Recent reads

Since Looking for Alaska, which I really enjoyed, we've read

Gone Girl
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones
The Leftovers
No one ever has sex on a Tuesday

I don't think we enjoyed Gone Girl as much as we'd expected to given the hype, though it was readable enough. We went to see the Taming of the Shrew at the Globe, which was brilliant. I hated Raw Head and Bloody Bones, but I think everyone else enjoyed it... I thought the Leftovers was quite entertaining and No one ever has sex on a Tuesday was standard, but pretty readable, chick lit.

Latest books

What have we read since last time?

Well. we took two months over Cloud Atlas, and who can blame us? After all it was Christmas and it's a long book.

Next up was Tigers in Red Weather by Lisa Klaussmann. I missed the meeting that discussed this, which was a real shame (but then I was at the launch of The Poisoned Island by Lloyd Shepherd at the time, so at least I was doing something book-related....) I for one really enjoyed Tigers. I found the Ed character and his part of the story quite disturbing though, to say the least, he wasn't a sympathetic character at all. I also found Helena somewhat irritating (understatement of the year). Nick and Hughes were my favourite characters and their story was fascinating - I could have read a whole book just about their relationship. Recommended.

This month's pick is Looking for Alaska by John Green. It's young adult fiction, or teen fiction or whatever that's called these days and I'm pretty sure I'd never have picked it up were it not for book clurb.