Outside reading- numero dos

So today i read quiet a bit in my book. Got pretty far. Page 70-ish...i think. Anywhozzlfrynser, I still enjoy this book very much. I'm starting to kinda get lost in it, but that's ok. I'm sure i can recover. The main character -whose name may possibly be Thomas, I think i'll just call him Thomas for now- finds out his father is dead. Which is sad. He apparently died in a fire at his work. (BTW story take place in NY, did i mention that yet?) Thomas is obviously really shook up about the tradgedy. On top of it all he feels like his mom and him are drifting apart. What a bad day/week/month/year/life. Thomas then finds a key hidden in a vase in his fathers study, what he was doing in the study IDK. Along with the key there is an envelop, on this envelope is the word black, written in red pen. Peculiar? Why would the word black be wrtten with a color that is so very un-black. Unless it's a name?!?!? GASP. Thomas goes to investigate...and thats where i stopped.

Outsiding reading- Blog numero uno.

For my outside reading blog i chose the book "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
I started at page 0 and read to page 30 in class. If we do the math correctly that's 30 pages i read in class. As of what I've read so far I'm loving this book. It's just so pleasantly odd. It's about this little boy -possibly actually a teenager- who is gifted with all these crazy, yet fantastically original ideas and thoughts. He seems to be very drawn to his father and has an almost creepy obsession with pleasing his mother. Also, I'm not entirely sure yet, but i think he may be autistic or something to that similar effect because he is so completely random and seems to be completely unaware of logical thinking and social boundaries. I mean, to demonstrate just how innocently trusting he is here is a shocking example from the book; this boy gives duplicate keys to his loft -WHICH happens to have ALL of his and his family's valuable belongings -to everyone from the mailman to the pizza delivery man. Oh boy...
The place that i left off we just found out his father died. Sorry i keep calling him HIM. I don't believe they've given me a name yet.