"Zombie Tag" by Stanley Suter

 *Prompt*- Who is your favorite character and why? Who is your least favorite character?

        This week I have been reading "Zombie Tag" and I find it very interesting. In the book, the main character Will is playing a made up game, Zombie tag. While playing the game, he finds a lengendary bell, the same bell that was used to rise the dead decades before. Of course, he ringed it, and every dead person in the radius of 5 miles was risin. His brother comes home and that's where I left off.

        My favorite character would probably be Will's brother, Graham before he died. He is the most comedic person in the book so far, and still the coolest. He play wrestles with Will, and seems to always win. He was just starting to drive when he died. He died because of an asthma attack. He couldn't open the bottle for his pills in time and chocked to death. Ever since he died, he has become much more serious, he hasn't had any emotions except anger.

        My least favorite character has to be Anthony's dad (Anthony is Will's friend). He is by far the most boring, meanest, angryest person in the book. For cracking the bell he sends Will home and looks like he waas about to murder him on the scene. Then, he doesn't even do anything about the living dead, even though it was obviously him that knew why they where alive and well, when they should still be in the ground. He grounds Anthony for it, which doesn't make sence, saying that Anthony didn't support either the friends coming over or the fact that they where staying up that late playing the game.

40 Book Challenge Reflection

        Right now, I a on the final stretch of my 40 book challenge. I don't think I am going to finish it however, mainly because I was never set on actually completing it. I have six books left to complete, and I have about a month to do that. I have progressed with my taste for writing and what I am now understanding that I wouldn't have understood before. If I where to rate myself probably a 9/10 from what I did, because it wasn't like I was actually trying to read as much as possible (I was doing pretty good) and then about mid-year I was totally messed up. I got a tablet for christmas.

        Now I have almost reached the goal, I think that I made this happen by just finding reading fun. I pretty much broke my chances though when I got the lead role in the musical. I have been reading much darker and harder books than I would have if I stayed on the level of reading that I was on last year. I have been reading things with old english, that are both interesting and sometimes hard to follow. However, my thoughts are that either the kids want to do and are going to do it, or they don't like reading and aren't going to do any at all. I think that I only kept reading because I have the self motivation to continue reading, and mainly because I, again, like it. So I think you should either make it mandatory, or at least enforce it a little more.

"Rot and Ruin" Stanley Suter

 *Prompt* Who are you favorite and least favorite characters?

        This week I have been reading "Rot and Ruin" and I really like it. It is set in a world plagued by the zombie apocalypse where a town on a mountainside is hanging onto life away from the living dead.  Two brothers, Benny and Tom, are closure specialists (people that will kill your living dead family members so you can feel at rest) who have to stop a gang of bounty hunters from starting a sort of zombie games, called fun land.

        My favorite character would probably be Tom. He is highly tuned to his surroundings and it seems light no one can get the upper hand on him. He came close to death when he was shot by a shotgun and left for fifty zoms, but his brother Benny accidentally sprayed too much of an odor to keep them away from them. His favorite weapon is the katana because it is silent, and he is a master with it.

        My least favorite character is Charlie pinkeye. He thinks that just because the world has gone to ruin, there is no need for justice outside the town gate. He tries to start G
ameland, an event where children try to fight zoms until there death comes, inevitably. He ties zombies to trees and hunts them down later for large amounts of money, and forces kids (like Benny) to show him "manners" (always saying "sir" and telling the truth, at least the one Charlie wants to hear).