Category: 100 Book Reading Challenge
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Now Reading: Rob Lacey – The Liberator
I’ve read this book a few times in the past (as you can probably tell from the tatty edges of the cover), and it’s one of my favourites. I’ve not read it for a while, and I found myself really wanting to read it last night. It’s a telling of the life of Jesus as you’ve
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Review: Maureen Lee – Amy’s Diary
Well, as expected, it didn’t take me very long to read this book. But I felt that the book didn’t really suit the Quick Read format very well, it all felt very rushed. I guess that would always be the case when you try and fit a 6 year war into 100ish pages, but I
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Now Reading: Maureen Lee – Amy’s Diary
This book is part of the Galaxy Quick Reads that has been released in most supermarkets. There’s quite a large collection of books available, although my local Morrisons only seems to have about 6. I bought 2 of them which caught my eye, only £1.50 each which seemed pretty good value. This book is based
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Review: Jim Bouton & Eliot Asinof – Strike Zone
This book is the first baseball fiction book that I’ve read, and it was great! It’s been a long time since the end of the baseball season, so it was nice to feel the excitement of a baseball game again. The story revolves around two main characters. The first is an aging rookie pitcher called
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Now Reading: Jim Bouton & Eliot Asinof – Strike Zone
I had a bit of a book-buying-spree last week (someone really needs to stop me!) and bought quite a few baseball books. I’ve read a few in the past (like Josh Hamilton and Dirk Hayhurst) and loved them, so I wanted to read more. The only problem is that it’s quite hard to find them
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Review: Jessica Thompson – This is a Love Story
It’s been a busy past few days for me (more about that in a blog post tomorrow), so I’ve only just finished reading this book. I have a few days off work now though, and I’m expecting a parcel from Amazon tomorrow with the baseball books that I ordered last week. It was really good
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Now Reading: Jessica Thompson – This is a Love Story
This is a Love Story, but not every story is the same. At first glance, it’s intriguing, although I have to admit that I’m a sucker for judging a book by it’s cover, and that’s pretty much why I bought this one. The description on the back seemed a bit odd too, and grabbed my attention:
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Review: Alastair Reynolds – Century Rain
When Mike lent me this book, he thought that I might not like it, but it actually turned out to be my favourite of the four books. I have definitely found a whole new genre of books that I will be trying more of this year – I couldn’t put it down! The first few
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Now Reading: Alastair Reynolds – Century Rain
This book is a sci-fi book (borrowed from Mike), which will be another change for me, I’ve not read much sci-fi before. It looks quite interesting though, I always used to be quite interested in sci-fi tv programs, but somehow fell out of watching them. The description on the back of the book says: “Century
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Review: Michael Morpurgo – War Horse
After seeing War Horse at the cinema a couple of weeks ago, I was expecting this book to be brilliant and I wasn’t disappointed. It’s a kids book, so it was very easy reading and didn’t take too long, but it was entertaining and very well written. I think it would definitely be aimed at
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Now Reading: Michael Morpurgo – War Horse
This book is one that I stole borrowed from the bookshelf in my brother’s room. I recently went to see the film at the cinema and I really loved it, one of the best films I’ve seen in a while. It’s not the usual way that I do things, I usually like to read the
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Review: Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Well, this is probably going to be a shorter review than usual. It’s not often that a book takes me this long to read, and it’s been quite a while since I found it so hard to get involved in a book. It took me a long time to just get through the first few
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Now Reading: Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Now onto the third of the books that Mike leant me. I have high hopes for this one, it looks really interesting, and I’ve heard good things about it. There’s a quote on the front from Salman Rushdie which says: “The greatest novel in any language of the last fifty years” That’s pretty high praise,
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Review: John Fowles – The Collector
I wasn’t sure I was going to like this book after I read the description, but I was pleasantly surprised. Even though it was kind of creepy, and definitely not a book I would have bought for myself in a bookshop, I found it very enjoyable. A couple of people have said how this sounds
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Now Reading: John Fowles – The Collector
I’m now starting the second of my borrowed books (thanks Mike!). It sounds a bit weirder than the last one, the description on the back of the book says: … a nutty clerk captures and holds the art student he has become fixated upon, and there follows a fiendish interplay of sanity and insanity… Sounds
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