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January 14th

Hornet, Bo, and Prosper all talk to the thief lord. Scipio denies being rich. Bo and Prosper come to the conclusion that he has never stolen anything from anyone except from his own house. Scipio has been coming to his own house all these times, when he said he was going on a heist. The gang returns to the Stella feeling betrayed by their leader. They realize they have been stupid to let Victor alone in the theatre, and he might have escaped. Their fears become reality as they find Victor and his turtle gone, with a note that reads, "Pay Attention! This is Victor's Promise. The Hartliebs will not hear anything from me -- not unless I hear about any strange break ins over the next few weeks. See you later. You can count on it. Victor" Victor says that he will not tell anyone that they are here as long as they don't commit any crimes. They prepare for the heist anyways. The night of the heist Prosper wakes up and finds that everyone is gone, including Bo. Furious he goes to the Casa Spavento and finds that everyone is there already. Hornet tells Prosper that Bo followed them here and that she was forced to bring him becuase he threatened to wake everyone up at the Casa. Bo's character has changed after he started living in the Stella, he quickly learns the ways of older people by blackmailing.

January 7th Post

I finished reading The Curious Case of Benjamin Button last week, and although it was good it wasn't as good as I expected it to be. But since it was not two hundred pages long, I am going to finish reading The Thief Lord (like I was before).

After Scipio tries to warn them, he leaves a note and goes back home becuase his father is looking for him. Victor comes to the Star Palace after following Scipio, but with a little team effort everyone helps to tie him up (carefully and without hurting him (they are not gangsters after all). Bo and Victor talk frequently, mostly about his turtle named Paula, and they steal his wallet. Hornet and Prosper, meanwhile, go to Victors office to find if he has any evidence showing that Bo and Prosper are in Italy. Hornet calls Esther, pretending to be Victor's secretary, and tries to convince Esther not to call and that Bo and Prosper aren't in Italy, but it doesn't work, and demands to speak with Victor. Hornet quickly puts the phone away. A few days later Victor asks the orphans how much they really know about Scip, which is not a lot compared to what Victor knows. Victor challenges them to go to a house (Scip's house) and tells them to find out about Scipio himself. There Hornet sneaks in the house and tries to find out about her. Scipio's dad, Dottore Massimo, calls the police and right when Scipio returns home, Hornet is being escorted. The police ask if Hornet knows who Scipio is...

I finished reading the Curious Case of Benjamin Button a few days after finishing the blog post that was due last wednesday. Here is how the story continues:
Benjamin gets younger and younger and goes to fifth grade. He loses much of the knowledge he has gained over his lifetime and is worried with childish thoughts of being beat up at school by bullies. He starts failing each grade he enrolls in and ends up in Kindergarten, which he repeats a few times. The book ends as the lives of many people begin, Benjamin Button does not remember his life and is just a baby. The author does not say how Benjamin dies (or ceases to exist). I made the assumption that he merely vanished, and no one remembered that he existed, but that is just the pessimistic quality of my thinking. Another option I considered is that he may have become a baby once again, then he started getting older once again, and lived the same life he already had. Overall I liked the book quite a lot, and I thought it had an interesting plot to it, it was also very original. On the downside, I thought it lacked detail, which I suppose it had to if it were to cover Benjamin's entire life. I do not know how the movie will be. The book seems to be one of those which would not be a good movie, just because movies are supposed to be fast paced.
I;ll start a new book next week, since Benjamin Button wasn't long enough. Happy New Year!!

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Pt. 2

Recently I started reading the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and it has turned out to be a good book. Hopefully I can finish it before the movie comes out, around New Year's... I think. So as the story continues Benjamin Button learns to fit in with his family. His father, who is a prominent figure in South Carolina, is ashamed to say that his son is different from everyone else. Benjamin and Roger Button (Roger=father of Benjamin) do not get along well, instead Benjamin spends time with his grandfather and is accustomed to his company. The story progresses quickly, as years of Benjamin's life are described in every chapter. Benjamin goes to school, not fitting in at all. He applies to college at Harvard, but is ridiculed when he tells them that he is only 16 years old, although he appears to be near seventy. Out of frustration he attends Yale. And that is all that is known about that. Several years later, when Benjamin is in his twenties, but appears fifty, he starts going to "fashionable dances" along with his dad. He meets a lady, in her twenties named Hildergarde. Hildergarde and Benjamin go out on several dates, and soon get married. Benjamin soon takes over his father's hardware business and continues to get younger and younger. Benjamin eventually is not attracted to Hildergarde, and decides to enlist into the army. He quickly advances to the ranks and when he returns, he finds that his wife has moved to Italy and decides to be taken care of by his own step-son, Roscoe. That's all I've read so far, and I'm almost finished with the book, so I don't really know where the story is going anymore. I'm gonna be looking forward to snowboarding tomorrow!!!!!!! Have a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

New book: Again

So the "Time Machine" wasn't exactly a bad book, but when I saw that "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was coming out as a movie, I thought I had to read it. In the movie Brad Pitt asks as Benjamin. It is already nominated for golden globes, which means it must be good (although The Dark Knight was an awesome movie and it did not get a globe award). The story starts as Mrs. Button is pregnant and about to give birth. Mr. Button is going to the hospital, when he sees the doctor. The doctor acts very strange and Mr. Button is nervous about the health of his child. After stumbling over words the doctor manages to take Mr. Button into the hospital after swearing never to help give birth to any of his family members ever again. By now, Mr. Button is throughly frightened, as all the staff members are acting strange as well. When he goes into the room that Mrs. Button is in, he sees a 70- year old man in a baby crib. The nurse explains to him that is his son, Mr. Button thinks this is a joke but the nurse convinces him that it is not. Mr. Button is a man of high status in his town, and starts becoming weary about his image in society. He thinks that he will lose all his status and respect. Mr. button takes benjamin to a store to buy him clothes, he tries to find him boy clothes and hatches a plot to dye his hair to pass him off as a young kid.

That's all I read so far, and this is promising to be a good book already, I'll keep you posted.

Blog: Dec. 10

After hearing the same criticism every Friday that my "nine-year-old daughter is reading the same book", (referring to the Thief Lord), (if your daughter is reading this, consider an accelerated enlish program for her) I decided to start reading a new book, The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells. The first thing I realized about this book, is its style. For example: when a character speaks for the first time, it is written as "said Filby, an argumentative person with red hair"; the second time the book reads,"said the Psychologist"; the third time he speaks,"said the Provincial Mayor". This is an effective, although not very fluent way of introducing the character. The book begans as a character termed as the "time traveller" states the three dimensions as length, width, and height. But to introduce a new way of thought, he also claims that something must have duration, in order for it to exist. He is saying that the fourth dimension is time. The listener doesn't understand and tries to argue that his theory is against reason and that he is insane to think such a thing. The time traveller next puts an apparatus that represents a small lamp. He then pushes a lever and the apparatus disappears! The viewer is astonished and, and starts acting super weird (like anyone who just saw something disappear would). In the second chapter the POV switches to first person, and the new character goes to the time traveler to see for himself.