Boys Read Books

Parents seem to really panic if their kid doesn't like reading, but there is no point getting stressed about it. So here are 5 ways to encourage a reluctant reader and be chill about it too. 1. Don't force them to read No kid ever learned to love something they were forced to do. If you don't want reading to be a chore like eating broccoli or making your bed, then don't make it a big deal! Have loads of books available in the house or visit a library, but leave it up to your kid to decide when to read (although you might want to switch the wifi off every now and again to encourage them). 2. Don't be snobby about their choices OK, not every kid wants to read Tolkein or some other massive book that you think is 'quality' fiction when a book full of fart jokes is much more fun. Reading is reading (and yes, that includes the Argos catalogue) and it is all good. 3. Find their interests Kids are much more likely to pick up a book if it is about someth...

This is the book for you if you like having to think A LOT.  The first half was quite confusing -  it starts with a boy dying and BAM... here we are in some strange place. Is it the after life? Is it the underworld? Is it hell? It’s completely baffling and really alien for both the reader and the main character. He has no idea what’s going on either and for whatever reason can’t remember his previous life and it comes back to him in random, often traumatic flashbacks.  After spending around 75 pages with our main character seemingly the only person in this strange, new world, two new people suddenly ride up and rescue him from what looks to be Death (if Death drove a van and dressed like a biker). These two new characters are here to confuse us further with their garbled explanations of what is going on.  As you read on, things are explained in a bit more depth through logical conclusions, a fair bit of guesswork and some more trusty flashbacks. You can piece tog...

I picked this book up on a whim as I hadn't heard of the Mortal Instruments series beforehand, and bought it after skim reading in the shop for a bit (I am going to get banned from bookshops for doing this!).  T he first 5 or so chapters were actually really good at getting me interested, i t starts off with normalcy from the main character's (Clary) point of view as we would see things and then unexpectedly shifts to the perspective of a demon in a world that’s completely new to us, which was enough to keep me reading. The books follows New York based teens Clary and her best friend, Simon as they are introduced to the world of the Shadowhunters following some close encounters with demons. They uncover  a world that is very different to the one they thought they knew. The Shadowhunters are a secretive group who protect humans from demons and when you get your first glimpse of the Shadowhunters, you don’t know whether or not you like them because even though they’re cle...