https://padlet.com/EmilyDavies/BooksAdv Tips: You don't have to understand EVERYTHING! Relax and enjoy the book. Record useful language - in phrases or collocations, not just words - the joy of learning from books is that you're learning vocabulary in context. Choose a book you'd read in your own language. Desire to know what happens at the end is key. If a film is available, read first then watch the film to check your understanding and compare the two media. en-us 2019-10-21 18:51:24 UTC 2020-02-04 19:23:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f6cb.png EmilyDavies https://padlet.com/EmilyDavies/BooksAdv/wish/400515703 *Burnt Shadows (Kamila Shamsie) - beautifully written account of a cross-cultural relationship after the bombing of Japan in WW2
*Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro) - British writer
*Loitering With Intent (Muriel Sparks) - straightforward plot set in mid 20th-century England 
*Noughts and Crosses (Malorie Blackman) - an interesting alternate universe, aimed at young adults and teenagers
*The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt) - complex language, but worth the effort

]]> 2019-10-21 18:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/EmilyDavies/BooksAdv/wish/400515703 EmilyDavies https://padlet.com/EmilyDavies/BooksAdv/wish/400517961 *The Universe vs Alex Woods 
*The Miniaturist - a TV series is also available
*The Guernsey Literary and Porato Peel Pie Society - comedy set on a British island in the war 
*Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency


]]> 2019-10-21 18:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/EmilyDavies/BooksAdv/wish/400517961 EmilyDavies https://padlet.com/EmilyDavies/BooksAdv/wish/400519706 *The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - modern fiction about the future of the human race, written by an author with an LGBT background
*Dark Eden (Chris Beckett) - award-winning exploration of feminism on a distant planet]]> 2019-10-21 19:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/EmilyDavies/BooksAdv/wish/400519706 EmilyDavies https://padlet.com/EmilyDavies/BooksAdv/wish/400520949 *Trevor Noah: Born a Crime, about the childhood of a South African comedian
*Lion: the long way home - about an Indian adoptee finding his birth family. Also a film. 
*Empire of the Sun (J.G. Ballard) - a memoir of the author's childhood in China during the war]]> 2019-10-21 19:03:05 UTC https://padlet.com/EmilyDavies/BooksAdv/wish/400520949 EmilyDavies https://padlet.com/EmilyDavies/BooksAdv/wish/400569165 *Cormoran Strike by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) - interesting and straightforward plot in British English
*One Good Turn (Kate Atkinson)
*the writer P.D. James

]]> 2019-10-21 20:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/EmilyDavies/BooksAdv/wish/400569165 EmilyDavies https://padlet.com/EmilyDavies/BooksAdv/wish/403959256 *Frozen Pizza and Other Slices of Life (Cambridge English Readers) - short stories
*He Knows Too Much (Cambridge English Readers) -  Drama & Crime - Kindle version available online
*Animal Farm (Pearson English Graded Readers Level 6)]]> 2019-10-29 15:50:50 UTC https://padlet.com/EmilyDavies/BooksAdv/wish/403959256 EmilyDavies https://padlet.com/EmilyDavies/BooksAdv/wish/440529184 Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island, A Short History of Nearly Everything, At Home]]> 2020-02-04 19:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/EmilyDavies/BooksAdv/wish/440529184