So, my mum died on 14th December. It was pretty sudden; she had been hale and hearty the last time I spoke to her on the phone, two days later she had a massive stroke from which she never fully regained consciousness and died after eleven days. Because of Covid rules, she wasn’t allowed visitorsContinue reading “Ready Player Two – Earnest Cline (AUDIOBOOK) – 23.12.20”
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We Sold Our Souls – Grady Hendrix – 13.12.20
I loved this book! I’m a member of a book group that happens to be all female (a man did come a couple of times but he hasn’t been in a while) and at 51 I’m the youngest member. The girls are by no means ‘fuddy duddy’, and yet they are unanimously horrified when IContinue reading “We Sold Our Souls – Grady Hendrix – 13.12.20”
Sleeping Beauties (AUDIOBOOK) – Stephen King, Owen King Narrated by: Marin Ireland – 11.12.20
This is a long audiobook (over 25 hours) and due to a glitch with my audible not synching properly between the different devices that I listened to it on, I must have listened to about 40 hours of it! This was actually not a bad thing, because there are a lot of characters and aContinue reading “Sleeping Beauties (AUDIOBOOK) – Stephen King, Owen King Narrated by: Marin Ireland – 11.12.20”
The Quantum Curators and the Enemy Within – Eva St. John – 09.12.20
This is the second book in the series by Eva St. John about a parallel Earth whose inhabitants can travel to our Earth at set points in time and they use this ability to retrieve precious artifacts just before they are lost or destroyed and display them (or at least holographic images of them) inContinue reading “The Quantum Curators and the Enemy Within – Eva St. John – 09.12.20”
The Cat and the City – Nick Bradley – 01.12.20
This book was written by a westerner who has lived in Japan and whose PhD thesis (I think) was about the role of cats in Japanese literature. My son, Danny, is hopefully moving to Japan in a couple of months, initially to attend an intensive language school (he’s already pretty conversant in Japanese, but notContinue reading “The Cat and the City – Nick Bradley – 01.12.20”
Burnt Sugar – Avni Doshi – 26.11.20
Hmmm, I wasn’t sure what to make of this book. I have read some amazing books that have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, so when they come up as the Amazon Kindle Daily deal, I usually buy them. Also, the premise of this book interested me, both the dynamics of a difficult mother/daughter relationship,Continue reading “Burnt Sugar – Avni Doshi – 26.11.20”
Elvenquest: The Journey So Far: Series 1,2,3 and 4 (AUDIOBOOK) – Anil Gupta, Richard Pinto – Narrated by: Stephen Mangan, Alistair McGowan, Darren Boyd, Kevin Eldon, Sophie Winkleman, Dave Lamb – 22.11.20
I was quite annoyed by this audiobook, because it was the first full production/radio play audiobook I’ve listened to that I really haven’t loved, plus, I used my monthly credit to buy it whereas many of the audible productions are available free to members. It’s a farcical take on the fantasy hero quest genre, recordedContinue reading “Elvenquest: The Journey So Far: Series 1,2,3 and 4 (AUDIOBOOK) – Anil Gupta, Richard Pinto – Narrated by: Stephen Mangan, Alistair McGowan, Darren Boyd, Kevin Eldon, Sophie Winkleman, Dave Lamb – 22.11.20”
Dittany and a Death: Mystery (The Witches of Wormwood Mysteries Book 6) – Silver Nord and Ruby Loren – 16.11.20
This series of books by Ruby Loren (or her alter-ego, Silver Nord) are my guilty pleasure! It’s a supernatural ‘cozy mystery’ series with some romance thrown in – I know, reading that description would normally make me run a mile! I hate brain dead insipid romance or genre fiction, and yet, I really enjoy theseContinue reading “Dittany and a Death: Mystery (The Witches of Wormwood Mysteries Book 6) – Silver Nord and Ruby Loren – 16.11.20”
Such a Fun Age – Kiley Reid (AUDIOBOOK) – 13.11.20
This book was longlisted for the Booker, but it isn’t at all highbrow and hard to read (or in my case, listen to), in fact, I was totally gripped by it. As an audiobook, it is what I listen to when out running or walking mostly, and this book made me want to take reallyContinue reading “Such a Fun Age – Kiley Reid (AUDIOBOOK) – 13.11.20”
Home Going – Yaa Gyasi (BOOKGROUP) – 11.11.20
This was my book group read for November and a really good book. The book follows seven generations starting with two Ghanaian sisters whose lives took them on very different paths as one was taken as the wife of a British slave trader, and the other was taken as a slave and sold to America.Continue reading “Home Going – Yaa Gyasi (BOOKGROUP) – 11.11.20”
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