This is the second instalment in our Bookbenchers series.
What book’s on your bedside table at the moment?
There are two books on my bedside table. I’m a Gemini so one is never enough. I am simultaneously reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre.
The Book Thief is the story of a young girl whose parents have been taken to a concentration camp and who is fostered by a family in Nazi Germany. The book is narrated by death, which is both peculiar and gripping. It’s a wonderful insight into humanity in the most extreme of circumstances.
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What book would you read to your children?
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice
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