YC Reading

     Our latest book is 'City of Bones' by Cassandra Clare.     To get yourself a copy pop into the Yeovil College Learning Centre or email learningcentre@yeovil.ac.uk for more information.

Sharon: I read the first few lines of AMLP and absolutely fell in love with the story and James Frey. I found his writing style unlike anything I have ever read before, the repetitiveness was amusing and correct for the story. Frey was writing like he was having a “Brain-dump”, he writes his words just as his brain thinks them, he was descriptive but at the same time bare. I felt like I was egging Frey on in the book: I wanted and willed him to get better and be healthy. His complete disregard and disrespect for the ’12 Step’ program made him endearing and even more so “normal”. AMLP leads nicely on to ‘My friend Leonard’, to which I have just started reading. In contrast I am finding in ‘My Friend Leonard’ Frey is more controlled in his writing style and explains a lot about Leonard that I wanted answered in AMLP. Overall I would recommend this book to anyone; it is a book that is definitely worth reading at least once! Ann: I first read AMLP having hear...

There are some films out there that you only need to watch once. ‘Titanic’, ‘The Road’ and ‘Schindler’s List’ are three such films. One viewing will shock you in all the right places, sadden you and make you smile where it’s designed, but watching it again loses the impact. ‘A Million Little Pieces’ is like that in a book.   ‘A Million Little Pieces’ is a tricky book. Its part memoir and part fiction and for me, bloody hard to review. After checking out information about the book and from what I’ve heard, it appears that it’s been subject to controversy because some of the events may or may not have happened. Well, for the sake of the review, I’m going to judge it as a work of fiction. The truth behind the events are irrelevant, because as a story it is incredible.   First things first, James Frey (author and protagonist) is an alcoholic and an addict and after an undescribed incident on a plane, he’s sent to rehab where the book stays to the end. He describes his t...

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Congratulations Nick on winning 1st prize in our Book Club competition! Here is your fantastic prize! What a haul!

It is my pleasure to announce the Book Club competition ‘What Reading means to me’ winners: 1 st - Nick Barton Nick produced a piece titled “The Strangers we’ve become’- Jo Canning (judge) said the piece is “ A powerful and imaginative response that explores the relationship between books and real life in an engaging narrative format.” Congratulations Nick- You will be receiving the following prize: A copy of: And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini The Cuckoo’s Calling - Robert Galbraith The Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami Atonement - Ian McEwan One Flew over the Cuckoo’s nest - Ken Kesey The fault in our Stars - John Green City of Bones - Cassandra Clare A million little pieces - James Frey 2 nd - Samantha Wiltshire Samantha produced a poem entitled “Read me, Read me”. Jo Canning said “'Read me, Read me' is a brilliantly titled poem about the joys of reading. I especially love the firs...

Our three lucky winners of the Book Club competition will be announced tomorrow morning at 10am! Get ready by the phone and stand by your emails! All the entrants have done a fantastic job though-well done they were all fabulous. Speak to three of you tomorrow! -Carey