It's our final post of the year, and sadly, at the end of this term, we're saying goodbye to Dr Field, Mr Madden, Mr Gazet, Ms Malhotra, Mr Thompson, Mr Roberts, Ms Trepanier and Ms French: but - with typical generosity - they all paused while packing up their books to answer the book blog's leavers' questionnaire.
What were you reading when you were a teenager?
Dr Field: Reading was a real struggle when I was a teenager, I’ve always found words to be quite tricky but I love stories. I had to read Pride and Prejudice and To Kill a Mocking Bird because they were our GCSE set texts and I loved them – gaining confidence by being made to read books in school really opened up reading for me and now I am rarely without a book.Mr Madden: I wasn’t a great reader in early adolescence but my love for books was rekindled when I was twelve when my dad passed me down his copy of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. I watched the Richard Burton movie shortly afterwards and was then hooked on Le Carré novels for most of my teens.
