Reading Blog Post 6 - Literally So Boring

First of all I would like to say that I enjoy the perspective of the book. It brings the reader in closer to the character telling the stroy, Tandy. She says things like "So what do you think so far, reader?" and "Okay, so how am I doing so far?" I feel that this stance lets the reader know that the character is interested in what we think, as readers, and automatically makes me place her as an organized, involved, determined person. She is determined to make the readers feel welcomed, she is organized, I believe, because she is checking in on us before she moves on so she can tell us step by step what happened. She is also involved because she is trying to tell a story, she is being her own detective on her own parents murder case and wants to share it.

Character Prompt: Second of all I would like to say that in this book, Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patteson, we've met four new characters. We have met Mrs. Hauser, a widow who is loving to Tandy; Morris Sampson who wrote a horrid book about Tandy's mother and was sued and hated by the Angel family up to this day ( Mr. Sampson is so rude, even when Tandy's parents have just died he still is rude and makes fun of her loss) We also have Nate Crosby, a director who pretends to be friendly but is in fact putting on an act; and lastly we have Dr. Florence Keyes who is the family psychologist. Mrs. Hauser gives a not so helpful clue to Tandy while she is investigating, but is glad to help. Mr. Sampson is a horrible creature and probably did not kill the Angel's parents only because he cold care less about them. Nate Crosby seems like he is trying to help, offering them whatever they need and tries to recall some odd things happening the night of the murder, but cannot. And then we have Dr. Keyes, who is just trying to get the family back in order, just like their parents would have wanted, but maybe goes a little too far, considering their parents have just been killed and Tandy rushes her out of their home rudely only minutes after coming in.

Reading Blog Post 5 - Progress, but Eh

I am still making progress on Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson. I haven't made a whole ton of progress since my last post so I am going to talk about a certain character in my book and what I want to know more about them. The character I am choosing for this blogging prompt is Tandy. Tandy is vigorously trying to find out who her parents murderer is. She is all science and mostly thinks logically, she's the only one in her family of five who does not play a musical instrument and is not gifted in an area of art, which is almost the complete opposite of my character so I think a conversation with Tandy would look something like me just trying to get to know her and her thinking of all of the things possible that she can talk about. I imagine her very very scatter brained and I feel like she's sort of crazy.

I feel like Tandy is really clever, she knows what she's talking about and that makes me like her more as a reader. It's like I am her best friend and she's the cool kid because she really really does know her stuff. She's so timid and I also feel like she's a bit energetic, energetic in the way where she can't stop moving. So that's what Tandy looks like to me, which is quite interesting.

Reading Blog Post 4 - Summary So Far

 First of all i'm going to go over a brief summary of my book so far. My book is Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson So far in this book all that has happened is that Tandy's, the main chairacter, parents died while everyone was asleep. She doesn't know who did it and there is no sign of break in. So far I have noticed that their family is unlike any other. i'm not sure how they are so different, but they are. All of Tandy's siblings, including herself, are geniuses and her oldest brother is a pro football player. I know that he is super duper fast, like he can go around the block in five seconds fast and that just seems very suspicious to me!

I want to keep reading this book and I can tell it wll probably get good soon, but it hasn't so far and i've told myself that every blog post i've made. I think I may stop reading it. The truth of the matter is that it is very uneventful and the author doesn't seem very interested in his work. It also seems to be a little immature for my taste, but I will allow myself to read a bit more to just see if maybe it will get better at all!

Reading Blog Post 3 - Lagging Along

I have continued reading the novel, Confessions of a Murder Suspect By James Patterson. This book has not really gotten good yet, but I am reading on because a lot of people that i've talked to says it gets better. I don't really like it because it has just kept leaving cliffhangers that are unresolved and nothing with conflict has happened since the first page. Nothing is evolving at all and it's getting boring, but I can kind of tell that something will happen soon. There are a lot of characters to introduce so that's all that has happened really. So I guess characterization is good!

Character Prompt: Since my last post, I have gotten to know some of the characters better by the author showing me stories from the past, creating characterization. With Tandy's parents dead she is realizing that she cannot let anybody get away with the murder and is trying to solve it on her own a bit. This is a partially hard task considering she is one of the prime suspects in her parents murder. They didn't scream, there was no sound, there was no break in. With this in mind Tandy's task becomes even more challenging.