Final Blog

     I decided to go ahead and write my final blog today since i will not have access to the internet after class on Friday until next week. The video we have been watching in class is about a guys passion for a book that he had recently read called "The Stones of Summer". I believe the guy said that he was supposed to read the book back in high school, he started reading it but never really got into it. Many years later now the man is grown, he now has a wife and kids. I think the story goes that he was looking through all his books one day and came across The Stones of Summer again. The book was pretty much wore out, there was no cover on the book and most of the pages were no longer bound together. The guy eventually started reading the book again and this time he ended up falling in love with it. He got the name of the author of the book and decided to look and see what other books he has written.
     However when he starts to look for other books written by this author he can not find anything. So he begins to do some research on the author and try to find out where he lives or what he is doing these days. Turns out he can't find anything on the guy, it's like he just dissapeared like a ghost. This seems to trouble the narrator of the video greatly. So he starts to do some major research on the author and see if he can find him and ask him why he hasn't written anything else since The Stones of Summer. I'm really can't remember what this guy did for a living but i remember him saying that the fall time was his busiest time of year. He eventually gets into contact with many different people such as college professors and book critics to see if he can find out anything. Turns out many of these so called people in high places had never even heard of the book or the author. This surprises the heck out of our narrator. I think its now been a year or two since he has started his digging on the author and he really hasn't found anything major yet. He does get into contact with someone one supposedly was in the same class with the author but that guy doesn't remember the author either.
     Our guy finds out that the author went to college somewhere in i think Iowa, so he makes a trip out there to see what he can find. He goes to the library at the college to see if he can find some of the works that the author has done. He ends up finding boxes full of his scratch work with different revisions and things like that. I think after this he eventually gets a phone number for the author and when we stoped watching in class on wednesday he was about to call the author. I'm kind of anxious to see what happens and why the author hasn't written anything since then.
     Not to sound like a complete suck up or anything but this to me is one of the best english classes i have been in. I enjoyed pretty much all of the stories we had to read except for a couple of them. Most of the stories were pretty interesting and kept me wanting to read on to figure out what was going to happen. With other classes we had to read stories that i really had no interest in at all. I really enjoyed the discussions we had in class about the stories and hearing all the different input from different people. I also enjoyed getting to see the different clips on youtube about the stories we read. Overall i really enjoyed this class and i have actually recommended it to a couple friends for next year.