Salutations Lovelies,
Reading is and had been a long-term passion that I’ve
had before I dug into my aunties purse and wreaked havoc with her lipsticks. I
can always be found crouched in a corner somewhere captivated by an author’s
well-paced words, spinning my imagination with a tale of adventure, romance,
suspense or sorrow.
During the weekend, I asked a few bloggers
on the twitter #bblogger thread if they would be interested in book club.
I had a really positive response from some
bloggers (hence the purpose of this post).
The way this will work (I hope) is that
every month I will choose 5 or so books, which I think would make great
nighttime/travel reading and we will vote on which book we want to read.
The polls will be open for a week and at
the end of the month, I will publish all the views, thoughts or videos with our
opinions on the book. Also very month I will be giving away 2 copies of the
books we have chosen to read (so that if you want a chance to read the book,
but don’t have the funds, you have a chance)
I hope this sounds simple and fair because I’ve
never formed or set up a book club before but it is something that I really
want to do, so I hope this idea really picks off.
With many recommendations, The Book Choices
for this month are:-
Some
Kind of Fairy Tale – Graham Joyce
Tara Martin went missing 20 years ago. The
15-year-old was last seen in Outwoods, a creepy woodland near her family home
in Leicester. She’d had a fight with her boyfriend, felt isolated from her
family. On Christmas Day, 20 years later, she arrives on her parents’ doorstep
claiming that, actually, she’s only been away six months. And she’s been living
with fairies.
A dark, modern spin on the fantasy genre,
Graham Joyce spins the Disney notion of fairies as maple-leaf wearing, peter
pan following creatures to adult sized, sex-crazed and violent.
The
End of the Wasp Season – Denise Mina
When a notorious millionaire banker hangs
himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness
is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be
protecting: his family. Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young
woman is found savagely murdered. The community is stunned by what appears to
be a vicious, random attack. When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, heavily
pregnant with twins, is called in to investigate, she soon discovers that a
tangled web of lies lurks behind the murder.
A
multi-layered novel about family's power of damage-and redemption, The End of
the Wasp season is sure to keep us at the end of our seats.
The
Book Thief - Markus Zusak
A short story about; among other things: a
girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish
fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus
Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl
living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself
by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help
of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her
stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish
man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
A short unforgettable story about the
ability of books to feed the soul
The
Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
When Henry meets Clare, he is twenty-eight
and she is twenty. Henry has never met Clare before; Clare has known Henry
since she was six. Impossible but true, because Henry finds himself
periodically displaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his
life, past and future.
Henry and Clare's attempts to live normal
lives are threatened by a force they can neither prevent nor control, making their
passionate love story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.
The book than made an incredible film The
Time Traveler's Wife is a story of fate, hope and belief, and more than
that, it's about the power of love to endure beyond the bounds of time
I Was Told There’d Be Cake – Sloane Crosley
A book of essays written by an author might
seem a strange choice of reading but sometimes it can be a first had insight
into someone else’s personality and reasoning.
In I Was Told There’d Be Cake Sloan
Crosley’s sweet, and very funny personality comes off so strong that you can’t
help but lover her.
Covering everything from her embarrassment
at having a stash of plastic ponies under her sink to the misery of a friend’s
wedding, this is a great an alternative read.
So those are the choices for this week, if
you have any recommendation for books to read please pop in in the comment box
and VOTE!!!!
