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My Friday find is an audio book called Burn Journal by Brent Runyon. I came across this book perusing the NetLibrary site. A true story about a depressed boy who tries to commit suicide by dousing his robe in gasoline and setting on fire. He is detailed when talking about the burning, the hospital and how he feels throughout the ordeal.
I found a video of Brent talking about his book:
From Booklist *Starred Review* Gr. 8-12. On the sixteenth page of this incisive memoir, eighth-grader Brent Runyon drenches his bathrobe with gasoline and ("Should I do it? Yes.") sets himself on fire. The burns cover 85 percent of his body and require six months of painful skin grafts and equally invasive mental-health rehabilitation. From the beginning, readers are immersed in the mind of 14-year-old Brent as he struggles to heal body and mind, his experiences given devastating immediacy in a first-person, present-tense voice that judders from uncensored teenage attitude and poignant anxiety (he worries about getting hard-ons during physical therapy) to little-boy sweetness. And throughout is anguish over his suicide attempt and its impact on his family: "I have this guilt feeling all over me, like oil on one of those birds in Alaska." Runyon has, perhaps, written the defining book of a new genre, one that gazes as unflinchingly at boys on the emotional edge as Zibby O'Neal's The Language of Goldfish (1980) and Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak (1999) do at girls. Some excruciatingly painful moments notwithstanding, this can and should be read by young adults, as much for its literary merit as for its authentic perspective on what it means to attempt suicide, and, despite the resulting scars, be unable to remember why. Jennifer Mattson
Awesome read! Right at the beginning, i was hooked when the "slaaf" caught his prey for his master in hopes of pleasing him and to redeem him and i was so SCARED but i couldn't put it down!! I had to find out what this psycho was going to do next ! You know when your watching a movie and you know where the killer is and your yelling at the police "he's over there, can't you see that??!!" That's how i felt throughout the story, i was sitting on the edge of my seat, tensed and hoping when i turned the page the police would figure it out! The author incorporates his expertise in this psychological thriller. Dr Peter Gram ,a child psychiatrist, is called in to treat Naya, who is having severe nightmares and what he finds out shocks him. Agent Leia Bines, FBI's expert in missing children is the lead in the investigation of a missing 6 year old girl Janet, who never made it home after school. I'm not one to reveal too much of the story, you just have to read it, you definitely won't be disappointed!!
This one deserves a 10 - I hope he writes another Dr. Peter Gram book!
Its Monday What are You Reading? Hosted by J-Kaye's Book Blog.
So after that I thought i would read A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. I've always wanted to read it but its one of those that is on my long list of must reads but never got around to it. But now that its on my Sony, i think its time !
Hope you all have a great week and read lots of books .
Now, my husband is really into RC Trucks and here is a video of an RC Peterbilt that he built from scratch and he's mighty proud of it!
The video is kind of dark and hard to see the colors .
I've found many websites that have free crossword puzzle printouts which i can fit into my purse for handy access. Great for waiting for the kids , Dr's office or just plain killing time!
Here are some websites that have free printable puzzles:
By Mahbod Seraji
By Salmon Rushdie
By Lisa Wingate
By Earleane Fowler
By Charlaine Harris
