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The Readings Hawthorn Blog | Thursday 02 July 2009

I Can't Stop Reading.....

Pretty Little Liars By Sara Shepard. While it's not your most literary young adult read, it is great fun and hard to put down. Bit like Gossip Girl, but set in Pennsylvania with a killer, stalker and your average mean girls, Pretty Little Liars is nothing short of a bit of wonderful fluff that every teen (and adult!) needs at times in their life.

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by Sara Shepard

The Readings Hawthorn Blog | Friday 26 June 2009

Custom Bicycles Launch

Recently Readings Hawthorn hosted the launch of Custom Bicycles published by Images Publishing. We were joined on the night by the authors Christine Elliott & David Jablonka, as well as bicycle designer Darren Baum from Baum Cycles who has been customising bikes for fifteen years. This glossy book, full of images of custom-made bikes from across the globe, showcases some of the world’s most creative bikes.

The night was a huge success with everyone enjoying checking out some of the bikes in the flesh (well in their metal….) while having a glass of wine and some nibbles. All in all, a great night. Book_Display1

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Christine Elliott and David Jablonka.

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David Jablonka in conversation with Darren Baum.

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by Christine Elliott

The Readings Hawthorn Blog | Sunday 21 June 2009

The Ask And The Answer

I finished reading The Ask And The Answer by Patrick Ness, the sequel to The Knife Of Never Letting Go and it was simply amazing. It seems that I continue to eat my words this year of sequels never being as good as the first seeing as though Stargazer by Claudia Gray was better than the first and now this one. I'm about to start reading the sequel to Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, and if that is better than the first then I don't think I will know what to do with myself. My whole reading life will change in one year! ness

Anyway, so The Ask And The Answer was simply brilliant. Once again I won't go into too much as I don't want to spoil things for people who haven't read the first one (you must, you must!), but what I can say is that it's not only capivating, clever and well written, it's sad, at times makes you want to turn away from the terrible acts you're reading and above all makes you think.

Todd and Viola are separated and have no idea if either one is still alive. Todd is trying to contain his thinking, his Noise, the virus which contaminated the men after the spackle war, from the mayor, and Viola is healing from the bullet wound that left us all hanging at the end of the first book. There's a new town name, New Prentisstown, instead of Haven, and a new president (guess who), with new rules and new ideas. Life, once again, is changing. And then the bombs come.

The Ask And The Answer is about war crimes, manipulation, terrorism, love and the need to believe. It's also about two amazingly strong young adults who will do anything to save each other.

For a big book, it took me no time at all as I couldn't put it down. Patrick Ness is a clever writer and the one thing I love about him is that anything goes and things are not dumbed down or softened for the young adult audience. He treats them with respect and believes in their ability to understand situations of war, hardship and violence.

The Ask And The Answer is due for release in July '09.

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