Annie McGwire and the Time Flyer

I recently received a book from the author Mike Ziniti. It is called "Annie McGwire and the Time Flyer". It is about a twelve year old girl who lives with her widowed father. She enjoys hanging out with her best friend Mitch and going to her uncles house to check out what new invention he has concoted. After her uncle invents a time machine, Mitch's curiosity gets the better of him and ends up getting loss in time. Annie decides to get take the time flyer and go and find and rescue Mitch. With the help of a robot named Simon, Annie is off to the rescue.

I really enjoyed this book. It is targeted towards young teenagers. I did feel like I was left with ome unanswered questions, but I am hoping that there will be future books to continue the series. With this being Mike Ziniti's first book, I thought he did an excellent job.

Crime and Punishment #96

Crime and Punishment is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless parasite. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of, and even have the right to do, such things. Several times throughout the novel, Raskolnikov justifies his actions by connecting himself mentally with Napoleon Bonaparte, believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose.

I found the concept of the novel a excellent idea for a book, but then I was quickly disappointed upon reading it. It was a difficult read. I had a hard time knowing what was going on upon conversations that would go on and on and on. I think, if written differently, this story line has potential to be a great read for someone like me.