This Week, Next Week (and last month)

Happy Sunday everyone.  I hope you’ve had a good week.  Ours was good and busy – with two birthdays to celebrate (my dads and my daughter’s).  Which means after a weekend of chocolate in the form of Easter eggs last weekend, this once has been one of chocolate in the form of cake.  My waistline may never forgive me, though we did go back to the trampoline park this morning to try and burn off some of the calories!

Blogging wise, I did pretty well with a post every day of the (working) week – I can’t remember the last time I did that and, book wise, I picked up a couple of good looking reads from the library plus some review copies. (links to goodreads)

The Bones of You by Debbie Howells is a psychological thriller involving a young girls death, a family in turmoil and a English village where life will never (apparently) be the same again.  The back blurb compares it to I Let You Go, which I loved, so we’ll see…

The Door That Led To Where by Sally Gardner is described as a mystery but involves a time travelling 16 year old so I have no idea how this one will turn out but it gets good reviews and my library had it in prime position on the “new arrivals” shelf so I couldn’t resist.

I also got a copy of…

The new Mary Kubica book, Don’t You Cry, which I can’t wait to read because I’ve loved her other two books and this one sounds just as good with a missing woman who may or may not be who people thought she was.

The Girls by Emma Cline which sounds interesting and is, I think, supposed to be one of the books of the year – set in California in the summer of 1969 it is loosely based on the Manson family I believe.

I will probably start with Don’t You Cry but you never know – whichever way, I think it will be a good start to the month after a month which ended pretty well as well with two books I found I liked a lot.  Which brings me quite nicely (and as if I’d planned it) to my March Round-Up and what I loved, liked and wasn’t too keen on…(clicking on cover should take you to the review).

Loved

Only one book I this month I thought was totally brilliant. Ruth Ware’s debut is a real page turner that had me hooked with it’s spooky setting, mix of characters and red herrings.

Liked a Lot

A mixed set of books here this month as I try to mix things up genre wise, going from the essays of one of the last survivors of the Great Depression in Harry’s Last Stand to the dystopian future of The Well, where the rain has stopped falling. In between there was my favourite genre – crime fiction in Cinderella Girl and Dead Lost – and a favourite author in Diane Chamberlain, who puts life’s complexities out there for you to decide on.

           

Liked

I really wanted to love Here We Lie – it sounded great – but I got bogged down in details I didn’t think needed to be there, making the book drag for me.

Not for me

My first classic club read in a while, The 39 Steps was a disappointment – I think I have seen the movie too many times – whilst my mistake with All The Little Pieces may have been I listened to rather than read it and it was loooong as a result.

   

And that’s my week and my month. How were yours?

Emma

This week, I’m linking in with Kimba at the Caffeinated Book Reviewer and her Sunday Post and with (a little early) Katherine at Book Date for It’s Monday, What Are you Reading? Head over to see what other bloggers have read, written about or just added to their shelves.