I’ve had a really bad back of late, which seems to be my autoimmune arthritis flaring up in my sacroiliac joint, and my physiotherapist suggested I take up swimming. So I joined a gym with a pool and found swimming length quite boring until I thought of listening to audiobooks in the pool. This bookContinue reading “All the Ugly and Wonderful Things – Bryn Greenwood – AUDIOBOOK – 01.08.22“
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Lessons in Chemistry (Audiobook) – Bonnie Garmus (Author), Miranda Raison (Narrator) (BOOKGROUP) – 29.07.22
This was my book group read for over the Summer, and I chose to listen to the audiobook. I’ll admit that it took me a wee while to get into the book, and the early chapters had me annoyed at how beautiful the main character, Elizabeth Zott had to be and thought her relationship withContinue reading “Lessons in Chemistry (Audiobook) – Bonnie Garmus (Author), Miranda Raison (Narrator) (BOOKGROUP) – 29.07.22“
Touch – Claire North – 29.07.22
This is the fourth in my summer of Claire North novels, and another doozy! Once again, Claire North takes an interesting sci-fi/magical realism what-if and builds a world around it. In Touch, there are people who left there own bodies at the moment of some traumatic death and ‘jumped’ into the body of someone else.Continue reading “Touch – Claire North – 29.07.22“
The Quantum Curators and the Shattered Timeline – Eva St. John – 19.07.22
I really loved the first book in this series – what I mostly loved was the sweet quirky nature of the nerdy main character, and the wry humour. I have loved the series less as it’s gone along. This is book four, and I liked it okay, and I will probably buy the next oneContinue reading “The Quantum Curators and the Shattered Timeline – Eva St. John – 19.07.22“
The Various Haunts of Men: Simon Serrailler 1 (AUDIOBOOK) – Susan Hill – 18.07.22
I think this book must have been on sale at Audible, and when I saw it I bought it thinking of Susan Hill’s spooky ghost stories and not realising that this is actually the first in a series of police detective murder mystery books. Well, just as well I didn’t realise this, as it mightContinue reading “The Various Haunts of Men: Simon Serrailler 1 (AUDIOBOOK) – Susan Hill – 18.07.22“
84K – Claire North – 16.07.22
This is my third Claire North book, and one thing that I liked about it is how different it is from each of the other Claire Norths I’ve read. It’s a dystopian novel set in a not too distant future where capitalism has gone crazy and monetary value is given way more weight than humanContinue reading “84K – Claire North – 16.07.22“
The First 15 Lives of Harry August – Claire North – 05.07.22
This is the second in my Claire North binge, and another great book. Similar in plot in many ways to Life after Life by Kate Atkinson, which I enjoyed reading, and I loved the TV adaptation of. In both novels, the main character is reborn every time they die to re-live the same life overContinue reading “The First 15 Lives of Harry August – Claire North – 05.07.22“
Honeycomb – Joanne Harris (AUDIOBOOK) – 03.07.22
I enjoyed listening to these beautiful and lyrical, if dark and cautionary adult fairy tales read perfectly by the author, Joanne Harris. The stories stood alone but also interweaved into one narrative whole and were full of the fey folk mythology that I love, with some twists by Joanne Harris incorporating the insect world intoContinue reading “Honeycomb – Joanne Harris (AUDIOBOOK) – 03.07.22“
The Sudden Appearance of Hope – Claire North – 26.06.22
When I finished reading this book, I rattled off a string of superlatives in my head of how wonderful it was (since as always I’m super late in writing this up, I can’t remember the half of them) something like: beautiful, poetic, gripping, relatable, intelligent, thoughtful, devastating, fun, amazing… (and so on – you getContinue reading “The Sudden Appearance of Hope – Claire North – 26.06.22“
Yestertime: A Novel of Time Travel (Yestertime Series Book 1)
– Andrew Cunningham – 20.06.22 This book has thousands of great reviews and Amazon, which confounds me because I thought it was one of the worst written books I’ve ever read (or almost read – I gave up at 80% – you’d think having got that far I’d see it through, but no, it wasContinue reading “Yestertime: A Novel of Time Travel (Yestertime Series Book 1)“
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