*****SPOILERS BELOW******

Hey, so I didn't want to ruin the book for anyone intending to read it with the next post, so I made a seperate one.....
OKAY, here we go!!!

1. I totatly knew that Gabby was going to die since she went MIA the first time!!! It was sooo predictable, Dr. Reichs, sooo predictable!!!
2. We all knew, of course, that neither Dr. Brennan wasn't going to die.
1. OH, and neither was Katy going to either.
1. This isn't because I had read the books out of order. Primairily, it is because it was told from first person, and writing about your own death would be awkward...because you couldn't...you'd be dead... AND, secondly, they tried to kill Tempe with like, what, 20 pages left. AND, oh yeah. Way to platantly say in the begening of the book that the next Temperance Brennan novel had a two chapter preview in the back of the book. Way to go, Scribner, ruin the book before its even started.
3. The note from Luc Claudel was so bizare. It was almost, like, creeper/stalker/sketch of him to do that. "We are the last line of defence aganst them:...the cold-blooded killers. I would be honored to work with you again." Please. Way to be a creep, Claudel.

That's it for my rant. Bye.

Oh! There you are! I was so far behind I couldn't quite see you there!!!

THUS BEGINS 3RD QUARTER!!!
Hey there! its been a while since I've blogged, but here I am!!! I'm reading Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs and I am proud to say that if I were reading Drood, and I was on the same page in tMoED as I am in this book, I would have read as much in tMoED in the two months I was reading it compared to the three weeks I've been reading DD.
Take that as you will.
SOOO, Tempe is wrapped up in quite the mystery! Over the last two years or so (the book taking place in 1994), she and the team have found several mutilated, meticiously dismembered and garbage-bagged of young women, ages ranging 16- about 25 years of age. When they explore a suspects house, they find a copy of Le Journal (Montreal newspaper) with her picture with a big X on her body, and now fears that she is the next victim.
A sub-plot seems to be with her college friend, Gabby. She is in cultural anthropology, rather than physical anthropology like Tempe. Her current study focuses on the prostitute subculture. Just thought I'd let you know.

The End of TMoED???

Well, my friends, its true: I will be putting TMoED to the side for now because I have been reading it for two months now.
However, with every ending comes a begening, and that begening belongs to:
DÉJÀ DEAD by KATHY REICHS
Because accents can be a pain to get to, yeah, I may say deja instead of déjà.
Any who, its her first book and I'm psyched to read it!!!

Drooooood. (More)

Well hello there! It seems like it has been a while since I posted. It is proably because it has! In fact it was in the last decade!!! Over winter break, I did read! But, I was up skiing and much to my upsetness, there was no WiFi!!! (that and my laptop is like a [insert several non-PG words here] and won't charge, so I have been doing literaly everything via the iTouch--icluding this)

Back to TMoED!!!

So the D man (Drood) dissapered (as I stated in my last entry) and seemingly without a trace, except for his shirt pin (what ever that is) and his gold watch (which I immagne to be of the pocket presuasion). Neville is still heald much at fault for the murder, but since there is no body found yet, he can't be charged. He made a whole big deal about how he cannot go out in daylight because the people of cloisterham think that he is a murderer and in my oppinion they are right. Thats basicaly it...

70ish pages to go!!!

Drood FIANALY Disappears!!! (I'd say its a spoiler, but the book is a dissaperaence mystery)

So, first let me say that tMoED is all of 272 pages. Drood disappears on page 162. IT TOOK SO LONG! (Yes,  I do try to avoid all caps, but it took so long).  Drood went on a walk down to the river on Cristmas Eve with Neville Landless, and Nevile Landless was the last person to see him--alive or dead. Neville walks eight miles out of town. I thisks that qualifies of excaping the scene of the crime! Then, a group of eight Cloisterhamians (???), including John Jasper and Mr. Crisparkel, I belive. NL thinks that they are theives and will not go with them, and the subsequently beat up NL. They bring him back to Cloisterham and then they blame the bood stains that they have created on him murdering Neville. Mayor Sapsesa orders the river to be dregged for any traces of Drood, which they find none. Then, Mr. Gregwerious, Rosa legal gaurdian comes to town , as his ward's fiancee is missing, and talks to Jasper. Jasper then faints when he tells him that Rosa and Edwin called off their engagement. I choose to interpret this as a sign of giult that he murdred Drood so Rosa would be upset and he will then try to get Rosa off the rebound. When Jasper comes to, he eats some food with Gregwerious (I'm not sure that's spelled right, but I don't have the book right in front of me). Greggy (as I will be calling Mr. Gregwerious) continualy descrtibes himself as an "Angular man" (the "a" is always capatalized). I haven't the slightest idea of what that means. The more than I think of it, Greggy does have motive for murder. He is the gaurdian of Rosa and it seems that he does not like her predestined husband (Drood).

