To be honest I havent read enough lately to have a set stratigie. i hav only read 4 books this term and two of them i didnt get to choose two of them. the first one i read was The messenger and i chose this because i started it in year nine but i never got into it enought to finish it. i started it again and engoyed it, so that is how i chose my first book. The second book i chose was recomended to me by Steven Mitchel. He told me that it was interesting because it had sport, smoking, drinking and sexual encounters. I have to say this was a very good book untill the very last second, when the book finished as if it had only reached half way. I think by the two books i have read i enjoy reading about kids my age and a little older who drink and have sex and stuff like that. it is something that is half entertaining unlike mysteries and goblins and whitchs so yea thats what i look for in my books

Cheers Turdz

Heey every1 the last book i have just read was 'The Messenger' written my Marcus Zusak. i have to say it is the first book in my life that i have evry really been interested in and wanted to get all my work out of the way so i can start readinf again. but about the book it is about a guys named Ed Kennedy. Ed it a ninteen year old taxi driver who is a little selfobsessed. he dose have eyes for a girl he grew up with named Audrie Harris. but the main idea of the story are the playing cards Ed gets in the mail. They have different things written on them, some have addreses and some have names. He has to work out who they are and has to do something for that person. it can't just be give them 20 bucks and be done it has to be something they really need, so Ed has to study this person untill he can find out what that person really needs in life.

The author has made Ed the youngest in his family (who is also the low achiever of the family). His brother and sister are at uni studying medicine and other high paying classy occupations. Their mother thinks Ed is a low achiver just like his father was and this is why she dosent show as much love to him as she dose her other kids. This has alot of meaning as the book goes on.

If Ed was not an Ed and was an Edwine (a girl) the story would have not changed much at all. Only Audrie (the girl Ed has his eyes on) would change. but that would be about it. The only other thing would be the amount sex comes into the text. this may not be such an issue if he was a she.

Cheers frm Turdz

I have just read two short books the first one was 'The Island' which was pretty good exept the ending. it was about a small group of friends and one little brother who are home alone and decide to take the tiny out for a paddle (because the live on the coast). the little brother had wanted to go out to an island a few km of shore so they set out for the Island. the hav 2 much trouble getting out there so the turn back for the shore but the keep going out. they get beached on the island after the capsize the tiny and hitting the rocks. after they recover they all find eachother exept one person who had decided to swim back so they all went aswell and that when the book ended and i didnt like this because it didnt say if they got home or if the found their friend or not the second book i read was called 'Drean on Bali Rai' which was a much better book. it was about an Indian boy who loved his soccer but whos dad wanted him top get a good education and work at their fish n chips shop. he had to sneak out of his house and lie to his parents so he could play a trial game. he was so good that he was invited to play for the juniour side of his favourite leage team. his parents find out and help him with his dream. the first book was not so good but the second "Dream on Bali Rai' was much better cheers untill next time Turdz

Mmm reading.. i can't say that im the best reader in the country, but i would be right up there with the best.(Todd helped me with that joke line) haha no, im qiute a slow reader but when i get a book that i enjoy i get right into it and finish it. The trouble is finding a good book. the novel im reading at the moment in called 'The messenger' Im enjoyin it because the main character is named Ed who is a bit of a drop kick. Which in a way reminds me of my self.