Brooklyn House v. Camp Half Blood Make it happen Rick Riordan

This morning I finished the Kane Chronicles again. Like every other time I finish it, I felt like the author needs to join the Kane Chronicles with the Percy Jackson characters. The end of the book hints that something is going to happen, but Rick Riordan's website says that the characters are never going to meet. It's kind of mean to hint at something happening, and then tell everyone that it's never going to happen. It's like dangling a present in front of a child and then setting it on fire.

Okay, maybe not that traumatic, but for me, a complete book nut, it seems like it. Maybe something will happen in the final book of the Heroes of Olympus series. If not, I may have to write a stern letter to the author.

This is getting ridiculous

It seems like I only write twice a year. I get so caught up in other things, and forget that this blog even exists. Every now and then, I discover someone else's blog about books, and wish mine was like theirs. This sad little thing will never be like that if I don't actually do anything with it. So...here I am, giving it another shot. Will anything actually happen this time, who knows.

What I am reading right now:

• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordian
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

It never works for me to read one book at a time. I have to have something that fits the mood I am in at the moment. Les Mis has taken me a while to get to the half way point, because I am reading the non-abridged version. I figured if I was going to read it, I was going to read the whole thing. Honestly, I'm starting to see why the book was abridged in the first place. At least after I finish I will be able to say that I actually read the whole thing. 

The Red Pyramid is kind of like Percy Jackson with Egyptian mythology. I've read the trilogy before, so I know how the story goes, but it's good, so I am re-reading it when I need a break from Les Mis. My only real complaint about The Kane Chronicles, which starts with The Red Pyramid, is that the characters never interact with the ones from Percy Jackson or Hero's of Olympus books. They make mention of the fact that the others exist, but that is as far as it goes. Rick Riordian mentioned on his website that it would be too complicated to have the Egyptian gods mix with the Greek ones. In a way I understand, but with the Hero's of Olympus books, he has the Greek and Roman gods together, so it seems like he has figured out a way to make them go together. 

The Time Machine is my lunchtime book when I am at work. I just started it, so I don't know how I will be feeling about it by the end. I have read some of H.G. Wells books before, so I know his style, but his writing always leaves you wondering what is going to happen. The books are not predictable at all.