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above is the Facebook page where you can find a list of some of the books that I have read and would recommend reading.

This year I have not read any books yet for myself, I have however read

"The Tiger Who Came To Tea" by Judith Kerr 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUOEGwCdYaE


 "Aliens Love Underpants" by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort.

http://www.underpantsbooks.com/


Last year me and my partner became full-time parents and wanted reading to become a big part of your lives again.  So we looked at a few books in local charity shops that we could read and also read to our son.

My partner read the following to books to me every night when I returned home since the birth of my son on 6th January 2014.

The first book that Alan read a loud was by George Orwell, two of the best and well known books by this author is "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen  Eight-Four",  I believe that this is because it is one of the books that many of us may have been made to read at school for English. 
The book that we read was "Keep the Aspidistra Flying"  by George Orwell.  The book was about a man who had a good job and a women in his life who he very much cared for, but it was not until he lost every thing that he realizes that all he ever really wanted in his life or needed he had all along.

The one thing that makes me love this book is the title and how the main character hates Aspidistra's. 

But secretly he had a love hate relationship.

He then finally grows to love the thing he hates. "Aspidistra's".

I would defiantly say that this is a good book to read, one that you can take your time in read at your own pace, however what we found that once we started we just could not put the book down.  

I found Alan reading it in to the early hours of the morning with his head touch on his head and me listening to his voice with our son sleeping next to use only to wake every 3 hours for a feed or a change.

Some of the quotes from the book can be found on the following website.

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3226250-keep-the-aspidistra-flying

“What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the only felt religion-that is left to us. Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success. Hence the profoundly significant phrase, to make good. The decalogue has been reduced to two commandments. One for the employers-the elect, the money priesthood as it were- 'Thou shalt make money'; the other for the employed- the slaves and underlings'- 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.' It was about this time that he came across The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and read about the starving carpenter who pawns everything but sticks to his aspidistra. The aspidistra became a sort of symbol for Gordon after that. The aspidistra, the flower of England! It ought to be on our coat of arms instead of the lion and the unicorn. There will be no revolution in England while there are aspidistras in the windows.” 
― George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying