Every month instead of writing individual book reviews for the books I had read, I just post a list of those books. At the beginning of the year, I set a target of reading 60 books but due to lockdown and having more time on my hands, I actually hit that target in April so I increased my target to 100 and by the end of July I had read 102. Instead of increasing my target again, I decided I would just read for the sake of reading.
Most months in 2020 I have been
able to read 10 or more books, but in August I only managed to read 9 books. And in total, I have now read 113 in 2020. So what books did I read in August?
Crime
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
Dying Light by Joy Ellis
The Gift for Dying by M.J Alridge
Christian
Walking Backwards by Jeff Lucas
The Art of Rest by Adam Mabry
Short Stories
Cut Off by Mark Billingham
Looking for Captain Poldark by Rowan
Coleman
A Fresh Start by Fanny Blake et
al
Non-Fiction
52
Times Britain was a Bellend by James Felton
The whole title of James Felton’s book is ’52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The history you didn’t get Taught at School’. It is a fully illustrated book chronicling 52 of the most stupid and weird things the Brits have done to the world and then conveniently forgetting all about them! This includes:
- Starting wars with China when they didn’t buy enough of our class A drugs
- Inventing a law so we didn’t have to return objects they had blatantly stolen from other countries
- Casually create muzzles for women
- And almost going to war over a crime committed by a pig!
- Despite the title of the book being a bit rude! I did enjoy this book and seeing history from another side – it was funny and eye-opening at the same time!
