National Year of Reading Monthly Themes – May – Escape

May’s National Year of Reading theme was Escape – easy to do - read tales of derring do or escape escapades (watch the Great Escape on DVD) or just escape anywhere in time or place with a good book :

• The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do (his escape from Vietnam to Australia) x 2
• The Idea of Home by John Hughes
• The Great Escape (DVD)
• Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
• Italian Joy by Carla Coulson
• The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley
• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
• Phrynne Fisher by Kerry Greenwood x2
• Ariel by Sylvia Plath
• Cell 8 by Roslund Hellstrom
• To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McLeod
• Midnight Express (DVD)
• At My Father’s Wedding by John Lee
• Dario by Rowen Hagen
• The Potted Gardener by MC Beaton
• Emma by Jane Austen
• Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
• Living History by Hilary Clinton
• Harry Potter – all of them by JK Rowling
• City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
• Mathematics of Love by Emma Darwin
• The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
• The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe
• House of Serenity
• The Freudian Slip by Marion von Adlerstein
• Game of Thrones by GRR Martin
• The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foder
• Discworld by Terry Pratchett
• Indigo by Catherine McKinley
• The Silver Chair by CS Lewis
• Neuromancer by William Gibson

Glad to see we’ve all been busier than April!

• For June the theme is Dream – look out for the National Year of Reading monthly themes sheets at your local library and add your own dream read.