WOW! 366 by Various authors

WOW! 366 is a great book to celebrate 2008, the year of reading. Great authors and celebs have contributed to the making of this book such as Charlie Higson (Youngbond), Anne Fine (lots) Gordon Brown (prime minister), Roddy Doyle (The giggler Treatment) Michael Morpurgo (Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea) and even Tom from the band McFly.
Every single story in this is exactly 366 words – that’s a hard thing to do, and there are 366 stories in the book.
It takes a very talented author to write a story in exactly 366 words and to get the stories just right in that much space. It’s great as a story to tread to your children, younger brother/sister, or anyone, if you read two or three a night or open one at random. I’m just going to talk about a few of the stories:
Gordon Brown wrote a bit about his childhood
Philip Ardagh told us how to write stories
Anne Fine wrote about a girl who made a magazine about herself
Brian Sibley cleverly wrote about 366, in a guessing competition
Kjartan Poskitt wrote a small story about music and a coincidence
Eleanor Updale wrote about headlice
Guy Bass wrote about a boy called Jack who nobody believes
Tom from McFly wrote two stories about different things… including crop circles
It’s a really good book, but I didn’t love it so much. I guess I got a bit bored of it.
If you read it, though, you can be in for a rollercoaster ride of surprises, happiness, LOLz, sadness, good stories, and not so good ones.
I’m not sure about this one… guess we’ll have to wait and see.
PS: Yes, 366 words is more that the Twitter 1400 characters.

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

If there were an award for the book with a biggest, most excited reaction Skulduggery Pleasant would win it. It’s only been published a while, and all of a sudden, everyone is reading it, there are fansites, Derek Landy’s talks are selling out and Steven Spielberg wants to make a film of it.
It’s about a man. Named Skulduggery Pleasant and a girl name Stephanie (or Valkyrie Cain). It’s a strange storyline, but they need to get a Sceptre, which the Elders think is a fairytale, but Serpine has the Sceptre and getting it off of him is… funny, adventurous, cool, fun, exciting. My opinion is that everyone should read this book.

Triskellion 2: The Burning by Will Peterson

Triskellion 2: The Burning is the second in the Triskellion trilogy by Will Peterson, and it unfortunately didn’t really live up to my hopes. I enjoyed the start of it, but it really got boring around the part that they left with Gabriel.
However, Brian read it before me and he persuaded me that the rest was better, so I did finish it, and I have to say that it was good at the end. Overall, I’d only give it 6/10, but I still will be reading the last in the Trilogy, as I loved the first book.