{"id":322,"date":"2018-03-15T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T11:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/hillheadhighenglish\/?page_id=322"},"modified":"2018-03-15T11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T11:30:20","slug":"what-are-we-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/hillheadhighenglish\/wider-achievement-mta\/book-club\/what-are-we-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"What are we reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first book we read was The Hate You Give\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>by Angie Thomas,\u00a0which\u00a0is a young adult fiction novel focusing on the experiences of a young, black girl named Starr in contemporary America.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n


\nWe then read the wildly popular 13 Reasons Why <\/em><\/strong>by Jay Asher which recently gained popularity after there was\u00a0a Netflix show made about it; although this had received great criticism and media attention for apparently romanticising suicide.\u00a0\u00a0Our Book Club did not\u00a0overly enjoy this novel, as we found it quite slow to\u00a0gather momentum in terms of plot, and found the characters difficult to empathise with and understand. As a result, some members of the club did not manage to finish this book \u2013 and so we have decided not to write a review. <\/span><\/p>\n

The third book \u2013 we are currently reading<\/strong> \u2013 is Who Runs The World? <\/em>by Virginia Bergin which is a dystopian futuristic novel detailing the consequences of a world where all of the men have been wiped out by a brutal virus. It is weird and wonderful, and members of the Book Club are currently enjoying it immensely. There will be a review in the next blog post to describe our collective thoughts upon finishing the novel!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 The first book we read was The Hate You Give\u00a0by Angie Thomas,\u00a0which\u00a0is a young adult fiction novel focusing on the experiences of a young, black girl named Starr in contemporary America.\u00a0 We then read the wildly popular 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher which recently gained popularity after there was\u00a0a Netflix show made about … Continue reading What are we reading?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52250,"featured_media":0,"parent":192,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-322","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/hillheadhighenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/hillheadhighenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/hillheadhighenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/hillheadhighenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/hillheadhighenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/hillheadhighenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/hillheadhighenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions\/323"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/hillheadhighenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/hillheadhighenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}