Book Recommendations
Adult's book of the month
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle £7.99 (and worth every penny!)
It's not often that Sarah and I read the same book. So when I found out that Sarah was reading this one, I almost resigned myself to the fact that I never would. We then decided something that was a first for us - we would both read it and compare notes at the end. It has only taken us six years to do this, based on different reading tastes and a mutual stubborness that works both for and against us. Neither of us were disappointed. Our customers often rely on our recommendations and neither of us would hesitate with this one. Let us know what you think...
Children's book of the month
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Adult book Reviews
Revolutionary Road by Richard YatesÂ
Originally published in 1961 to great critical acclaim, Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road subsequently fell into obscurity in the UK, only to be rediscovered in a new edition published in 2001. April and Frank Wheeler are a young, ostensibly thriving couple living with their two children in a prosperous Connecticut suburb in the mid-1950s.
However, the self-assured exterior masks a creeping frustration at their inability to feel fulfilled or happy in their relationships or careers. Frank is mired in a well-paid but boring office job and April is a housewife still mourning the demise of her hoped-for acting career.
Determined to identify themselves as superior to the mediocre sprawl of suburbanites who surround them, they decide to move to France where they will be better able to develop their true artistic sensibilities, free of the consumerist demands of capitalist America.
However, as their relationship deteriorates into an endless cycle of squabbling, jealousy and recriminations, their trip and their dreams of self-fulfilment are thrown into jeopardy. Yates's incisive, moving and often very funny prose weaves a tale that is at once a fascinating period piece and a prescient anticipation of the way we live now.
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading and shame in post-war Germany. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his horror, he does. Hanna is a defendant in a trial related to Germany's Nazi past and it soon becomes clear that she is guilty of an unspeakable crime. As Michael follows the trial, he struggles with an overwhelming question: what should his generation do with its knowledge of the Holocaust?
The Reader wrestles with many more demons in its few, remarkably lucid pages. Schlink's prose is clean and pared down, stripped of unnecessary imagery, dialogue and excess in any form. What remains is an austerely beautiful narrative of the attempt to breach the gap between Germany's pre and post-war generations, between the guilty and the innocent and between words and silence.
Teen book reviews
Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz
I have recently bought a book called Scorpia from the Alex Rider series from your store in glossop. I bought this bookn because I have recently read the other Alex Rider books and I found them very enjoyable I wish to share with you my joy in reading this book.A teenage spy called Alex accidently gets involved in the worlds worst criminal gang and they purswade him to join by minipulating him in a way that concerns his dead father. It is probably best for people that are aged 10-15 and you have to have read the other books for it to make sense!
Erin Kellly
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Not only an American phenomenon but Stephanie Meyer’s international bestseller ‘Twilight’ the first book in this amazing saga has taken the UK by storm and after reading it i knew exactly why.
Adolescent Isabella Swan has fallen well and truly in love with a vampire but does she know what she is really getting herself involved in and will it be too late to back out? Edward Cullen both melts Bella’s and the audiences’ hearts with his golden eyes, caring charm and mysterious family.
This book makes you feel every emotion possible whilst hooking you and drawing you into a world of love, tragedy, trust, evil and excitement. What I loved about this novel is I feel all teenage girls can relate to Isabella in different ways and it is both thought provoking and mesmerizing.
I loved every page of this book and have gone on and read all the Twilight saga. I would put it in my top five reads if not one of the best. This book deserves to be on every teenagers bookshelf, no matter what.
Children's book reviews
Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz
I have recently bought a book called Scorpia from the Alex Rider series from your store in glossop. I bought this bookn because I have recently read the other Alex Rider books and I found them very enjoyable I wish to share with you my joy in reading this book.A teenage spy called Alex accidently gets involved in the worlds worst criminal gang and they purswade him to join by minipulating him in a way that concerns his dead father. It is probably best for people that are aged 10-15 and you have to have read the other books for it to make sense!
Erin Kellly
Once by Morris Gleitzman
This is a book about a boy named Felix who lived in Poland in the 2nd World War when the Nazi’s invaded on their mission to kill all Jews. Felix is also a Jew whose parents put him in an orphanage to protect him. Felix escapes from that orphanage to try and find his mum and dad and that’s where his adventures begin.
I really enjoyed this book because I know how he felt and I found it really interesting. The author brings this story to life and makes you feel for the boy. I would recommend this book to a lot of people.
Victoria, age 9
