YC Reading

Welcome to  #FictionFriday, where we ask Yeovil College staff to share their thoughts, opinions and just plain random tastes in books. Each staff member selects questions to answer from a finely honed and crafted selection, designed to entertain and educate us about their reading lives.  Today we're talking to Kern Vickers, our resident Librarian. Based in the Learning Resource Centre, our keeper of the books is spoilt for choice when it comes to choosing something to read! A keen hockey player and sports fan, Kern is also a history buff and an avid appreciator of cakes and biscuits - which may explain why his Hogwarts House is Hufflepuff. What is your favourite book of all time? "Chronicle of the 20th Century. I still have it at home. When I first got it, I would read it all the time at the breakfast table when getting ready for school. " Name one book or author that you really can't stand "Cathy Glass - can this author not write a ...

Welcome to our new series, YC Student View, where Yeovil College students can write about their love of all things literary. Whether that's reviewing new fiction, old favourites or adaptations, or talking about what they love - or loathe - about books, we want to hear what our students have to say. They're an enthusiastic and talented bunch who are the reason we do what we do! "Since starting at college last year, I had made the decision to keep my love of books, literature and reading to myself. I didn’t know anyone here who shared this hobby with me, and admittedly I do not see my friends from school often enough anymore to talk with them about it. In fact, now that I come to think about it, I haven’t read a book in a whole year! That is just so unlike me! So, when I received the email that there was going to be a book club, I couldn’t reply ‘yes!’ fast enough. It was and wasn’t what I expected all at once. I thought that just talking about my favourite boo...

Welcome to  #FictionFriday, where we ask Yeovil College staff to share their thoughts, opinions and just plain random tastes in books. Each staff member selects questions to answer from a finely honed and crafted selection, designed to entertain and educate us about their reading lives.  Today we're talking to Carey Bastin, a Business lecturer with fine literary and sartorial taste. Carey was the original book club manager and blogger for YC Reading, and her Hogwarts House is Slytherin - home of Severus Snape and Merlin as well as He Who Must Not Be Named. Here's what Carey told us about her literary loves! What's the first book you remember reading, or being read?   "Roald Dahl's Matilda." What is your favourite book of all time? "James Frey - 'A Million Little Pieces'." ( You can read our 2014 book club review here  and borrow the novel from the Learning Centre.) Name one book or author that you really ca...