Month: March 2015

A list of my all time favourite books through the years (it’s way longer than this but I’ll add to it as and when I remember!);
 
YA
The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
The Tricksters – Margaret Mahy
The Eyes of Karen Connors – Lois Duncan
Tiger Eyes – Judy Blume
 
Adult
Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
Anthropology and a Hundred Other Stories – Dan Rhodes
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
Eleanor Rigby – Douglas Coupland
The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing – Melissa Bank
The House of Spirits – Isabel Allende
The Life and Death of Charlie St Cloud – Ben Sherwood
After You’d Gone – Maggie O’Farrell
Burial Rites – Hannah Kent

 

February’s book The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer was one of those reads that has you gripped from the start. Sympathetically written, it had pace and angst and I really felt for the main character Matthew, who was battling with schizophrenia and the death of his brother. Filer’s writing was honest and brutal in parts and I felt that at times I could really climb into Matthew’s head and see his thoughts crashing about. But then the last quarter the book kind of lost its hold on me and I was left feeling the teeniest bit disappointed with the way the book ended. I wanted to LOVE this book and instead I liked it. But that’s no bad thing.

March’s book is The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. It’s had some pretty lofty reviews (and I wish I hadn’t read them as the last thing I want is that feeling of anticlimax or disappointment), but I have high hopes for this one.