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Books Read in 2013 – 31. The Stepford Wives – Ira Levin
Genre: Horror, Dystopia, Satire Narrative Style: Third Person from the point of view of one character Rating 4/5 Synopsis: Joanna moves to Stepford at the insistence of her husband, Walter and, at...
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Books read in 2014 – 36. A Perfectly Good Man – Patrick Gale
Genre: family, religion Narrative Style: Third person, non-chronological Rating: 4/5 Format: Paperback Published:2012 Synopsis: Lenny decides to take his own life after being paralyzed in a rugby...
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Books Read in 2014 – 38. The Lie by Helen Dunmore
Genre: War, Historical Fiction Narrative Style: First person narrative set in 1920 with flashbacks to the first world war. Rating: 3/5 Publication: 2013 Format: Kindle Synopsis: Daniel has survived...
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Top Ten Tuesday – Ten Authors I Own the Most Books From
It is a while since I’ve done a Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by The Broke and The Bookish)but Ten Authors I Own the Most Books from appealed so here it is. 1. Terry Pratchett – 35. It was always obvious...
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Books Read in 2014. 41. Turnstone – Graham Hurley
Genre: British Detective Narrative Style: Third Person, Chronological Rating: 2/5 Format: Kindle Published: 2000 Synopsis: Joe Faraday is an overworked cop with family issues. Even though he lacks...
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Books Read in 2014 – 42. Chocky by John Wyndham
Genre: Dystopia Narrative Style: First person, chronological Rating 4/5 Published: 1970 Format: Kindle Synopsis: When Matthew starts to communicate with an unseen being named Chocky, his parents are...
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Top Ten Tuesday – once read authors.
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Top Ten Authors only read once. This wasn’t as obvious as I first thought. I tried to avoid listing people who had only written one book. Some...
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Another new year
Well, it has taken a while to get round to writing my first blog this year. In fact, the end of last year was so hectic, I never got round to writing an end of year blog which I fully intended. This...
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Full House Reading Challenge 2018 Sign up.
So I have decided that I will do the Full House Reading Challenge. Despite not finishing it last year, it did give me some focus and also it forced me to read some things from my bookshelf that I had...
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The Reading Year So Far
It’s been a mixed year so far on the reading front. On the one hand, I’ve read ten books so far which is good. On the other, there have been some disappointing reads. The start of the year saw me in...
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