Category: Now Reading
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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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Now Reading: Sam Savage – Firmin (Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife)
Now that I’ve finished the Lily Bard series that my parents got me for Christmas, it’s time to change it up a little bit. Mike has lent me a few books to read, so that has me sorted for the next week or two. Definitely good to not have to spend ages choosing which book
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Now Reading: Charlaine Harris – Shakespeare’s Landlord
Book number 2 on my 100 book reading challenge is Shakespeare’s Landlord by Charlaine Harris. I’ve read two sets of books by Charlaine Harris – the Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) series, and the Harper Connelly series. I absolutely loved both sets of books and couldn’t put the books down once I’d started. I’ve now got
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Now Reading: Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections
This is another of the books that I got for Christmas – part of a set of two by Jonathan Franzen. The descriptions of them on The Book People looked really good, so I’m really glad my brother bought them for Christmas. The book was the winner of the National Book Award and the James
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Now Reading: Emma Donoghue – Room
The Auschwitz Violin was a really good book, too short for my liking though – one of those books that you just don’t want to end. The story is about a man who has been taken to Auschwitz and is pretending to be a carpenter. When they find out that he is a Luthier, he
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Now Reading: Maria Àngels Anglada – The Auschwitz Violin
I got a few books for Christmas this year: The Auschwitz Violin by Maria Àngels Anglada Room by Emma Donaghue Freedom by Jonathan Franzen The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen The Lily Bard series by Charlaine Harris It was a tough choice to decide which to read first, so I’ve decided to read them in the order
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Now Reading: Alexandra Potter – Be Careful What You Wish For
The last book I read was typical chick lit – totally predictable with a little twist in the middle, but great all the same – just what I would expect from Belinda Jones. I’ve read a lot of books recently that are a bit different from my normal style, so it was nice to get
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Now Reading: Belinda Jones – The Paradise Room
I really loved the last book I read (Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck), I can’t believe that I’ve never read it until now! I loved the relationship between George and Lennie, so the ending of the book really shocked me. I don’t want to say too much in case you want to read
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Now Reading: John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
So the last book I read (A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian) was only a little bit about tractors, but I really enjoyed it! A few people had told me that it was a really funny book, but I also found parts of it to be really sad. I loved the character of the
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Now Reading: Marina Lewycka – A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
The last book I read (Eve Green by Susan Fletcher) was really good. It took me a while to get into it, but once it had grabbed my attention I found myself desperate to find out what happened next. When I’m reading I often guess (or try to guess) what will happen next, and I
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Now Reading: Susan Fletcher – Eve Green
The last book that I read (Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín) was one of the best books I have read in a long time. (Spoiler alert – don’t read the next paragraph if you plan on reading this book) It was set in the 1950s, and focused on a young Irish girl named Eilis, who is
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