YC Reading

With the arrival of 'The Silkworm' i can confirm the next Book Club meeting details:   Tuesday 8th July   Yeovil College ARC   4pm ( the time may change to 3pm depending on member availability but i will confirm this at a later date)   We will be discussing 'City of Bones' by Cassandra Clare, and i will be going through some information regarding the new book club meetings and structure.   Looking forward to seeing you all.   - Carey

         Finally it is here! The eagerly awaited sequel to 'The Cuckoo's Calling' has arrived at Yeovil College! 'The Silkworm' is set to make for an interesting read, with the hopes that 'Strike' can keep us captivated a second time! Details regarding distribution to follow.. Happy reading! - Carey

   With potential new students coming to visit the Yeovil College in the coming weeks, it is a great opportunity to show off the fantastic selection of books we have to offer here at the Book Club. We have a great looking selection if i do say so myself! - Carey

              We have a fantastic selection of summer reads at the Yeovil College Learning Centre. Not a student or member of staff? No problem! We can sign you up as an external borrower so you can read to your heart's content! 

Urban fantasy is a fascinating genre, a place where the author can let their imagination wander and dazzle us with myths and a killer setting. ‘City of Bones’, the first of the ‘Mortal Instruments’ series is one of those books, full of character, colour, myth and insanity. With any luck, you’ll get engrossed in the first book and plunge straight into the next lot. If, by some unhappy chance you are anything like, you’ll walk right past the ‘Mortal Instruments’ and read something a little less chaotic. Meet Clary Fray, your average fifteen-year old girl who loves and art and music. After she stumbles across a bunch of Shadowhunters, (a clan of teens who hunt demons) she dives into their world, the Shadow World, and gets thrown in a story so hectic she’ll have to listen to those Shadowhunters describe pretty much everything about the place to fill the reader in with the lore of the ‘Mortal Instruments’. ‘City of Bones’ shows no mercy with how quickly it starts the story. Nouns, ...

With the academic year coming to an end here at Yeovil College it is time for new beginnings. With that in mind it is my pleasure to announce that the Book Club will continue in the next academic year with the similar structure and style:   There will be termly meetings (every 6 weeks instead of 4), anyone is welcome to join (not just College staff and students) and all the books are provided! We will be finishing up this year's club with the sequel to the fantastic The Cuckoo's Calling..'The Silkworm' at the end of July (date to be confirmed). After that we will be starting up again late September. All the books we have previously read in the club, people are more than welcome to borrow and write reviews on this fantastic new look blog (with big thanks to Sam at the College for his help with the design) and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @yc_reading.   I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the members that have...

The Sherborne Literary Festival is holding its annual Writing Competitions later this year. There are four categories onto which you can enter: Open Short Story: Entry is open to any writer, of any age. There is not theme and entrants many write on any subject. Stories must be the original, unpublished work of that writer and must not exceed 1,500 words. Entries must be typed, double-spaced and one side of A4 paper, with all pages showing the title of the story and the entrant’s name. There is no limit to the number of entries each writer can submit, but a £10 fee must accompany each entry. First Prize £200 Second Prize £100 Third Prize £50 Children’s/Young People’s Short Story: Entry is open to all children and young people, divided into three age groups: 16-18. 11-15 and 10 and under. There is no theme in any of the age categories and entrants may write about any subject. Stories should be the original, unpublished work of that writer and must not exceed 1,0...

Margaret: I thought 'a million little pieces' was really good. I wasn't sure, given the subject matter, that this book would be for me but the way it was written enabled the book to captivate me and I felt it was easy to get to know James and what was going on in his head. This made it quite easy to follow the story. Admittedly I did find the middle a little repetitive but the book as a whole more then makes up for that and even if it has turned out that some of the book is not quite true, 'a million little pieces' remains a really good read. Sam: 'A million little pieces' was already sat in my 'to be read' pile when Carey announced it as a book club read and it did not disappoint me. Though I found some of the grosser descriptions at the beginning of the book about sick and teeth-pulling difficult to read, the characters kept me reading. I quickly liked James and I just felt so sorry for that poor mother who could barely do anything to ...

  Congratulations to our Competition Winners!     Pictured- Nick Barton- 1st Place for 'The Strangers We've Become' and Sami Wiltshire- 2nd Place for 'Read me, Read me' receiving there prizes and certificates from Jo Canning- an English lecturer at Yeovil College.   Unfortunately the 3rd Place winner- Sam Vickery- could not attend but will be receiving her award at a later date.   Well done all!    

The Book Club Competition winners are being awarded their prizes on Monday 16th June, 12.30pm in the Academy Resource Centre at Yeovil College.   Come on over and support the club and its well-deserved winners!      

I liked to think we’d spend our last night together singing songs not to mourn or regret, but to smile. With no birds outside to hear us, I wanted the stars to gather in constellations above to listen. But, that’s not what happened. Instead, under a hanging light bulb, Stacy and I read in silence while the world outside hummed on without a passing thought as to what we were doing. The quiet between us went on and on until I gave up reading altogether. Watching her reflection in the wardrobe mirror, she sat on the comfy sofa, her knees hugged to her chest and her headphones pressed against her ears made her look awfully cute. She read a paperback open against her thighs and I knew she could see me watching. When I turned around to glance at her, she said without looking: ‘Stop being so needy, I’m reading your book.’ I went back to my story and she hadn’t even broken through ten pages. Last week I read a novel and said she’d love it and I kidded myself into thinking sh...