The best bit about being part of any reading group is getting recommendations, and so our admin reads section serves a double purpose. You get to know us a little better, and you get to find out what we’re reading and get some recommendations too.
April has just flown by but summer will soon be upon us and lazy days reading sound just perfect! Despite a busy month we did manage to read a few books between us, and so without further ado here are the books we loved over the last month.
Kath
I’ve had the best reading month for ages, I love it when I hit the jackpot book after book. I started the month with Tell the Wolves I’m Home, what an amazing read. Easily the best book I’ve read in ages, but a fair few tissues were needed.
I was on holiday at the end of the month and so started a short story collection, Death Echo Vol1, just released. The stories all feature death somehow, and many of them have a fantasy/mythical element, at only 100 pages it was a quick one day read but I ended up wishing several of them were full length novels (I’m looking at you, Machine Monk)!
The last couple of days of my holiday spent reading The Light Between the Oceans. I’m about half way through now and it’s so very beautiful, I’m finding myself thinking about it when I’m not reading it.
Jacqui
This month has been all about my reading challenges and trying to get that list down. For my Cwts Club read I chose Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (it also tied in with “a book that’s been on your TBR for a long time). I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to read this great book. I think maybe, like many people, the subject matter put me off a bit. Once I got into it I realised that I had missed a treat, although the subject matter is not easy, the book is humourous and really well written. The language is amazing, even more so when you appreciate that he wrote it in English.
After I finished Lolita, I felt like a lightening of mood, so headed back to an old favourite The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend. I had forgotten just how funny this book is, I think my children both thought I had gone mad as I kept laughing out loud. If uou’re in need of a giggle and you’ve not sampled the pleasures of poor Adrian and his woes, I’d highly recommend this easy read.
Rosie
I’ve not been reading a lot this month but one I’ve been picking up a few times a week has been How To Write The Perfect Novel by Chancery Stone. I got it from my local library and it’s a fun read- funny, sarcastic, but ultimately helpful for those of us trying and failing at writing a novel.
Thom
After doing a news piece about the author of The Little Prince, and finding out what a ballsy son of a gun he was, I decided to read the book whilst away for a few days. I’m still trying to digest it really. I thought it was great but reading it as an adult I felt torn between the half that’s a straight forward book for kids and the other half that really speaks to adults. I didn’t expect a kids book to wreck me like that. In my day kids books were about hungry caterpillars!
We hope you have a good reading month!
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