Why do we read? And does “reading” mean from a book?
Tricky questions. Let’s try one at a time.
I read for enjoyment (mainly) and when I am reading a good book, then I am literally somewhere else, be it a submarine, another planet, the dark streets of New York…wherever. I may have music playing (almost certainly) [...]
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I really did try but I just could not do it. I have bought manga before but never really gave it too much attention until now. Maybe it was the wrong manga book/comic/title? I don’t know but I just could not get my head around the reading from right to left! Weird.
I gather that [...]
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Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, heavily influenced by Victorian England aesthetics and techologies. More on this can be read here. It is a fascinating set of worlds which share a common kind of look and feel. World Shaker is the most recent example of the genre I have read and is highly recommended.
This [...]
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This was another of my holiday books and I knew about it as being very suitable for schools; someone must have mentioned it before to me. I enjoyed it a lot and the author has set up a website to assist staff with teaching it. Like Jenna Fox, that makes it worth checking out as [...]
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I read a lot of books. Part of the territory. Happily, I get to choose (most of) those books so they are generally pretty good. Some I read out of duty and some just because they are favourites, or soon will be, I hope. And then there are books that people (like me) say I [...]
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Merchant of Death was a great read with lots of action and is told through a series of journals from Bobby Pendragon, a fairly normal teenager until his uncle takes him on a weird trip through a magic doorway into other worlds where he solves the problems of the people who live in these places/alternate dimensions. Excellent series.
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Obviously not all the time, and not with relation to everything, but when it comes to reading, things are a lot easier than I recall.
As a child, I remember reading Willard Price, Biggles, the Hardy Boys and the Three Investigators. There must have been other stuff, too, but I can’t recall what those books were. [...]
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