Reading response #1

          The book i'm reading is Dust & Decay. From what I have read so far, Tom, Benny, Nix, Lilah and Chong have left the town and are going through the forest to search for the jet they saw in book 1.
          A passage I like so far is "Nix's face was covered in bright red blood. A black snake of terror reared up inside Benny's chest. But his rage was bigger than his fear. 'NIX!' He bellowed louder than a bull, louder than the rhino. He screamed a great unintelligible shriek of denial as he launched himself at the zom. His bokken lay forgotten in the weeds. He did not even think of pulling his knife. Hecrossed his arms over his face and slammed into the zom, hitting it like a thunderbolt." I chose that passage because you can really tell that Benny really cares about Nix.

10 interesting facts

1. I just moved to Springfield, Missouri in July of this year
2. I originally lived in Springfield, Illinois
3. I'm deaf in my right ear
4. I'm good at cooking
5. Both my parents and my grandma work/worked for walmart
6. My favorite color is blue
7. I have 1 older sister thats mentally challenged
8. I like playing video games
9. I'm good at math
10. I used to have my hair dyed black with a blond strip down the side

Slice of Cherry

The book I'm reading is Slice of Cherry by Dia Reeves. The book follows 2 sisters that are the daughters of a famous serial killer. They live in a weird town called Portero where there are "doors" to different dimensions and monsters running around is normal. The sisters, Kit and Fancy, are trying to get over the fact that their father is now on death row after he was caught killing some one. They are used to people hating them because of what their dad did so they mostly stay with each other. After a while they cant help themselves anymore and they start to kill people too, but only the people they think deserve it. They dont want to end up like there dad though so when they up with a key to a secret doorway to a different dimension, they open a door to endless possiblities.

One passage that stood out to me was when Fanchy was talking to Kit, she said " 'Doors arent make-believe.' And they weren't. It wasn't a coincidence that Portero meant doorkeeper. Portero was full of doors, and not all of them had four sides and a door knob. Many were much more subtle than that, and sometimes people would pass through one not realizing what it was and end up on a desert with 4 moons and purple sand and creatures that thought humans tasted like chicken. 'People dissapear through doors all the time.' "

Other books ive read so far this year were Speak, After and Escape from Furnace: Lockdown.