Anyway, I'm throwing my schedule out the window today--even though it's Music Monday and I love and greatly miss it--and I'm going to talk about a book we just read in English. I may come back to music, though... just cause. I have a confession to make, haha. =3
It's about this little 7-year-old girl named Alicia Bartlett who is "brutally murdered" (honestly, she got a rock to the head. Brutal. Hah) and found in the woods. The last person who saw her alive was Jason Dorrant, who is 12, and lives down the street, thus making him the prime suspect. (He didn't do it.)
The thing of it is... The book is short, and not just in length. It's very concise. Frill-less. There are very few descriptions, and those available are short and semi-vague. It is cut-and-dry, but it all just adds to the story. It doesn't matter what season it is (summer) or where the story takes place (Monument, whatever-state--CT?). It doesn't matter what anyone's wearing, or what anyone really looks like. People are described, but in a manner to make it seem highly unimportant and a person tends to just skim over it. Well, I did. She gave it to us and I had it read in just over two class periods.
It was really good. I give it a two thumbs up--might give it more if I had more thumbs, even. (=
Until I was in the bookstore Friday night and found Roadkill, the next book in the Cal Leandros once-trilogy-now-quad. The guy lied to me when he told me he was only writing three books! (Yes, I emailed him once upon a time becaaauuuuse... haha, well, long story. Anyway. Hah.) Bitch. Oh well, I don't mind. I'm just... at a lost for the real motivation in it, because--I can't tell you if you intend to read them. Hah. Oops. Anyway, yeah. I'm pretty pumped because it's going really well so far and it's--of course--really good and I like it a lot. I don't even mind theeeeee lack of a certain element. So yep. (=
...I just gotted caught on my teacher's laptop, soooooo I'ma go now. heh. toodles!
