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Ender moves to the Rat Army, proving his worth to be more than what his commander thinks of him. Later, he gets promoted to commander too with his own army, the Dragon Army. With veterans of the battle academy, he wins battles constantly and Ender practically doesn't care anymore. Bonzo tries to beat him up. Many things happened and it was enticing to read.

Ender was to be assigned to the academy and train to fight buggers. He previously had a "monitor" installed until it was taken out as he would become a normal kid again, he was a Third though. He was then asked by the military to be reassigned to the academy, switching training factions regularly. The admins see potential in him and promote him. So far a very good and interesting read.

Watney makes preparations to receive the supply package as NASA continues to make adjustments for the supply package and prepares to go to the crater Schiaparelli which will have the Ares 4 spaceship in the next few years. Interesting and intriguing read.

Watney is stranded on Mars after not making it onto a spaceship that was supposed to go back to Earth. Watney uses equipment left on mars to sustain himself and does a daily journal named a "Sol." After many days, Pathfinder is sent to Mars in order to regain connection with Watney. After NASA finds out he is alive, people from Earth cheer. NASA works on a plan to rescue Watney, first making a plan to send food.

Thane Kyrell joins the Rebels and the Alliance in order to take down the Empire, yet Ciena is still in the Empire. Knowing that both sides are rivals and constantly at war, Thane thinks he could've shot Ciena. Some rumors tell of Thane betraying the Empire and Thane hesitates to shoot in battle. I thought it was interesting an unexpected read.

A cadet named Thane Kyrell and Ciena Ree work for the Empire, working up the ranks to become a pilot. In training, a commander sabotages their project in order to separate them from friendship. I thought this read was very interesting and mysterious.

I read about the design combined with the human mind, how oversimplifying multiple switches and buttons to the point where one does not know which works for what. Badly designed doors that also have bad indication of whether to push, pull, or slide. I enjoyed the reading this time.

Norman talks about how secret is a secret and how secure is security when there is too much of one another. Norman talks about short term memory and how people use it and when trying to multiply big numbers, it's hard. Same old same old psychological read.

Norman talks about bad design how many designers are lazy when they don't take into consideration of interaction between a consumer and similarity to another design. He says some designs are faulty because they can be confused with another with looks just alike and some failures done by human should be blamed on the design. I thought today was just same psychological ideas.

Norman talks about the many elements of design, interaction, and experience. He also talks about failure and falsely blaming oneself. He discusses bad design and poor interaction based on designers of a product.

Along with Parzival, Art3mis, Aech (Parzival's best friend), Daito, Shoto, and other IOI employees (who are basically the antagonists who want to control the OASIS which is the game itself created by James Halliday. Parzaival has a crush on Art3mis when Parzival doesn't even know her but was also offered sumptuous sums of money by IOI to help them get the key but he refused.

Recommended by a friend of mine. So far it is good, Parzival, the main character has found the first key to the easter egg and many others will find the key too. He also meets someone named Art3mis who's a very well known player among the game.

Finished a story where a Duke's son stolen but it was solved and Sherlock Holmes received 12000 pounds

A new story where a prepatory school faculty member has kidnapped a child and has gone missing for the past few days

I finished a story where a lady is constantly chased by a man of a gang and she and her husband are murdered on the day Holmes finds captures the murderer

A man tries to fake his death and receive money from another alias and start a new life but gets caught in the process.

Someone related to Sherlock Holmes is accused of murder in the Lower Quarters

A man is to execute a duty where he needs to keep a treaty between England and Italy where the Russians and French would pay immense sums to know what's in the treaty so he needs to deliver it discreetly but loses the origial.

The story is called the Greek Interpreter where a man is trying to marry a woman for her fortune and a Greek interpreter is needed to translate and ask in Greek. The man who speaks Greek needs to sign a form but refuses and a mystery stirs.

I'm currently reading a story where a governess is looking for a new job, finding one east of Winchester, the pay is too good to be true. She has accepted the job but is still skeptical whether it could be a trap or it really is just too good to be true.

I have a finished a story where a man is accused falsely of stealing a blue gem for a countess but the gem lands upon Sherlock's hands due to a goose which devoured the gem through the actual thief which fed the goose the gem and is now jailed. The next story is the "Adventure of the Speckled Band."

On a new story where a man's father is killed supposedly by the "K.K.K."

Currently on the Boscombe Valley Mystery where a man name McCarthy is murdered and the only evidence is currently pointed at the his son. Sherlock Holmes tries to unravel this mystery and hopefully point the exit of jail for the McCarthy's son.