About 25, 000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes, unfortunetly it is children who die most often. Though there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to survive properly. Being constantly starved, they become weaker and often sick. Then it makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier. It usually continues until death for them and their families.

I don´t know what to think of Poverty, since i think i can´t do anything about it. But i know that it´s bad and i would absolutely HATE it if i were stuck in poverty, and so i guess it means they hate it too?

Ok, i think i first read this book when i was like, ten or something. But i read it again recently when my friend picked it out so she could read and blog about it. Anyway, i nicked it from her so i could read it again, and i think i read it in my English and Chinese classes.

I found the story really interesting. But the ending really annoyed me, because it didn’t have a true ending, like one where you know what happens. This one made you think about what might have happened, but i wish it had an ending where it stated what hhad happened, if you get what i mean.

Anyway, this book is about two girls who write letters to eachother for about a year. A girl named Tracey put a letter in a magazine looking for a pen pal, and a girl named Mandy answered out of boredom, not out of curiosity. But things get rolling and they keep writing back. But someone has a secret, one that leads to another life, one that pulls their anonymous friendship apart, and also pulling them closer.

Village By The Sea was not something I picked out personaly. I recieved this book from the school booklist. It is a novel I have to read for my English class. I read it the day i got the book. Just out of curiosity. But when it came to actually having to read the book in third term – getting ready to study it for fourth term – i failed. I just could not be bothered reading it.It did not appeal to me.  So, in the end i got a detention and had to answer some boring questions. I don’t know what my teacher will say to me if she reads this, maybe she will be angry, but i think she would be disapointed. So, to make things as better as i can I promise to read Village By The Sea again tonight, even if i do fall asleep half way through it.

Well, i think i’ve spent enough time going on about how boring it was for me, so i think i should at least mention a bit on what the storyline is. Here it goes; A boy named Hari and his older sister (i think) Lila had to quit their school education to look after their two little sisters, because their father was a drunk and was only home during the day, which he spent sleeping, and didn’t have a job to keep them at school. And their mother was too sick to even leave her bed. So Hari and Lila were the ones supporting and keeping their family together. Next, their dog dies, murder, i think it was. Then, Hari has to go to Bombay to find work. While this is going on, their mum becomes sicker then usual and they have to take her out of town to a hospital. The dad comes to his senses and is sober, he meets them out at the hospital, the story goes on and on, blah, blah, blah. Umm…the dad looks like he will become a better father and Hari comes home with some money. The End.

The story is set in India, and can “touch your heart” if you let it. I guess it would have been a more interesting story for me to read if  i hadn’t disliked the storyline so much. Maybe.

I guess your wondering why i am blogging about a movie and not a book? Or maybe you thought this was a book at first and not realised until you read this? Well, the reason i am not blogging a book is because i didnt read any new books, which most people would find a surprise. But i had watched this movie for the first time at my friends house. We watched it late at night, so it apeared scarier to me then it does now.

Disturbia is a thriller with a mix of romance, drama and comedy. The movie is about a eighteen-year-old boy who is on house arrest for punching his Spanish teacher.  He goes out of his mind with boredom, and soon he starts spying on his neighbours, and soon he starts to know almost everything about them.  He meets his new next door neighbour Ashley, and soon together (with his best friend Ronald)  they start spying on their next door neighbour, Robert Turner, who they believe is they serial killer from Texas. But they end up taking things to far and they end up seeing things that you don’t normally see happening  in your neighbourhood.  Two times  Kale Brecht crosses the line is two times to many, so Turner decides to take action. When Kale’s mother goes over to Turner’s house to beg for no charges to be pressed, he puts his plan into action. That night Kale and Turner chase eachother, trying to kill eachother. When Kale finally kills Turner, he gets let out of house arrest early for good behavior.

Sorry if i have ruined the story for you if you have not seen it and want too, but i am doing my homeowork. Anywayi thought this was a great movie and i would give it a rating of   8/10.

Tired of the beauty pageant circut, Virginia Sauter tosses her tiara, peices her nose, and auditions for the most unlikely drum-major of the high school marching band.

Virginia wins, but is forced to share the title with Drew, whose family has held the position for generations. Sure, Drew is hot, but because of his superior attitude, he and Virginia are constantly arguing. That is, until they share more then their half time salute.

But as the drum majors heated competetion turns to sizzling romance, explosive rumours threaten everything-including the bands success. Love seemed sure to be a hit, but Virginia and drew seem to be finding  them selves marching right into a disaster.

This book was a funny, entertaining read. I loved every second of my  reading of it. It kept me interested, makes me more excited to turn the page. I couldn’t wait to finish this book, i thought it was a good break from all the other types of books i usually read, though it is kind of similiar, the writing style was different, though all styles of writing are different with each author, i am always attracted to the same authors, mainly because i like their style of telling a story. But i liked Major Crush alot, and i will certainly be looking for more books by this author (Jennifer Echols) neext time i am at the library.

Major Crush is a romantic comedy to keep you in sync.

