Ahrgh, the book completion of 52 books and 52 authors looks in jeopardy! How did I read 103 books last year??????? I have tried to read several books which I have got immediately bored with. Mrs Dalloway, the Piano Tuner and The Turn of the screw for anyone? I shall endeavour to try and achieve my aim, but I am a creature of habit, and I DO like reading lots of books by the same author on the trot! I am ITCHING to read the selection of Alexander MacCall Smith books on my shelf!
Anyway, here are some recent selections:
35.Alexandra Potter. Do you come here often?
I really like her books. Yes, essentially chick-lit, but they have a lovely feel-book factor with a perfect ending which always brings you on side!
36. Stacey O'Brien Wesley
A wonderful book lent to me by CBC. Really beautiful autobiographic account of a biologist's 19 year relationship with a barn owl called Wesley! Adorable photos, amazing discoveries and heartfelt admissions, I recommend this to anyone!
37. Noel Streatfield Circus Shoes
By the author of Ballet-shoes, this was somewhat different in some ways from her usual, stage-school style books with child heros who have to learn to manage their flaws and adopt a new way of life. I was somewhat gratified to find a girl who is my age, gleefully grabbing it from where I'd left it at a Lasagne party last week and asking to borrow it! SEE, it's not just me that reads children's books. I bought this in Daunt's bookshop in Holland Park after discovering that I really DO feel naked without a book to read in my bag and NOT liking the feeling!
