Sunny的部落格

The Chocolate War was the first book I read about the cruelty in school life. I was shocked. It was 1994 when I got this book. In Taiwan, we seldom read books talking about the evil or violent sides of students. People always say that kids or students are like white papers. They are all innocent. But actually, in the process of growing up, kids find out many differert sides of human nature, but they don't talk with their parents about the frustration or bullies they have to face at school.

Now it is 2011, 17 years after I read the novel. Cruelty still exists because it's part of human nature, isn't it? How do kids cope with the real evil aspests existing in their life? Do they have to stand still and fight like Jerry in the novel? Or they have to hide themslves or fade into the background? There is no definite answer, isn't it?

Last year, I began to notice the books written by Laurie Halse Anderson.  Wondering in Eslite on the third floor, I first saw the book Wintergirls, then, Chains, Twisted, Catalyst, and finally Speak. I picked Twisted as the first to talk about.

Sunny loves books, traveling and old stuff.  Sunny was born in the 60's, at that time, life is full of old stuff like trains with steam engines, music of Eagles and Beatles. When Sunny got into the Western Literature Institute at Takmkang University, she fell in love with children's literature. Since then, Sunny has collected hundreds of books including picture books and novels written for children and youngsters.