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Diary of an AFL Legend
Marcus is a maths whiz who is not good at sport. His dad is a self-help author who thinks Marcus can achieve anything he sets his mind to, with hilarious results. In illustrated diary format, Marcus's gentle, satiric humour and comic drawings will have readers laughing out loud while learning a surprising amount about sport.
112 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 29, 2017
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About the author
Shamini Flint
69Ìýbooks320ÌýfollowersShamini Flint lives in Singapore with her husband and two children. She began her career in law in Malaysia and also worked at an international law firm in Singapore. She travelled extensively around Asia for her work, before resigning to be a stay-at-home mum, writer, part-time lecturer and environmental activist, all in an effort to make up for her 'evil' past as a corporate lawyer!
Shamini writes children's books with cultural and environmental themes including Jungle Blues and Turtle takes a Trip as well as the 'Sasha' series of children's books. She also writes crime fiction featuring the rotund Singaporean policeman, Inspector Singh. Singh travels around Asia stumbling over corpses and sampling the food ...
Shamini writes children's books with cultural and environmental themes including Jungle Blues and Turtle takes a Trip as well as the 'Sasha' series of children's books. She also writes crime fiction featuring the rotund Singaporean policeman, Inspector Singh. Singh travels around Asia stumbling over corpses and sampling the food ...
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February 19, 2021
Marcus enjoys Maths and video games but his dad wants him to join a physical sport and they tried many different sports for Marcus but he didn't do well in any of them and his dad finally learnt that Marcus is better off not doing any physical sports. Marcus did find a game to be outdoors which was a dog sport with his dog, Spot. His dad came to terms with it as Marcus is technically outdoors and he actually enjoys training Spot.
Marcus's cousin, Spencer returns in this and Spencer is an only child and he plays AFL. Spencer wants to spend time with Marcus and have something to do together so Marcus says that he will play AFL of his own will. But as usual, Marcus doesn't do well and he gets hurt but in the end he comes through as usual.
I enjoyed this a bit better than the last few books in the series. I like spencer and liked his return as well. I also liked the fact that Marcus's dad finally comes to terms with things and he also writes a book called Be Happy. I did want to know more about Marcus's cooking but there was no mention of it again but I am happy that Marcus is happy.
3 stars
Marcus's cousin, Spencer returns in this and Spencer is an only child and he plays AFL. Spencer wants to spend time with Marcus and have something to do together so Marcus says that he will play AFL of his own will. But as usual, Marcus doesn't do well and he gets hurt but in the end he comes through as usual.
I enjoyed this a bit better than the last few books in the series. I like spencer and liked his return as well. I also liked the fact that Marcus's dad finally comes to terms with things and he also writes a book called Be Happy. I did want to know more about Marcus's cooking but there was no mention of it again but I am happy that Marcus is happy.
3 stars
September 18, 2021
While a little facile for AFL diehards like myself, I have to admit that for an Asian-based writer the book is obviously well researched. The speech bubbles could be a little larger, but I found no error in her understanding of the game.
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