You’re always telling us what you are reading, and so at the beginning of each month we try and return the favour with our admin reads section. As might be expected, the FRA admin is a bookish bunch and so at the start of each month we collate all our favourite reads from the previous month and tell you what we thought, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Throughout August, I had a particularly reading month, but I can’t say the same for Shan. Don’t you just hate being stuck in a reading rut? Here are our reads for the past month.
Kath
I started the month as a great many people did with the Cursed Child, you can read my review, but my biggest criticism is that I’d read it in three hours! How can it all be over again?
I then started The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul after picking it up with a stack of books at the charity shop. I’m a little obsessed with literature set in Afghanistan and it didn’t disappoint. My review for this will appear in the next few days.
Then I moved onto the monster that is Shantaram, it’s such a hefty book I’ve been putting it off for months but I’m so glad I have started it as it’s beautifully written! That said, I’ve even reading it for a week and I’m not even a quarter of the way through. I’ll update next month on my progress, surely I’ll have finished it by then.
Shan
I have really struggled with a proper slump this month. I picked up The Loney yet again and put it back down, yet again. It just misses somehow.
Next I picked up The Widow and put that back down too. Just found myself re reading the same paragraph over and over again.
Gave myself a break for a couple of weeks, binge watched Penny Dreadful (What? It has literary overtones!) and after Kath waxed lyrical about Shantaram I bought myself a copy yesterday.
Send me suggestions people, I’ll have a go at most genres and am trying to expand my reading range.
Signed
Shan the Sad
Rosie
I’m loving Fellside by M.R Carey, I’m nearly halfway through but would’ve finished already if I hadn’t misplaced by book for a fortnight! It’s intriguing and suspenseful, and I’m enjoying reading it so far.
Terry Pratchett’s Thud! has made its way back to my reading pile after I rediscovered it hidden in an old beach bag. There’s something so warm and welcoming about the Discworld, I can never stay away for too long.
See you again next month!
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