I WAS SUPPOSED TO DO THIS YESTERDAY BUT I DIDN'T: a summary of my academic career

The original title of this post was "Two Posts in One Week? Yes." but since I DIDN'T post this yesterday, I had to change the title. Whoopsies.

So the last time I've updated this blog was on Tuesday with my thoughts on True (...sort of). Since then, I've read two books, Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan and Ashfall by Mike Mullin. They're both in a series, Ashfall in a trilogy and Unspoken in the Lynburn Legacy. I don't plan on continuing Ashfall because I think the ending was fine and I'm not emotionally invested in the characters so... I don't think the characters are boring, it's just that they're strangers to me even though it's written in first-person point of view.

As for Unspoken, I am definitely continuing it. The ending left me feeling cold. ([insert that person's name here] WHAT WHY WHY WHY WOULD YOU-WHAT WHAT ARE YOU DOING STAHP THAT) And I hope that the characters will get their stuff together because I am not okay. (Linly, you warned me. You warned me.)

Ashfall is about a super-volcano under Yellowstone National Park erupting, plunging Alex's hometown into a nightmare of darkness, ash and violence. Alex then sets off on a journey to look for his family in Warren, Illinois, trying to survive and outlast a natural disaster.

You can read about Unspoken and its characters here.

Right now, I am reading The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith. It starts off with the protagonist, John ("They call me Jack.") Wynn Whitemore, describing himself as a monster. He then goes back and tells us how it all began, starting with his birth and jumping to when he got kidnapped. (I'm literally typing this post as I read.)(While looking for some songs to listen to.)

(JACK YOU DON'T ACCEPT RIDES FROM STRANGERS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT !!! ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK !!! AND GOOD-LOOKING !!!!!!!!!) 

I am a bit disturbed right now. This is not what I was expecting. What did I even expected anyway?

This book reminds me of the Stoneheart Trilogy by Charlie Fletcher, one of my all-time favorite series ever. Both of them has this world, under our world, the "real" world. The universe have many lives and layers. First, it's our world. Then you take away one layer, and right under our world, there will be another.

In the Stoneheart Trilogy, George gets exposed to this strange "world" when he, in a small act of rebellion, breaks the head of a stone dragon and suddenly gets chased by this stone pterodactyl.

In The Marbury Lens, Jack gets exposed to this strange "world" by looking through a pair of glasses given to him by a total stranger who claims to know him for a very long time.

The books are both set in London.

The Marbury Lens so far is pretty interesting. And disturbing. There's no explanation. I'm just being pulled along as Jack goes through this...thing, I don't know how to describe it. But other than the world thing, this book is like completely different from Stoneheart. 

I've got so many questions for this book, many consists of "WHAT" and "WHY" and "?????????". What is Marbury? How did it come to existence? How did Henry Hewitt know Jack? WHAT IS GOING ON?

Sigh.

UPDATE: Ok so, I've got an idea.

SPOILERS
Conner and Jack both killed a man (the same guy, I mean. They didn't each kill a man). Henry killed a man. (And as for Seth, well I don't know if he killed a man but he and his father was carrying a dead man. And his father said something about not getting caught so it's most likely that Seth had something to do with Uncle Teddy's death.) Freddie Horvath killed too. And they were all in Marbury. There is a connection but I don't know what it means. I don't think that in under to get to Marbury you have to kill somebody but there's something.

I'm over 250 pages and one of my questions had been answered. "How did Henry Hewitt know Jack?" It was because Jack was already in Marbury with Henry and the others. Marbury is an alternative universe. And there's a Jack in there and a Jack here. And same for some of the other characters.

I've been looking around on Goodreads, trying to find more information on this book since it doesn't have its own wiki page and one of the reviews asked if this was all in their heads. I thought to myself, of course not. i mean, how can that be? Jack's been to Marbury. Conner's been to Marbury. How can they make this up?