I like to read a mixture of fiction and non-fiction. I wouldn’t say I have a favourite genre, I just need variety. It’s the same reason I can’t eat the same lunch every day. If all I read were psychological thrillers or classics or literary fiction, I’d get tired of them and lose my appetite. So, one day I’ll have a salad. The next, a sandwich. And the next, a wrap…
Here are my blog posts about books and reading:
Book Reviews – Fiction
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
Me Mam. Me Dad. Me. by Malcolm Duffy
The Temp by Michelle Frances
Five Days of Fog by Anna Freeman
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Paper Towns by John Green
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski
While You Sleep by Stephanie Merritt
Asylum by Patrick McGrath
Circe by Madeline Miller
Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough
Once Upon A River by Diane Setterfield
A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark
Book Reviews – Non-Fiction
What the Hell Just Happened?! by Richy K. Chandler
In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World by Simon Garfield
Aunt Branwell and the Brontë Legacy by Nick Holland
Women in Sport: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win by Rachel Ignotofsky
Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants by Richard Mabey
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O’Farrell
Step by Step: The Life in My Journeys by Simon Reeve
Strangeways: A Prison Officer’s Story by Neil Samworth
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley
Reading
It’s my 30th birthday! Here are my top 30 books…
A long time ago in a library far away: 6 weeks of summer reading magic
Money, sex, death and… sunshine [the poetry of Philip Larkin]
Poetry is all around us [written on National Poetry Day 2018]
This book seems familiar! Have I read it before? Let me check the spreadsheet…
The 5 themes of Roald Dahl [in honour of Roald Dahl Day 2018]
Cats, cats and more cats: 5 books from my early years
‘DNF guilt’ – 3 books I did not finish and why
Pineapples and toilets: Weird books from my shelf
10 writers I’d love to have coffee with
Fictional presents I’ll never get for Christmas
The time-travelling bookworm series: adventures into my reading past! Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3,
The recommended authors series: Daphne du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Sue Townsend, David Wiesner, Terry Pratchett,
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