Search results

Burning Steel - Peter Hart. Doing family research and came across this new book about the 2nd Fife and Forfar, which was my Grandad's tank regiment in WW2. One of the best memoir type books I've read on the subject. Hart describes their formation and their journey to D-Day and beyond until the...

I found the first book quite confusing, but he seems to have matured very quickly and the second book is superb and a cut above.

Memories of Ice - Steven Erikson, third book of the Malazan Empire series. Really enjoying this series, love the world building and in depth politicking at god levels. Only another 7 books to go 😁

Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Acclaimed as a sci-fi classic, so giving it a go. Enjoying it.

Sometimes you just need books like that. If I've read anything particularly heavy or a trilogy, then I'll always read a Lee Child or John Grisham afterwards just to refresh the palette for the next one 😁

Some often lauded sci-fi in Shards of Earth - The Final Architecture trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Caging Skies by Christine Leunens. It's the book that inspired the film JoJo Rabbit. It's interesting, not really read much about what it was like for a family (Austrian) during the rise of the Third Reich and how indoctrinated the kids were. Lots of parallels with Hans Fallada's Alone in...

Funnily enough I really struggled with it, just couldn't get into it, which is why I put off reading the other Bronte sisters for so long. My kindle bust the other week, which is why I had to pick up a proper book and Jane Eyre intrigued me the most.

Started Jane Eyre on a whim and thoroughly enjoying it. What a beautiful writing style Charlotte Bronte had.

Just finishing the Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn books. Excellent fantasy series, could see this being something similar to Game of Thrones on the TV.

Superbly addictive books. After a couple of emotionally heavy books I decided I needed a "don't need to think about it too much" novel, so picked up Karin Slaughter's Kisscut. A nice book to bridge a gap whilst I find something else.

Oh I have that on my shelf to read, hope it lives up to the hype. Currently finishing Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin. Absolutely fantastic book and a writing style quite unlike anything I've read before. It's all very simple, yet the tension and fear he manages to build up whenever the...

Murakami's Norwegian Wood. Not the sort of book I usually go for, but thoroughly intrigued by the relationships in it and would like to see what actually does happen. Very well written I have to say, the writer genuinely does make you care about the characters and their emotional states. I...