The Book Hub 📙🐻

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, I've always loved reading and I've always loved writing. I wasn't exactly the best at either in the classroom environment but ever since I started my blog, I've begun to realise my true passion behind it. Writing is an excellent way to engage your thoughts with the reader and on the most powerful occasions, a reader can be moved by what you put down on paper. Reading is an excellent way to engage with other minds and understand the context of the world you live in and also the different ways in which people perceive the world. I like looking at different perspectives on things because it's like walking in somebody else's shoes and you soon realise that you can relate to how they feel and that doesn't make you so alone anymore. Due to that, I've always been so interested by book clubs. I've never been to one myself and I've never been in charge of one myself either but the simple case of tal...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, I've been continuing reading Sarah Helm's book, If This Is A Woman, and the section I've been paying close attention to was this time not about Ravensbrück, but actually about Auschwitz Birkenau, in Poland. I was completely and utterly shocked by the way the women in the camp were treated. By this point, it was quite late into Hitler's reign as Fuhrer, and the Final Solution was already being implemented. I thought that Ravensbrück was bad, but Auschwitz was a hundred times worse. Women were being transported like cattle from Ravensbrück to Auschwitz. Before, the women didn't know of their fate, but when they hid notes in their clothes about where they were, the women back at the camp now knew that they were heading to another bigger camp. The women never returned, either because they remained at the camp or they were being gassed as groups, since many women prisoners had to make selections about who was sick ...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Tomorrow, I'll be going on holiday to Portugal with my family. We will be staying in a small house in the mountains. There's a swimming pool and lots of places to go on walks but there will be no WiFi so I'm going to bring my own entertainment. Lots and lots of books. I feel like I haven't been reading as much as I should have been reading this summer so this is a great time to catch up. Without further ado, let's get on with the blog post. The first book I'll be taking with me is Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London. It consists of two books in one and I'm hoping to complete both of them. I've begun reading Call of the Wild and I must admit, it isn't my favourite because it lacks description and instead of you figuring out what the story is trying to say, it tells it for you which makes the story boring and less interesting. However, the storyline is good as its set in the height...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Over the month of July, I've been trying to finish reading All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot and it was only a few days ago that I managed to finish it, after a full day of reading! Haha. Just like his previous book, I really enjoyed reading this memoir. In comparison to the last book, you can tell that James has gained more of a reputation as a Yorkshire country vet in the Dales. I felt like, as farmers got to know him a little bit better, you could tell what their final opinions were of him and whether or not they liked him because some of the farmers could be a bit rude sometimes. You could also figure out what James's final opinions were of the farmers and whether or not he liked them.  One time, James came back from a shift, all flustered and angry because a farmer was being quite ignorant of his work. Siegfried, his boss, told him to charge extra when the farmers are being mean. When him and James t...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, In James Herriot's book, All Things Bright and Beautiful, I read a chapter about how he had to work during Christmas and in the cold weather. It was quite funny, actually, because on Christmas Eve he was expecting to get a lie in the next day but he was actually awoken by a phone call which he originally thought was his alarm clock. The person who answered the phone was Mr Brown, the farmer, who had a cow down for milk fever. The farmer was quite mean and selfish because he told James to hurry up, he kept him behind after injecting the cow with medicine to voice his concerns about the other animals, and he complained about the vet bills being too expensive. I just found that that was incredibly ignorant of Mr Brown to do that. When James returned to Skeldale house, his wife Helen, said that he got another phone call at another farm about a female goat that was choking. The goat was called Dorothy and it turned out that she at...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, I feel like everybody goes through a period of time when they just don't want to read. Recently, I've been quite busy with work experience and school and I didn't have the time to get much reading done. However, there have been quite a few books that I've been reading recently, that I've been meaning to get through but just hadn't had the time to. What I decided to do, to help me with getting a bit more reading done, is to read in every spare minute of my time. For example, when I come back from the dance studio after work experience, I can perhaps pick up the book I'm reading and read it while I have the time. Even if it's just for 5 or 15 minutes, I find this really effective. I also try to read before I go to bed because that's when I find that I have the most time during my day and I find that it really helps me get to sleep a lot better. If I don't have time at night to get much readin...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, As some of you may know, if you follow what goes on in my main blog, on Thursday I celebrated my 15th birthday. I was given quite a few books to read. The list goes like this: Let Sleeping Vets Lie by James Herriot It Shouldn't Happen To A Vet by James Herriot   Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E.Frankel   War Horse by Michael Morpurgo   The Choice by Edith Eger   The Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell I'm really excited to read all the books but I'm most excited to read The Choice by Edith Eger because it's about a dancer who survived Auschwitz. She was sent there at the age of 16 and she was made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. Surprisingly, when the camp was liberated, she was pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive. This sounds like a truly inspirational story and I can't wait to read it. I'm also excited to read Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankel....