The End

I read two 250 page books in 14 hours.
My reading habits didn't change. I felt forced to read even though I got to read something I liked. I also don't feel I should be punished for being able to read and comprehend things fast.

Total time read: 14 hours
The two books I read: Uglies and Ashes of Roses

Uglies 1 hour

Tally's day was here. She wasn't as excited as she would be if Shay was here to share it with her. But Shay was long gone by now.
She gets to the hospital where the remake all happens. She's there for an hour and then the doctor greets her with, "There's something wrong with your operation." Shocked Tally freeks out and the Doctor says to go with him and they get into a hovercar.
Tally is taken to Special Circumstances. There, a lady talks to Tally and asks her questions about Shay. Where did she go. Why did she leave. Did Tally Know anything about it?? And Tally was sworn to secrecy and told the lady nothing. The lady proceeds to tell Tally that she will be ugly forever if she did not tell them anything. She leaves and that's where I stopped reading.

-Aych-

Total time: 1 hour

Mass time: 14 hours

Uglies 1 hour

Tally and Shay get in a really big fight. Tally is fed up with how Shay doesn't want to grow up (and be pretty). Shay is always wanting to do tricks and be rebellious. And when Tally talks about being pretty, Shay blows her off. So one night they finally blow up at eachother. They go one week without talking ot eachother. Tally wants to talk to Shay but keeps finding it childish to write a ping (a letter) to her. Out of the ranom blue Shay knocks on Tally's window in her dorm. She invites Shay in and they talk. Shay talks of how she'd been thinking about what Tally said. And Shay tells Tally that she's running away.

Before the fight-

While teaching Tally how to hoverboard, they went on trips to the Rusty Ruins. Shay told Tally about how there was another world besides the one they were living in. One where not everything was fake and programmed.

Shay was running away to that outside place and Tally was welcome to come if she wanted to. Of course Tally didn't want to. So Shay was off. And Tally was there. By herself. Again.

-Aych-

Total time: 1 Hour

Mass time: 13 Hours

Uglies 1 hour

To continue..

The girls come back from Hoverboarding and make Shay a profile. Shay doesn't find it quite as entertaining as Tally of course. Tally goes on about how Shay is mostly Pretty already and that it was really rare to see that. Only 10 people in Pretty History had been born pretty. Shay had full lips and pretty eyes. Tally was jealous that she looked like that but knew that soon she would look pretty too.
This hour wasn't really an interesting one. Tally and Shay just go on about how they were excited and not excited to turn.

-Aych-

Total time: 1 hour

Mass time: 12 hours

Uglies 1 hour

I continued with Tally meeting Shay, another ugly. She was escaping Pretty Town when she ran into her. Tally had gone over to Pretty Town to see Peris and she ended up setting off the fire alarm.
Uglies are all about tricks. Being rebellious is huge! So of course going into Pretty Town and setting off the fire alarm was HUGE! Shay held Tally in high respect. Over the next three weeks, they become best friends and Tally tries talking to Shay about turning pretty and how exciting it will be. Shay doesn't really find it as exciting as Tally does. As Littlies, they have this program that takes their profile and you can tweek it and make yourself look pretty. Tally went to show Shay all the ones she had created, and asked Shay if she'd done any and of course Shay had said no. So Tally wanted to make her some. Shay said not until they had gone hoverboarding. (a cool future device I hope we get soon.) Shay had taught Tally how to Hoverboard and now Tally is just as good (maybe even better) than Shay. I stopped reading here.

-Aych-

Total Time: 1 hour

Mass time: 11 Hours

Uglies 1 hour

I started out this new book by meeting Tally Youngblood. She explains how when you're sixteen that you go thru this operation that makes you Pretty. She and her best friend Peris have been waiting for this to come. Peris is 3 months and 22 days older than Tally, so he goes thru the operation first. Tally misses Peris and goes to Pretty Town. (where all the Pretties go after they turn.) She has to sneak around because she is Ugly. If she was spotted, they would tell her that they would never turn her Pretty.

Here ends my reading.

-Aych-

Total: 1 hour

Mass time: 10 hours.

The End of Ashes of Roses

I'm finally finished with my 246 page book. It ended with the fire at the triangle shirtwaist factory. The title has to do with Rose's two friends named Rose. They called each other by their last name because their first names were the same. Klein and Belini both died in the fire but it was because they jumped from the 9th floor and hit the sidewalk. Rose only suffered minor injuries. Her hands are blistered and the back of her legs. She found Maureen and Maureen was harmless. They found Mr. Garoff eventually and helped him find Gussie. Gussie died. She went back to help an Italian woman instead of going with Rose to safety.
Mr. Garoff is going back to Russia and so the girls need to either find a new apartment or go back to Limerick, Ireland. They leave me with, "We'll go back and talk to uncle Patrick"

Time Read: 1 and a half hours
Total time: 9 Hours

-Aych-