If you’ve been on tenterhooks then fret no more as I have begun reading Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend and what’s more I am past the prologue and well into the – well gosh – second chapter which is more than I’ve ever read of it before!!!* Has it grabbed me this time? Yes. Do I know why? No idea but it has and I’m looking forward to getting back to it this evening.
Now I know I said that I wouldn’t set my myself any further reading challenges on here as basically I’m inherently lazy and fight against doing what I set myself to do but I’m off on holiday next week and I do have a very big list of books to plough my way through and I am going to set myself the challenge of doing a short – possibly pithy, but I can’t guarantee that – review of each one and these are the books that I will be reading:
- James Oswald – No Time to Cry
- Philip Pullman – The Subtle Knife
- Laura Lippman – Sunburn
- Elly Griffiths – The Zig Zag Girl
- Dervla McTiernan – The Ruin
- Will Dean – Dark Pines
- Peter James – Dead if You Don’t
- Cara Hunter – In the Dark
- Christopher J Yates – Grist Mill Road
- Johanna Gustawsson – Block 46
- Liz Nugent – Skin Deep
- Nico Walker – Cherry
I’m going armed with a pukka pad and a biro and will be writing as I go along before letting you know how it went, whether we made it to Rouen and if anybody on the campsite annoyed the living hell out of me.
NB: This list is subject to a lot of changes between now and my holiday departure as I can never make up my mind as to what to read.
That’s if for today only to say that last night I was listening to the Sharp Objects playlist on Spotify and this piece made me swoon a little bit, it’s by Alexandra Stréliski and is called Plus tôt:
* I feel that I should point out the chapters are bloody long in this book.
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