Reading Families Project - The Rosneys

The Rosney family's collection

Meet the first of our Reading Families The Rosney family: Mark, Michelle and teenager Tom who signed up for the project. The family gave us a list of their thirty favourite reads and these are now on display in Halton Lea Library. When we asked then what reading meant to them Michelle said:

"I find it expands the imagination by transporting you to different times and places, it takes you to different worlds, places that you would never normally go, and with a good author you can picture their words in your head and see what they are describing. I love reading."

Mark added:

"Words on a page are like paints waiting to form pictures on the canvas of the mind. Reading makes us all artists, shaping our own internal landscapes in order to know ourselves better."

 Here are their choices for the Rosney collection:

Michelle

• Scepticism Inc - Bo Fowler
• The Waiting Room - G Cottham
• The Tooth Fairy - Graham Joyce
• The Beautiful Dead (1-4) - Eden Maguire
• Vampire Diaries - L J Smith
• On the Edge -  Richard Hammond
• Anything Goes - John Barrowman
• The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
• Forrest Gump - Winston Groom
• Gump & Co - Winston Groom
• The Savage Garden - Mark Mills

Tom

• Holes - Louis Sachar
• Mass Effect: Deception - William C Dietz
• Mass Effect: Ascension - Drew Karpyshyn
• Mass Effect: Revelation - Drew Karpyshyn
• Of Mice & Men - John Steinbeck
• Star Wars: Imperial Commando - Karen Traviss
• Watchmen (Graphic Novel) - Alan Moore
• Halo: Ghost of Onyx = Eric Mylund
• Nerd Do Well - Simon Pegg
• The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S.Lewis

Mark

• The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
• Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
• Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
• The Technicolour Time Machine - Harry Harrison
• Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clarke
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -  Douglas Adams
• The Song of Phaid the Gambler - Mick Farren
• The Forever War - Joe Haldemann
• Radio Romance - Garrison Keiller
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon