Book – The Murder Game Author – Tom Hindle Year – 2023 Pages – 377 Genre – Mystery Another book in that long genre of ‘get back into reading by absorbing very easy to read murder stories’, The Murder Game drew me in by the simple premise of being a murder mystery set during a…
Book 306 – Oval
Book – Oval Author – Elvia Wilk Year – 2022 Pages – 360 (I reached 129) Genre – Fiction So this is a new thing for me for this blog. I didn’t actually finish this book. I make no bones of the fact that I have struggled reading as much as I would like over…
Book 305 – Takeaway
Book – Takeaway Author – Angela Hui Year – 2022 Pages – 343 Genre – Non-Fiction/Autobiography Several months ago, there was a discussion on Twitter (not X, surely we are not letting that happen…) about British Chinese takeaway food. Americans had seen that in our little land, Chinese takeaway included such delicacies as chicken balls,…
Book 304 – The Bullet That Missed
Book – The Bullet That Missed Author – Richard Osman Year – 2022 Pages – 413 Series – Thursday Murder Club Book three of Richard Osman’s highly successful Thursday Murder Club series, and by this point you know exactly what you are getting. A ‘nice little murder’ (copyright Dora) that the gang have to try…
Book 303 – The Body
Book – The Body Author – Bill Bryson Year – 2019 Pages – 445 Genre – Non Fiction Recommended to me by Lucy Kellett-Baines Listened to on Audible – narrated by Bill Bryson Over three hundred books so far, and this is the first that I have listened to as an audio book! As a…
Book 302 – The Story of Sandy and Alex
Book – The Story of Sandy and Alex Author – Madison Francis Year – 2023 Pages – 25 Genre – Fantasy Written for us by Madison Francis It is always incredibly exciting to be able to write a review of a debut novel. And even more so when the story was written for you and…
Book 301 – The First Lady
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…