Summer Reading

Summer holiday reading...

“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.”

- Andre Gide

So - for those of you lazing on beaches this summer and travelling distances in planes, trains and automobiles, don't forget to take a good read with you - be that a book, a kindle - ebook, or an audio book.  Remember:

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”

- A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel)

The reading list on the left is divided into age-groups and fiction and non-fiction so there should be something not just for all of you, but for your family too.

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”

- Angela Carter “To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”  - Gaston Bachelard

For pupils entering Year 10 in September, you should read Romeo & Juliet and  An Inspector Calls over the summer.

For those entering Year 11, you should have read Of Mice and Men and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde before you return in the Autumn.

“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.”

- Anne Rice, The Witching Hour Enjoy!