Well, I just had a little excitement and wanted to share in addition to my 3rd book of the year. Excitement…then book.
A long-time friend of mine teaches in the theater department at our local university. She happened to mention to a cast member there that I am trying to get more involved in photography and the friend wants me to take some headshots. We are meeting on Saturday to discuss it and plan for the shoot. YAY! If she agrees to it, I plan on posting them on facebook and here. I’ll let you know how it goes. On to the book review…
i am the messenger
by Markus Zusak
My rating
I’m sort of at a loss to say about this book. It came very highly rated by friends, so I really wanted to like it. I’m not sure that I did. I’m not sure that I didn’t.
The book started out with a bank-robbery gone awry that introduces us to the main character, Ed Kennedy. Ed is an underage taxicab driver in Australia that lives in a rundown shack with his atrociously smelly dog. He spends his free time drinking and playing cards with his 3 best friends. He really hasn’t tried hard to make much of himself.
One day, Ed receives a card, an Ace, with three names written on it. He knows he has a mission, but he isn’t quite sure what that mission is. The book takes us on Ed’s journey of discovering and carrying out his mission. It also takes us on the journey of him discovering himself.
There were parts of the book that I didn’t want to put down, but most of the book dragged. It takes place inside of the character’s head and this character happened to be whiny and self-loathing. If I could have heard the Australian accent, it might have helped a bit. 
The end of the book finished on a higher note for me than it started out, but it left me going “huh??” I think I might stew on this for a while and eventually post a follow-up once I’ve had more time to digest it.
3 down, 72 to go!
