The Picture of dorian gray-
89-90
Dorian gets the key, from his deceased grandfathers’ library. Dorian sulks and realizes the true reason why he doesn’t want basil to show, his portait to the world.

Alice in wonderland chapter 9 to 10. The turtle continues to sigh and sob and finally asks alice if she has ever been introduced to a lobster. She almost volunteers that she had once tasted one,but checks herself and simply says no. The turtle and the gryphon describe the lobster-quadrille, a dance where all the sea animals pair up with lobsters , advance from the seashore and throw the lobsters out of the sea. Alice asks about the whiting, holding back her impulse to mention that she has also tasted whiting.

a clockwork orange part 1 ch 7
alex breaks into an elderly woman’s house and end up getting attacked by all her cats. the lady must have called the police because right when alex gets free he sees lights. his boys run and alex is the only one to get caught. the officers get him to confess everything he has done and he gets put into jail. he gets tormented by the other prisoners. he finds out the old lady has died from him beating her.

The Idiot
307-341
A bunch of the main characters. Hippolite is there and Prince asks if he wants to stay longer but he leaves. The Yepanchins are mad at Prince for a few days for a bad night. Prince reacts on Nat flipping on Radomsky. Prince goes to St petersburg and then back to meet General Yep.
We learn that Nat made up the stories to get back at General Yep.

A Doll’s House pages 29-36
Nora is uneasy in her home, expecting Krogstad to do something. Nora talks to the Nurse as if she is planning on leaving her home, the Nurse tries to convince her that her children will never forget her and Nora drops the topic. Mrs.Linde comes by the house and helps Nora fix her dress for the ball tomorrow, she asks about Dr.Rank and Nora tells her he is sick. Mrs.Linde tells Nora she should stop talking to Dr.Rank as much as Linde as a suspicion something else may be going on. Nora shuts down her suspicion quickly. Mrs.Linde senses that something is off with Nora as Nora talks about ripping up a contract. Before Mrs.Linde can get anything out of Nora, Helmer returns home. Nora decides to try to convince Helmer to let Krogstad keep his job. He gets angry at her, but assumes she is only acting like this because of her father. Helmer becomes even more angry with the conversation that he decides to send the letter to Krogstad about his dismissal. Nora cries as Helmer does not acknowledge her due to her behaviour. He tells Nora he forgives her and Nora continues to be upset.
These pages are showing me the downward spiral Nora is in. She is slowly losing her sense of belonging and I believe will soon act on an irrational decision.

A Clockwork Orange (Part 2 Chapter 1)
After many court hearings, Alex is sentenced to 14 years in prison for murder, and has his clothes taken only to be left with his prison jumpsuit and 14 long years to spend behind bars for his crimes. He gets beat bad by guards everyday as well as prisoners attempting to rape him. He finds out while in prison that Georgie had died whilst robbing a house with Dim and Pete.
After a while, Alex grows more comfortable in prison, getting a job for the prison chaplain to play the stereo during sunday mass. Alex takes an interest in the bible, imagining himself whipping Jesus and nailing him to the cross as a Roman.

All quiet on the western front pages 103-137

The second company is taken to a depot to be re-organized. Himmelstoss tris to make amends with the men after being on the front line. he is very generous to them and tjaden even starts to like him again. they are sitting around talking and making jokes as they usually do. paul Leer and Kopp go swimming and they meet 3 women there. they tell them with their shaky french that they have food. they are not allowed to cross the canal just like the women. later that night , the men swim across naked and bring the women food and the women give them clothes. they stay and talk to the ladies and paul wants to have a relationship. paul receives seventeen days of leave. after he has to go to a training base and return to the front in 6 weeks. he is worried about his friends and if they will survive the 6 weeks. he tells the women about him leaving but they would be more interested if he was going to the front lines instead. when he gets home , he finds out his mom is ill with cancer and the people are all starving. his mom asked if the war was bad and he lied and said it was fine. a major gets mad that paul does not salute him. he then forces paul to do a march and salute him. paul does not want this to become a problem the whole visit so he starts wearing regular clothes. paul then finds out his old schoolmaster , Kantorek has conscripted in the war. mittelstaedt arranged to be placed in charge of kantoreks company because that is his old school master and he does not like him and wants to humiliate him.

a significant scene in todays reading is paul the narrator got to go home for 17 days. there are many things that happen when he is home.

Dracula
153-163
Jonathan is starting to feel better. Mina started to read Jonathan’s journal. She finds out the Count is coming to England. Lucy Westenra died. Wilhelmina Harker and Dr. Van Hellsing meet up to discuss stuff about Lucy.

The stranger
63-72
Meursault has been arrested and thrown into jail for murdering the Arab.
The Magistrate asked Meursault if he believed and loved god and his mother. He answers no. Then the magistrate could not believe he was this cold hearted with no emotion whatsoever.

the idiot
255-307
Prince goes to Lebedev’s cottage. The General is there and so is Ganya and Ivolgin. The joke about “poor knight” which is mostly like directed at Prince. Ganya says that Burdovsky cannot be the son of Pavlishchev because he left Russia a year and a half before he is born. Then they get mad at Prince for sending them money as a gift because he thinks he is doing it for charity.
We start to see tension between characters.

Fathers and Sons- Pgs. 151-156
Bazarov and Arkady go to Odintsov’s hotel room to meet with her. I was mistaken, Arkady thinks his Bazarov should marry this woman, not himself. Odintsov isn’t liked very much in their town, there are many nasty rumor about her. After they talk in the hotel room she invites them both to her estate and they both agree to come. 2 days later they leave for her house.