Feature and Follow Friday #9

Feature and Follow Friday is a weekly book blog meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee's View.  The idea is to answer the featured question, link back to the hosts and featured bloggers and then hop around the blogs on the Linky thingy making new friends!  This week's featured blogger is Hazy Reads.

This week's featured questions is:  Is there a book that you were required to read in school that you actually loved? - Suggested by Natalie Hearts Books.

Good one.  I actually read some okay books in school.  I went to a fairly scuzzy comprehensive, so I think the teachers were just desperate to get us reading something, anything!  In lower school I remember we read The Phantom Tollbooth, which was good, and a comparison of Anne Frank's Diary and The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom.  Then for GCSE, we did Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth - not terribly inspired, but probably the more accessible Shakespeare plays - Death of a Salesman, Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice and war poetry by Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooks.  None of it was what I would have ordinarily picked up, but I enjoyed it all nonetheless.

What about you?  Did you get off lightly at school, or did your teachers make you study something awful?

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