REVIEW: For the Sake of the School

I ended my stint at the charity shop on Tuesday. Once again, it was pretty busy, but not that many books were sold. I got a look at the selection on offer and there were very few children's books, mostly picture books, so there's no wonder I didn't sell many of them. IIRC, I sold a saga romance, a chick lit book and a humorous book. I didn't buy any books for myself, but I did buy a classical music CD and it's on as I type this :) The experience was cool, I did feel as if I genuinely helped out, and even that much experience of being on the other side and seeing how dependent the shops are on donations among other day-to-day pressures was an eye-opener. The vast majority of customers was retired, but you got all sorts coming in. A lot of the men did what I do in such shops and make a beeline for the bookshelves.

Anyway, the review:

For the Sake of the School: Angela Brazil, Blackie.

It's about time I came to write a review of a book by (possibly) the queen of girls' school stories. It is, after all, Brazil who is most likely to get mentioned first in discussions about boarding school stories, and that's an achievement for she didn't write series like Brent-Dyer, Oxenham and Fairlie Bruce. That is not to say that a reader doesn't know exactly what they're going to get when they pick up a book of hers :) Still, respect is due - and what did I do? I dropped my copy in seawater. Um...whoops, sorry! It's okay though, it only got a little wet.

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