Reading (In the Snow)

Well, as we all know, it snowed and is still snowing quite a bit at this very second. It was sort of strange and cool that it snowed (and stuck) on December 1! So this week I have been reading 'in the snow'. I wandered around the school library and randomly (I can't believe it, but it was actually completely random) picked up a book called 'Interface Masque'. I'm not quite sure if I like it yet, but it's okay. Has anyone read it? (It's not really new, it was published in 1997). Anyway, it's about a girl named Cecile who lives in a very modern Venice. She is ready to start her life as a Sept, but she has to graduate to become one, which means passing a test. Sept-Fortune creates security systems, and, for her test, she has to break through them. This is extremely dangerous, because if she's caught, then she can die, but if she passes, then her life is much more secure. There is also a question of morals, is it right to break into something, what would her parents say? Etc, etc. So anyway, that's about the first chapter, and then she decides to go through and take the test and she breaks through really easily (which isn't really a spoiler because it's still at the beginning) and passes. But as she's taking the information back, she runs into David, who you learn is working to take down the Septs. It's really weird to explain, but basically they have weaved music so tightly into everyday life that certain kinds are unacceptable, but not totally illegal. Mozart is played/sung in the morning, and everyone is calmed by music at night, but no one accepts jazz or rock and roll. So this David guy just happens to be in a jazz band, and he wants Cecile to join him in his quest to tear down Septs and to rule the world himself, except he wants Cecile, like I said. The whole plot and everything is sort of interesting, I guess. The weird thing is the science fiction part of it. Because she's in a futuristic Venice, there are weird ways of getting places and information that is hard for me to completely grasp. The cool thing about the future is that they wear costumes to protect their identity, so you never know who anyone else is unless they take off their mask, or if, by their job, they are required, not to wear masks, or they choose not to. So everyone has their own masks and costumes that they wear, that can define where they are in society, or not at all. It's pretty interesting I guess. (I looked up a picture of the author, she's sort of creepy looking) It was nice to choose what book to read, even if I didn't choose very carefully.