I have a reading goal of 60 books in 2018. This is a running list of the titles I have read to date. Click on the titles below to read my review. Quite an interesting mix. I've had a run on Agatha Christie, an Ian McEwan binge (set to continue) and a crush on the classics. … Continue reading Reading List 2018
In 2017, I read 49 books... My target was 50. So close! This year, my goal is to read 60 books... As at the end of April I have read 23. So far, so good! How am I going to make sure I beat my target this year? 1. I keep a book database. It's … Continue reading My Reading Goal 2018
Wondering what to buy for a Fathers Day gift this year? Here are my top 10 book ideas for Dad. A short list of picks for new and recent novels that will make winning presents for all sorts of fathers. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - By … Continue reading Top 10 Book Ideas for Fathers Day
This is the way the world ends for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up … Continue reading The Fifth Season – N.K. Jemisin
Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down. Little Fires Everywhere is a story of families and motherhood - particularly mother daughter relationships. This is a novel that is domestic but complicated. At first it … Continue reading Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
Sherlock Holmes - scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion - and his faithful colleague Dr Watson, solve twelve breathtaking and perplexing mysteries. Perhaps the most famous detective in literary history.. Holmes and Watson at Baker Street need no introduction. There's … Continue reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home -- a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse -- but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb.. … Continue reading Nutshell – Ian McEwan
A shocking discovery on a honeymoon in paradise changes the lives of a picture-perfect couple in this taut psychological thriller debut. “Have you ever wondered how long it takes to dig a grave? Wonder no longer. It takes an age. However long you think it takes, double that.” Thus the opening line.. An intriguing intro … Continue reading Something in the Water – Catherine Steadman
It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start … Continue reading The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen
Five great books I read - I should say finished - in July 2018. I definitely didn't bang out War and Peace in one month! My favourite of the five was War and Peace. Not only a personal reading milestone but truly a masterpiece. I need more Russian lit in my life. I'm still thinking … Continue reading My July Reading List
In the Summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past. Nobel Prize Winner, Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. The Remains of the Day is a beautifully … Continue reading The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition and haunted by painful memories. This Booker winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives: Hana, the … Continue reading The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
