There are many quotes that are important to my book, and the book that I am  reading is called The Book of Blood and Shadow. The quote that I chose for this is in my opinion very, very important, and it is,
''Let me think, I'm not sure I-'' She grinned. ''That's it, Chris. His name is Chris.''
 It felt like that room temperature had dropped twenty degrees.
''What did he look like?''
She waved a hand. '' Oh, you know. Good-looking kid. Brown-ish hair. I think .''
I know that the quote is an important part of this book because it PROVES, that someone is either still alive and well, or that the murderer is still lurking around the city. I think that is important because it also kind of makes me think harder about who is watching Nora, and who still wants that last letter.

Blog Post #5

"I saw footprints first, red and shimmering under the track lighting, a trail of them heading straight toward me, past me, out the door. Then the drawing, finger-painted in blood, a dot between two curved lines, like an eye, with a lighting bolt speared through its center. There were other prints. not prints at all really, but blurry smears that could have been left by a foot, a hand, a knee, body parts scraped and dragged across the expensive tile." This is important to the book because this is the moment where it all changes. There was a symbol drawn on the tile that is connected to the letters she is translating. This is just before she finds out that Chris is dead.

Important book quote

“What was his name?” She hesitated. “Let me think, I’m not sure I-” She grinned. “That’s it, Chris. His name is Chris.” This part is important because it creates a big mystery around the whole story. The new mystery is so big because at this point. Chris is well dead and the real deliverer of the flowers could be anyone who is, as the nurse described, handsome with dark hair. Also, whoever wanted to deliver the flowers obviously couldn't be there, was hiding and knew Chris so signs point to the deliverer being Max. Max went missing so this was a big clue that he was still okay but stirred up curiosity about where he may be at.

First half summary

The first half of the book hasn’t been the most action filled thing ever. At the beginning, the book talks of Nora’s, Adrienne’s, Chris’s, and Max’s friendship and how they hung out. Not only about how they came together just to hang out, but also when they discussed the letters. At around the year 1600, a girl named Elizabeth wrote some letters to her brother describing something very important.

Nora found the secret letters Elizabeth was talking about. With the letters came the very important information. The Lumen Dei. As they learn more about the Lumen Dei, the more dangerous it gets. Eventually, it gets murderously dangerous.

When Nora decided to go to Chris’s house to see a movie with all of her friends, she finds Chris dead and Adrienne hurt. Chris was holding onto the secret letters for Nora when it had happened also. Her boyfriend, Max, was then no where to be seen. However, one day, Nora decides to visit her brother's grave and found a letter from Max with a lot of random words on it. She finds out how to decode it and find Max, but they had to fly to prague.

Blog Post #4

     Nora has three friends;Max, Chris, and Adrian. All of them except Adrain work at Hoff's office translating latin letters. Nora is spending most of her time either translating the letters, or going to school. Then something mysterious happens. Nora and Max were at Hoff's office when they heard a noise. When they discovered where it had came from, there was a broken in window lined with blood. Later on, Nora and Max become boyfriend and girlfriend in a way. Several days after that had happened, the Hoff had a stroke in his office and all the letters and translations were missing. When Nora visited the Hoff in the hospital, he said "You're the one!" and "Lay da chee!". She just thought he was talking nonsense but who knows.

     The friends decide to have a movie night at Chris's house. Nora had shown up late a found something gruesome. Chris lied on the floor face down in a pool of blood; stab wounds in his back. Next to him was Adrian with her knees to her chest staring straight ahead. She didn't see Max, but she did find the note she gave to Chris for him to return it. She wanted to find the answers to all of this. Several days after the "Murder", Adrian became herself again, but she didn't remember anything that happened that night, not even that Chris is dead. Nora needed more clues to why all this happened, so she searched through Max and Chris's dorm room and found a note she decoded as a riddle of some sort. Adrian and Nora decide to go on the field trip to Paris because Nora got a letter from Max saying to meet her in Prague. Max told them (almost) everything that happened. Now they are on the hunt to find the Lumen Dei, a machine that can speak to God.

