Book – The First Lady Author – James Patterson & Brendan DuBois Year – 2018 Pages – 338 Genre – Thriller I am a sucker for things about the American political system. The West Wing, Hamilton, the Presidential podcast – I find it endlessly fascinating. The odd mixture of a system that is so blatantly…
Book 300 – The Man Who Died Twice
Book – The Man Who Died Twice Author – Richard Osman Year – 2021 Pages – 423 Genre – Crime (A Nice Little Murder) Series – The Thursday Murder Club Sometimes, writing reviews of these books are tricky. There’s a few reasons for this. The first is that I am super spoiler-phobic. I try my…
Book 299 – A Darkness at Sethanon
Author – Raymond E Feist Year – 1986 Pages – 527 Genre – Fantasy Series – The Riftwar Cycle (Book 6 of 2022) In 2017 I started rereading The Riftwar Cycle of books by Raymond E Feist by again picking up Magician. Nearly five years on and I have finally gotten around to finishing the first trilogy of…
Book 298 – The Thursday Murder Club
Book – The Thursday Murder Club Author – Richard Osman Year – 2020 Pages – 382 Genre – Crime Alex has a phrase that she inherited from her nan Dora to describe a certain type of crime book – “a nice little murder”. It’s a great way of describing a book like this. We don’t…
Book 297 – Jews Don’t Count
Book – Jews Don’t Count Author – David Baddiel Year – 2021 Pages – 125 Genre – Non-fiction (Book 4 of 2022) I spend quite a lot of time reading and thinking about politics. Around election times in particular, I will absorb anything that I can, and whilst I am by no means one hundred…
Book 296 – The Last Day
Book – The Last Day Author – Andrew Hunter Murray Year – 2020 Pages – 410 Genre – Dystopian Thriller Bought for me by Alex (Book 3 of 2022) I am a huge fan of podcasts – there are quite genuinely a couple of thousand sitting on my phone waiting to be heard – and…
Book 295 – Don’t Laugh, It’ll Only Encourage Her
Book – Don’t Laugh, It’ll Only Encourage Her Author – Daisy May Cooper Year – 2021 Pages – 420 Genre – Autobiography Bought for me by Alex (Book 2 of 2022) We seem to be having a great run of excellent sitcoms recently in the UK, and – along with Stath Lets Flats, Ghosts and…
Book 294 – The Good Daughter
Book – The Good Daughter Author – Karin Slaughter Year – 2017 Pages – 500 Genre – Crime Lent to me by Alex (Book 1 of 2022) The beginning of my 2022 challenge of 52 books in a year – one a week. Alex has gotten hugely into crime fiction in the last couple of…
293 – The Stand
Book – The Stand Author – Stephen King Year – 1978 (updated in 1990) Pages – 1421 Genre – Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Imagine a world where a virus sweeps the entire globe. Where the governments are proven to not be up to the task of protecting the people. Where millions die. Seems absolutely unbelievable, right? Thank…
Book 292 – Craft Beer For The People
Book – Craft Beer For The People Authors – Richard Taylor with James Watt and Martin Dickie Year – 2017 Pages – 233 Genre – Non-Fiction Bought for me by Alex Lockdown bought many different new hobbies for people across the country, and in typically healthy fashion, one of my big ones was craft beer….