Reading and My Trend

It's Saturday and I have been sitting at this computer for quite a while. While my schedule has been quite packed and I nearly decided to accompany Holland's Science Olympiad team, I still managed to find some reading. (I usually leave the house at 7:35 AM and get back and around 8:45 PM) I didn't actually go to SO, but I hope the team did well. Anyway, reading: Play scripts, play posters, the little papers with the cast list, the cheat sheet of what scene comes next, etc. Kidding. Although I think I have read all of those. And I saw Susan and Anna at the play! (Ignoring the fact that they know many other people who were also part of the cast)
     Real reading: The END of the Seekers series. I have had the book for so long and not a chance to read it. It's currently sitting sort of near my bed in hopes that I will finish it sometime soon. I am still curious how this will all work out. There are three different types of bears and a shape-shifting bear, right? So how is it all going to end up happily?  I am more than halfway through and wondering if the ending will be very strange. I found only the first book and this book are really enjoyable, because all the ones in between were somewhat similar. There's so much travelling that problems just start getting reused: hunger, tension, where are we going? I don't think there's a chapter that doesn't discuss the lack of food or the joy of finding some. Luckily, the first and the last are not so much of going somewhere as figuring things out. The beginning was neat because each bear had a different background and they each still had their own story to follow, but once all four come together, the story is basically the same other than the shift in the point of view.
     The other thing that bothered me was the idea as a whole. These are bears who are supposed to be facing serious problems, mostly because their homes are being destroyed and they are wandering. Other than the fact they talk to each other and travel together, they seem like relatively normal bears. But then the authors just pulled out this idea of a magic, shape-shifting bear and it doesn't fit very well. I sort of believed that these bears were there and travelling around, especially since they add a map of Canada and list all these very specific places they went through. Facts were used specifically about each kind of bear to make everything seem realistic. So why did there have to be a magical bear? It's not terrible, but it just bothered me a bit.
     Other reading: What is the What. My mom got it from the library and we are both reading it! We just started, so there's not much to say yet. But I am very excited.
     Trend reading this week has been less than other weeks. There was one article that I found in class last week before my eyes were completely screwy from that screen. More and more my topic comes together and then separates. I honestly try to throw other minimalist shoes into the mix, but it's really so hard to. It's becoming barefoot on one side and Five Fingers on the other, because it's so hard to look for both at the same time. But in the article I mentioned I did find something that said that sales tripled since Born to Run was published. I also read little bits of the book online, and read a bit more about it. I'm trying now to really find facts that will help support it, because even though every article refers to it as a rising star in the running world, there aren't that great of facts so far. I think this essay will turn out pretty well!