I'm surprised I read so much this week - 17th December to 23rd December. That said, the three Sophie Hannah's are all audiobooks. I listened to Pictures or It Didn't Happen - a three hour quick read - again before buying a few more credits for the next few books, that is, The Other Half Lives and A Room Swept White.
The Other Half Lives is the first Sophie Hannah book I ever read. Happily, it's been long enough that I'd forgotten the finer details of the intricate plot. I'd also forgotten one of the more disturbing details of A Room Swept White - that Hannah implies the scientific community were picking on Andrew Wakefield for disagreeing with them. That's dangerously inaccurate; Wakefield's claim that the MMR vaccine caused autism was not properly tested or validated.
Memoriam is a graphic novel that I spotted in the library, about a girl who wakes up with no memory. It was pretty interesting. Introduction by the author of the Fables series, which tells you something about it.
I read The Dark Half as part of my Stephen King project. I wrote a longer post about it here.
Finally, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? was the inspiration for the title of a Gilmore girls episode. I read a bit about the book and it seemed interesting so I picked it up on Kindle. It's set in the depression and focuses on a dance marathon, in which young couples danced for an hour and fifty minutes at a time with ten minute breaks, the longest lasting pair winning a prize. It's bleak and miserable, but in a very interesting way. We know it ends with the main character shooting his partner because the entire story takes place in a flashback as the verdict at his trial is being delivered. It was great, I enjoyed it.
