Reading from Wednesday, October 29

Today I read from page 125 - 136. Election day is upon them, and the assumption is that Raymond shall lose. Things are coming to an end, but a lead has been found about Carolyn's missing file. In chapter 17 Rusty elaborates on the abrupt end he had with Carolyn.

Reading from Tuesday, October 28

Today I read from page 119 - 124. Rusty goes to one of his son Nat's tee ball games, which he loses, and, after that, they join Barbara -- Rusty's wife -- at a "local pancake house". She is still mad at him for taking up Carolyn's case, mainly because they were intimate. Rusty thinks about how they came together in the first place, and how that initial love could have taken such a wrong turn.

Reading from Monday, October 27

Today I read pages 109 - 118. Rust visits a different district, hoping to find something about the strange file or Carolyn's murder. Instead he leaves with nothing but the idea of finding a new job because he is almost certain Raymond will not win this election.

Reading from Friday, October 24 through Sunday, October 26

In the past three days, I have read from page 45 - 108. Rusty is still waiting for Raymond's final run for office. They're still in it, but things aren't looking good. He also figures out that Carolyn, the deceased, had a file that was unknown to him. It was about a sinful act committed by someone in Raymond's reign. Rusty also travels to see Carolyn's son, who tells him nothing of use. They get an accurate report from the pathologist, whose nickname is Painless, and aren't helped much by it, and the case is moving along at a very slow pace. Rusty also describes some of his secret times with Carolyn at night.

Reading from Wednesday, October 22 and Thursday, October 23

I didn't have much of a chance to read in the past two days, so I only read from page 39-45. Rusty and his wife talk about how Rusty is taking the case of Carolyn's murder. His wife becomes very angry, and after a long fight, he leaves the room and recedes to his son Nat's room to hide "beneath the protecting arms of spider man".

Reading from Tuesday, October 21

Today I read from pages 33-38. Not much is happening really. Rusty talks about Carolyn's overall dominance of his life. How he would always notice her, and she would oftentimes be staring at him. He then proceeds to talk about his son and the love they share for the spider-man comics. He mentions his wife's PhD program for mathematics, and how it surprised him, and how that surprise was taken by her as disapproval, which it was definitely not.

P.S. I am going to start posting my free reading 3-4 days a week instead of all seven because I don't have much time to read daily, but if combine days at a time, my entries will cover more ground and (hopefully) more interesting.

Reading from Monday, October 20

Today I read a surprisingly short amount, from pages 29-32. Rusty goes to see a psychiatrist, and he talks to him about his love for Carolyn, for he had a little crush on her. Someone named Raymond asked Rusty to be his partner in a case about a banker whose brother is a mobster and whose wife was being arrested on the charges of abusing her son. There was evidence that the mother had used a vice on the child's head and used a cigarette to burn a hole on his behind. The case was passed to Carolyn, and Rusty told himself he should take it too, so he did.

Reading from Sunday, October 19

Today I started a new book called "Presumed Innocent" by Scott Turow. I read from page 7-28. I find that it's really hard to go right into a new book after being immersed in a different one. The characters are just so different. Anyway, the main character, Rusty Sabich, is the Chief Deputy of the PD. A woman named Carolyn Pholhemus has just died, and the book starts with her funeral. He is in the car with a man running for local office against one of Rusty's old friends. It basically describes her funeral, and near the end Rusty talks about the pictures of her death, for he is investigating her murder.

Reading from Saturday, October 18

Today I finished The Client and read from pages 472-566. Barry "The Blade" Muldanno, seeks out his uncle for help recovering the body, and finally gets him to send 3 men over to the hiding place to dig him (Senator Boyette) out. This conflicts with Reggie's and Mark's plan because, as they are coming to see if the body really is there, the 3 boys are digging it out, and as Mark approaches the garage, he hears the sound of a chisel and realizes what is happening. He causes a commotion with the neighbors involving a rock and a window and gets the mafia men to leave. After many hours of hiding in the woods, he and Reggie look for the body, and it is right where Mark thought it would be...under the boat in Jerome's garage. Armed with knowledge, they set up a deal with the FBI to put Mark and his family into the witness protection program, and they are sent away to wherever they want on the government's private jet. The story is over, Mark and his family are safe, and the trial for the murder of the senator can go on swimmingly. The only downside is that Reggie and Mark are separated during the program, and they will never meet again.

