It's Time to Read!

This is Mike Gordon’s first novel, yet to be released, and I must say, well worth reading. Here is the synopsis for Tracks taken from the back cover: The future of the surveillance society…In Boston, Global HealthCare Corporation is hoping to recover its fortunes with a new micro-chip technology which can eradicate disease – until [...]

I started this book this afternoon, and finished it this evening. This is the first Alan Bennett book I have read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Here is the Amazon synopsis for The Uncommon Reader: The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into [...]

This is the second novel I have read by Tracy Chevalier, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Here is the synopsis from Amazon on Girl With A Pearl Earring: The Dutch painter Vermeer has remained one of the great enigmas of 17th-century Dutch art. While little is known of his personal life, his extraordinary paintings of [...]

This is a Christian book about work. Greene raises issues for both the employer and the employee. It is not a long book, only 159 pages and is fast-paced. It did not take me long to read it. Greene talks about how we are around colleagues and our boss. He explains how power and authority [...]

I have never come across the author Jay Dennis before but we are often being encouraged to read biographies of leading and influential Christian’s, so when I saw Leading With Billy Graham, T.W. Wilson’s biography, I thought I would give it a go, and on the whole it is a good, useful book. Amazon synopsis: [...]

I have just finished Humble Pie (Quick Reads) by Gordon Ramsay   Amazon synopsis: Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, driven, stubborn. But this is his real story! In this fast-paced, bite-sized edition of his bestselling autobiography Ramsay tells the real story of how he became the world’s most famous and [...]

What a lovely book. Another Jodi Picoult book, My Sister’s Keeper was not a let down at all. Amazon synopsis: “A major decision about me is being made, and no ones bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion.” The only reason Anna was born was to donate her [...]

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Amazon synopsis: 1939 – Nazi Germany – The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and [...]

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones Amazon synopsis: ‘You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in [...]

This evening, on my Mum’s recommendation I read: Cautionary Verses and Ruthless Rhymes for modern times by Charlie Ottley. From Amazon: Book Description “Cautionary Verses & Ruthless Ryhmes…for modern times” is the definitive update of Hilaire Belloc’s classic ‘Cautionary Tales’ for the 21st Century, targeting the worst types of modern teenager, all of whom meet [...]