Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Reading Log

Book Title: The Bones of Makaidos

Author: Bryan Davis

Pages: 0-102

Days Read:

Monday 15 min

Tuesday 15 min

Wednesday 15 min

Thurdsay 15 min

Entries:

1) Shiloh was kidnapped by a group of mysterious strangers.

"Vlad pulled a dagger from his belt and pressed the tip to Shiloh's chin. "Get moving."

"As Shiloh climbed the rubble, Nolan lowered the barrel. "Now that we have what we came here for, the rest of you stay here for ten minutes. Then you are free to go." (Davis 48)

Everyone was hiding in the mines determining what to do, when a large gang of people, armed with guns and daggers burst in firing there guns asking for Bonnie(who possesses wings). But, Shiloh and Bonnie are cousins, therefore look a LOT alike. So they dress alike in case something like this were ever to happen. They do not want anyone finding Bonnie for because of her difference, that could put her in danger. Bonnie most times hides her wings in a backpack that she wears. Shiloh has an identical backpack, so they can be easily mistaken. Shiloh said that she was Bonnie, in order to protect her cousin in hope that one day, she shall find Billy(her boyfriend) again. So, Shiloh sacrificed herself and was taken away by a group of mysterious strangers.

2) Walter is REALLY hurt.

"She and Steadfast both had hands inside a deep gash in Walters chest." (Davis 60)

"Ashley poked the needle into Walter's artery and began stitching around it. Apparently the Vacant's spear had sliced through it, and now she had to splice the loose ends together." (Davis 61)

When Walter and Billy were going to the summit of Mt. Elijah they ran into some Vacants(creatures from Second Eden.) and while they were fighting them off, a Vacant stuck a spear into Walter's chest. That injury cut through some of his veins and arterys and nearly cut through his lung. Ashley and Steadfast (Second Eden's two doctors) were trying to stitch them back together so that Walter will not loose more blood and die.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Reading Log

Book: Crossed

Author: Ally Condie

Pages: 0-114

Days:

Friday 15 min

Saturday 15 min

Sunday 15 min

Monday 15 min

Tuesday 15 min

Wednesday 15 min

Entries:

1) Ky is always thinking of Cassia.

Ky's point of view.
"The arrow of this compass is locked into place. No spinning. No alteration. Like with me and Cassia. Locked on with one idea, one thing in the sky. One truth to hold to when everything else falls to dust around me."

Ky has carved a compass to represent the one he left with Cassia. The difference is, this one is carved out of stone, so the needle does not move, and only points north. Ky relates this to his an Cassia's relationship, because even though they are so far apart, they still have that same idea running through their head. Because that idea is always running through Ky's head, he is always thinking of Cassia.

2) Cassia wants to know how Ky is.

Cassia's point of view.
"I close my eyes again,wishing I could see Ky's face flash in front of me. But every image I conjure lately seems incomplete, blurring in different places. I wonder where Ky is now, what is happening to him, if he managed to hang onto the scrap of green silk I gave him before he left."

Cassia is currently in the outer provinces while Ky is fighting in the war, and she wishes to know how he is. Before Ky was taken from his home unwillingly, Cassia slipped him a green patch of silk from the dress she wore to her matching cerimony. She is wondering if in all of the chaos, he managed to keep it. She also wants to know if he survived so far. Overall, she wants to know how he is.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Reading Log

Book: Matched

Author: Amy Condie

Pages: 148-251

Days:
Saturday: 15 min

Sunday: 15 min

Monday: 15 min

Tuesday: 15 min

Wednesday: 15 min

Thursday: 15 min

Entries:

1) Xander still thinks there is hope.

"I came up on the screen, too, Cassia," he says quietly. "But he was the one you chose to see." And then as quick as a player making his last move, he turns away and pushes through the doors. Leaving me behind.

Cassia has just told Xander, her match, that she believes that she is falling in love with an Aberration named Ky Markram. Both Xander and Ky are in love with Cassia, but Xander did not know about Cassia and Ky's little affair. Ky's Aberration status means that he cannot be married. But, the Society made a 'mistake' and Ky's face popped up on her microcard. So, Cassia is falling for Ky and just broke the news to Xander. But, Xander believes that he can still win Cassia over if he tries hard enough.

2) The Society made Ky's face pop up on Cassia's microcard on purpose.

"We decided to put Ky in the matching pool," she says. "Now and then we do that with Aberrations, simply to gather additional data and watch for variation. The general public doesn't know about it; there's no reason they should. What's important for you to know that we were in control of the experiment all along."

The Society conducted an experiment using Ky and Cassia, for they knew that they were compatable. They told Ky that if he was in the matching pool, he would be with Cassia. They then allowed Cassia to ponder the fact that the match progrm could be wrong by making his face pop up on her microcard. Once they both knew that there was a possibility the Society put them in the same hiking group and made them hiking partners so that they could see the pairs reaction. Ky and Cassia both fell in love and were not allowed to, because of Ky's Aberration status. The Society put Ky's face on Cassia's microcars because they wanted to see the reactions of the two that were in love but not allowed to be, to see how far that they would go for love.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Reading Log

Book: Matched

Author: Ally Condie

Pages Read: 0-148

Days Read:

Sunday: 15 min

Monday: 15 min

Tuesday: 15 min

Wednesday: 15 min

Entries:

1)  Having un-approved writing is dangerous.

     "His fingers tremble; whether it is from the end of his life drawing do close, I do not know. I want to help him, but I can tell this is something that he must do himself.
     It doesn't take long for him to read the paper, and when he's finished, he closes his eye. An emotion crosses his face that I cannot read. Something deep.
     Then he opens his bright, beautiful eyes and looks straight at me while he folds the paper back up. 'Cassia. This is for you. It is even more precious than the compact.'
     'But it's so--'  I stop myself before I can say the word dangerous." (Condie 62)

Cassia's Grandfather gives her a compact with a secret compartment in it that has poems written on it, poems that are not in the Hundred Poems which is a list of one-hundred poems that have been approved by the government. Anything besides what is on that list is illegal, or dangerous. If you are caught with any, then you will commit an infraction, and that would shame your whole family into becoming an abnerration, and your children whe comes time to be Matched, a single and have no match. Cassia reconises the danger and wants to destroy it for she will not shame her family.

2) Cassia is beggining to have second thoughts about Xander.

"Even though I know I am falling for Ky it is impossible not to love Xander for everything he is and everything he does." (Condie 138)

Cassia knows that Xander is her match but ever scince Ky Markham popped up on her microcard she has wondered. She knows that it cannot be, for Ky is a abnerration and therefore a single, for his father commited an infraction. But she cannot help but have a reconsideration.