What I am Reading Now

     I have just started a new book. The book I am currently reading is Incarceron by Catherine Fisher. I chose this book because: it is a New York Times Bestseller, Incarceron sounds like incarcerate, which means the book has something to do with prison which is always cool, and the little teaser on the back of the book was intriguing because it said that the prison is alive. I always thought the whole "It's Alive!" concept was interesting, yet eerie at the same time. It kind of gives you the chills if you think about it to much. You start thinking about the idea of Machines becoming self aware like "The Terminator" or "Hal"(both of which are great movies). I am excited to start reading this book and even though I have only read the first couple of pages I already enjoy it.
    
     So far, there is a guy named Finn. Finn wakes up after he is thrown to the ground by a couple of thugs. He is covered in heavy chains and he cant get up. He looks around and finds something that frightens him. he is trained to the tracks that large trucks roll on. The ground starts to rumble and fin sees lights in the distance. The trucks are coming. He tries to get loose but the chains are to heavy. He doesn't shout, until they are a couple of meters away, this way they can hear him. with the he throws himself up and shouts, but they don't stop. Then Finn remembers his flashlight.He shines it at he truck but drops it, just out of his reach. He braces himself to get run over, but then he hears the brakes squeak. The tires were almost on him. a group of people come out and get chain cutters to free him. then they notice something. the bolt holding Finn to the tracks is not bolted in. Then people come out of the floor and gas comes from the ceiling. The attackers start to fire on the truck and attack the people. This is were I left off so I will make a new post once i read more.

Morgan Freeman since he was in the Shawshank Redemption which is about prison and also because I think he is Awesome.

Practice Blog

 

     In the book I read over the summer, One Shot at Forever, by Chris Ballard, The character Steve Shartzer, a baseball player for Macon, takes everything on with a serious attitude. Throughout the story, the coach of the Macon team is enforcing a laid back, its just a game attitude. In a way, Shartzer is an antagonist because he won't stop taking the game to serious. In the end when they lose the last game of the tournament every one else is happy that they at least made it to the state finals but not Shartzer. He feels like he let everyone in his hometown down as he said on page 227. "Look at all these people lined up, Jack and Jeane and Lynn-these are the people I let down." When they are all on the bus in the parade home. He does not get off the bus when they make stops at other small towns to celebrate. His dad goes onto the bus to eventually coax him out of the bus and Shartzer eventually blames himself less and feels a little better about it. Even today he still blames himself and that was 40 years ago.

 

 

The following article is about how Chris Ballard got Steve Shartzer to help him make the book. I found this article on Sports Illustrated's website. Ballard Article