Spot the Genre! | Miss Shaw's Reading Habits | Popular Books | Book to Film Adaptations | Famous Characters |
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What is Science Fiction?
Spaceships, aliens, futuristic
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Who is Agatha Christie
The author I am currently uncomfortably obsessed with.
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What is Private Peaceful
Brothers sent to fight in WW1, but only one comes back alive.
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What is Twilight
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner
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Who is Peeta Mellark
The man Katniss should have got with. Great with fondant.
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What is animals?
Meow, woof, awoooooo
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What is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
My favourite book of all time
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What is The Book Thief
Girl befriends Death in Germany, WW2.
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What is The Wizard of Oz
Girl gets caught in a tornado, and has to team up with a group of odd men and walk down a brightly coloured road.
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Who is Edward Cullen.
Immortal and immoral vampire, oddly good at baseball. Watches his girlfriend sleep a lot.
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What is sports fiction?
Oh no, how will I save the world by using only this football??
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What is Heartstopper
I read 3 volumes of this graphic novel in one evening
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What is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Boy wins a competition to look around a chocolate factory, and only wins because all of the other kids die grisly deaths.
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What is Blade Runner
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Who is Miss Honey
Honestly, I model my librarianism after this lady. The gold star of teachers, in charge of shaping the mind of a very famous "revolting child"
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What is non-fiction?
Diamonds on Earth came from a planet in our solar system that no longer exists.
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What are audiobooks
How I read most of my books at work
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What is One of Us Is Lying
A kid dies in a high-school detention, and it's up to the other students to work out who killed him.
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What is Matilda
We are revolting children, living in revolting timesss
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Who is Minerva McGonagall
"If you die, you need not hand it in."
"Have a biscuit, Potter." "Don't tell me what I can and can't do Potter" |
What is romance?
Mushy, love, grumpy/sunshine
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What are classics
I very proudly announce often that I don't read this genre!
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What is Hunger Games
Girl fights for her life, fakes a relationship, and plots to take down a totalitarian government.
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What is Jaws
Duhdun. Duhdun. Duhduhduhduhduhdudhudhduhduhd duuuuun
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Who is Jacob Marley?
At the beginning of this old tale, he's dead... but then he haunts and haunts poor Scrooge. Played by two muppets, but only ever one human.
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