The Mystery of Edwin Droo(ooooooooooooooo)d(ddd) by Charles Dickens- Up to Pg. 94

Currently, this is anything but a quick read. You can't really glaze over the text like people do sometimes, you need to grasp every word. But now, I have some motive: I got my hands on Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs, and I've promised myself that I shan't read a word of it until Drood is done.
Its fun to pay attention with the way Dickens plays with word choice, especaly in the chapter tittles. The seventh chapter, "More Confidences Than One", makes an exponental amount of sence, because Nevile Landless shares with Rev. Crisparke, then Helena Landless shares with Rosa.
I've started to formulate possible suspects for the murderer. So far, the people with the most motive are John Jasper and Nevile Landless. Jasper is in love with Rosa, whom Drood is engaged to. Crimes of Passion are Often Drawn From Passion. Nevile is, as he knows very well, "Secret and Revengefull" and despises the way Drood seems to take Rosa, a beautiful young woman for granted. What these two people don't know is that the young couple are on the verge of breaking up- their marrage was arranged, and they have no real love for each other.
I will get more reading done, I promise. Oh, and I'll keep up with the blog entries =). Been having some technichal difficulties latley, oh and, I know its early, but for all my fellow Jews out there:
happy haunakah

TITTLE ERROR and a Bit About the Book on the Block

I'm so very sorry, and I feel so very stupid: but the title of the book I am currently reading, is Death's Acre, not Death's Arch. I had one of those moments where you read something as a word that it looks like and then don't realize it for quite sometime that its actuality different word, in this case, for over a month.
A sincere thank you goes out to all the people who saw this and didn't realize/tell me that I was wrong. (I'm not being sarcastic. Really.)
Fact being that Death's Acre is a memoir, as compared to a fast-paced Kathy Reich's style realistic fiction, there isn't mush story arch. And I'm going to put it down for a whileSo, I figure that I'll tell you about the next book that I'm going to read (I've started it, but haven't finished it. I don't always read things all the way through. I have a wonderful attention span) And that book is:
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, or tMoED, as I will be calling it, is a Victorian-era set murder (mystery). Now, just to warn you so you don't get your hopes up or bet money on who the murderer is, THERE IS NO ENDING. Mr. Dickens was writing tMoED in twelve instalments, shortly after finnishing the sixth instalment, the man fell into a coma and subsequently died. Sounds like a great storyline for a musical, no? Well, it is a musical, and although I may be a tad partial to it, if you ever have the chance you must go see it. Or I will hunt you down, and we will have a little chat. The musical version was written by Rupert Holmes, who i was fourtuante enough to meet April 2009 when I worked backstage at a preformance of the show. But more on that later. TMoED is set in a small town nicknamed Cloisterham by Mr. Dickens. The novel takes off when Edwin Drood (need I say, he is the protagonist), a 17 year-old orphan is visiting his uncle, John Jasper, the resident music teacher and choirmaster of Cloisterham. Other mentionable charaters are:
Rosa Bud: Of course, often called Rose Bud. She is the fiancee of Drood, as arranged by their fathers. She is also orphaned.
Nevile and Helena Landless- Twins form Ceylon (Present day Sri Lanka) They are orphaned as well and are temporally under the care of Reverend Crisparkle. Their true guardian is Mr. Honeythunder (Whom I will not be addressing in this section) In their youth, they were abused and deprived by their father.
Rev. Crisparkle- A philanthropist, and Reverend of the local church.
(The) Princess Puffer- Yes, it's a drug reference. Puffer runs an opium den. Jasper often frequents there.
Mr. Sapsea- An auctioneer. He also becomes the Mayor of Cloisterham

Death's Arch (Dr. Bill Bass and Jefferson)

So, one day I was in Barnes and Nobel's looking for a book to read, just browsing isle by isle, regardless of content. I found Death's Arch, by Dr. Bill Bass, in the weight loss section. Dying is a convinent way to loose weight, but its a tad extreme!
Death's Arch is the memoir of Bill Bass, PhD. He worked at the University of Knoxville in TN for sometime. While he was there, he helped start the Anthropology Research Center, a.k.a. The Body Farm. Here, the use bodies donated to science to study human decomposition patterns in select environments and how the mortises form (well, by the time they get the body, palor and livor are probably already taken care of!) It's an interesting read because if i had to decide today where to go to college and I could go anywhere, I'd chose UK without hesitation!
I've already learned a lot. Bass writes in an extremely vernacular form. When he does use sciency mumbo-jumbo, he explanes it quickly.
He's also very down to earth about what he's doing. He's dealing with murder victims. He gives them a name, a face, and shows people how their final hours were. He brings their killers to justice, after years, decades of them having escaped the law. It's quite beautiful.

SECOND QUARTER BEGINS HERE