The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby is one of those novels that people either shelve, read out of interest, or are obligated to read. I was both interested in reading it as well as needing to read it for as an English class assignment. It is not a boring book, there are numerous descriptions and assumptions can be

The Casual Vacancy – J.K. Rowling

The Casual Vacancy by definition occurs when a high council member drops his status or dies, and in this book, everyone wants that one council chair which was so casually vacated. It is the first book by J.K. Rowling written for adults, very different to that of Harry Potter. Overall it is a great book,

The Maze Runner – James Dashner

The Maze Runner by James Dashner, the first book of the Maze Runner series of dystopian fiction genre. It’s not exactly relatable, due to being set in a world different to this, yet reading this book does not take long for it is in fact very gripping. The movie is not a direct replica of

Go Ask Alice – Anonymous

Go Ask Alice by an anonymous author is a peculiar book n in first person by a teenage girl of 15, at the start, writing in her diary. It goes through her almost daily struggles in life with school, boys, parents and siblings, friends and foes, and drugs. It is an interesting text to read

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

There were numerous elements in this that stuck out to me, and as I am backdating this post – lockdown has led me to flip through my book journal and see what’s in there that is not on here, a great activity to pass the time really. Now, having read this book in 2013, it