So I've been reading Bill Cosby-Time Flies. I think it's difficult o blog about this book since there isn't really a storyline. Bill Cosby has given me a few hearty chuckles with his opinions on aging. So far the book is mostly about the downsides of aging. But I'm eager to see where Bill takes it from here.

Total time read: 12 hours and 30 minutes

I finished Shades of Gray! Except the epilogue... It was REALLY good.

I decided a theme song for my book would either be Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down OR The Greatest Man That Ever Lived by Weezer, I couldn't decide. I think the lyrics from the Weezer song fit my book well.

Total time read: 11 hours 30 minutes

An Unhealthy Habit.

So, for this week we are supposed to compare our reading habits to another habit that consumes a lot of our time. For instance, over spring break I read about 2 hours. I didn't really keep track of how much TV i watched, but i think it was somwhere in the ballpark of 13-16 hours. This exceeds the total amount I have spent reading for this project. Yikes. Some may think i could've used my time more wisely. This is true. Although I did watch a lot of PBS and learned a lot. I watched a documentary on how the wolf population is escalading in Wisconsin and also my fair share of Antiques Roadshow. That is time well spent.


Since I blogged last i finished the 'Then' section i was reading. Blackout, Jet's father has been beating his wife Angelica. Eventually the shadow power and voices in his head have taken so much control of him he ends up killing Angelica. Luckily Luster and Night come and save Jet before her father killed her too. Night has decided that he will become a professor at the Academy in time so he will be able to train Jet, the only shadow power left besdies him since the hauled Blackout off to Blackbird Prison.

Next is the 'Now' section. If you can recall Jet got pretty beat up in a fight with Doctor Hypnotic-a rabid who escaped from Blackbird Prison. Up until this point Jet had voices in her head, since she is a shadow power. It is said that most shadow powers end up going crazy just as Jet's father did. She had presently been using white noise from her comlink to cope with this. Well, during her fight with Doctor Hypnotic he must have gotten into her head and turned off the voices, it was a pleasant change for Jet. Meanwhile, Taser had rounded up a runner network making it much easier for the extrahumans to help capture rapids. So, Iridium had gone into the warehouse that was Dr. Hypnotics temporary lair with her father and the goons that broke out of Blackbird with him. Jet and the other good guys back at HQ come to save Iridium who is already under a zombie-like trance. Jet is the only one who can takd down Hypnotic and right as she is about to finish him, he makes the voices come back to her head.

Total time read: 9hours and 30minutes

Meanwhile...

So i was at my grandma's watching The Titanic. That was just depressing me so i had to come home and blog. Sorry i'm posting at such an hour Mr. Strusz.

1. I don't remember the last time i went to a library. However, I was in a bookstore a few months ago...it goes by the name of BOOKWORLD...you may have heard of it. Of course i hear it's nothing compared to Apple Blossom Books! ANYWAYS, all i remember is it had creaky, sinking floors with tacky carpeting. I didn't really know where to look for books, or find any that interested me for that matter. I also didn't get the instant ambition to read as i would when i walk into say... Barnes & Noble. Well, there you have it.

2. I'm in a pretty big 'Then' section in my book. Basically, Night a shadow power is angry at his team-mates for getting married and pregnant...or pregnant and married. Since Corp developed the comlink all of the Mind Powers went crazy, probably because of the extra voices in their ear. Therefore, they locked most of them up in jail. Well, Night thought that his team-mates needed a real villian to get them set back on their real purpose rather than having a family. So he let Dr. Hypnotic loose. Currently Blackout and Angelica are married and Luster and Vixen are married. Interesting little fact: Dr. Hypnotic and Angelica are former lovers. So Hypnotic goes to New York kills like thousands of people there! So Team Alpha goes to save the day. Angelica confronts Dr. Hypnotic and cons him into thinking she still loves him so he lets his guard down. Then she dukes it out with him, but he doesn't even defend himself because he loves her. I left off there so i don't know what happens next! I know right?! it's a page turner!

I had a rather unproductive week. I read just shy of 2 hours :/. Sadly, i don't think i will beat Mr. Strusz. Keeping my hopes high though. I'm almost finished with my book!

Total time read: 7 hrs and 30 minutes

200 pages in, nerds.

Theme for the week: Relate your book to real life events.

My book is composed of two alternating sections. A 'Then' part, which flashes back to when Night, Luster, Vixen, Blackout, Angelica, and Dr. Hypnotic were at the Academy. Luster and Vixen are Iridium's parents, and Blackout and Angelica are Jet's parents. The other section is a 'Now' section.

Now there is only a small handful of extrahumans left in the city of New Chicago that haven't turned rabid. Iridium broke her father Lester-codename: Luster and some members of his crew including Dr. Hypnotic out of BlackBird Prison. Iridium actually wasn't one of the 'good guys' but recently she has been helping the small force of good guys..mostly because she is annoyed with all the washed-out rabid extrahuman friends of her fathers chillin' at her place.

Jet got pretty beat up in a fight with Dr. Hypnotic. Now Jet and the other extrahumans on the good guys squad, Frosbite, Firebug, Steele..and Iridium and Taser-he is a mercenary, come face to face with these giant mutants. This man named Martin Moore was working with Night who leaked code-black files from the Squadron to Moore. He took that information and went to Everyman(criminals who were against extrahumans) and created a serum to level the field between human and extrahuman.

Now that i've caught ya'll up, i suppose i should get to the theme for this weeks post.

I find it relatively easy to relate my book to real life events. Considering the riots going on in Libya AND Wisconsin, for that matter. Civilians are revolting against their leaders. This is just like in my book since the extrahumans are destroying everything to take their anger out on Corp that was in control of them.

Total time read: 5hrs 30minutes