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When visiting the Forum library, we came across two common areas of (contrasting) interest, The London Underground and Space Exploration and Travel.
We each took out a book on each of these two subjects to look at further and find inspiration and interest.
My choices were 'London Underground's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but True Stories' & 'Soviet Space Dogs'.
Both these choices, I noticed were similar in that they are based on curious and obscure areas of the subjects - quirky stories of fact.
Both books had contrasting covers even though they are both only published one year apart - the contemporary cover of 'Soviet Space Dogs' is vibrant and attractive. The 'London Underground's Strangest Stories' book is more traditional, following a more formal design.
When reading and taking notes on our books, we all felt a much stronger excitement for the 'Space' theme, especially in terms of thinking about our final resulting 'event'. We had better visualisation creatively for something of that nature.
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