Week Eight

It's been a busy couple of weeks, but in the middle of all that, a chance reading of an article in Company magazine gave me an inspiration for my creative piece. It shows that the article Victoria Gallagher wrote for TheBooskeller.com  is true. With so much work to do, I've got no time to get stuck into a big, thick book, and so the feature on speed reads appealed to me straight away. Company says 'Our fave authors are releasing short, sharp 'lit' shots. All are under 130 pages long and cost just £1.99. Any shorter and they'd be on Twitter.' 


This seemed perfect for me personally, so I ordered four of them, but then I thought...this could be something I could do for my creative piece. I checked out the quick reads website, which describes the books as 'These exciting, dramatic and funny stories are ideal for adults who've stopped reading or find reading tough, and for regular readers who want a short, fast read. Quick Reads have helped hundreds of thousands of people to pick up books and enjoy reading again.'


When they arrived, I realised how short they actually were. I don't know why, but I wasn't expecting the typeface to be so big, but it's Times New Roman, size 14, so there's not much on each page. This is obviously good for new readers, or those with not a lot of time on their hands...I read the first one in about 20 minutes. The next one I'm reading, Strangers on the 16:02  is literally meant to be read on a train, which is what I'm going to do later!