Book – Mother Courage and Her ChildrenAuthor – Bertolt BrechtYear – 1939Genre – PlayPages – 93 Finishing 2011 on a nice round number is my book number sixty – the play Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht. Brecht is one of the biggest names in theatre, and anyone who has studied drama will … Read moreBook 60 – Mother Courage and Her Children
Book – Around the World in Eighty DaysAuthor – Jules VerneYear – 1873Genre – Classic AdventurePages – 161 When people heard that I was reading the Jules Verne classic Around the World in Eighty Days I tended to hear repeated to me a little fact about the book – one which if I am honest, … Read moreBook 59 – Around the World in Eighty Days
Book – Julian: A Christmas StoryAuthor – Robert Charles WilsonYear – 2006Genre – Science FictionPages – 86 I like to read a good Christmas book around this time of the year, and so when browsing the shelves of one of our local charity shops, I spotted this book, I thought it may be a pretty … Read moreBook 58 – Julian: A Christmas Story
Book – MauveAuthor – Simon GarfieldYear – 2000Genre – Science/BiographyPages – 204 This is a book which tells of the life of Sir William Perkins – the man who invented mauve. That is all I knew when I received the book to read. I had recently read another book by Simon Garfield and decided that I … Read moreBook 57 – Mauve