sábado, 14 de marzo de 2009

SCHOOL DAYS!!!

My book is called SCHOOL DAYS. Its author is Robert B. Parker. He was born on September 17, 1932 Springfield, Massachusetts.He is an acclaimed American crime writer. Parker and his wife created an independent film company called Pearl Productions, based in Boston. Aside from crime writing, Parker has also produced several Western novels, including Appaloosa, and children's books. In 1994 he collaborated with Japanese photographer Kasho Kumagai on a coffee table book called Spenser's Boston, exploring the city through Spenser's "eyes" via high quality, 4-color photos. Parker has received three nominations and two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. He received the first award, the "Best Novel Award" in 1977, for the fourth novel in the Spenser series, The Promised Land. In 1990 he shared, with wife Joan, a nomination for "Best Television Episode" for the TV series B.L. Stryker; however, the award went to David J. Burke and Alfonse Ruggiero Jr. for Wiseguy. In 2002 he received the Grand Master Award Edgar for his collective oeuvre. In 2008 he was awarded the Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award.

What makes this book interesting is that a detective has to find out the truth about a murder case. This type of books are interesting because you can see the real work that detectives and policemen have and also you can get to enjoy it because while you read it, you can find new stories that you haven’t even imagined because detetives have to find new different clues about the case, so that they can get to know the trut about it. It has a lot of suspence and it spurs you to read more and more.

The principal characters of this book are Spencer, Jared Clark and Wendell Grant. Spencer is a private detetive; Jared Clark and Wendell Grant are the ones that did the shooting in their school and killed many people.

My book is about a murder that took place in a Boston school. Two guys called Jared and Wendell did the shooting and then the police captured them. Wendell confessed that he did it with Jared and so, Jared also confessed. They didn’t say why they did it. Jared’s grandmother hired Spencer because she didn’t believe that her grandson was guilty. Spencer starts to plan what to do with that because he didn’t know how to prove he was innocent. First, he went to talk with sergeant DiBella because he needed some advie, but DiBella couldn’t help him that much because he didn’t know much about the shooting. Later, he decided to go to the school where the shooting took place. There he met Sue Biegler that was the Dean of students. Whithout aving succes, two policemen went to see Spencer because Cromwell, the chief of police wabted to talk with him. When Spencer arrived were the chief was waiting, the chief told him that he didn’t want to see him again in the school because the murder case was already closed and they dind’t want to remember all the problems that they had because of that. Spencer decided to go to talk with Wendell’s lawyer, Richard Leeland but he didn’t believe they were innocent, he only wanted Wendell to be treated well in jail. He decided to talk to the school psycologist and she told him that Jared said to her that he didn´t know what to do with his life. Beause of this, he went to talk to Jared in jail but he didn’t say a word about the murder. He went to talk to Jared’s parents. They were sad and disappointed because of the murder and they said that they didn’t know why Jared did the shooting, because he was a quiet guy and he had good grades in school. They didn’t know much about his friends or girlfriends. Spencer walked around the house but he didn’t find a clue. He decided to talk to Wendell’s mom. She said that she didn’t get married, because Wendell’s father was an anonymous sperm donor. She decided to have a baby because she wanted to be loved and to have someone next to her to spend time together but Wendell wasn´t like that. He didn’t spend time with her, he just wanted to be with his friends and he was rude wit her, that’s why she didn’t know much about him. She was happy that Wendell was in jail because she didnt love him and she wanted him to stay there.

When Spencer met again with DiBella, DiBella told him that they shooted 37 times and only 17 pf them were missed so Spencer discovered that they already knew ow to shoot and also they had 4 guns and many bullets. So, Spencer decided to talk with Wendell’s grandfather. He told him that he used to give him money and take him to football games but no more. They had a good relationship because he didn’t like the way his daughter was trying to raise Wendell. He also said that he had a gun but he never tought Wendell how to shoot. After all this, he was getting tired and so he got the conclusion that he shouldn’t talk to big people; he should talk with the students because, the murder itself was not a mystery - the mystery was why.

He went back to the school but the president of the school didn’t let him talk to the guys so Spencer decided to go to a bar where all the students used to go after school. There he talked to 2 beautiful ladies who told him that they didn’t know much about Jared and Wendell. They said they thought that Jared and Wendell did the shooting beause “they went kaboom” because they didn’t like school. One of the girls’ name was Janey. They told Spencer where he could get nformation about the shooting.

Next day he went to talk to “Animal”, a gangster who all the people were scared at. He didn’t say Spencer anything about Wendell. Next day, Spencer, Janey and George, one of Animal’s girlfriends met to talk about Wendell. George told spencer that Wendell used to shoot with Animal and that he used to lend Wendell his guns. She also said that Wendell used to take drugs but that she didn’t know why he did the shooting. Animal was told that George had been talking with Spencer and because of that, he hit her. When Spencer noticed that, he took George to the hospital and then to his house do that she could be save. Spencer went to talk to Jared’s grandmother and told her that he didn’t believe he was innocent. She told him that she gave him $3.000 because Jared needed them. Spencer disovered that wit that money, Jared and Wendell bought the guns and bullets; the only thing he didn’t know was......who sold them.

This book is interesting and I like it a lot. Not only because of the suspence, but for the vocabulary and the phasal words I have found there. I like the imagination that the author has. The story get everyday more and more interesting. I also like it because, this can happen anywhere and it talks a lot about many problems that we are starting to have in our country, like murder, drugs and many other things.

1 comentario:

Anónimo dijo...

Hi Vero: I like suspense too. On of the best way to improve vocabulary is by reading. I´m glad you enjoy reading this book and learning new stuff. I like the background music of your blog.
Monica