Liam
SEARCH FOR SEANNABy: K. A. Applegate Kyle grew up in a poor household. His father left when he was two leaving him scared for life. He had a dark, shiny, scratched, old, navy blue, soft top convertible Cadillac. He is not a good student. He got a bad mark. He has a crush on a girl who likes a different guy who hates Kyle. His friend Jaili sticks up for him by getting in the way of the guy who hates Kyle. Kyle goes for a jog in the morning. He sees his girl friend Senna sitting on a rock. With a flash, a giant wolf pops out of the air and swallows Senna, Kyle, Jaili and Christopher, the guy who hates Kyle. Reluctant but Good Looking Heroby: Well today I started reading a book called “The reluctant but good looking hero”. It is about a boy who starts to record his “musings” with a tape recorder. His family is middle class but their grandmother is the founder of a company of bathroom supplies. That is as far as I got in the book but it is very intresting.Infact, I am going to read more of it right now.LIAMNew post:Today I finished reading the book. What happens is that he moves to winnepeg so his family can take over the managing position in the house of toilets. (his grandparents chain). It is a halairious read and I found myself laughing alout at times.
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November 7th, 2007 at 9:02 am
Hi Liam
I enjoyed Bev reading this aloud to us at least the first part. I’m glad you enjoyed the rest of the book so much. I’m excited about reading it too. The book I’m reading is a funny book but not laugh aloud. More it is amusing. It satirizes the babyboomer generation and what this generation is leaving behind in the US. I’ enjoying it.
Dad
November 12th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Hi Liam
I finished
by Maureen Fergus
Laugh, I thought I’d die! It was a truely funny novel. Fergus has caught how the mind of a werid, self-centered teenage boy works. He is so rude and sarcastic. Often in hurtful ways. He certainly doesn’t think of others. The author has written a character who is edgy, quirky, outrageous, and hilarious.
One thing that didn’t ring true was that it didn’t seem totally set in the present. The lesbian aunt and her crusading crew were definately now. But the fact that the boys are trading magazines for dirty pictures? What do I know maybe it does still happen?
Reading this book has help me see the power of reading aloud. So often in the family and at work I am the reader. This time though Mom was reading and I took the time to listen. It was so much more funny when it was read aloud. Even little bits — when I would chuckle while I was reading in bed then I would read it to Bev I would laugh longer because we were both laughing.
Now when he was giving him self hickies with his mother’s breast milk pump–that was laugh out loud! Then he and his friend were practicing strokings women’s breasts on the model breast that she used as a lactation consultant to demonstate the pump–LOL!
I don’t want to give too many examples to ruin the surprise for others who may read this book because it is a winner. A winner all the way.
Brian