I've decided to change books. I've tried reading A Walk To Remember for the past couple days and can't seem to get into it. I'm going to start on The Floor of the Sky by Pamela Carter Joern and see if I have any better luck.

For my last project, the paper, I wasn't sure if you wanted me to incorporate the books or not which is why I didn't. I'm starting a new book today called A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks. I've seen the movie and loved it so I thought i'd try reading the book.

Nikki decideds to steal Emmy. Nobody can find her and she is gone for days. Matt gets a phone call in the middle of the night and it's her. She tells Matt she's sick. He asks her what is around her and realizes where she's at. He goes there to get her and finds that she is drunk and covered in puke. Matt takes her and when he gets to the gate to leave, a truck pulls up and Nikki gets out. Matt gets the guy to leave and sets Emmy down. They talk a bit and then Matt pushes her to the ground. Just as he is about to stomp on her head and kill her, Murdoch pulls up. He takes Matt and Emmy and leaves Nikki there. Nikki is never seen again but people receieve letters from her saying things such as "I love you, I hate you, I miss you, I'm going to kill you..." Callie still lives with Ben and Emmy and Matt live with Aunt Bobbie. Matt is about to leave for college out of state and Callie plans on going to medical school. And that's where the story ends. I liked this book a looot and could never put it down. I now have 2 projects to do because I read too fast and haven't done the last one yet. I'm still working on thinking of something.

Tuesday I had an ortho appointment and yesterday I had a college visit which is why I haven't blogged lately. I've read a ton since the last time I blogged so it may be hard to get all the details. Nikki kept stalking Murdoch and wouldn't leave him alone. She told Matt she was going to tell the cops that Murdoch mollested Matt to try to get him into trouble. Matt made sure Murdoch knew about this. Then Matt heard that Nikki hired some guy to try and beat up Murdoch but the plan backfired so she had the same man beat up her. She then tried saying that Murdoch did it but it didn't work. Nikki didn't give up. Murdoch, Ben (Matt & Callie's father) and Aunt Bobbie all were trying to help the three kids. One night, Nikki was sitting outside Murdoch's house but he wasn't home. Murdoch's neighbor Julie decided to go for a drive. Nikki followed her and they ended up getting in an accident. Julie ended up paralyzed. Nikki got put into jail and Aunt Bobbie and Ben fought for custody of the kids and easily got it. Callie and Emmy moved and lived with Ben and Matt stayed with Aunt Bobbie. Nikki then came home from jail. She started spray painting everything with profanity and doing really bad things.

I started reading The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin but i'm already half down. So far it's about a boy and his 2 younger sisters, one that is only 2, living with their crazy mom. She's on drugs and is very unpredictable. She's hurt Matt before. Then Nikki, the mom, meets a man named Murdoch. This changes a lot until he sees her true colors. Matt doesn't know what to do. He's too afraid to say anything to anyone.

Everyone finds out Nate is gone and nobody knows where to find him. Ruby assumes he is just gone...until she pictures a house that he drops stuff off at for his job. She goes there and sure enough finds him. She sees that his face is all bruised and discolored, obviously from his father. Ruby gets him to go home with her. Jamie and Cara call his mom in Arizona and he goes to live with her. His father puts his house up for sale and lives in an apartment with barely a business left. It's then Cara's 18th birthday and she has a get together with her closest friends. For the closing of the book, Cora sits down to write a letter to her mom still in rehab. After not being able to think of what to say, she copies her acceptance letter to the U (the college she got into) and sends her that.

Harriet, Ruby's boss, gets interview about her jewelery stand. After seeing Ruby's key as a necklace, Harriet started making them and eventually everyone had them. After the interview, Ruby went home to find Jamie and Cora sitting by the phone. Cora and Ruby's mom was in rehab after she had been found unconscious in a motel in Tennessee. She was ok though but couldn't have any family contact. I really like this book and am just about done with it...which means yet another project to do.

Ruby works on the day after Thanksgiving and gets to see all the excitement. Then it turns out to be Valentine's Day. Ruby doesn't know what to get Nate though. They were supposed to have a date at 7 and were to meet at the pond. Ruby went there and waited for almost 2 hours and still no Nate. She saw that they were home and ended up going inside. He finally called her and met her out there. He acted like everything was ok and gave her his gift. She wouldn't open it though and said she wanted to know what had happened. He showed her a huge bruise on him and she wanted to help him but he didn't want it. She said to let her help him or to leave...so he left.

Not a whole lot happened in what I read for the day. It's Thanksgiving and Cara has to make dinner for Jamie's family and she is freaking out. Nate has a very busy day also, working with his dad running errands for people.

Cara tells Ruby the truth about her mom. She tells her she always tried to find her and talk to her and that she didn't abandon her. Ruby freaks out about this and skips school and gets drunk. She passes out in the woods and wakes up to find out she's in Nate's car. Nate takes her home to Jamie who is extremely mad. Jamie yells at her until Cara puts her to bed.

I started on the book Lock and Key. The main character Ruby lived with her sister and her mother in a house that was a dump. They were broke and their mother wasn't exactly the greatest mother. Ruby's sister, Cora took over raising Ruby until she moved away to college. They never spoke again. Until one day when officials found out Ruby was living by herself without heat and water. Ruby had to go live her sister and her husband in a huge fancy house. They were practically rich. Ruby had to go to a new school where everyone there was rich and accademically advanced. Her neighbor, Nate, found her the first night trying to climb over their fence to run away...but it didn't happen. From then on, Nate and Ruby were sort of friends.

I tried doing the Wordle thing but it wouldn't work on school's computers so i'll choose something else.

New Book-lock and key

I'm starting a new book called Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen. This is the author of the first book I read so I thought i'd try it out.

Holland lives in an apartment that's a dump that is free to any gays and lesbians. She gets a job at Hott N' Trott that is owned by Cece's uncle. She also gets a job moving things through the gay/lesbian group. Faith brought Holland's mail to school and Holland found a letter from her mom saying she wanted to talk. Holland went there and they talked but go nowhere. Holland's mom wanted her to come home but Cece wasn't welcome so Holland just left. The book ends by Holland filling out an application to a metro college. I liked the book a lot and am going to look for other books by the same author.