Scrawl by Mark Shulman

I picked up a book this new quarter called Scrawl by Mark Shulman. It is about a teenager whom is a bully; he doesn’t like school or anybody else besides him. He plays cards at lunch and steals lunch money, how much more typical can you get for a bully character. But one of his tricks went too far, I mean too far, about juvenile prison too far. The problem is he doesn’t remember what he did and somehow skips jail for after school and in school detention. He has to write in his journal about his friends, what’s typical about them and what he sees. The book is written in his journal notes, so imagine a teenager writing about what he sees. Which seems very boring, and to tell you, it is very boring but occasionally funny from this boring book were sometimes he even counts bricks, how much more fun can you get. I honestly would not recommend it but there are some glimpses of potential funny possibly a good plotted book. Unless you want to read about what a possibly A.D.D. teenager can see in consolidated room go ahead. But from my view point it was slow, boring, and not recommended.