DOWN THE RABBIT HALL by Peter Abrahams

What forced me, who was wandering in a huge bookstore to find an English book to be suitable for me as both a teaching material and a stuff that gives me a pleasure, to choose this book was just a line of the praise given by 'Stephen King' which is "My all-time favourite. Astonishing.". Since I've known his reputation for a long time as one of the greatest writer in 'HORROR' genre, -Although, I've never read any of his book- I was able to get my hands on it without hesitation.

The story of this book is as follows.

'Engrid Levin-Hill', who is thirteen years old girl, a striker of the team of the school she's been going to, an actress who has outstanding talent for acting and a 'SHOLOCKIAN' -the followers of 'Sherlock Holmes'- besides, has been implicated in a murder case of the woman who lives in the same town she's been living and looks like a bit out of her mind.

The problem with which made her get into trouble is a pair of shoes she has left at the victim's house before the murder happened, which could cause a serious misunderstanding by the police. After all, she decided to search the women's mysterious death by her own and during the investigation, she happened to know about the town's gloomy history of the past that would force the tracking down into a huge maze and 'Engrid' herself as well, like the very title of this book.

WHAT MAKES A MOVIE WONDERFUL

There are more than thirty English movies that I have seen at the cinema while I was staying in Australia. Some of them -as I was at the beginning of my terrible English life- I barely managed to understand what was going on and most of them I just made out what they were talking about, it has been getting remarkably better recently though.

In the meantime, A bit odd thought, which I would like to say at this point, has occurred to me before I was aware of it.

It is that the more I can get it -I mean the dialogue- about the movie, the more impression you might have isn't always true and it's likely this sort of idea can tell us that the more important thing in making movie to make the audience touched could be the harmony between the brilliant performances of the actors and such huge efforts the staffs have poured in that movie rather than just the mixing of flowery lines of -not all of them but mostly- meaninglessness. Even if it is COMEDY, the success of which is going to be surely rely on the words!

TWENTY/20 CRICKET MATCH IN 'GABBA' STADIUM.

I've been to the 'GABBA' stadium last Friday night to see the twenty/2o cricket match, Queensland Bulls VS South Australia, which was absolutely fantastic. The big and almost circular ground that is somewhere I have never been before at least in my country and over than twelve thousand people gathering in the field, which is amazingly huge as compared with the population of Brisbane city was making the magnificent spectacle that is possibly something I never gonna forget for a long time.

Actually I've been liking cricket ever since I watched the first game in my life on TV in Australia and I'm quite sure I'm going to be loving the fascinating sport much more than before, Especially the TWENTY/20 MATCH which is not only more exciting but still more dramatic, which means it will have a chance to be the international sports in the immediate future.

AND THE NIGHT BRING ITSELF BACK TO LIFE

Although there are lots of English books that I will have to struggle with in my book shelves, it was not easy to resist the temptation that this one stretched out to me quietly with the blurb which says 'An orthodox HARD-BOILED MYSTERY in the 'Raymond Chandler' style!'.

Moreover the vague memory that a couple of magnificent JAPANESE hard-boiled writers have left to me -almost faded but still remaining as significant- has done it's bit.

To be honest, I really have no idea when I turn over the last page of this book. All I just can say now is I'm going to open the book whenever I have some free time and need a bit of comfort to overcome the homesick, which is more and more heavier every day.