While no matter how tempting it is to bulk up my score with easy to read children’s books, I feel that this is not in the spirit of the 100+ Reading Challenge “That’s not my monkey” was being read by the child of some one I work with; While […]
Task 15 – Ask 20 friends to suggest one book
Catherine Millet’s “The Sexual Life of Catherine M” is tag lined as ‘One of the most explicit books about sex ever written by a woman’ – Edmund White. and it certainly lives up to that in my experience of books that I have read. Liz sent me this book to […]
For Task 15, I also asked some of the people I work with for suggestions; and this is what they came up with: Alex Muir: “For Whom The Bell Tolls” – Ernest Hemingway Chris Jones: “Glittering Images” – Susan Howatch David Hancock: “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” – […]
So Far the suggestions for my 20 books by 20 Friends have been: Elizabeth: Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” LadySavage: Barbra Gowdy’s “we seldom look on love” Ryan Osborn-Smith: Alfred Bester’s “The Stars My Destination” Rozi Rowcroft: Voltaire’s “Candide” Davina Darmanin: A Collection of the Writings of John Donne Some […]
As part of my 100+ Challenge I hope to open up the books that I read to include ones that I would never have thought about reading otherwise; as such Task 15 is to ask for 20 Friends to recommend one book to me to read (Would be even better […]