Finding a novel

To find a novel in a library or any sort of book store i have a certain technique. When i first enter the store or library and i do not know what type of book im looking for i usually look at what is new. If i cannot find anything there that tickles my fancy i will then usually head twoard a sports section or look in a catalogue for action or sports books that i think i would enjoy. If all else fails i will then browse shelves and ask for help but this can take up time and i do not like to waste it in libraries when i could be outside. I use this type of order to find a book as it usually works for me and i normally find a book i would enjoy in the new releases or a sports book i like.

I think that this technique for me is very successful and i judge this by how long it takes me to get a book and also how much i enjoy it. the order that i look at the books makes sure that i look at my favourites first.

I chose the book that i am reading now because it was in the recommended list and i am quite sure that i would reccommend this to other readers of my age.
I would go about reccommending this book by placing it on a popular shelf that is closest to the front door because most boys of my age grab the closest book to them. also bright colours near the book shelf may draw more boys twoard it.
Thanks for reading.
Rambo

Muntant

Hey everyone Rambo here,
The story that i have recently been reading is Mutant by Theresa Breslin.

The main character of this story a bloke called Brad who is in his 20's and works at a clone unit. He is a medium sized man but is not overlay tall. Brad works with the Professor, Rob the security man and a girl called Jade who Brad really likes. Brad is in charge with doing research in a cloning unit lab and is almost killed when someone locks him in the locker room and sets it on fire. After this Brad sets out to find who is trying to sabotage his teams work. This story is of Brad being Narrated as it does not use "I" when referring to Brad.

The Author created the character Brad after reading an article in a newspaper about "Dolly" the first cloned sheep. Theresa believed, in her personal comment in the front of the book, that if she cloned something it would have been something much more exciting than a sheep and therefore came up with the idea of cloning humans in which Brad is involved. I think that the Author wanted brad to be a male because many males work in research labs and also because then she could write about a romance in the novel, also perhaps she had felt the same way about a male that she worked with when she was younger. I think that she used bard as a twenty year old as it is an age where most people like to imagine a character and because this story is written for teenagers it would be easy to relate to.

If Brad was to become a female in this story the main thing that would have to change would be that she would have a crush on a male instead of a female. Besides this the story could easily function the same as Brad did not do anything out of the ordinary.

Well thats it for now i hope that you like my report enough to get out and read the book!
thanks for looking. Rambo.

Hey Fellas its Rambo (jack.r)
Today im going to talk about the differences between a online blog and a diary, I think that the reason that people such as myself would rather have a online blog than a diary is that it is much easier to use and update than a diary. Also with all the cool new back grounds and effects you can personalize the blog so its like no-one else's. Also with a blog you can ask people questions and receive answers where as in a diary you cannot do this. The form of a blog differs in many different ways to a diary especially in the way it is written. In a blog you do more than just recount the days events you can ask other people how they would go about solving your problems as well as tell people how you fixed your problems in which they might be having. A blog also differs from a diary in that it is written for many people to view and not just the writer. I have just recently read a blog written by a Lisa Fields on her life in general with the latest blog being on how she has just recently been excepted into Pintara Books as an illustrator. Lisa has quite a community of readers and regularly receives comments from a person called Manuel Larino. Lisa usually updates her blog once or twice a month depending on how much work she has(or so she says) and you can find her blog at Blogger.com .
Thats all i have time for once again but thanks for looking!
Rambo(Jack.R.)

Hey Fellas! Just Jack.R. again writing to tell you about a few books i read recently,

The first of the two books that i recently read is called "Ship Of Ghosts" and was written by Nigel Hinton. This story is apart of the Barrington Stoke book collection and i quite enjoyed it.
The story was about a young boy(Mick) who grew up near some shipping docks in england. The boy never knew his father but had heard about him being a sailor from his mother, this made Mick also want to be a sailor and he dropped out of school to join the crew of a local cargo ship as the assistant cook and cleaner. Mick worked for his Captain Glenn who was cursed for killing his best friend and eventually also dies when Mick and the rest of the crew push him out of the ship during a storm.

The second story is called "Dead Red" and was written by the fabulous Ruth Starke. The story belongs to the Crime Waves collection and was an interesting read.
The story is about Angelo Martinelli or Angel for short and his crime fighting team who need to solve the reason why the schools cricket team vomited after eating the canteen curry pies. If Angel and his detective crew don't find out who spiked the pies and why The school may never be the same.

I believe that each book had something to like about it as well as something to not like about it. The first book i read called "Ship of Ghosts" was very good in the way in which it was written and the slow build up the occurred throughout the story until the Captain was murdered. Another plus about this story was that it was very easy to picture the conditions faced and the joys of being a teenager at sea. The second story Dead Red was a great read as a school type thriller and was very good in showing how the young kids went about solving the mystery of the spiked curry pies. I enjoyed the story as it was easy to follow how the Detectives were about the solve the mystery and also gave an insight into things that may just appear as a coincidence may have more to it.

I don't believe that anything could have been done to either of the books to make them better as they both were a very good read and were straight forward. The only small criticism i have for the Dead Red story was that perhaps at the end the Author could have explained what happened to the principal after the detectives found out about what he had done and if he was fired.

The short story would have to be one of my favorite kinds of stories to read they are short get to the point very quickly which is good for us readers who can get distracted from a book easily and you don't have to read huge amounts of pages to get the story line. So my belief therefore is that the short story is better for a reader such as myself but if i really enjoyed the short story and wanted to find more about the topic i would definitely go for a novel.
I would also select from the short story collection for the reasons that i have stated above.
Thanks alot for reading!
Jack.R.

Hi my name is Steph Rat 13,

I have never been much of a reader. I do not know why but it has never been a past time that i have been interested in enough to really get into it. I think it is because i am more of an outdoors person who enjoys being social and playing sports that sitting inside and reading. I think that once i get into a book i am quite a fast reader and capable of reading quite big books but i find it very hard to begin books because they are very slow and i find myself uninterested. My favourite book that i have every read would have to be "the race to dakar" by Charley Boorman and is a diary kept by the Author about his experience in competing in the Dakar rally on a motorbike. In my family we are encouraged to read but i have never found this very interesting. I would have to say that my favourite type of books would have to be action books. This is me as a reader thanks for looking.
Steph Rat 13