May 14

Finished the first Percy Jackson book on that day, or maybe the day afterwards, and I must say I was expecting something much more grandiose given all the good things people kept on telling me about the book. There was just too much foreshadowing for my liking and the background information given about the children kept on being contradictory as to who is important, who has fewer chances of surviving, etc. Obviously those contradictions can come from the fact that, in a way, Percy learns everything from scratch so he might have gotten confused but the thing is, that book is supposed to be something he wrote after the fact so he wasn't writing it as it was happening.