WHATBOOK..?
. ..are you reading now?
I’VE just started reading The Future We Choose: Surviving The Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac.
Often there’s a clash between political strategy and tackling the climate crisis, but this book brings together the former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and a senior political strategist, so it’s a win-win situation.
It couldn’t be more important and timely. It’s quite literally a call to action.
...would you take to a desert island?
THIS is so hard . . . it would really depend on what mood I was in when I was leaving for the island! I’m going to say the A Song Of Ice And Fire series [which was adapted into TV show Game Of Thrones] — it would be time-consuming, entertaining, and it comes highly recommended.
I have never really understood fantasy literature, but I’m willing to take a gamble and give these a go, and if they convert me — all the better. On my return from the island I’d be looking forward to seeing how the series ended! I was really disappointed by the end of the TV show.
. ..first gave you the reading bug?
SUPERFUDGE by Judy Blume. Before this book I was a reluctant reader and I found books a bit of a chore. I thought they weren’t for me and preferred ones that had pictures.
This is the first book I really devoured — I fell in love with it from the very first
. ..left you cold?
I FEEL mean calling out a book here — it’s so hard for authors to get coverage and, without a review or a recommendation, books are just rectangles on shelves.
They are so subjective, one person’s ‘book I couldn’t put down’ is another’s ‘book I threw across the room’.
Having said that, I had to read Julius Caesar for my English GCSE — this is going back about 30 years and it could be because I was a bit too immature at the time — and I didn’t find it a page-turner by any stretch of the imagination.
I can’t say that I’m that big on Shakespeare in general, although I was lucky enough to see the Upstart Crow play [about Shakespeare] just before lockdown and it was side-splittingly funny.