In August I am reading.....

For me this month's reading will be all about John Marsden's Tomorrow series. (Goodness, it is hard to find a link that doesn't a plot summary!!)

These books originally came out one each year when I was at high school, and one in my first year out of school, so I would have been in the key target audience - and I absolutely loved them! (although, strangely enough, I can't remember whether I read the last one or not...)
In fact, I remember being so excited to read the 6th book that the school librarians let me take it home to read before it had even been processed into the library system! (I think they knew I'd have it back the following day ;o))

I had thought about re-reading the books a couple of times before, but when I saw last week that a movie had been made I was super excited to read at least the first one again before it comes out.



So I got stuck into Tomorrow When the War Began on Thursday night, and was quite excited to find I was enjoying it just as much as I did as a teenager - I had been a little nervous it would be one of those cases where something is not as good as you remember it having been, but on Friday night I found myself saying "Just one more chapter..." then reading 5 more before I could put it down.



This morning, sitting out in the sunshine with my kitties, I started on the second in the series - The Dead of the Night - and despite being out for most of the afternoon I've almost finished it too. With a bus trip to Sydney coming up later in the month I'm hoping to get through a couple more.

I think one of the things that really draws me in with these books is that they are so well written that I can relate to the characters, despite the extreme situations they are in - they could have been me, or any of my school friends. I'm sure it helps too that they are set in Australia.

Plus, its refreshing to be taken back to a time when 'teen fiction' meant something other than just stories about vampires... ;o)

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Thanks for the nice comments of support and joining-in-ness on my last post!
I am so excited to hear more about everyone's literary adventures!



I put together a little button which you can grab if you'd like to pop it on your blog - however I would gladly take 'donations' of buttons from anyone else who is a little more technologically gifted than I am - or if you'd like a picture other than my "taken-in-poor-light, its-those-darn Penguin clothbounds again" shot there ;o) - so do share if you are so inclined! =)

Also, I have attempted a linky list below - please pop in the details of your booky post, so that we can come by and visit you!
This is the same one that Kirsty uses for the 'my creative space' lists, so I'm hoping it will go ok - but let me know if you have any troubles! =)
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Happy reading!

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