Book – Breakfast at Tiffany’s Author – Truman CapoteYear – 1958Genre – Fiction One of the problems with The Book Challenge is that through necessity you rattle through an incredible number of books in a short period of time, meaning that every few days or so you have to bridge that slightly awkward gap of beginning … Read moreBook 34 – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Book – PygmalionAuthor – George Bernard ShawYear – 1916Genre – Play This is the first time this year that I have read a play in this challenge (yes, I have read the Rent script several thousand times, but after the first time it ceases to count) and I made it one with a connection to what … Read moreBook 33 – Pygmalion
Book – The Hell of it AllAuthor – Charlie BrookerYear – 2009Genre – Article CompilationLeant to me by Bob of Bob’s Blog Anyone who is paying attention at all – so mainly me – may have noticed that I have not updatedfor nearly a fortnight now. Well, I have a show coming up again, one … Read moreBook 32 – The Hell of it All
Book – The Book of Big ExcusesAuthor – Tracey TurnerYear – 2008Genre – Toilet BookBought for me by John Gompers When you can’t wait to get to the end of a book just so that you can write a review pointing out what a pile of crap it is, you know that you are not … Read moreBook 31 – The Book of Big Excuses
Book – Percy Jackson and the Lightning ThiefAuthor – Rick RiordanYear – 2005Genre – FantasyRecommended by one of our Year 6’s, Elise. From the structure of the title, to the label saying ‘Now A Major Film’ to the blurb describing how a twelve year old boy suddenly discovers that he has magical powers, this book … Read moreBook 30 – Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
Book – Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixAuthor – JK RowlingYear – 2003Genre – Fantasy The fifth Harry Potter book was also the first that I went to get at midnight on the day that it came out. It might sound sad, but even at nineteen years old, I was massively excited. Now … Read moreBook 29 – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix