Running Wild

This year for book groups I choose a book by Michael Morpurgo called Running Wild. It is based on a boy called Will who is riding an elephant on an Indonesian beach line until a tsunami hits the coast. Will only survives because the elephant he is riding storms of into the dense Indonesian jungle away from the wave. Then for the next year Will survives in the jungle with the elephant which is called Oona until he finds a clearing in the jungle where he finds a woman in a straw hat that helps him find the rest of his family. We had a few problems when we had our group discussions like on the first week some of us in the group weren't listening and also on the second week I forgot to bring my book discussion notes. Another problem was that once we read six chapters in one go and for the next two weeks we only read 4 pages every time to make the book last so that we didn't finish two weeks earlier than the other book groups. I think what went well was that we all had mixed ideas of what was going to happen next which showed that we were all thinking about the story and not agreeing to what everybody else said. What I got out of this experience was that I found out that other books in other genres are sometimes good to read, I used to always read books filled with action such as the CHERUB series or the Alex Rider series and so on.