User:Joseph Krol/Books
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This page is me talking about books.
Books I have read in 2012 so far
- Crash Course in Architecture by Eva Howarth
- The Story of Archaeology by Justin Pollard
- Art History for Dummies by Jesse Wilder
- Teach Yourself Theatre by Richard Foulkes
- A Little History of the World by E. H. Gonbrich
- Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall
- Book of Football Records
- Psychology for GCSE by Diana Dwyer
- Flight by R. G. Grant
- The Know-It-All by AJ Jacobs
- Mastering British Politics by N. F. Forman
- Encylopedia of Music by Alan Blackwood
- Europe: A History by Norman Davies
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- DK Weather
- Satisdiction by Ammon Shea
- AQA Computing AS Level
- Speech-making and Presentations by Max Atkinson
- Core Science GCSE revision guide
- Betting and Bluffing for Dummies by Richard Harroch
- Pocket Guide to Plays and Playwrights by Maureen Hughes
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
- Chess for Rookies
- Ripley's Believe it or Not
- Art History for Dummies
- The Tempest
- Bedside Book of Algebra
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- Hamlet
- Henry V
- Macbeth
- Much Ado about Nothing
- Othello
- Twelfth Night
- Romeo and Juliet
- Richard III
- Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Books I am currently reading
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Student Edition
- Oxford Guide to Countries of the World by R. Stalker
- Italian Made Simple by A. Lopreato
- GCSE Economics by A. Anderton
Readathon 2012
For those unfamiliar with the Readathon, it involves reading as many books over a two-week period as you can. You get sponsored for it and the money goes to a cancer charity.
I first learnt about it about a week before it started. The teacher who runs Creative Writing informed me of it at the club. I was oblivious to its existence so I was moderately confused, though I did discover that books only have to be finished during the two week period, as opposed to started and finished. The next day my English teacher gave us our sponsorship cards and I researched a little when I got home. I discovered little.
On the day it started (March 1) I arose, ate my breakfast and got changed and read the final two chapters of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 10 pages in all. I duly wrote it onto my sponsorship card, and spontaneously decided that Weather, a DK eyewitness book, would be my next book. I commenced reading during tutorial that day. Some intensive reading took place that day, which continued as the day advesperated. At Creative Writing club we started our new book, which was actually a play - we got about halfway into Stags and Hens, and I hoped I would finish it by the deadline.
I continued into the next day. I came close to finishing the weather book by evening but the final five pages had to be put off till the morning. I completed it during breakfast, which added one book and 279 pages to my total, and decided that my next book would be Satisdiction by Ammon Shea, in which the author reads the 20 volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary. I wonder whether I will read 20 volumes by the end of this. I decide it is unlikely, though I do finish it by 16:00, which adds another book to my total, with 234 pages to boot. A current total of 3 books and 523 pages.
My next book is another I have already started: an AQA Computing textbook, obviously. The next evening brings the completion of this book, and the next, Speech-making and Presentations Made Easy, comes with me to school. I then realise that there is a book I have been reading without noticing - the Bible. I had started a 'Read The Bible in 90 Days!' kind of course, and I was nearing the end. I realise, that if I do a few sections every day, then I will finish it within the time. I have a quick progress check: 4 books completed and 3 partway through.