Reichenbooks: October 2014

Yes, I do realize that this is Tuesday and that it has been a month since my last Monday Missions, but every time I tried to film a video for it, I kept getting interrupted. So, here is a blog form of what I was hoping to have as a weekly video on my BookTube channel.

So, what am I planning on doing this week?

Reading Goals

I plan on reading two books this week.

I have to read Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii by Vicky Alvear Shecter for my high school book club. I am meeting the author on the 16 of October, so it would be lovely if I finished the book this week so that I can meet her and actually have finished her book.

Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii is about a teenage girl named Lucia with an arranged marriage to a man who is forty years older than her. This man is rich and, well, that's the only upside to the arrangement. She, of course, does not want to marry him, but she wants to explore the world and study natural mysteries, like the tremours that shake Pompeii. Tag is a slave who wants to be a gladiator, and is finally back from Rome and living with his owners again. He and Lucia, who is the daughter of his owner, but not cruel to him like her father, begin to spark a romance. They have to choose between the life that they know and the life that they want to live together.

Do I even need to put a summary of this up? I'm sure you've all seen it, read it even. I'm just way behind on this book. The movie, as I'm sure you know, came out last week, and I refuse to see it without finishing the book first.

Basically, this is the story of a boy named Thomas who wakes up with a horrible case of amnesia in a box which takes him up to a place full of boys his age and the place is surrounded by a huge maze. There is no way out, although the Maze Runners run through the maze everyday in search of some way to escape.

But what happens when a girl shows up in the maze? She is the first and only girl to ever come out of the box. And she is supposedly the last person who ever will.

Writing Goals
I, of course, will do my best to update my Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper fanfiction, The Woman Who Counted, this week. I will also do my best to update my PotterLock/Kid!Lock fanfiction The House Amulets and my Doctor Who PondLife fanfiction, Together Or Not At All.

–Oswin K. Holmes