BOOK'S: Library Rentals

Rental Reads are books i have gotten from the library, as of recently i found out that all the books i request are free (the were £1) so now i am ordering even more.

Rented from the library: 
The Japanese devil fish girl by Robert Rankin
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
My Daughters Father by Hanna Pool
Chopper 8 by Mark Brandon
Till we have face by C.S Lewis 
The book of blood by Vicki Feaver
World in torment by E.C. Tabb
War of the worlds by H.G Wells
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
Lost in shangri - la by Mitchell Zuckoff
A night to remember by Walter Lord
Arctic Hero by Catherine Johnson

Read at the weekend:
The woman who went to bed for a year by Sue Townsend
Warm bodies by Isaac Marion
The book of blood by Vicki feaver
World in torment by E.C Tubb
War of the worlds by H.G Wells
The Outlander by Gil Adamson


BOOK'S: Amazing Grace By Steve Turner


My review: When i read this book back in November on my way to France by train i was so engrossed that i nearly missed my stop, This book is truly a eye opening account of slavery and the effects of a amazing song, it also points out how ignorant people are about claiming things as there own when they are not. Their song was stolen. You have to read this book to get the full effect it shows how one song can effect so many people lives and countries. 
 

Description: Top music writer Steve Turner traces the biography of 'Amazing Grace', the world's most recorded song. Versions of this hymn have been performed by artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Lady smith Black Mambazo, Johnny Cash, Rod Stewart and Destiny's Child. The book begins with the dramatic story of John Newton and his participation in the African slave trade through to his writing of 'Amazing Grace' and his campaigning against slavery. The second part of the book - picking up the thread in the years following Newton's death - tells the story of the song itself as it has spread and developed over the past 280 years and its recordings by artists from a wide variety of musical backgrounds. This includes the aftermath of September 11th when the hymn became an international anthem of hope and solidarity.






BOOK'S: The woman who went to bed for a year By Sue Townsend


The day the twins leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she's wanted to yell at the world, "STOP! I want to get off" Finally she has a chance.

My Review: This book is so funny i sided with this woman for most of the book i thought her action where normal and she was so funny. Then i got the end of the book and i got very bored she went from funny to actually trying to kill her self with starvation then the book just stopped. Very disappointing ending.

BOOK'S: Library Rentals

Today's rentals

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - Read
Till we have faces by C. S Lewis
Chopper 8 by Mark Brandon
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - Read
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Read
The war of the worlds by H. G. Wells
As i lay dying by William Faulkner