This is my first time taking part in this meme from Bookjourney, so here goes!
I managed to finish two books over the weekend - the first was Gallows View by Peter Robinson
This is the first in the Inspector Banks series, which comes highly recommended to me by my mother, amongst many others. I was a little disappointed, to be honest, but I'll try a couple more as I think the series will improve as it goes on - this first one seemed a bit slow and very dated!
My second read of the weekend was Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach.
This is a book that has been sitting on my TBR pile for ages. I decided to get it read as it is on patchworkbunny's wishlist so I said I'd swap with her. I really enjoyed the more gruesome chapters in this book, but I'm afraid the rest I found a bit boring and was again disappointed.
A quick visit to the library today, as it's the beginning of the Easter holidays and I'm lucky enough to work term-time only, and this is what we came home with:
I've started this one first. I haven't read anything by David Mitchell before, though again, Cloud Atlas has been on my TBR shelf forever ... not sure why it hasn't appealed! We'll see how I get on with this one.
I love Dorothy Koomson's books - Ice Cream Girls was a great read, and I hope this one lives up to my expectations!
Natasha picked up these two:
... which I've just realised is the second in the series - luckily I have the first so she can read that first. And
And Freddie came home with two Football Academy books and
Some good reading to be done this week :)
I read Cloud Atlas for book group and only 2 of us finished it. It's a bit hard going and jumps around all over the place so would be interested to hear what his other books are like. They always have such tempting covers!
ReplyDeleteI will look forward to the gruesome bits of Stiff!
wow. 7 new books for me. You got a great reading pile
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The Resistance seems yummy.
Happy reading.
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I always wanted to read Ice Cream Girls and sounds like I need to try this author!
ReplyDeleteWell done on managing to finish two books in a weekend! Its been ages since I have done that. Dorothy Koomson is a new one for me - will look out for her books and give them a go!
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