unfortunate situations and some good reads

So as we all already know, housing selection happened last than a week ago and I am proud to announce that me and Crystal are currently homeless. There was literally no housing left at all and we now have to wait until June to figure out our housing arrangements. Northeastern really needs to address this situation or fix this process somehow because I am sure that we are among 2000 students left without housing for next year and on campus housing is required for second years. Honestly at this point, as long as we don't end up all the way on Comm Ave and as long as we have kitchen I'll take anything.

Anyways I've recently started reading a lot more as a means of procrastinating my homework and projects. I read this murder mystery book called The Doll Maker by Richard Montanari which completely blew my mind. The book was centered around these two siblings who grew up in the foster care system after they were neglected by their parents and grew up to be murderers. The siblings would invite their victims, young teenagers and children, to a "the dansant" which means tea dance in french and would drug their victims with lethal doses of magic mushroom in their tea. They would then set up their victims, nicely dressed, in public areas and leave invitations near the bodies inviting the police or whoever found the note to the next tea dance aka the next murder. Whichever victim was previously murdered would be made into a life-sized doll and placed in the murder scene of the next victim, leading the police to connect all the clues. The two siblings were discovered to have been taken in and raised by an infamous serial killer named Valerie who was on death row during the time of all the murders. The siblings were trying to avenge her death sentence by targeting the children of the parents who attended Valerie's sentencing and supported her punishment. A lot of other fine details go into the book such as the significance of the number of victims killed, the creator of the dolls but that is a quick summary of the book I read. Murder mysteries are so interesting to me and might be one of my favorite genres to read next to science fiction and dystopian fictions. I am currently reading Gone Girl right after watching the movie, so I am just running the scenes of the movie through my head as I read which could be both a good and bad thing I guess. It's definitely helping me visualize everything a lot easier and I am able to get through it pretty quickly. Maybe I'll take another trip to the public library and see what I can find for my next reading.

YEEhaw,
Megan