When Holly Hankinson walked through the gates of St Clemmies, she was forty percent eexcited, sixty percent terrified. At least there, at her sixteenth school,  she finally had a purpose. A Mission to accmoplish. And more then that, she had been hand-picked for the job.

Holly might be new, but she already knows who to watch out for: Jess Flynn, the most popular girl in Year 9. Holly’s best friend back in Melbourne, Calypso, says Jess is a liar, a shoplifter and a boyfriend-stealer. Calypso wants revenge for her ex-friend’s betryayal, and Holly’s only too happy to oblige.

But it isn’t proving easy to follow Calypso’s plan and catch Jess out. And then there’s the fact that as Holly gets to know her, Jess isn’t fitting into the terrible picture Calypso has painted of her.

The story of Faking Sweet isn’t one of those random things that only happen on T.V. I think it is very true and emotional. Any jealous girl could and probably would, (sometimes, maybe) do this. What Calypso gets Holly to do for her, I mean.  Because jealousy is such a powerful thing, it can really cause someone to go out of their mind and go way out of control. They can do stupid things to try and hurt people, for example, like in this book, use a girl who is moving to your old school and tell her a revenge plan that will make the person you hate FALL. But jealousy is not always like, bad. I mean, I am jealous that my best friends had been best friends beofre they knew me, but that doesn’t make me hate them. But ANYWAY back to the oint of the story, I think the author ( J. C Burke) captured the perfect image and feel of what a teenage girl can do out of jealousy. The story somehow seems to me so real.  I really enjoyed this book, it had a great story line and i think the author carried out the story realy well, because when i read it it felt as if that was the way how the story was supposed to go.

This was a funny, emotional, exciting and enjoyable read for anyone who likes drama. And i’m not talking about the acting type.

em Martinic is a nerd. Plain and simple. She is smart and sensible, whereas Mackenzie Woodrow is the “golden girl” she is excelling at her schoolwork, sport and drama, and not to mention she is popular with EVERYONE. But Jem and Macknzie are sworn to enternal enmity, it’s only natural. It all started one night at year 10 camp, Jem and Mackenzie mack a pact-in other words, they solemnly swear to never become friends. Ever. But when they spend more and more time together, they strike up an unlikely friendship and are soon spending all their time together. But when camp ends, Jem and Mackenzie struggle keep their bond held at school.

This book is a lively story about true friendship. I think this book describes the life of a teenager perfectly. I wouldn’t say that this was a funny book, but had this strange sense of humour in it. That is just what I felt when I read the book. When I read books I usually feel what the character is feeling. It just happens, I but though sometimes I really try to imagine myself as the character, and what their feelings would be like in the situation that they are in. The message I got from this book were very compassionate, and intense feelings. The story is about girls and true friendship, about the lies, romours and bitching that goes around and about feelings that shouldn’t normally be felt, or thats what some people think.

Don Schmidt’s name was changed from Stanely when he was a little, his parents told him they named him after his fathers uncle, who left the country because he owned a lot of money to some loan sharks because he gambled and drank a lot. Though he doesn’t know why they called him Don instead of Stanely. He aslo has a sister named Dawn, who died for the scarlet fever when she was fifteen. But these things and other odd details of his life don’t add up. Don lives on a chicken farm in Horse Island. His mother would prefer not to be there but Don loves his chickens, and would hate it if they moved away. When he becomes a true expert on chickens and wins the Horse Island chicken-judging competetion he is a instant celebrity. From there he starts an adventure that involves chickens, and a deep, dark, family secret.

Ha! This book was a funny book to read. It was great. I don’t really know how to describe this one. But I thought it was fantastic. Let’s just say it was a funny, and refreshingly quirky novel that celebrates the…….underdog…….yeah I think that’s how I want to describe it. It was about time I read something that perked me up and into a fit of giggles.

Kenny Sinclar is 14 years old. His dad has just died and so to keep his family together, Kenny must find work.  ”Be very careful going through the flatlands,” his mother warns him. “Don’t stop for anyone.” But Kenny does stop. And what happens next will define the man he becomes.

For me, this was a random pick. It was just a book I picked off the self at Angus and Robertson and decided it was time for a change of style. This was an emotional, fun, sad,happy, exciting, enjoyable read for me. I liked the way the author put different stories of this family. They are all very interesting and I felt like there feelings and thoughts really came through to me, I think I got the message about how she wanted her story to be.  This wasn’t a book I’d usualy read, as I said, it was random. But I kinda of suprised myself at how much I liked it. It was interesting because. It is an autobiography with a few chapters about a little of each 

For me, this was a random pick. It was just a book I picked off the self at Angus and Robertson and decided it was time for a change of style. This was an emotional, fun, sad,happy, exciting, enjoyable read for me. I liked the way the author put different stories of this family. They are all very interesting and I felt like there feelings and thoughts really came through to me, I think I got the message about how she wanted her story to be.  This wasn’t a book I’d usualy read, as I said, it was random. But I kinda of suprised myself at how much I liked it. This book was interesting because all the stories she wrote, they all had the same poem mentioned, even if it was not a big part of the story. And every time they think of it, it changes a part in their lives, wether it is little or big, it happens even if they do not know it.