John Grisham - The Associate

I admit, this book seemed very long to me. I must have renewed it about 3 times, but I have finally finished it!

The book is 'The Associate' by John Grisham. I'd only read one book by this author before, 'The Painted House' (Which I totally recommend by the way, it was really good!), but my dad's really into his books relating to law, so when I saw it on the table I thought I'd give it a read. 

I won't give too much away about the plot, but basically it's about a recent grad law student who gets blackmailed into joining a massive law firm and stealing their "secrets" about an upcoming case.

The book itself gets a bit slow at times, it's only 300 pages but the middle seemed to be about 300 in itself! The end went very fast though, and I ended up finishing the last 100 pages in 30min.  

Would I recommend it? I say read it. It's probably not the best to read it when you're studying for exams, because it'll sit by your bed collecting dust as it did with me. But if I'd actually sat down and read it in a week, I think I'd be much more enthusiastic about getting other people to read it. Overall, if you're into that sort of crime and law genre, definitely read it, it's really well written and if you're passionate about the subject it'll be perfect for you. If you don't like crime stories or you've never tried them, I say read one of John Grisham's just to see what it's like, because there's tons to choose from and he's a very good writer.

Dear Alison - Simon Pollard

This was the book I had to read for Book Club, and the subject was imprisonment. I wanted to grab something that wasn't too long and complicated, just something simple but interesting. This book seemed pretty cool because when I opened it, it was full of little ink cartoons, which caught my interest instantly.

The book itself is a diary of a New Zealand man who was a prisoner of war in Germany during WWII, and the book is his letters to his niece, who was 4 at the time.

Overall, I thought that the book got kind of boring at times. It was interesting at the beginning, but by the end I had to make myself finish. Personally it would be a good book to just skip through and read little parts and look at the pictures, but for some people, reading it the whole way through could get boring.

x Phoebe

the dreamwalkers child

The dreamwalkers child now normally it would be the kind of book i would walk past on a book shelve but at the first book club meeting there it was sitting there nestled between two much larger tomes. I picked it up carefully and turned it over intending to read the back but hey i fgured i would start reading it any way. So here i was sitting in my room lamplight shining as i devoured everypage. Ok on to the book itself it is a story about a boy called sam who moved out of the city and into a remote country area. While there he discovers his interest of bugs so if you find your self creeped out by bugs big or small i would recomend you find something else despite how good i found this book to be. So after a while sam notices the bugs seem to be following him as time goes on more and more follow until one day when he is riding his bike and out of no where a swarm of wasps fly towards him. Naturally he trys to escape but as he rides away smack hit by a truck. Thats all im going to give away from here but i would definetly say reading this book is good if you are in the mood for something action packed and highly dosed with witty comments and story. ps sorry about my spelling.

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