The story "shadows" by Tim Bowler is about a boy called Jamie. Jamie is the main person in this book and he's also the most important character.
Jamie is good at squash and he does a very hard training every day. He is coached by his own father. But there's a difference between what everyone of them want to reach in playing squash. Jamie is pressured by his father, because he just wants the best for Jamie. Everything, he hadn't achieved in his youth as a squash player, he wants Jamie to do better. But Jamie doesn't agree with his father, so there are more problems between them, bit by bit.
When Jamie lost a game one day, his father's very sick, but his act makes Jamie running away from home.
In those days, when Jamie is break away, some things happen, of which Jamie never thought about.
Jamie meets a girl and they help eachother in this difficult situation, the girl also has her own sad story.
Jamie and the girl become very good friends and the girl shows him what it's like to be "a shadow" and someday Jamie also knows that he's one of them.
In those days, the two become big problems with some guys and later the whole story is something like a fight of surviving. This story gets really exciting and dramatic.
At the end there's a sadness in Jamie's family and Jamie tries to get back into his old life but he knows, that this is not easy.

I think you all know, that the literature, we have to read at school, can sometimes be very boring and not interesting for people in our age.
But I must say, that I've made a totally different experience. This varied story about Jamie and the girl was really absorbing and I liked reading a lot.
Well, it's not normal for me to finish reading a book, which I have to read for school, within one week, so that shows, the fun, I had.
I must say, I decided to work on the story "shadows" because I'm very interested in the action about sports, so when I red the blurb for the first time, it was directly clear to me, that I would like this story...

but now, I want to give you a main overview of what will happen...

This is a weblog to the book "shadows" by Tim Bowler, which i'm reading at the moment in my english class at school. Our task is to prepare a reading log or a weblog, like this one is. So it was our decision to choose which possibility we want to use, so I decided to create a weblog, because I think this will be more fun and while reading, that's a new experience, because I never did something like this before. Because of the fact, I'm bored by "normal" projects in school, I think that's a different and more enjoyable way to work with literature in school.

I try to show you exactly, the way I think about this book and especially about the characters and the action in this book. I hope you will like reading this weblog and you will also like the way, I'll put all the information together.

Hope you enjoy...;-)