Instead of writing individual
reviews for all the books I have read, I am just going to condense them into
what I have read each month.
At the beginning of 2019, I set
myself the task on Goodreads to read 120 books this year, which means I need to
read about 2 a week. Between January and April, I managed to read 45. And
throughout the past month, I managed to read 10 books which now brings me to 55 books.
I love reading across genres, and
this month the genres I have read are:
- Christian
- Children’s
- Romance
- Short Stories
- Crime / Thriller
- Autobiography
The 10 books I have read in May
are:
- Love Me Not by M.J Arlidge
- The Racehorse who Disappeared by Clare Balding
- Lyrebird by Cecilia Ahern
- The Racehorse who wouldn’t Gallop by Clare Balding
- The Wrong Kind of Blood by Declan Hughes
- Down to the Woods by M.J Arlidge
- Running Blind by M.J Arlidge
- Enabling Church by Gordon Temple
- The Hunt by Bear Grylls
- Life on Air by David Attenborough
So what genre fits what book? Well one of them crosses over two genres
with the Running Blind by M.J Arlidge being a crime short story.
Also under the genre of crime
fiction I have read The Wrong Kind of Blood by Declan Hughes. This was the first book I read by this Irish author and I enjoyed it and looking forward to
reading more about Private Investigator Ed Loy, the main character in this book
about betrayal, loss, lust, drugs, etc.
I also read Love Me Not, Down to
the Woods and Running Blind in the DI Helen Grace series by M.J Arlidge. I love this series and highly recommend it to
others who love crime fiction. I also
read The Hunt which is the third book in the Will Jaegar series by Bear Grylls
which follows the hunt of German leaders who are keen to start a Fourth Reich
and go back to the Nazi era. It is a good book, not as good as the first book
in the series, but is better than the second one.
Children’s books are great to
read, not just because they are short but also because they are usually really
good fun stories and Clare Balding’s books on Racehorses are just that and I enjoyed
reading The Racehorse who Disappeared and The Racehorse who wouldn’t Gallop. I
read them out of sequence but it didn’t matter as though they follow the same
horse and little girl they do standalone by themselves as well. Clare is not
just a smiley TV presenter, she is a great writer too.
In the autobiography genre, I read
Life on Air by David Attenborough – a British Legend. His wildlife programs
are fantastic and this book gives you a behind the scenes look at David’s
career, his climbing the ladder within the BBC, the start of his wildlife
adventures and what happened when he was out filming the programs. David
tells a lot of humour stories about what happened to him and his team and you
could them getting up to antics.
