Read & Review 
Welcome to Read & Review!
Read & Review is the new reading scheme launched by the Library for 2023. It is designed to help students reach their reading goals by letting them pick a book, magazine, article (it really can be anything!) they would like to read and writing a review here on the Read & Review page.
Your review can be anything from two words to two paragraphs!
Why You Should Read & Review
Students who enter a review will be automatically added to a prize draw and one lucky winner will be picked at the end of every half term. Previous prizes have included Cornerhouse vouchers, sweets, stationery kits, and more. Read & Review will take place from October to May half term.
New in
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran Lebowitz, 'The Fran Lebowitz Reader'
In books I have travelled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
Anna Quindlen, ‘How Reading Changed My Life’
So many books, so little time!
Frank Zappa
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
Stephen King, ‘On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft’
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… the man who never reads lives only one.”
George R. R. Martin, ‘A Dance with Dragons’
“The more that you read, the more things that you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
Dr Seuss, ‘I can read with my eyes shut’
“We read to know we’re not alone.”
William Nicholson, ‘Shadowlands’
“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
Margaret Atwood
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
Joseph Addison
“The world was hers for the reading.”
Betty Smith, ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
Margaret Fuller
“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
Orhan Pamuk, ‘The New Life’
“Reading brings us unknown friends.”
Honore de Balzac
“We read books to find out who we are…”
Ursula K. Le Guin
“Read, read, read. Read everything …”
William Faulkner
“If you only read the books everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Haruki Murakami, ‘Norwegian Wood’
“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
Gary Paulsen, ‘Shelf Life: Stories by the Book’
“Show me a family of readers and I will show you the people who move the world.”
Napolean Bonaparte