A rant on book chapter blogging

*sigh* How do I put this... Well, this "journaling" or "blogging" for every chapter of our chosen book is basically de-motivating me from even reading it. It's almost as if when I know I have to do something related to the book's content, it prevents me from concentrating on the story and plot, and takes all the entertainment value out of the story.

Now a response someone (*cough*Mr. Wilcox*cough*) might give would be "You reflected on the Truman Show just fine, how is this any different?" For one thing, that gave specific topics that we could concentrate on. In this, you need to FIND them. But it's that search that is interfering with the story reading process. Wasn't a main reason for this was to get us to read more? If not, then I must be thinking of something else...

Now it's very possible that I'm only having difficulty because of my issues with "reading between the lines." As far as I know, I was never good at reading between the lines, and even today I take things very literally. This could very well be hindering my ability to locate those so-called "bigger issues" that are possibly portrayed within the story.

Also I'm not one to leave notes or to "highlight" things in books. I'm not really sure why, but I just don't really like doing that. Maybe I'm too involved in the reading? Who knows.

So until I can figure out some way to read my book without the stress of blogging on it, I'm probably going to have to put that on hold. I WANT to read the book, but not like this, it completely ruins the experience. Though, I may just say "screw it" and just read the book without blogging on it anyway.

Prologue - First entry for TOK book (Halo: Ghosts of Onyx)

Holy crap. Wow. Umm... that was uber extreme.

The 2 main characters (Tom & Lucy) blew up a reactor that went off like a nuke and destroyed EVERYONE that was involved in that giant-enemy battle. (we're talking thousands)

And the two characters are freaking TWELVE YEARS OLD?! Makes me feel like chopped liver!

Other than that, some minor things I noticed was the use of calling them SPARTAN IIIs; I'm pretty sure the previous book had SPARTAN IIs.

And Tom & Lucy themselves. Who are they and what relevance do they have on the story? They weren't in any of the earlier novels...

Also the battle, what was that about? There was no relation with it to the previous book as well. (at least as far as I know or can remember)

Lucy went mute from shock or something after the battle. Is that even physically possible? Though, the book did mention that it's possible that she's just unwilling to speak instead of not being able to. It was dubbed "posttraumatic vocal disarticulation" in the book.