There's a boy in the girl's Bathroom, Louis Sachar

after reading that terrible book Suck, i mean Sock, i needed to clean my brain out for another book. Jenn had bought me a copy of Louis Sachar’s There’s a boy in the girls bathroom so i decided i should revert to a prior age and give a good once over. thank you goodwill for having it lying around :)

I have not read this book in so many years, it really came to me as if i had never read it at all.

Louis Sachar is the guy who wrote Holes (made into a movie a few years back) and Sideways stories from Wayside School. He is a Lawyer who decided children’s fiction was a nice fit for him as an occupation, and i fully agree. i have always been a fan of his books, especially the Wayside School series.

Girls Bathroom is a story of a boy with the lowest self esteem ever who fights against everything, has imaginary friends and lies like no other.he is forced to go to a school counselor and over the course of the book grows up a little and finds out how to interact in society. man. this is a damn good book. t is funny, even for an adult, and i was surprised by how well the “moral of the story” was incorporated into a kid friendly story.

Over the years i have been slowly building up my collection of good children’s books, books i enjoyed as a kid and would love others to read. the goal is that someone comes over to my place and has no need to turn on the TV because regardless of their gender or age, there are tons of incredible books to read. the words “i’m bored” would be met with “have you read this? it is really really good”

recently i last year i read Judy Blume’s Superfudge and it is really what started the idea. i laughed and really had a good time reading it, even though i read it rather quickly and it was far below my reading level. next in the list will likely be some William Sleator books like House of Stairs, Singularity, the Green Futures of Tycho, and Interstellar Pig (which recently had a sequel written for it). I absorbed this write almost through osmosis when i was a kid. special thanks to my dad for handing me Interstellar Pig in the library as a kids and telling me it looked good. Much appreciation for you and mom putting up with us kids, our voracious appetite for books, and the common place trips to the Springville library where we had a 10 book limit on ourcheck outs (parent imposed limit)

mmm.. Suck has been washed from my tastebuds and replaced with non-suck happiness.

excellent.