Reading from Friday, October 17

Today I read from pages 347-471. It starts out with the juvenile court scene with Judge Roosevelt eating lunch in front of everyone. He allows Mr. Fink to testify, but after, Fink requests that Mark testify and his honor starts fuming. In the end, his honor agrees, but Mark takes the Fifth amendment even though it is N/A here because he is not being implicated in the murder. After this episode, Mark is yet again sent away for contempt. In the detention center, Mark feigns being in shock. He pulls it off easily because he was delivered a subpoena and is taken to the hospital where he escapes quite easily and contacts Reggie. She picks him up in Clint's car and they hit the road. It takes a while, but the FBI finally realize he's gone, and when they do, Reggie and Mark have already decided to head towards New Orleans, Jerome Clifford's house, and the body of Senator Boyd Boyette. 

Reading from Thursday, October 16

Today I read from page 288-346. It begins with two agents from the Memphis PD coming with a summons for Mark to be taken into custody, and then a private hearing about the events of Jerome's death. Dianne almost prevents him from leaving, but is knocked to the ground by one of the agents. The rest of the time Mark is being taken to the Detention facility, he pokes fun at the two agents calling them "meathead" many a time. Reggie, Mark's lawyer, is notified of the hearing exactly 56 minutes before it is planned to commence. Near the start, Mr. Thomas Fink, the petitioner, gets on the bad side of the judge by asking routine questions and forgetting to place his witness under oath. After his first witness, Mr. Fink himself asks to testify, and his honor thinks about it while enjoying his lunch. About half-way through eating, he tells Mr. Fink to stay seated, but that he may talk.

Reading from Wednesday, October 15

Today I read from page 270-289. Two major things happened. First, Dianne learns via the police that her house has been destroyed, and when Mark gets back to the hospital with Reggie after a comfortable night at her house with great food, she tells him. He stews over it for hours, and finally comes to the conclusion that it was arson. The other major thing was that some FBI agents, including the Deputy Director, and two U.S. attorneys go to the judge of the local Juvenile Court to file a petition to get young Mark Sway into custody and then into a hearing. After serious persuasion, the honorable colored judge Harry Roosevelt finally agrees. Stay tuned for the next installment!

P.S. I will away for the until late Sunday, so I will not get a chance to post my reading until then or Monday. Sorry!

My Free Reading

This blog will be about the books that I read casually in my free time. Right now I am in the middle of a book called The Client by John Grisham. I am on page 270, so a lot has happened so far. The main character, Mark, is an 11 year old boy who has smoked one or two cigarettes a day since he was nine, but one day his brother, Ricky, who is 9 years old catches him in the act. So now Mark must show Ricky how to do it unless he wants to get told on to their single mother, Dianne. During the process, a nice car pulls up near them and they see a man try to commit suicide. Mark stops him by taking the hose off the gas pipe, but after two or three times the man catches him. He brings inside the car for a little chat. He makes him touch tons of stuff including the whiskey and the pistol, and tells him that he is a lawyer for a person named Barry "The Blade" Muldanno, who just committed the murder of a U.S. senator. He knows where the most wanted body in the country is, and he just has to tell someone, so he tells Mark. After all this, Mark gets out of the car and is about to make a speedy getaway when the lawyer, Jerome Clifford, comes out of the car and shoots himself. This scares the two boys and makes them run towards home. Mark is a bit shaken by the experience, but Ricky goes into full-on shock. He has to be hospitalized for 3 days. All the while, the FBI thinks that Mark knows something, and they're determined to get it, but the mob is determined to keep him from telling. Mark retains a lawyer named Reggie Love who has been practicing law for all of 4 years for the fee of $1. She helps him squeeze out of a situation with the FBI, but if it goes to juvenile court, she might be unable to do anything. Meanwhile, Ricky has come out of his coma-like state and is trying to resume normal life, but must stay in the hospital for a while. They don't yet know it, but someone has just blown their house in the trailer park to smithereens, so they have nothing to go back to. Unless they wish to seek out Dianne's husband, who used to beat them daily, the kids and all, so that won't ever happen. Now I want to know what will happen to the law situation and Ricky's health. Tune in tomorrow for the next post!