People Might Hear You..

TIME TO GET MY NERD ON THESE HOLIDAYS!

I've been reading incessantly, even when I was at my beautiful best friends house.
I think her cats got used to me being around, because they starting climbing over me as if I were a piece of furniture.
But her cats are cute, so its okay.

...Back to the nerdiness.
I finished reading 'People Might Hear You - Robin Klein' last night.
I spent about three hours sitting in bed, with my eyes straining in the dim light and my mind trying to switch off as it was 1am and I was uber tired, but I persevered and read til I could no more! Or at least until the end of the book.....

For those marginally interested..
The book is about a 12 year old girl named Frances. She lives in an apartment above a shop with her Auntie, where they just manage to get by. One day, her aunt (Aunt Loris) tells Frances that she and her would be moving in with a man called Finley Tyrell and his three daughters Rosgrana, Helen and Claire. Aunt Loris was to be wed to Finley. The only thing strange about this whole situation was that they all belonged to a religion (the Tyrell family), that believed in a coming war. The people who weren't members of the religion/temple, would perish in this war.
At first Frances has to comply with all the rules of the household when she moves in, no going outside alone, no leaving the house, no opening the windows (which have been painted over and are wired to an alarm system that will go off as soon as the windows are opened), no speaking during meal times, no raising of voices...
There are many rules of which Frances is supposed to comply with, and for at least 3 months she does, before she gets sick of them and rebels. Finley gets irate about this, and even her own Aunt Loris appears to have turned against her. Finley thinks the only option left is to send Frances to the Temple for three months for intensive training in the religion's practices. The night before she is supposed to be sent away, Frances convinces Helen, the only Tyrell daughter who had shown little hostility towards Frances during her entire stay, to steal her fathers keys so they can escape.
And that's exactly what they do.


So basically I recommend if anyone liked what I just wrote (pretty much you've read the book in about 2 paragraphs) you should try and pick up a copy of this book, its pretty awesome and it got me hooked.
Towards the end of the book, I actually felt angry for Frances, having to comply with such ludicrous rules. I admire a writer who can make the reader feel like that, empathetic towards the protagonist.

Anyway, enough of my book club nonsense, happy friday everyone.

Its niceness Friday, according to John and Ellen.
Get on it.

<3 effy.