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.
In January I set myself the
target of reading 60 books however in March I increased this target to 100
because I was already nearing the target. Now we are in May and I think I may
have to increase the target again soon
as I am only 23 books away from 100. My
friends said that since I read 139 last year then I should try and read more
than that – so I may increase my target to 145.
But for now, I will concentrate on
the books I read in May – lockdown is giving me the time to read more. So in
May I have read 17 books which now brings my total number of books read so far
in 2020 to 77.
So what have I read in May? Here
goes:
Christian
Isaiah 43 Explained by Mitch
Glaser
The Stories we tell by Mike
Cosper
A Woman’s Battle for Grace by
Cheryl Broderson
Deep Magic, Dragons and Talking
Mice by Alister McGrath
Discipleship in the Present Tense
by James Smith
Fiction
Normal
People by Sally Rooney
Crime
The Bat
by Jo Nesbo
Night
School by Lee Child
I’m
Watching You by Teresa Driscoll
The
Shrine by LJ Ross
Here to
Stay by Mark Edwards
Short Stories
The
Great Summer Sewing Bee by Alex Brown
The
Donor by Clare McIntosh
20
Minutes Earlier by Daniel Hurst
Clean
Break by Tammy Cohen
Non-Fiction
Turning
Left Around the World by David C Moore
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
The
worst book this month, in my opinion, was The Bat by Jo Nesbo, people rave about
this author and how could he is but this book was disappointing and did not
make me want to read the others in the Harry Hole series.
There
have been many TV/Movie adaptations of books and some have been disappointing
and some have actually been better than the book. Well one Friday night I
started watching Sally Rooney’s Normal People on BBC and after episode 7
decided I wanted to read the book, so that night and the next morning I read
the book and then finished the series on TV. So which one was better? Well in
my opinion the TV adaptation stays quite true to the book with a few variations
in there for dramatic purposes – so I can’t actually say one was better than
the other – they were both good but I did like the ending of the TV series
better than the book - it was more
emotional and drawn out. Overall, 10 out of 10 to the director, writers, and the cast of the TV series – a job well done.