Nora, Max Chris, and Adriane are all best friends, and they all (more or less) love each other. Nora is the new girl, and she is as closed as a safe. Max is the very sensitive boyfriend. Chris, oh Chris, he is the lovable peppy person that everyone wants to be around. Finally there's Adriane, the ''pep in your step'' cheerleader type who couldn't be mean even if she wanted to.
 Nora just started at the ''new'' prep school, and she is really loving it! Her friends sucked her into the world of deciphering Latin letters. At first she thought that it was stupid, and that it meant nothing, but she was wrong. Elizabeth, the 200 year old dead girl, wrote these heartfelt letters long ago to her brother, informing him about all that is going on where she was living. Of course, Nora thought that these particular letters were useless, but no that was far from the truth, these letters held that secrets to the Lumen Dei.
 The old paranoid professor, The Hoff, always told the group that ''The Book,'' would change history. The Hoff couldn't have been more right.''The Book,'' didn't change the modern world, but it really did change history, and how we look at entirely.

Most interesting thing in the book

I think that the most interesting thing that has happened in this book so far is when Nora finally got the letters translated because not many exciting action things have happened yet and I’m not expecting them to any time soon so the fact that she got the letters translated, which is a hard thing to do, is exciting. Also, it made her really excited and she was really happy to finally be able to read and understand the letters. After she did all of this she also talked about this to each and every single one of her friends.

The most interesting thing that has happened in our book so far is the sounds that Max and Nora have been hearing in the church. A particularly interesting night, Max and Nora were alone in the church working on the Latin letters that the Hoff gave them for an assignment. Max of all people tried to make conversation with Nora, and as they started to joke around everything suddenly became creepy when the noises started in the main worship area. Nora and Max instantly became quiet, and they thought it was an animal or something else that didn't pose a threat. As they went through the rows of pews and finally make it to a light switch, but it wouldn't turn on, so they were stuck in the dark alone... or so they thought.

Blog Post #3

The most exciting and interesting event is when Nora and Max were alone at the church. They were working at Mr.Hoff’s office then suddenly they hear a sound. They went to go investigate, but the lights in the area were burned out somehow. There was just enough light to see that there was a hole in the window that was the size of a person. Also the window was lined with blood. The reason why I think it is so important is because there must have been a good reason for why a person would want to break into an old dusty church. There could be secrets within the library that the group doesn’t know about, but it might be uncovered sooner than I thought.

I think that the setting affects the mood of the story because the setting is a dark place, so that also makes the mood quite shady. Normally Chris, Nora, and the others met up in the office, Hoff's office, to decipher the latin language in all of the letters that Hoff obsesses about. It was a dark office, it was in a church but there was nothing holy about it, there was an old couch in the corner too old for the grim reaper, and a desk at the other side of the room so full of stuff it was like nothing would ever overcome it.

Blog Post #2

      The setting mostly takes place in Hoff's office mostly. So far, I think the overall mood of the story is boring and shady, but there seems to be something that is hiding behind that. Since Hoff’s office is always quiet with ancient books that line the walls, it fit perfectly with the fact that the beggining is bland and boring. When Nora discovers a hidden message within the binds of an old book, the office becomes a bit mysterious because it feels like Hoff is hiding something ancient. The event when Nora and Max found out that someone had broken into the church also made the setting even seem dangerous.

Setting

I think the mood would be different in many ways if the setting was different because of the fact that the setting is at a college. If the setting were to be at one of the characters homes, most of them probably wouldn’t see each other very often at all and then they would be alone a lot. If they were alone a lot then it would give more of a sadder mood because the mood is happy right now because they are always hanging out together in the book. Also, Nora would still be sad about her brothers death because none of her friends would be able to cheer her up.

I am going to be the discussion director. 

I am the Travel-Tracer

I am the vocabulary master.