Late

A few days ago, I was sitting in biology working on the paper towels lab. The bell rang suddenly, and I grabbed my bag and walked to social studies. I decided to get some water since I had plenty of time, then I strolled into Mrs. Harper's room getting ready to learn about some Sumerians. But then, as I looked around the room, I noticed something that terrified me: none of the faces were my classmates. I then realized that I actually had Spanish this block, which just happened to be on the other side of campus. I rushed down the stairs, and past the library. I knew I wasn't going to make it, but I tried anyway. I reached Penniman, and finally Sr. Ramos' room. I dropped my bag outside, and right as I was pulling out my books, I heard the bell. I had failed. Yeah my life is pretty boring and this is pretty much the most exciting thing to happen on an average week.

Reading log and reflection

Well I dropped Ivanhoe, partly because it was kind of boring and partly because I forgot where I put it. I decided to read Faust, though to be honest I didn't really want to read that either. I like it more than I thought it would though. I really to read these stage plays type things. Plus the Biblical stuff is cool.
     I'll stick with Faust for now, but I'm on the lookout for books about Rome/Hellenistic empires/Classical age. I read about the 2nd Punic War and that war with Epirus and now I'm craving some strategos and TRIARII! Stuff on Parthia, Ptolemaic Egypt, or the Seleucids would be cool too. really anything Classical Age.

I read:

Faust

Sunday-1:00 pm to 2:00

Sunday:6:00 pm to 8:10 pm

I saw this cool banjo on ebay that's from the 1800's for only like $200. The only problems are that it has a tear in the head and it has six pegs. I can fix the tear pretty easily, but I'm confused about the pegs. The guy says it's a 5 string banjo, and the other one is extra. That doesn't really make sense though, and I thought the 5th peg has to be in the middle of the neck.
     It's really cool, but I don't think it's worth the risk. I'll keep looking for cool old banjos, but one of the problems is I have no idea what's a collectible or not. All I know is that the most expensive banjos are Gibson's from the 1920's. That's because Earl Scruggs used a 20's Gibson when he performed. I don't really care about that though, I just like having an old instrument. I think it's really neat to play something that old.

The book I've been reading for my free read is Ivanhoe. I haven't gotten far but so far it's been so boring. I expected a cool light-hearted epic adventure, but it's been pretty dry from what I've read. If it's doesn't pick up I might just drop it.

     I'm not sure what I should read if I drop or once I finish this though. I kind of just chose this because it was last minute and I saw it in the cabinet. I guess I could continue with the Dune  series. People say the original series is pretty good, but those new ones written by his son are absolutely terrible. This is probably true, so I'm not going to try them.

I read:

Sunday, 5:03-7:09

The author is Walter Scott.

         I didn't really like the book The Knife of Never Letting Go. The setting wasn't very fleshed out or detailed, and all the drama and stuff felt really forced. Like, so in this far future we found another planet we can colonize. Instead of spending year researching and studying it before even sending unmanned probes there, we decide to launch thousands of people there with just a basic idea of what it might be like? "What if this so far in the future that tons of planets have been colonized and FTL travel is the norm?" is what you might say, but the only two planets mentioned are Old World and New World, and I'm assuming Old World is Earth.
        Now, this could be so far into the future that humanity might have broken up from a united empire into some kind of system of scattered factions, and maybe some event led to the loss of much of humanity's knowledge on some of these far flung planets, leading them to regress into some kind of techno barbarism. However, these are a lot of assumptions, and the more likely answer is that the author is bad at world building. Just terrible.