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. I had thought about increasing my target
after getting closer to having read 100 books, but even though by the end of
June I had already ready 89, I decided I would not bother upping my target and
instead of reading towards a goal, I would just read for the sake of reading
itself.
In July I managed to read 13
which has brought my total now up to 102. So what books did I read?
Short Stories
Valentine’s Day at the Café at
the End of the Pier by Helen J Rolfe
Spring at the Café at the End of
the Pier by Helen J Rolfe
Autumn at the Café at the End of
the Pier by Helen J Rolfe
Summer at the Café at the End of
the Pier by Helen J Rolfe
Christmas at the Café at the End
of the Pier by Helen J Rolfe
Fiction
Ordinary
Grace by William Kent Krueger
Christian
A Place
of Healing by Joni Eareckson Tada
Titus
for You by Tim Chester
Spurgeon’s
Sorrow by Zack Erswine
Joyful
Hope: Jean Gibson
Crime
Down
Among the Down by Damien Boyd
Lockdown
by Peter May
Non-Fiction
It’s
Not ok to feel Blue by Scarlett Curtis
One
evening I started to read ‘Valentine’s Day at the End of the Café’ and about 2
hours later I had read all five books in the series, so addicted was I to find
out what happened next to the main characters. They are great wee books and
easy reads as you can see – just wee light chick lit books.
The
most interesting book I read in July was Peter May’s ‘Lockdown’. Written just
after the Ebola Crisis a few years ago Peter May wrote this book in which the
whole world would go into lockdown due to a pandemic which was killing hundreds
of people, however the publishers said that the storyline was ridiculous and
something like that would never happen – ha, welcome to 2020 where the whole world
basically went into lockdown due to flu pandemic which was killing hundreds of
people. So when this happened, what did the publishers do? Yes you guessed it,
they published May’s book hoping many people would be intrigued and buy it –
which seemed to work as many people have read it. It is basically a crime drama
set in the backdrop of a flu pandemic, and while not being a masterpiece it is
still an interesting read and one with a very charismatic main character who
pulls you into the story.
