The Novel that I am reading this week is Maybe by the Author Brent Runyon. The novel was first published in 2006 by Borzoi Book. Brent also has a memoir titled The Burn Journals. The title of The Burn Journal was related to the fact that as a fourteen year old he tried to commit suicide by burning himself. He had tried suicide once before, he had attempted to hang himself which he did not succeed at. In 1991, at school he had lit a book of matches and threw it into a locker that contained a shirt; which also started on fire. The teacher then told to students that whoever did it would be expelled. That day he went home and he douse the robe that he was wearing in lighter fluid, got in his bathtub and lit a match. He found the will while he
