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 * Final Blog:**Hey its Benett here and i think that wikispaces was a very good idea once we got the kinks worked out it was a very organized way to keep track of if everyone is doing their personal reading even while we were doing an out loud and in class reading. it got rid of all the papers that we had to fill out before this that were called reading logs. It also showed people a site to go and start their own blogs to express themselves. This semester i have read a couple books one being Odd thomas by Dean Koontz. this book was very good it was a page turner at points and a snoozer at others but it came to a very good ending and i would recommend this book to anyone i would say high school and above. The other book was called sword of the templars by Paul Christopher this book was very good i thought it was a page tuner the whole way and on some nights it took some sleep time away form me but it was worth it to see how this book turned out. I recommend this book to anyone high school or above.

Dec.6 Hey this is Benett and i had a littel bit of reading adhd and read and finished a diffrent book then i have been reading. The book i read this weekend is Odd Thomas by Dean Kontz. This book is about a simple man who like a simple life small apartment no car and a simple job. Then we find out that he can see the dead and he uses this power to help solve murders. The first case we see him solve is of a littel good who a guy he knew had kidnapped and strangles. After that he sees a really creepy looking guy come into his place of work and he sees bodachs following him which is a horrible sign. He starts to investigate this guy finds out he that he funded these two other guys to do a mall shooting but before they did that they killed him. Odd thomas then finds the two bad guys stopped one before he could start shooting but then the second gunman started shooting they get into a fight that gets him shot and kills the other guy but in the cross fire his fiancée is killed. I recommend this book very strongly its a very interesting read with a good story line and come complex twists and turns.

Hey its Benett again still reading __The Sword of The Templars__ i read from where i left off in my last blog. They talked to his secretary about where his uncle had been before he died then they followed his uncle's trail. Wich lead them to an old friend of his uncles and a professer. but while they were there the old man was gunned down by an unseen gunman out side of the cabin. Doc using his Army Rangers training determined that there would be more then one gunmen if it was a very planned out operation. The gunmen where pelting the walls with unseen and unheard gunfire adding to the fear of the situation. Doc grabbed a muser out of the gun case and gunned down the intruder that came into the house to finish them off. They then ran from the house in an epic escape and i stopped reading where they were in Ireland. This sword must be very important for secret society or governments to want to kill one old man and try to kill two other people. I think I would get scared and end up ditching the sword and hiding in a hole somewhere that they couldn't find me at all. Finding out the truth would not be worth my life or risking my life.

I'm reading __//The Sword of The Templars//__ by Paul Christopher i got this book after both my mother and brother recommended that i read this book and the series that it belongs to. The book starts out at west point where you find out the teacher is a retired Army ranger teaching there as his career now. He teachers medieval history and they are talking about the templars. He then goes home to work on his nine-hundred page book about the arms and armor through the ages. Then it talks about how he morns his wife. Then after a few hours home his niece calls to tell him that his uncle and her grandpa had died in the hospital. He rushes to go she her and to comfort her they then learn that he left all his stuff to them. They go exploring the house and find a sword that was most likly a high grade sword that belonged to a templar. They go to His uncles office at the university to see if they could find anymore clues about the sword and why he had kept it hidden. This book is very good so far but a bit slow im hoping it speeds up. If the books turns out like i think then I believe that it will be a fast pace action/adventure and a very good book. I would love to end up in a situation like them finding ancient history and exploring about it.

hey i'm Benett Gustafson and I am reading Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz. I found this book at random looking through the libraries selection. The first book in the series caught my attention and i just kept reading from there on because it is a very good series. The series starts out with Alex Rider attending his uncle's funeral. After he starts living with his house keeper Jack Starbright the government approaches him and tells him how his uncle was an agent for M-16. Alex then figures out that his uncle has been training him for the life of a secret agent all his life. He had been expertly trained in karate, mountain climbing, and scuba diving along with other skills needed to save your life and get you out of dangerous situations. He agrees to work for M-16 because he finds out that the people they are fighting killed his parents. The book that I'm reading is the seventh book in the series Alex thought he was out of secret agent work and trying to get back to a normal life. He went through them shooting him and finding out that they killed his parents. This time the Australian secret service ask alex to get into a gang called the snakeheads who are related to the triads. He excepts this for one reason to work with his god-father that he never knew existed to find out more about his parents. He goes in as a refugee paying the gangs to smuggle him into a diffrent country. He goes through some crazy stuff and ends taking down part of the gang and ending up getting pretty banged up in the process. I thought that Alex should quit letting the government use him. He may want to find out more about his parents but if its going to make him risk his life then i say its not worth it. Even if it may be hard for him he should let them go and try to make a normal life for himself. It may seem cool to go around the world and fight bad guys but he is missing a lot of his life when they could of sent a grown person who made the choice to fight this fight. Alex was pretty much black-mailed into working for them by them with holding information from him about his parents. Anthony Horowitz makes it seem like that governmental agencies have very dark ways to get what they need to done. I agree that any government from ours to some third world country ill step on and over kids to get what they need to done. With that being said I'm looking forward to reading his next book because he is an amazing author that writes about stuff that is most not likely but it could happen in this day of age I recommend this book to anyone that likes to read action/adventure books.