Book – The Magical Worlds of Harry PotterAuthor – David ColbertYear – 2001Genre – Non-Fiction When you pick up a book about Harry Potter and it has plastered on the front cover ‘Not Approved by JK Rowling or Warner Brothers’ you instantly start to think that you are holding a load of rubbish. The amount of…
Month: July 2010
Book 56 – Chris Moyles: The Difficult Second Book
Book – Chris Moyles: The Difficult Second BookAuthor – Chris MoylesYear – 2007Genre – Autobiography Not every book that I am going to read this year and like is going to be a literary classic. For all of your The Great Gatsbys and Of Mice And Mens, there will be some books that I enjoy…
Book 55 – The Other Book
Book – The Other BookAuthor – Mitchell SymonsYear – 2005Genre – Trivia I am pretty sure that I have mentioned this before, but I love trivia books. And so do booksellers. Wander into your local Waterstones and have a look at the variety of books on the shelves with names like You Can’t Sneeze With…
Book 54 – I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Book – I Know Why The Caged Bird SingsAuthor – Maya AngelouYear – 1969Genre – AutobiographyRecommended by my Mum Finally, I am through the next book in my challenge. It has been nearly two weeks since I started this book, and I have reached the end of it (allowing arch-rival Bob to catch up with me). …
Book 53 – One Day
Book – One DayAuthor – David NichollsYear – 2009Genre – FictionRecommended by Lucie Jordan If all books were this absorbing then this challenge would be easy. I mentioned in one of my blogs how lovely it is when people get in contact about The Book Challenge. So many people have gotten in touch and recommended books…
Book 52 – The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
Book – The Dark Tower: The GunslingerAuthor – Stephen KingYear – 1982Genre – Western/Fantasy Stephen King reportedly regards his The Dark Tower series as his magnum opus. It is a series that he is still writing twenty-eight years after the publication of the first volume. King is an amazing writer, and as such if he…
Book 51 – Spies
Book – SpiesAuthor – Michael FraynYear – 2002Genre – Fiction As mentioned in my last blog, I hit a bit of a mental block as I crawled over the halfway point in The Book Challenge. For no great reason, I was having a bit of difficulty powering through a book, but finally I have achieved…
Reader’s Block
At the weekend, I proudly proclaimed my reaching the halfway point in The Book Challenge. Fifty of my hundred books down, fifty to go. It was a good moment – I suppose similar to how someone with more sporting skill than myself may feel when progressing in a sporting tournament (please feel free to insert…