I have recently finished reading Plunder in Paradise - Geraldine McCaughrean, and now started reading Stamboul Train - Graham Greene.
What influenced you choices?
I have recently finished reading Plunder in Paradise - Geraldine McCaughrean, and now started reading Stamboul Train - Graham Greene.
What influenced you choices?
I recently for the second time read 50 Shades of Grey after watching the movie to find out why it was so intriguing. I read all the books of Mortal Instruments and find that I could not put them down. They were so captivating. Before all of the above I read Jodi Picoult novels. In the end I combined all the above, they all inspired me.
When you meet your other half he is suppose to make you feel like 50 shades of grey and sometimes when we believe the possible, the impossible can occur. Some instances cannot be scientifically explained. In the end we all made up of emotions. If you cannot feel, how can you write or create a world the reader can imagine themselves in.
All hail to every great book ever published!
I am also reading 'Asda's favourites', 100 recipes, because it was free and makes an excellent table mat. I will read all sorts of rubbish, but I'll never read a James Patterson novel again.
I also think good guys vs bad guys stories for children (especially the middle grade age group) are very good for them. Books, films, TV and video games help to form a young person's thinking. Hopefully they can decide to be 'goodies' themselves if they identify with characters of that type.
I'm reading an e-book I've been asked to review.
I've discovered that I don't retain e-books in my mind and have to make notes of what happens as I go along. This has been scientifically proven, apparently, to be a failing of the e-format.
Odd to think that when Harry Potter first came out, there was a huge outcry about its suitability for children because the book dealt with the dark arts. Religious parents tried to get it banned from school libraries.
Wilhelmina, what you describe is the messiah idea. There's nothing new in that.
Adrian, I studied Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory for A level and read several of his books, including ST; I had a very enlightened English teacher who gave me all the leeway I could wish for in my reading. That was my first exposure to the idea of the anti-hero.
When I'm here in France, I think how wonderful it would be to be able to browse in a good bookshop; but when I get to England I find the choice overwhelming. Where to start? With the tried and tested? Something new - but what? I'm sure it's a response to a form of sensory deprivation.
Lorraine