Book – MockingjayAuthor – Suzanne CollinsYear – 2010Genre – Young Adult Sci FiPages – 458Series – The Hunger Games As I mentioned in my post on the previous book in The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire, I started this book at 2:30 in the morning, immediately after finishing its predecessor. And to start with, I was…
Month: June 2012
Book 32 – Catching Fire
Book – Catching FireAuthor – Suzanne CollinsYear – 2009Genre – Young Adult Sci FiPages – 472Series – The Hunger Games Trilogy The first book in The Hunger Games trilogy – suitably titled The Hunger Games – was a brilliant book, that on reflection, I should have doled out a ten out of ten score for. When…
Book 31 – The Stonehenge Legacy
Book – The Stonehenge LegacyAuthor – Sam ChristerYear – 2011Genre – ThrillerPages – 481 After quite the fiction hiatus, I decided I would pick up this book, The Stonehenge Legacy. Billed – like approximately 25% of books released int he past ten years – as a Dan Brown style thriller, I looked forward to something…
Book 30 – Letting Go
Book – Letting GoAuthor – Morrie SchwartzYear – 1996Genre – Memior/PhilosophyPages – 127Lent to me by my Dad Firstly, a disclaimer on the title. I always use the exact same cover for this blog as the edition I read – just the way I do it. You may notice that the cover to this book…
Book 29 – Universally Challenged
Book – Universally ChallengedAuthor – Wendy RobyYear – 2010Genre – Toilet BookPages – 192 Bought for my Dad at Christmas as a ‘perfect stocking filler’, the basic premise of this book, is to list all of the silly answers that appear on quiz shows. The best way to illustrate this is probably a few examples from…
Book 28 – Screwed
Book – Screwed: The Truth About Life as a Prison OfficerAuthor – Ronnie ThompsonYear – 2008Genre – MemoirPages – 359Bought for me by Katy George Following on from my stint playing the evil Jim Fenner in our production of Bad Girls: The Musical, my director Katy bought me this expose of life within the prison…
Book 27 – Don’t Get Me Started
Book – Don’t Get Me Started Author – Mitchell Symons Year – 2007 Genre – Moaning Man Pages – 246 I should have known better when the supportive quote on the back was from Richard Littlejohn. Mitchell Symons wrote what are quite simply the best trivia books in the world – This Book, That Book…