Boys Rule Boys Read!: Hooray! Our First Entry in the Olympics of Reading!!

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Hooray! Our First Entry in the Olympics of Reading!!

Yes, sir! We have our first contestant, our old friend Lord Vader. He sent in not just one but TWO reviews:

I have two reviews on some Star Wars books. The first one is Queen Amidala by Jude Watson. It is 111 pages of her journal. It covers the episode 1 movie on her thoughts. I liked how it filled in some things that you don't get from the movie (like her struggle to become queen and her thoughts on Qui Gon throughout the episode.) A lot of it is like watching the movie, but it was still a good read. My second is Star Wars Jedi Quest: The Trail of the Jedi also by Jude Watson. This one is 128 pages long and takes place between episode 1 and 2. Anakin and Obi-Wan are on a Jedi training exercise when their pilot who is the person they are suppose to track goes missing. Clues are still left for them to follow but they were not left by the pilot. Many bounty hunters are looking to capture the master and padawan team and there is some good fighting strategies in this book. I liked this one more than the Amidala one.

Mikie (a.k.a. Lord Vader)

Very good, Lord Vader. You get two points for writing about two works of fiction. go back to our post of August 8 to get the complete set of rules and ways to earn points. Or check out # 6 on the side bar that says, "How Our Blog Works."

Let's keep them coming, guys!!

Carl

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