BOOKISH... Join us for our monthly book club! BY JOEL FRANCIS
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re you looking for some great books to read on the beach? Then look no further, here are 3 fantastic books that you can read in just a few beach sessions. I hope you enjoy them!
AN ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE THING Hank Green Genre: Biography For Fans Of: Ready Player One What’s in the pages? Coming home from work at 3 am, April May stumbles across a giant 10-foot sculpture that's a mix of a Transformer and Samurai. April and her friend Andy decide to make a video with it and upload it to YouTube; little do they know that it will change their lives and the perspective the world has about humanity. Because when they wake up the next day, The Carls (as the sculptures come to be known) are in dozens of cities across the world and no one knows how they got there. Why should you read it? This is a tough book to summarise into a paragraph because it's about lots of different things. Essentially, it's a story about the effects that fame can have on the human condition and how we put celebrities onto pedestals to then tear them down again. But, it's also a super entertaining story about extra-terrestrial robots that turn up in every country on earth at the same time, a secret code that humanity must come together to solve and a story about how teamwork can make the dream work. This is a hilarious, captivating and poignant novel that hides a critical message in its adventure story and I highly recommend it.
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