This Trumps the Previous

Yesterday, I believe, I began to rant about my deep and passionate love for movies. Well, I must say that even more than movies, books are the true love of my life. And since I have recently been given the means to tell cyberspace of my interests and desires (hence what you are currently reading) I must bestow upon you this great and wonderful knowledge!

My local library is such a great place. Sure, it's not the biggest in the area, but it's got a great collection of books, which I'm sure most libraries do. I forget what I was browsing for in the children's section...but I stumbled upon the series by Garth Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, and I have become obsessed!! I'm on the 4th, Sir Thursday, at the moment.

The series starts out with Mister Monday and a boy named Arthur Penhaligon. He's new in town, and he's started school just two weeks after everybody else. Not an exactly easy thing I'm sure. But he's a normal kid and wants to fit in. Now, at this beginning point in the book, I was not thrilled. Arthur seemed to be acting very oddly for someone who wanted to be viewed as normal. He barricaded books around the table he was sitting at in the library so no one would be able to see what he was doing. That is just odd. I realize that he had just been thrown into a series of magical events that would be quite unsettling, and he accepted that too easily for my taste, but you're not going to become popular by building yourself a book wall. But I digress.

Once I got past his original reaction to the happenings in the story, I got reeled in. My poor descriptions cannot do the books justice.

There is a place called the House, and Arthur gets called there by something that calls itself the Will of the Architect. This all becomes immensly complicated (I managed to totally confuse my father). But put in my own words, the Architect is an entity very like God. She originally came from Nothing (Nothing is almost like matter in these books) and created everything else form Nothing. However, Nothing is really dangerous. It sometimes comes together to form creatures of Nothing called Nithlings. Oooo, I'm making this way too in depth. Anyhoo, the House is sort of like a compilations of mini-universes that are all connected. And time is different there, so no matter how long Arthur spends in the House, he will always return to Earth only a few minutes after he left. One of the quotes from the book that pops up frequently to annoy Arthur is, "Time runs true in the House and meanders elsewhere."

So, after the Architect somehow disappeared, the House was taken over by seven Trustees, or Morrow Days. There's Monday, Tuesday, etc. They're the days of the week, and they each control one of the mini-universes in the House. However, the can only interfere in the Secondary Realms (such as Earth) on their day of the week. They each have control of one Key, with magical powers that are supposed to keep order in their own mini-universe. And besides the Keys, they each have locked away somewhere, 1/7th piece of the Original Will of the Architect.

Anyways, Arthur (in a long series of events that I won't bother to mention) gets a hold of a Key. It's now become his job to take over Monday, and the following days of the week, and free their bit of the Will. As I said, it's all rather complicated when I try to explain it. But I have a solution for that for anyone interested:

GO AND READ THE BOOKS!!!! But beware, you may become just as obsessed as I am. Haha. Praise be to Arthur!!!