Thank you to Mr. Higgie who provided this week's book review at assembly - Ben Elton's Time and Time Again.  The PNBHS Library contains a range of Ben Elton's books, which are likely to appeal to a wide variety of students.

Seven quotes from great thinkers on the importance of reading:

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” ― Harry S. Truman

“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.” ― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." — Mark Twain

”You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” ― James Baldwin

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” ― René Descartes

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." ― Haruki Murakami

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person." — Epictetus