Books update
Here we go - quick update including summary:
#10 - Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson - an imaginative but flawed children’s book - I’m looking forward to Alex Scarrow’s latest series to see how it matches up to this (also) time-based romp
#11 - Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones - highly regarded but left my distinctly uncharmed. There are four more in the series. The author recommends you read them in a different order to that in which they were published. I’m confused.
#12 - Sum by David Eagleman - thought provoking imaginings of the afterlife. Some corkers earlier on. Some duds and repetition later. Still. A Must Read!
#13 - Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl - some short stories. Dark and enjoyable. Recommended.
#14 - Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding - an enjoyable sci-fi yarn. Better than average. Recommended.
#15 - The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon - his first book. My fourth (of his). It made me want to revisit early Bret Easton Ellis or suchlike. Enjoyable in places but ultimately confusing.
#16 - Ground Control by Anna Minton - non-fiction about our security-obsessed nation and how things have gone wrong. Absolutely superb. Everyone should read it. At least once.
#17 - Spies by Michael Frayn - my first Frayn and a rewarding experience. The Lives Of Others meets children’s adventure meets something far more. Recommended.
#18 - Charlotte’s Web by E B White - a children’s classic by the writer of Stuart Little. I enjoyed it and I think Jacob will too. But it will probably make you cry. It probably made me cry too.
#19 - Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd - a thriller. Boyd’s getting very good at the them. Recommended holiday reading.
#20 - The Girl Who Kicked The Hornest’s Nest by Stieg Bastard Larsson - a great end to the Millenium trilogy. Almost the equal of book one. Read the series. Not Martin Beck but good all the same.
I think someone along the way I also missed out Put Me Back On My Bike: In Search Of Tom Simpson by William Fotheringham - gripping biography of an enigmatic cycling hero. Recommended. And Goldfinger by Ian Fleming - nuff said.
So let’s call them #21 and #22.
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