Textual Reading

I have done a lot of textual reading this week. I read two chapters in my geology book. I am really glad those are the last two chapters I have to read in that book. The two chapters weren't bad. They were just long and kind of boring. The first one was about tectonic plates and the second one was about mountain building. I do not really care how the continents got to where they are today or how the mountains were formed. I guess it is kind of interesting, but I think they go into too much detail explaining it. I do not plan on being a geologist so I don't think I need to know all of the very specific details. What makes it worse is we are quizzed on what we read. We can use our books on the quiz, but it is really hard to tell what stuff the teacher is going to ask, and I do not think we are given enough time to take the quizzes.
I finished by novel, Watchers by Dean Koontz. The ending was really good. I am not going to tell you how it ended. My blog from last week gives a pretty good summary of the book, although it does leave out some really interesting stuff.
I have started reading another book by Dean Koontz. The title of it is Twilight Eyes. I have only read the first five chapters, but it is pretty good so far. It is not like the other two Dean Koontz books where the chapters have different sections and the different sections are about different people. This book has chapters and the chapters have titles, and it is just one story. It does not switch back and forth between characters. It is about a seventeen-year-old boy who calls himself Slim MacKenzie. That is not his real name. He has changed his name many times because he is running from the cops. He is wanted for murder. He killed his uncle with an ax. The story takes place at a carnival. On his first night there, he kills a man. He claims that the people that he kills are goblins.
The last thing I want to write about in this blog is the readings we have done for the literary salons. Most of the readings and presentations have been really interesting. There was one that had some pages that were really hard to read because they didn't copy very well. There was another one that I had a hard time reading part of because the print was really really small. Most of the poems that were included in the readings were good, but some of them were hard to understand. I liked the readings that had short stories because I liked being able to read the whole story. I think that makes it easy to understand what is going on.