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This is the blog spot for the King's School Library "Dads and Lads, Mums and Sons" Book project.
We’d like you and your son to read 10 books in the 2008-09 school year, and tell us about it!

SIMPLY...
1. Choose a book to read together. You could start with your son’s choice. Then follow with your choice. Then back again. The school library can support you by doing our best to find a second copy so that you don’t have to wait for one person to finish before the other one starts.
2. When a book is finished, like it or hate it, simply write a short review each from your own perspectives and send or e-mail it into the library. We'll publish it here.

At the end of the year we’ll award the prize to the best set of reviews.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO LIVE TOGETHER TO READ TOGETHER.

It doesn’t matter what you read, fiction or non-fiction. We would like to hear from you.
If you are interested in taking part please contact the Librarians, and we’ll put you in the picture.
Book suggestions for the mystified also available on request
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Wednesday, 28 November 2007

The Testament by John Grisham


The Testament
This book was very adult like, and therefore I found it hard to get into. It talks about one of life’s many problems, a will.
It starts with the suicide of Troy Phelan, a self made billionaire. Troy has written a will giving all his savings to a long lost daughter. However, nobody knows where this “long lost” daughter is and so a law firm is set the task of locating her.
The story is mainly about a drug and drink addict trying to find a woman in the middle of the Brazilian jungles. I found that this story had a poor plot and wasn’t very well written and overall rather boring.
It would most probably be suitable to an adult with nothing better to read. I would give it 4/10.


A.S.


The Testament by John Grisham

My choice to introduce my son to another popular author.

Deep within the Brazilian jungle lives a missionary among the tribes people and folk lore. Unbeknown to her she is worth eleven billion dollars, a legacy that doesn’t want to be divided between squabbling, jealous, greedy siblings of Troy Phelan and their families. Nate O’Riley is a lawyer who has battled addiction, incarceration and the stresses of a prominent successful litigation career, whom is given the task to find Rachel Lane, but does she want to be found?

Not the best John Grisham book I have read, 6/10

F.S.

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