Literature: October Books

 

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 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 October I only managed to read 8 books.  So what books did I read?

Crime

Blue Moon by Lee Child

Little Bird by Sharon Dempsey

Christian

Idols of the Heart by Elyse Fitzpatrick

Healthy Faith and the Corona Virus by Luke Cowly etc

Fiction

False Impressions by Jeffrey Archer

Short Stories

Six Foot Six by Kit De Waal

Non-Fiction

Diary of a Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

Children’s

The Trouble with Donovan Croft by Bernard Ashley

The best book I have read in October has to be Diary of a Naturalist by Dara McAnulty. This book is brilliant in many different ways but mainly because it was written by a 14-year-old boy who is also Autistic. It is written so well and Dara’s descriptions of nature are brilliant and I had to read it with google in my hand so I could look up the birds and other things he talked about. When Dara was describing being in a place or looking at something, I actually really felt I was standing there beside him seeing or experiencing the same thing.