Reading: Jan 18-25

     I don't even know what to call this post. This week I have been reading a lot. Music, math and social studies books, and the closings at the bottom of the television. Actually, I did go to the library when I found out I was unwanted at play practice that day. I got three books. One is a mystery about a missing musical instrument, which is solved by a group of friends. I thought it was okay. The puzzles in it were cool, but I found the characters sort of strange. This valuable violin is stolen from the store where it was being repaired, and they have to figure out how anyone could have stolen it without going through the front of back doors, which had alarms, or breaking any windows (which were barred) The problem is that there are only a select few suspects, so it's not that difficult to figure out 'who' as much as 'how' and 'why'. I honestly thought the reason why was a little weird. But the very ending, after they solve the mystery, I liked.
    The other book, which I just started, is called 'The Islands of the Blessed' this would be the third book in the series which I think I have mentioned before. (The Sea of Trolls and The Land of the Silver Apples) So far it's pretty good. There's an un-dead mermaid that is coming to find a monk because he refused to marry her because she was a monster. Then he burned her tail and floated away in his ship. And she died, but not really, so her spirit has come back and it gets angry every time it hears this gold and bronze bell. And there was a gigantic tornado that ripped through the town. That's sort of important. Right now there are some hobgoblins, named The Bugaboo and The Nemesis, who are visiting our friend and bard in training, Jack. Sort of unfortunately, all the copies there were in large print. I'll have to see how it all turns out.