Hey. I'm Owen, and I'm gonna read some books.
So, the first book I'm going to be reading is not, in fact, Ilium, the book that I had at first thought I'd be reading. Once I saw that it had ~700 pages, I realized that I was very, very stupid, and decided to read a different book. The book that I'll be picking up is called Hypothetically Speaking, and it is written by the best substitute teacher in the Wissahickon School District, the good Mr. David Dill. Mr. Dill, while subbing for Mr. Perlman last year, happened to mention that he wrote a book. A group of students, including myself, took interest, and checked out his blog, where he had published the book. Nobody really went any further than just skimming over the intro, but the idea stayed with me, in the back of my mind, waiting for the right time to emerge, and it did. I was down a book, and needed a good idea for something to pick up, and fast. The idea of Hypothetically Speaking stepped up to the plate, taking the chance it was afforded to save me from being screwed.

Anyway, now that I'm done introducing the circumstances under which this reading came to be, I'mma talk about the book. So far, it's a very meta-, self referencing sort of deal.The beginning definitely sets up a strong sense of rising action. The foreword (which, for once, actually contributes to the plot) is written by the author, warning in a cryptic manner that the narrator of the book is trying to kill him, and that he doesn't have much time. It then goes into the first chapterella (cause it's in a novella, geddit?), in which the narrator shows himself to be a megalomaniacal pyschopath with some immeasurable amount of power. Things get weirder from there, and it definitely holds one's attention with humor and left-field plot devices. I like it so far, but I'm not really too deep into it. I can definitely see that this book is going to have a clear conflict, but the resolution- not so sure about that.

till next time
me