In a letter to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "I cannot live without books," and we understand how he felt. Books have been our best friends ever since we can remember and we're going to celebrate our love for them with this 'reading challenge.' The aim is to tick one book off every month!

Although our lives have taken us in different directions, this challenge, and this blog, is also a way for us to celebrate our friendship as well as our love of reading.

This blog is really just for fun and each entry will explain how the 'book of the month' fits into the category, why we made our choices, and include some comments/thoughts on each book.

Let the challenge commence!!

Donna and Ida

Thursday, 1 February 2018

Challenge 19: A Book You Were Supposed to Read in School But Didn't

Ida's book: "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley (Vintage, 2004)
I've always been a keen reader, to the point where I got assigned extra reading at school to keep me occupied. So it was pretty impossible to find a book that I should have read, but didn't. Instead, I asked my Facebook friends which book from their schooldays I should read, and I got a lot of good suggestions. This won out because my friend had already lent it to me 6 months ago, so I felt bad for not reading it. 

Comments:
Well, this book is pretty thought-provoking once you've finished it, but the reading experience in itself was pretty miserable. I didn't like the writing style so it was an uphill battle to finish the book.



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