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A Guide To The Birds of East Africa – Nicholas Drayson
And in amongst the sadness and anger of the past few books I have been reading, at last I get the opportunity to read something a little lighter. A Guide To the Birds of East Africa was just the...
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One Shot – Lee Child
I like Lee Child. I really like the way he writes, I like how he constructs his story, builds the tension and develops the plot. And of course, like everyone who has ever read a Jack Reacher novel, I...
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The Bookwoman’s Last Fling – John Dunning
From an intensely likeable hero in Jack Reacher, I then turned to a significantly less likeable hero in Cliff Janeway. I picked up The Bookwoman’s Last Fling because the blurb on the back sounded...
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The Other Side Of You – Salley Vickers
The Other Side of You is a thought provoking and incredibly moving story which I loved…and didn’t love all at the same time. It is the story of a woman, Elizabeth, who is brought to a psychiatric...
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Remarkable Creatures – Tracey Chevalier
Remarkable Creatures is one of those wonderful books where the author is deliberately writing fiction, and never claiming that it is anything but, but she is basing that fiction on a lesser known...
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My Heart is Breaking through the Demise of my Beloved Book
I haven’t written here for a while. It’s not because I haven’t been reading – I have. In fact, I have read as much, if not more than usual but I haven’t found the heart to write about it. But I have...
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Cat and Mouse – James Patterson – 500
In the past year, although I haven’t been keeping the blog, I have certainly been reading. Just from my written scribblings, I would estimate I have probably read around 70 books since I last wrote...
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The Fifth Woman – Henning Mankell – 499
I have been progressively working my way through the entire Inspector Wallander series and the more I read, the more I like them. I have to admit I wasn’t as thrilled with the first one as I thought I...
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Reading List: An Update
It has been a very long time between posts. In the time since I last wrote I have had a beautiful baby boy who is about to turn 1. I adore him and I adore being a Mum and, as I thought, I still read!...
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445 – True Grit by Charles Portis
I picked up this book as I had to recently (and regretfully) leave the reading group I had been a member of for many years due to the impossibility of distance, so I thought I would try and online one...
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Another Update on Books
Once again, time runs away with me and my book reviewing is non-existent. I have, however, joined a site called swap-bot recently (and have become quite addicted to it) which does feed my love of...
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From Emily Bronte to Hilary Mantel
I’ll do a small comment on each of the four books that I read in April. I am updating more now on Goodreads although I am not doing full reviews. I am involved in a Reading Challenge group over there...
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436 – Dracula by Bram Stoker
I read this for the Swap-Bot Bookclub #1. This is what I wrote about it to my partner, slightly edited: I was so glad to get an excuse to read this book. I have had a copy for years but I had never...
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The Humans – Matt Haig
One morning, a naked man is arrested walking across the carefully cut grass at one of the university colleges in Cambridge. He seems completely unaware of why anyone is paying any particular attention...
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The Girl From the Train – Irma Joubert
I had to give this book a fairly low rating. It wasn’t the subject matter which was a problem, although the story itself was one which we have read many times before. When I read the blurb, I was...
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