Book Reviews

‘The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.’ Alan Bennett

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” ― Franz Kafka

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Monday, 20 July 2015

Six months of books 2015


I've taken part in this in previous years and it's great to see it back again. A chance to look back at the books we've read in the first 6 months of 2015, 6 books in each of 6 different categories.

Visit the home of this meme, The Book Jotter, here to find out more...


Six books I have enjoyed the most...
  1. The Golem and the Djinni - Helene Wecker
  2. The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton
  3. Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
  4. Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty
  5. Hausfrau - Jill Alexander Essbaum
  6. The Last Anniversary - Liane Moriarty

Six authors new to me...
  1. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
  2. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café - Fannie Flagg
  3. How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn
  4. Sleepyhead - Mark Billingham
  5. Big Ray - Michael Kimball
  6. City of Thieves - David Benioff

Six books that took me on extraordinary journeys...
  1. Inflicted - Ria Frances
  2. The Leipzig Affair - Fiona Rintoul
  3. The Golem and the Djinni - Helene Wecker
  4. Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
  5. Dissolution - CJ Sansom
  6. The Auschwitz Violin - Maria Àngles Anglada

Six books by favourite authors...
  1. The Secret Keeper - Kate Morton
  2. A History of Loneliness - John Boyne
  3. The Last Anniversary - Liane Moriarty
  4. Chess - Stefan Zweig
  5. Reasons to Stay Alive - Matt Haig
  6. The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry

Six graphic novels/comic book collections I enjoyed...
  1. Plumdog - Emma Chichester Clark
  2. Marbles - Ellen Forney
  3. This One Summer - Mariko & Jillian Tamaki
  4. The Complete Maus - Art Spiegelman
  5. Sex Criminals - Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky
  6. Anya's Ghost - Vera Brosgol

Six bookshops I have visited...
  1. The new Foyles, London
  2. St. David's Bookshop, Pembrokeshire
  3. Heffers, Cambridge
  4. Aldeburgh Bookshop, Suffolk
  5. Any Amount of Books, London
  6. St Ives Bookseller, Cornwall