Category: Book Review
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Review: Nicholas Sparks – The Best of Me
I usually look forward to Nicholas Sparks books, but this one left me feeling a bit disappointed. The book was about 300 pages long, but I didn’t actually start to enjoy the story until more than 150 pages through. I would have stopped reading but I hate stopping a book half way through, instead it
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Review: Kate Harrison – The Secret Shopper’s Revenge
Well this book was pretty much what I expected from the title. 50% shopping and 50% trashy chick-lit. Saying that though, it was well written and the plot was quite unlike anything I’ve read before. The book has three main characters, Emily, Sandie and Grazia, although we are introduced to Emily first so it seems
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Review: Eleanor Brown – The Weird Sisters
I don’t know about the weird sisters, but it was definitely a weird narrative. The book was written from a collective retrospective first person. I was never any good at English so I’m sure there’s a proper word for that, but hopefully you know what I mean. Most of the time, the book seemed like
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Review: The Queen [Of Twitter] – Gin O’Clock
This was a bit of an impulse buy after I started following ‘The Queen‘ on twitter. The tweets seemed pretty funny and the book was only £4 so it was worth a shot. It looked along the same lines as Mrs Fry’s Diary that I read last year and found pretty hilarious. After I’d bought
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Review: William Boyd – Waiting for Sunrise
It seems like I’ve been reading this book for quite a while, it’s one that Cameron bought me for my birthday. It’s not my usual choice to pick a book set in the war, but he picked well because the book was fantastic. The plot jumped around a bit in the first half of the
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Review: Evan Mandery – Q: A Love Story
Well it’s been quite a while since I wrote one of these, although that doesn’t mean that I didn’t enjoy the book, I’ve just had an unusually busy month and not as much time for reading as I would like. It does mean that I’m now 14 books behind on my reading challenge, which seems
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Review: Nicholas Sparks – The Rescue
If you’ve read Nicholas Sparks before you’ll know he has a kind of ‘recipe’ for his books. Boy meets girl, they fall in love, there’s some drama and then everything miraculously works out okay in the end. It should be predictable, but he has a way of writing that pulls you in and you become
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Review: Paulo Coelho – Veronika Decides to Die
This is a pretty delayed review because I’ve been quite busy this week (including seeing the Blues Brothers at the cinema for the first time on Thursday and seeing the Olympic Torch in Huddersfield this afternoon), so I’m still slipping further and further behind on my reading challenge. Lacking a bit of motivation at the
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Review: C.S. Lewis – Mere Christianity
Like I said in my last post, I didn’t really know what to expect with this book, but I was pleasantly surprised. I’d only ever heard of the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis, so I didn’t know he’d written anything more ‘serious’, but this was definitely a lot different to Narnia. Lewis was asked by
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Review: S.J. Watson – Before I Go To Sleep
Well this book was described as ‘The best debut thriller for years’ and it totally lived up to that description, building up and up until a gripping finale that had me completely oblivious to everything happening around me. In the first chapter, you wake up with Christine in an unfamiliar house, and are taken through her
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Review: Jane Green – The Beach House
Not my favourite Jane Green book, but enjoyable all the same. The book (like a lot of Green’s books) has multiple main characters which means it is hard to keep up with in the beginning. It actually takes until about 200 pages into the book before you have been introduced to all the characters and
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Review: J.R.R. Tolkien – The Hobbit
Do you ever have a book that you’re really enjoying, but also not enjoying at the same time? That’s kind of how I felt about this book. When I was reading it, I really loved it, but I felt no pull to the book to make me want to carry on reading or to pick
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Now Reading: J. R. R. Tolkien – The Hobbit
I’ve put off reading this book for quite a while now, especially because I know that once I read it I’ll want to read the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and there’s no way that I can read all 3 books in 9 days to keep on track with my challenge! I’d give it a
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Review: Dr Benjamin Daniels – Confessions of a GP
Well this was definitely not the book that I expected it to be and I was really quite disappointed with it. I was expecting a series of funny stories about crazy patients that had been into his surgery, but instead it seemed to be mainly a book of moans about targets and management in the NHS. I’d
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Review: James M. Cain – Double Indemnity
Well, it turns out that I was a little confused between Double Jeopardy and Double Indemnity, so the slight idea that I had about this book was completely wrong! Whoops! In any case, the book was very good even if it was pretty short (130 pages). It was written in 1936 and you can tell
Louise Douglas 