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 Esther Dobbs, our Print Room Assistant with a background in Creative Writing and an appreciation for a good coffee and a well written read. Esther says that Hufflepuff would be her Hogwarts house, because it sounds like fun! What's the first book you remember reading, or being read?   "The Babysitters Club books, I absolutely LOVED these books! Mary Anne was always my favourite - she was quiet and sensible." What is your favourite book of all time? " 'American Wife' by Curtis Sittenfeld. It's loosely based on JFK and the US political scene. It has everything - her writing is always fantastic." Name one book...

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...