usually only see it as a face, or the word liar.

This picture represents the never ending yearning, always wanting answers, never getting them. Your always only left with your own thoughts and theorys.

The part in the book in which the family, particularly the father, was greiving, greatly reminded me of how Mary must have wept when she saw her son also get taken from her hands. Its something greatly beyond your control, but yet you cannot help but be miserable

The book I'm reading is named Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Susie Salmon gets lured into a man-dug whole by a familiar neighbor one night coming home from school. This picture portrays that she was forced to stay in that whole, no longer had the free will to leave, and how much it caught her off-gaurd. She lived in a small town so no one else expected it either. It also signifies the violence in which the raping and killing was carried out.

Time reading this week: 9 hours

Total time reading: 26 hours

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This week I have been reading the Davinci Code. I am only a few chapters in so I'm not positive how I could make an accurate judgment and apply it correctly. From what i've heard so far, it seems just like a story, contrary to what the Bible teaches. A lot of christians are skeptical about this book. What I've read so far is purely information about Robert Langdon and other various historical references, therefore I cannot possibly apply.

Read this week: 2 hours
Total Read: 17 hours

I'm rubber, your glue.

Over the weekend i have finished my second book. It's title was Backwater and was written by Joan Bauer. Its about Ivy Breedlove and the journey that emphasizes her passion for history. In Ivy's family they are all lawyers, and very close-minded, and didn't easily accept people who are different; because of that her aunt Josephine was not accepted in the Breedlove family. Ivy decides to go on a quest to find her Aunt and find out exactly what happened that made her cut herself off from the family. On her way she has to depend on the guide "mountain mama" and goes through many life threatening situations: white-outs, extreme cold, animals. When she finally meets Josephine, she learns that she just liked to be alone, and loved birds more than she ever did people. She also learns a lot about who her father used to be, and a whole new perspective on life. A storm hits while she's staying, and she has to go across an icy lake in order to save Josephine. When she finally returns, everyone is thankful, and their family ties are stronger than ever.

Time read this week: 5 hours

Total Time: 15hours

If you don't feel socially awkward then you didn't read long enough.

Week 2. Mission: relate it to your life.
Briony is a character in which i can relate to the most. Her father, like myne, is always working; and her mother, like myne, usually has to tend to her head-aches and illnesses. This often leaves Briony to be off in her own little world, and like me, she's completely content with it. We both contemplate things that normally aren't thought about, and have big imaginations. She also has older siblings that are moved away from home. Briony tends to just be more stubborn than me, gets more carried away, is a bit more creative, and writes much better.


Between two study halls, an extremely boring sunday, and reading while on an immovable bike i got 8more hours of reading in, and i'm done with the book.

Total hours so far: 10

Its a BOOK!

I am readin Atonement by Ian McEwan. The first few pages were not very easy to follow. He uses unnecesarily big words, so it takes me longer than usual to read it. It doesn't really capture my attention, nor do i feel inclined to keep reading. But I hope it will improve. I do like it though when the child goes on random tangents. She is a very interesting character and unique young girl.

I read for 2 hours so far, but am only on page 62.

Goals for Nerds

My goals over the course of this project is to increase my vigor for reading....haha well actually i'd like to get a good grade :) I will accomplish this through reading at least a half an hour a day. I will hope to read excessively on Sundays. I have already got two books in mind that happen to be sitting on my book shelf as we speak. I also have a few national geographic magazines to fill my time if I get done with the books too swiftly. I am updating my blog via text. (yay convenience!)