After having read more than half the novel

Questions I would like to ask Nick Hornby:

• How did you come to the idea to write such a book?

• What do you want to show with your book?

Poems/pictures/videos I know that might go well with the atmosphere of the novel:

Rufus Wainwright "Hallelujah"

"I had to look at the CD machine to hear a man singing a slow song and playing piano." (p.267, l.1-3)

A Rose
by Elizabeth
A lovely rose with petals softA scent so sweet and light

So beautiful a flowerWith colors shining bright.

But something not so savory

About the fragrant rose -

The thorns, so sharp upon the stem,

That sharpen as it grows.

Yet still lovely is the flower

Despite the thorns that prick

Just as life and love are sweet

They too have thorns that stick.

But do not fear to live or love,

Life's not exempt from pain -

So pick a rose, you may get hurt,

But you will also again!

A rough summary of the events so far:

Sam goes with his mother on a party of a friend of his mother. On this party is the daughter of Andrea (the friend), called Alicia. The mother of Sam knew this girl please Sam, so she take him along. Alicia and Sam get together. They look the most time TV in Alicias Room or have sex together. At the end Sam is bored of such a relationship and get rid of her. But Alicia is pregnant. Sam dreams of his future: He leaves with Alicia together in the room of her with the baby and his mother is pregnant. Sam doesn´t like this imagination and escape to Hastings, there he realize that much things can be bader than having a baby and comes back. When he and Alicia tell it both parents, are the shocked. They don´t want to believe that this two did the same mistake like Sam´s parents, because they got Sam, when they were sixteen too. Sam has a second dream which happens when Roof is two years old, he doesn´t live with Alicia together anymore, but at his home. His mother has a little girl born. Because of this dream Sam knows what will happen next: Alicia doesn´t want a abortion and so she becomes the baby. Sam´s mother becomes pregnant too. The baby gets the name Rufus, because while the birth they listened to the CD of the singer Rufus Wainwright. Rufus Jones.

Which idea in the novel made me stop and think, or was new and exciting for me:
That it can happen that a thirty-two old mother becomes grandmother. Because you think exactly the sam mistake can´t happen again and also in the same family one after another.

Something I enjoyed:

The childbirth of Roof: All the misteries because of the name become solved. You never thought his name is Rufus because of a singer and the best: He is called Roof because of his dad Sam! Sam was the one who didn´t like the name and wondered who gave it to this baby.

Something I felt annyed of:

The second dream of Sam, because before all seamed that Alicia, Sam and the Baby becomes a happy little family (I, for one thought so) and now all become destroyed: Sam lives with his Family again and broke away from Alicia. Only the baby grew to a sweet little boy.