In Which We Discuss Books I Read in my 27th Year, Week 38/52

Seven books last week!  That's from the 28th April to the 4th of May.

Five audiobooks - those things have really increased the amount I read - one kindle book, and one paperback.

I signed up to attend two bookclubs at my local library; one is reading The Tilted World and the other is reading anything on the theme 'royalty', hence my rereading The Other Boleyn Girl.

The Martian was just so awesome I had to listen to it again. 

The Ocean at the End of the Lane was okay; like Coraline crossed with Fire and Hemlock.

Here's the Story is the first audiobook I ever got, if I recall correctly.  I like Maureen McCormick and the Brady Bunch; I think she's a very brave woman, who's done well to fight her way out of the issues she's dealt with.

Love Lessons is another one I listened to recently but wanted to hear again.  Nation is just a truly wonderful book.

Sorry this one's so short.  I'll try to be a bit more thorough next week!

In Which We Discuss Books I Read in my 26th Year, Week 23/52

Only four books this week; two that have been clogging up my unread pile for years, an old favourite and the last Horror High.

Deadly Rumours was originally published as The Dead Girlfriend, which I've not actually read before.  It's eighties teen horror and I love that.

Geisha, a Life is the autobiography of Mineko Iwasaki, who provided some of the information behind Memoirs of a Geisha.  I liked Memoirs, so when I saw it in a charity shop, I bought it.  That was several years, perhaps a decade, ago.  I finally read it, and I really liked it.  Mineko Iwasaki was the most successful geisha in Japan, and she goes into a lot of detail here. 

Nation is a Pratchett novel I've loved since it was released.  It was the audiobook I listened to, which is a fairly recent purchase.  The performance doesn't distract from the story, though it doesn't enhance it as much as Blair Brown's performance as Rose Madder does.

Finally, The Little Friend.  I finally finished the fucking thing, after making myself read twenty-five pages a day.  The main character is a bratty pain-in-the-arse who decides to go about causing trouble because she thinks she's in Harriet the Spy.  I very sincerely wanted her to go away and stop making poor Danny's life worse.  What an unpleasant child.  The novel also lacks catharsis, which I consider to be a major crime.