reading times!

Alright, so I read:
date        time spent reading     pages      book
11/29       30 minutes                 33 pages   The Rhyming Season by Edward Averett
12/1        2 hours                       193 pages  The Rhyming Season by Edward Averett
12/2        35 minutes                  13 pages   Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Alright, well I'm going to talk some on The Rhyming Season since we are all reading LOTF.  This is about a girl and the basketball team at her school and how, ever since her brother died, her dad has been drinking and how, since the mill, the place where most all the men in town work, is closed down, how her team struggles.  And to top it all off their head coach leaves and their new coach is their once assistant coach- English teacher- Mr. Hobbs.  He is a strange fellow, and they now recite poetry at the foul line and name plays after famous characters and are nicknamed famous poets.  Of course no one did much about it at first because they were the girls team- not the guys team- they weren't as important so they could handle it.  When the poetry thing works, well people notice.  And then Brenda sees her dead brother, Benny, and I'm not going to say more because y'all will just have to read it.  The poetry in this book is quite good and it really relates to the characters they go with and the situations at hand. The moods in it are also quite shifting and, even if only from Brenda's point of view, gives you emotion from many characters.  A really good read, this book.