First Thoughts

Hello everybody! :)
I’m about to read the book “Slam” written by Nick Hornby, because of my English teaching.
I think that reading this book will bring me lots of fun, at least because I already know other Nick-Hornby-Books, like “31 Songs”, “About A Boy” and “A Long Way Down”.
In my opinion Nick Hornby is a very cool and modern author, who incorporates the subjects of today’s society problems into his books.
In my view, reading English books as a not-native speaker of English is the best way to internalize English grammar and style. Pinning my hopes of becoming better in fluent speaking, that’s the reason why I have already read a few books in English outside the classroom, like “Moon Palace” (Paul Auster), the biography of Edie Sedgwick, “Twilight” (Stephanie Meyer), “When I was five I killed myself” (Howard Buten), and a lot of poems, among other things written by Sylvia Plath, W. H. Auden and Thom Gunn.
In school I read “Rosso” (Phillip Hewit), “Betrayed” (Carl Taylor), “They’re after us” (Allen J. Woppert) and “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” (Mark Haddon) - except the last one, books, which were trying to impart morals of certain problem situations just in a few pages. Out of this, there were no really GOOD books created.
I know that “Slam” isn’t this sort of book and I’m sure reading will be fun. So, I’m glad that we’ve got the chance to work on more school readings, which are standing for more good literature.
... Hey! Ho! Let's Go! :)

Greetings,
Yours Victoire* x)