Friday 23 February 2018

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

I read this in Janaury 2018 for the Page Turner's book club.

Great book all about quantum physics, multi universes (The Multiverse) mutliple scernios palyed out over and over, I can't explain it but I loved it!

The Power by Naomi Alderman

I read this February 2018
I wanted to read this because the author was mentored by Margaret Attwood
Its a sort of Handmaid's Tale in reverse, a world where women have the power to create electricty through their hands...
fascinating read

The Little Prince by Antione de Saint- Eva

I read this in Januaury 2018
I had heard of it beofre of course, but never read it. I recommend this book, so many good allegories - timeless.

Music and Silence by Rose Tremain

I read this in December 2017 for the Lawshall book Club

OMG - I've only read one RT before and didn't like it - sorry but I felt the same about this one...


Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

I read (or rather listened to this for the Page Turner's book club.
Very old fashioned now! but sometimes it's good to see how un PC the world was only a short while ago.


Sometimes I lie by Alice Feeney

I read this 2017
Apparently it might be made into a mini series for TV. It certainly reads like it .  Lots of chararcters, lots of plot twists.
Enjoyable

A Room Full Of Bones by Elly Griffiths

I read this in November 2017 for Lawshall book Club
The first EG novel I've read one of the Ruth Galloway novels. Very like Katy Reichs novels....
Archeology, murders, crime and decetives... All make for a good easy read

Dying Fall by Elly Grffiths

I read this in January 2018
I have read a few of hers and they are very like Katy Reichs novels....
Archeology, murders, crime and decetives... All make for a good easy read

Where Am I Now - When I Need Me? by George Axelrod

I read this January 2018 well I actually re read it then.  I had previously read this in the late 70s or early 80s, now it seems very much a book of the 70s...
Written as a suicide note , Harvey Bernstein a failed novelist, poet and now a creative writing tutor whose wife runs off with his friend. Harvey then hooks up with Cathy Lewis Lovibond Lombard Lamont (chose one) an eccentric young woman who wants to write a best selling novel.  The couple move to LA Lots of angest, humour and farce.
Enjoyable read

Thursday 8 February 2018

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Attwood

I re-read this, in Decmeber 2017, after seeing he TV adaptation.  I enjoyed it more this time than the first time I read it. Knowing what was going to happen did not detract at all from the re reading.  In fact I understood it all more. 
Set in a Dystopian Gilead, there is a shortage of children and the human race faces extinction if action is not taken.  The authorities use women( Handmaids) who have previously had a successful pregnancy and    use them to breed.  Only high ranking men are allowed to fertilise the woman.  I love this book, for all it's doom and gloom.  Offred (Of Fred) is a feisty woman, who remembers the freedom of her previous life and rebels against this one.
Highly recommended