Jesse+Norris

I've finished //Munich Signature// and I'm currently reading //Danzig Passage//. I got interested because it's the fifth book in the __Zion Covenant__ series. I bought this at a book store too. This book starts after the assassination of a Nazi (who was secretly working against the party) in France and the "Night of Breaking Glass" begins. Two boys, who were Jewish, managed to escape from being arrested by the Nazis and hid at their church, New Church. The Nazis find out that the pastor and his family were sheltering Jews in the church and had everyone in the building arrested. But the two boys, Jacob and Mark, and the pastor's daughter, Lori, managed to find a place to hide and they weren't arrested. After the Nazis leave, the building was chained up and a watchman was placed outside, making the three trapped inside the church. What I really like about this book is that in other parts of the book, it talks more about warfare stuff, which the authors are really good at describing and thinking of good plots. I also suspect that the man that John hired to protect his wife, Elisa, from the Nazis in the fourth book (//Jerusalem Interlude//) might be secretly working for the Nazis themselves. I cannot wait to find out if I was right.
 * January 6, 2010. Blog 4:**

I've set aside //The Count of Monte Cristo// for now (even though it's a good book), and I've started to read //Munich Signature//, which is the third book in the __Zion Covenant__ series. How I got interested was because this is the next book in the series, and I absolutely LOVE this series!!! I got this at a book store. In this book, Elisa and her husband, John Murphy, along with Charles Kronenberger, a boy who has a cleft palette, have to get out of Czechoslovakia to America after foiling an assassination the Nazis attempted on the president. But while they were in England, waiting for the //Queen// to take them to America, John and Charles get caught in some trouble while trying to board the ship while Elisa actually gets kidnapped by a secret organization she tried to work for but quitted. While at America, John manages to get Charles a surgery to fix the cleft palette. I like this book because it's a lot more suspenseful in my opinion then the first two. I cannot wait to finish this book!
 * December 7, 2010. Blog 3:**

PS. The image of //Prague Counterpoint// (way at the bottom) got messed up somehow, just for the heads up!

I wasn't able to read that much of //The Count of Monte Cristo//, but what I've been able to read was that the guy that sent Edmond to prison, Villefort, went to Paris to warn King Louis XVIII that Napoleon was planning an escape from Elba. Villefort also warned his father, whom the police are searching for as a suspect of a murder, that the police had found out that his father was last seen with the murdered man before he was killed. So far, I don't quite understand why this scene is important, but I guess I'll find out when I read more. I can't wait to finish the rest!!!
 * November 18, 2010. Blog 2:**

I'm still reading //The Count of Monte// //Cristo//. So far, an hour before his wedding, Edmond gets arrested and is accused of treason, having to be toss into prison later even though he didn't commit the crime. He also is starting to get crazy from the prison. I kind-of don't understand why he got so crazy that fast. I'm looking forward to the rest of this book!
 * November 4, 2010. Blog 1:**

I'm Jesse Norris and I've just finished the book //Prague Counterpoint// and I've started //The Count of Monte Cristo.// How I've heard of //Prague Counterpoint// was from the fact that it was the sequel to the book, //Vienna Prelude.// How I've heard of //The Count of Monte// //Cristo// was from the movie, but I didn't realize that it was a book until it was briefly noted in //Prague Counterpoint//. I got both of these in a bookstore. In //Prague Counterpoint//, Elisa has to help these twin boys (which one of them has a cleft pallet) that are being hunted down by the Nazis to get out of Austria after the Nazis had invaded the country. In //The Count of Monte// //Cristo//, since I've just started, nothing much has happened. Edmond Dantès is being considered to be promoted to become captain of a ship and he just visited his father and is off to visit his beautiful fiance, Mercédès (and finds out that another guy was begging her to marry him). In //The Count of Monte// //Cristo//, Dantés kind-of reminds me of myself because he's so happy and good mannered. I really enjoyed //Prague Counterpoint// and I hope to read the next book soon. I recommend both of these books because they're so well written.