What I’m currently reading…
Judge Dredd Year One
I know these 2000AD novels aren’t what you would call mainstream reads for book lovers, since their origins were established in comics, but I love this world. So I’m indulging myself.
Judge Fear's Big Day Out by various authors (2020)
Overall this was a good read. There are 32 short stories here, featuring all walks of life, differing Mega-City locations and narratives.
Second Quarter Book Recommendation 2023
This book feels so unique and different I just had to make it my recommendation.
A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark (2016)
If you'd explained the content of this book, the entities involved and even the setting, I'm pretty sure I would have said 'No thanks, not for me.'
Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen (2019)
This is a good book, if it's your kind of thing...unfortunately it's not mine.
Elsewhere by Dean Koontz (2020)
Most of the Dean Koontz books I've read I did so back in the '80s and '90s, and since it's been such a long time, and I've piled on so many years, I thought it would be nice to revisit
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (2020)
I've had to call it a day on this one, I just can't go any further than 101 pages. This book didn't work for me on so many levels.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)
I’ve wanted to try Charles Dickens for some time now but have been put off because of the impression that his writings may be dark, depressing and humourless.
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding (2009)
You know those days when you're just sick of the world and everything about it? Those days when you decide you're just going to hide from everything and everyone?
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway (2012)
How can a book possibly be so enjoyable and yet such hard work?
First Quarter Book Recommendation 2023
If you’ve already read my review of this book you know there was no way I wasn’t going to make it my recommendation of the quarter, no matter what other books might have been up against it.
Mockingbird by Walter Tevis (1980)
Ok, this is my second read of this book, my first being so far back I could only remember a few key elements of the story. But I can still vividly remember the profound effect it had on me at the time.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
What an exquisite book! An all-time favourite, for sure! Amazingly layered storytelling.
I have to admit, again, as with previous classics, I'm more enamoured with the prose itself than the story.