I sat down to begin The Book of The Dead and I decide to do a web search on it just to see what would come up for the authors. And lo and behold, this book is the last book in a trilogy. And it seems to be part of a larger series. I’m not sure if it’s a spin off of the series or not. I couldn’t really tell from the descriptions. Only I would find myself in a bookstore wandering around saying, I want to start a series…then get sad on the fact that I couldn’t find a series I liked. Then pick up a random book of the sale pile and get it home to find that it’s part of a series. o_O.
The trilogy and the series all seemed to be surrounded around the New York Museum of Natural History. Which is a secret dream of mines to work for one day…or even be the person who discovers something on an expedition trip that goes on display there. I know a geeky dream but ehh we all have those locked away don’t we.
So now I have to wait to get some money and buy the first two books, which on amazon they don’t look to be too expensive. Brand new and hardbound they were only like $7.
So I started His Dark Materials…I’ve only gotten halfway through chapter two. I’m trying to savor the book by reading one chapter a day, but the chapters are relatively short so that makes it hard to not keep going. Plus in all honesty it’s kind of confusing to understand what is going on. Because it starts like in the middle of the story, so things have happened already and the characters make reference to these things but you as a reader don’t know about them. The Golden Compass is the first book, by the way. And also it’s staged partly in our world to begin with, and there are mad mention of things from Russia and that whole region and I took an Russian History class and was depressed that whole semester because of it. Yeah trying to get over that whole aversion to Russia to get through these chapters.
But so far I’m in love with the main character Lyra. She’s such a noisy little girl…reminds me of me. XD
I’ve gotten a lot of support about my decision on The Job from friends. I needed it, I haven’t been around any extended family yet but my dad’s parents are having a cook out the 16th and I know my grandmother is going to say something. Which is why I haven’t told my dad. I’m sure he’s gonna have a speech for me to sit through. But oh well I’ve done it, can’t go back.
Is anyone watching the new season of Project Runway?
B.J.
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