Topic

2024

A collection of 24 issues

August (Part 2) - theme: Booker Long List

Wild Houses by Colin Barrett A year after I started the August 2024 theme, picked by my mother ,I have finished part two. It seems when my mother gives me a theme, she buys me two options and obviously I have to read them both. This was a good book,

Audiobook - The Residence, Inside the Private World of the White House - Kate Andersen Brower

I think this was the most boring audiobook I have ever listened to. It took me months to finally finish because I found it so difficult to make myself turn it on. However I am not a DNFer so I persisted. I'm absolutely sure Kate Andersen Brower has

December - theme: Winter (Snow)

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg Time Magazine's "Book of the Year" in 1992. Unfortunately it is not 1992 anymore and while this book might have seemed fresh and genre defining back then, I've read the girl with the dragon

Additional Review 7

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty First off, thanks Caitlin for getting all the Liane Moriarty audiobooks over the last few years and sharing them with me. You probable don't know it but you got me into her. Now I still think 9 perfect strangers is the best

November - theme: Political

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis A Guardian quote on the cover calls this book "eerily prescient" and it's right. Those are the only two words really needed to describe this book. I found this book extremely hard to get into and if

Additional Review 6

Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich 30! Yes, she has written and I have read 30 of these guys! Like The Simpsons or SouthPark the characters never age while technology and society changes around them. I have been reading these since I was in Year 8/9! I read the first

Additional Review 5

The No-Show by Beth O'Leary Thanks Caitlin for the loan of this surprisingly good book. I thought it would be a typical rom-com chick lit kinda deal. It was a bit more complicated than that. Nicely written and easy to read, it felt reminiscent of Marian Keyes with

October - theme: Historical Fiction

Raphael, Painter in Rome by Stephanie Storey It's occurred to me while reading this book that I might like historical fiction. That might sound odd but I've always had the opinion of that genre is fine but it's not for me. Well, this book

September - theme: Non-Fiction

A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage This was a London book box find. That book box was the first I had ever encountered and it was a delight. Housed in an old red telephone box, it had acres of choice and the books changed on