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Post by Shlesha on May 14, 2009 17:05:51 GMT -5
Harry Potter Cirque Du Freak Speak Before I Die Thirteen Reasons Why are my top 5.  |
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Post by Miki on May 14, 2009 17:09:47 GMT -5
Harry Potter My sisters keeper Bridge to Terabithia The Kite runner Thousand splendid suns  |
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Post by Shlesha on May 14, 2009 17:17:13 GMT -5
^ I love Bridge to Terabithia. |
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Post by The Squibbler on Jul 13, 2009 17:22:05 GMT -5
Apart from Harry Potter, which I somehow end up reading every other week.. Most of the Jacqueline Wilson books  Oh, and Marley and Me..such a sweet story :3 Have you guys read The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier (sp?)? We have that book for Literature at school this year and I thought it would be dead boring but it's actually quite a good book. Gaah..I really liked that book too..but school killed it :/ |
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Post by Simba on Jul 13, 2009 17:24:05 GMT -5
Yep, it did.  We're doing Pride and Prejudice next year and I absolutely can't wait -__- /endsarcasm. |
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Post by *Jess* on Jul 13, 2009 17:34:17 GMT -5
I'm a high school English teacher, and I'm just curious - how could school NOT kill a book? What could have been done differently so you'd enjoy it more?
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Post by Simba on Jul 13, 2009 17:40:20 GMT -5
Jess, it was more of the teacher that killed it than school itself She's just naturally boring and needs to stop going on about one thing for like half an hour. We could have done better with another teacher, lol. |
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Post by Lu on Jul 13, 2009 17:43:42 GMT -5
I think it's just the work that comes with reading the book -- having to analyse and evaluate every aspect of it makes it a lot less enjoyable.
However, when I was in Year 8, I remember reading this book called 'Holes' and have absolutely adored it ever since.
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Post by The Squibbler on Jul 13, 2009 17:46:47 GMT -5
Yeah..it's just our brilliant luck to get the worst possible English teachers two years in a row :/ Even though the language was fairly simple, she'd go on "explaining" it to us for ages...just took the life out of the book really |
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Post by Simba on Jul 13, 2009 17:50:43 GMT -5
I think it's just the work that comes with reading the book -- having to analyse and evaluate every aspect of it makes it a lot less enjoyable. However, when I was in Year 8, I remember reading this book called 'Holes' and have absolutely adored it ever since. True dat, true dat And Lu; Holes?? With that Camp Green Lake thing? Because if it is then we did an extract from that book this year |
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Oh, and Marley and Me..such a sweet story :3
We're doing Pride and Prejudice next year and I absolutely can't wait -__- 
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