Some of my reads for August

I managed to read a few this month, seven to be exact.  Two books by Mick Herron,  Down Cemetery Road and London Rules. London Rules “London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one. Cover your arse.” The book is full of witty dialogue and black humour.  I found myself laughing out…

More reads from July

I managed to fit in a few more books in July. Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell I became hooked on Lisa Jewell when I read Watching You and was happy to find a copy of Then She Was Gone at our library. From Goodreads: “THEN She was fifteen, her mother’s golden girl. She…

It has been a while.

There has been too much sport on television recently and it has played havoc with my normal routine.  The Tour de France meant I was getting to bed at unseemly hours and that was then followed by the Cricket World Cup, followed by The Ashes so the usual day activities have come to a shuddering…

More June reads

Much of my reading is crime fiction and Stuart MacBride is one of my favourite authors.  I tend to read quite a bit by Scottish authors. A Song for the Dying is another novel in the Oldcastle series. “He’s back … Eight years ago, ‘The Inside Man’ murdered four women and left three more in…

I didn’t know this.

I must have been living under a rock as I was unaware that J.K.Rowling was the author Robert Galbraith. I had borrowed Lethal White from the library and had started to read it when a friend told me that she had the first three books in the series.  I had been reading thinking it was…

Two of my June reads, too much cricket.

June has meant that I have been spending a great deal of time watching the World Cup Cricket so my reading has taken a back seat.  I have still managed to read a few books. Another library book but one I wished I had bought as it would have been good to be able to…