The last book related post I did was My Autumnal reads’ and
now seeing as the summer has come it would only be fitting to do a summer book
post too. So here are a few books that I have read/ reread over the summer that
I would recommend to others. These are all rather light hearted books that are
easy to read but nonetheless the writing and the plot had me hooked. For me
personally when the weathers as good as it’s been recently and the suns’ just
shining I prefer sitting outside with these sort of light hearted reads. My
more grummy and dark preference of literature I prefer for the evenings or when
were generally having darker rainy days…which we have a lot of here in good ‘ol
Brittan.
The first in my post is not actually a book but rather a notebook. I brought this one in a dark bottled green form Primark about a few months ago. The books an A5 size and its lined from inside which was exactly what I needed. I had been on the search for a snug A5 notebook I could keep at hand to be able write in instead of writing my poem on the random pieces of paper and having them eventually get lost. It’s good to have a book to keep all my random bits of writing in together.
The second is ‘The Secret Dreamworld of a shopaholic’ which being an old
publication had no mention of its theatre remake. Upon reading it I realised it
was the novel that ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ was made upon. This was
seriously exciting for my year 5 year old self I must say and upon reading it
again I’ve loved it even more. Sophie Kinsella is one of my favourite Chick Flick
authors and her series just so seamlessly interlink from one book to another.
If you love the movie I would recommend reading the rest of the series.
This book again is a book which I remember buying from the
works when I was about 12…but id still pick that up again now if I saw it.
Haha. The book itself has many fairy-tale of all different kinds: Traditional,
Cultural, Dark, Moral based. Reading them at that age to be honest I did not
understand them and had abandoned the book for a long time, until recently my
nieces came over and spotted it on my shelf and took it out. And when I started
reading the Fairy-tales to them I began to understand the tales and absolutely
loved them and guess what my nieces one being 10 the other 8 didn’t like them.
They just didn’t understand a word I had read no matter how many words I
synonymised for easier words and how I tried to thin out the plot they just
didn’t like it…maybe I’ll try again in another 7-8 years.
The next book is crescendo by Bella Flitzpatrick. This book
is amazing I absolutely fell in love with every one of the character especially
Nora. This one is the darker one out of the rest, sort of a ‘Twilighty’ novel
of a fallen Angel-‘patch’ and the tales that unfold around him and the girl he
must protect-Nora. This book was written beautifully and it a trilogy… which I
must confess I haven’t read…yet but I intend to. It for me, in some places,
felt too much like twilight to the
way it was told but I loved both books.
The last book was one I recently got upon the suggestion of
PersueProject and it is called ‘Elizabeth is missing’ the plot totally drew me
in when she was explaining it in one of her videos. It’s about a women suffering
from dementia who has the memory span of about 10 minutes it is narrated from
her point of view which makes it quite a sad read. The prologue was one that
really intrigued me and was another reason I continued reading. The writing
style so far I really like and seeing the character profile of this women
itself develop.