Summer Reading post #2 Jul/6/14

After reading for another 45 minutes after publishing my last post I have gotten to about 40% into the book. What seems to be the net main character, and the antagonist, has entered the book and his name is Wolff. Wolff has spent ten years looking for Einar and he showed up the day after he died. he makes it clear to Sig that he had an agreement with his father that was never completed. He also says that as Einar's heir this responsibility is now Sig's. Wolff, being the giant of a man that he is, is intimidating to Sig and Sig begins to asses his options, he can run, confront Wolff, or go get the Colt. It is obvious that Wolff's main desire is to finish his business with Einar, and now Sig, and Sig just wants it all to be over and he wants his father back. Already through the story we have received a lot of exposition on Einar and his previous wife and his relationship with Sig. The book sometimes jumps between flashback and present at the beginnings of chapters. So far the book is a man vs. man conflict, and so far the most prominent themes of the book have been death and what seems to be revenge.

Summer Reading Post #1 Jul/6/14

Having purchased my book, Revolver, online through the kindle store, I have read 20% of it at this point in the summer. As I was checking the list of Printz award winners and reading further descriptions of books that sounded interesting to me, I finally decided on this one. The book is moving fairly slowly because right now we have only met four characters, one of which is dead, and we have not been introduced to the main conflict yet. The main character, Sig, is a 14 or 15 year old boy living in Alaska during the gold mining era sometime in the 1800's. He and his older sister Anna and his Step mother Nadya, all live in a cabin six miles outside of town. So far we have only received narration on Anna and Nadya, and we have been with Sig as he lives out the days since his father, Einar, has died. The question has been asked, why did his father try to cross the lake on sled because he certainly knew better, and Sig has been starting to wonder. The way Sig talks about this makes the reader wonder whether his father was running from something or someone. This book so far has reminded me of another book I read this year called Abandon, by Blake Crouch. Both books are set in the same type of climate and town but in Abandon, we jump back and forth between present day and the past as many mysteries are being solved in both era's. Although the book hasn't gotten to any of the action yet, I think that it will very soon.