First entry

I expect:

• many skater information
• a love story between Alicia and Sam
• in the background Sam's mother's difficult life
• problems in a teeny life, important time in Sam’s life difficult
• way from a child to a man
• many inner thoughts, perhaps about his future
• problems between Sam and his mother
• a interesting teeny story with many references to our life
• a story that could be real

I think I will have much fun while I will read this book. It must be a book perfectly for our age and in England it seems to be very successful. The comments from newspapers, magazines…. sound very ardently and the blurb sounds really interesting.

At home I’ve only read a few books in English. But they were all great and interesting and really easy to read. E.g. I’ve read “The bottle imp” by R.L. Stevenson or two Harry Potter books “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by J.K. Rowling. After I’ve read Harry Potter in English, I think, the German books aren’t really good. In English you can better understand what the author would like to say to you and the ambition to read the book is much stronger than if you read it in German.

Other texts we’ve studying in the classroom were only “The in-crowd” by Patricia Reilly and “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck. I think it could be useful to study texts in the classroom. You will experience a lot if your classmates say their thoughts to the book and to special chapters. But after a little while it is really boring to speak about a book and you prefer to do something else.