Interesting Factoid the Second

So today's installment of "Interesting Factoid" is all about the mysteries
of your FINGERS.

Did you know that there are no muscles in your fingers? There are muscles
in your hand and wrist and forearm. These are connected to tendons that go
through your fingers. For motor movements in your fingers--or what I like
to call 'light lifting', the smaller muscles in your hand are responsible
for those movements. Try it now. Wiggle your fingers, but look at your
hand or palm.
For bigger movement--'heavy lifting'--the stronger muscles in your forearm
are used for these. Try this too. Grab onto a staircase railing and hold
it tight. Look at the inner part of your forearm(same side as your palm)
and also look at the sides. You'll be able to see the muscles working, but
there are no muscles in your fingers.

This concept also applies to your toes.

This has been the second installment of "Interesting Factoid."
We hope you learned something new.

Book Review!

Okay, so here is the first book review on our blog. The book is called The Liar Society by Lisa and Laura Roecker. It's about this girl, Kate Lowry, who gets an email one day from her best friend... who died a year ago. Kate goes to a girl-boy private school called Pemberly-Brown Academy, where there is the typical drama that goes on in every high school. But there is also a ton of secrets hidden beneath the walls, and what Kate is sure is not just an accidental death. She is searching, along with her geeky neighbor, Seth, and an insanely cute boy, Liam, and trying to prove that there is more to Grace's death. She finds out, though, that some serious effort has been made to cover the tracks...

I don't want to give out anymore info about the actual plot and everything, so I will now just write my review, no summary. To start off with, this is a more modern mystery novel, kind of like Nancy Drew, but with, well, modern things, like cell phones and email and stuff. It's more of a teen/young adult book (it has a lot of... um... humorous language which really just makes it all the better) and the narrator, Kate, is really funny. I love how she is not a "normal" teenager, what with her pink hair and crazy ideas, and how she makes the reader laugh out loud on pretty much every page. It also has some romance in it, but not filled with it. Kate's sarcastic personality makes her hard to get and all the more awesome. There is suspense at the end of every chapter and if this were to be read aloud, and with long times between the chapters, people would die because it's impossible to not want to know what's going to happen next. Like literally, I was moaning out loud towards the end (ok, to be all English-y, at the climax) and I couldn't read fast enough. I'm mad right now because there isn't another book that's supposed to come after it, unless they are writing one right now, which I don't think they are. And it was an ending that made you want more, like a mini cliffhanger that you are supposed to finish with your imagination. But besides that, I really loved it and it was fun trying to make my own guesses before Kate figured things out. So yeah, five star book that you must read! You will catch yourself lying on the couch for hours just to finish it!

--ViolinRockstar--