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Last night/this morning i dreamt that I was the half vampire/half werewolf dude from the underworld series

I just got back from JCLC summer camp yesterday (junior cadet leadership challenge). It ended early because it was category 5 heat all week and we couldn’t do any training. I haven’t posted in a while and i’m reallY just doing now to say hi to Ali. HI ALI!!!!!!!!!!!

I don’t know why but for some reason I like it when a book makes a reference to an outside thing. I was reading Lord Sunday and the end is freaking awesome! In addition to its awesomeness the New Architect makes a reference when he sits down on a boulder laid his chin on his fist and began to think. I think this reference is awesome because he does it while he is surrounded by Nothing. Not nothing but Nothing. Nothing is basically the physically manifestation of the void.

This book is confusing. I don’t know why but it was like I couldn’t concentrate on it. There’s a lot of stuff to remember and if you forget it doesn’t make any sense. At the end of the book Ambrose makes a sacrifice to make everyone think that Idris and Morgan were dead. Idris decided to go back to Westgate to try and see his family. If you’re a kid-king and you’re on the lam, It’s kind of dumb to go somewhere where the bad guys will recognize your face.

In The Monsters of Morley Manor there are 4 and 1/2 people that have been turned into monsters and miniaturized. Bob the were-human (he’s normally a cocker spaniel); Gaspar the lizard-man; Albert the hunchback; Ludmilla the lady with snakes for hair (and no she’s not a gorgon); and Melisande the vampire. I haven’t finished this book yet (I’m on page 137) so I’m wondering if they’re from Earth or another planet/plane/dimension. What confuses me is that Gaspar, the lead monster,tells Anthony, the main character, that they were turned into monsters with a combination of science and magic.

I first read The Phantom Tollbooth in elementary and it was a little confusing then. Now It’s funny looking back and seeing how much I understand compared to then. But something that still confuses me is why the Mathematician has a huge pencil for a staff. It would make more sense to me if he carried around a calculator. Something else that confuses me is why the Senses Taker couldn’t take away the sense of humor. It’s not explained, it just says that he cannot take the sense of laughter away. I don’t get it.

In To Kill a Mockingbird after Jem and Scout make it home and everyone is trying to figure out what happened, Sheriff Heck Tate says that Bob Ewell fell on his knife during the fight. Bob Ewell was stalking Jem and Scout after they left the halloween party and after they reached the oak tree on the edge of the schoolyard, Bob decided to stop being sneaky and went on a full out assault on them. When Bob broke Jem’s arm he must’ve fallen on his knife and killed himself.

My theory is that Bob was not impaled on his knife, I think that he was murdered by Boo Radley. After Bob died, Boo Radley finally left his house and carried Jem to his house. I think that, before Boo Radley picked up Jem, he picked up Bob’s knife and stabbed him with it. This would make sense because Bob wouldn’t have seen him coming, Boo Radley would’ve had a great opportunity because he is the last person anyone would’ve expected to come along in the middle of the night, and Bob was drunk out of his mind so I highly doubt his senses would’ve been very acute.