Category: 100 Book Reading Challenge
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Now Reading: Suzanne Collins – Mockingjay
On to book 3 of this series, and unfortunately it’s the last one. I love reading a series of books (especially one as good as this), but the worst part of it is always coming to the end. With a series, you always get more involved with the characters and the story, so it’s hard
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Review: Suzanne Collins – Catching Fire
All I can say about this book is that it was better than the first, which is saying something because I loved the first one. There are plenty of reviews of this book on many WordPress blogs that will tell you what happens in this book, so I don’t really want to go into that
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Now Reading: Suzanne Collins – Catching Fire (The Hunger Games Pt 2)
After the speed in which I read the first book in this series, I can’t wait to get started on this. I might have to slow down a bit though or it’ll all be over too quickly! After the end of the last book, I really have no idea what will happen in this one.
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Review: Suzanne Collins – The Hunger Games
I’m kind of ashamed to say I devoured this book in less than a day. I now know why all the reviews I’ve read say that you just can’t put it down once you’ve started it. I’m going to try not to spoil the story too much in case you haven’t read it yet and you’re
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Now Reading: Suzanne Collins – The Hunger Games
I don’t really know what this book is about, but I’ve seen a LOT of blog posts about it when I’ve been browsing WordPress book-related blogs. There’s a film coming out soon, so I want to read the books before the film comes out so that I can decide whether I want to see the
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Review: Mitch Albom – The Five People You Meet in Heaven
I’ve just finished this book and it was fantastic! It was quite a sad book, but one that definitely made you think. The book is about 83 year old Eddie, who works on Ruby Pier, a seaside fairground. One of the rides malfunctions and comes crashing to the ground – he dies when he tries
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Now Reading: Mitch Albom – The Five People You Meet in Heaven
This is the second of the books that my cousin Hannah lent me. After the disappointment of my last book, I’m hoping that I’ll enjoy this one more, and can use it to get back on track on my reading challenge. It sounds like a very touching book; an 83 year old man dies, and
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Review: Jonathan Coe – The Accidental Woman
I realised after a few pages that I wasn’t going to enjoy this book, but I persevered anyway, because I don’t like to give up without giving a book a fair chance. I do wish I’d left it though, as I just didn’t like the book at all. My first problem was that it seemed
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Now Reading: Jonathan Coe – The Accidental Woman
I’m not really sure what this book is about, it was part of a set of 3 books for £4 that I bought from the Book People in a recent order. When I read the descriptions online, it looked like a good book, but I’ve just seen that the average rating on Goodreads is less
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Review: Dirk Hayhurst – Out of My League
It’s been a while since I posted a review, not been feeling great the last few days so had a break from the laptop. But this book was awesome! I kind of knew what to expect from the book after reading Hayhurst’s first book (The Bullpen Gospels), and I most definitely wasn’t disappointed. This book
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Now Reading: Dirk Hayhurst – Out of My League
I’ve been waiting for this book since I pre-ordered it in October, so I’m very glad that it finally arrived, especially when I started seeing a lot of tweets about people in America reading the book when I still had 2 weeks left until it would be dispatched. It will be the second book I
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Review: Daniel Tammet – Born on a Blue Day
I want to give a big thank you to Hannah for lending me this book because it was fantastic, one of the most interesting and well written biographies I have read in a long time. The book is about Daniel Tammet, a man with Savant Syndrome and a condition called synaesthesia, which makes him see
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Now Reading: Daniel Tammet – Born on a Blue Day
This book is the first of four books that my cousin Hannah lent me when she found out about my challenge to read 100 books in a year. I love reading books that other people suggest – they are usually books that you wouldn’t think of reading but most of the time you find something
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Review: Rob Lacey – The Liberator
As I have already read this book a few times, I knew it was going to be great, but I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. Every time I read it I get something different out of it, and this time I finished the book feeling more connected than I have in a long
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Lent Reading: Rick Warren – The Purpose Driven Life & John Piper – The Passion of Jesus Christ
For lent this year (as well as giving up chocolate again), I’ve decided to re-read two books that I’ve read and loved in the past. The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. This book is handily split into 40 sections/days (although I’ve started a bit late so I’ll have to double up for a while,
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