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
Five Days of Fog by Anna Freeman
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
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
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
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
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
The time-travelling bookworm series: adventures into my reading past! Nov 2018
The recommended authors series: Daphne du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Sue Townsend
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