Sunday, 4 August 2013

Next on my list...

One of the rather enjoyable problems of working with books and having conversations with customers on a daily basis is, that with one thing and another, you get a reading list twice as long as your arm, in addition to the stack of books you've already got stacked around the house because you've run out of space on your bookshelves.
Being a children's bookseller is rather nice though as you can read a picture book in 5 minutes and can often read a 9-12 book in an evening, provided the dog doesn't decide that she needs all your attention, which at the moment she does.
Teen books do take a little longer though. I've recently finished John Green's Paper Towns which I really enjoyed, alas, I put An Abundance of Katherine's down after a couple of chapters. I really need to get going with it again. I also really need to read The Fault In Our Stars, but after reading Jenny Downham's Before I Die and before that a book which was far better than Before I Die, (shamefully I can't remember the title, however it involved a teenage cancer patient going to New York, falling in love and eventually succumbing ), I really don't feel that I can read another book like that at the moment. I've also read Wonder, for which there will be a review forthcoming.
So what am I reading next? Well I'm part way through, after putting them off for a long time, The Brilliant World of Tom Gates and I really do need to read Patrick Ness' Knife of Never Letting Go and A Monster Calls. I'm also fortunate to have received two rather exciting proof copies, I'm not 100% convinced I'm allowed to say exactly what they are at the moment, so I'll have to keep those under my hat for the moment. I'm going to revisit some old favourites such as The Hundred and One Dalmatians I may attempt to review the Potters and of course the remaining Claude books. If I'm feeling very, very brave I'll post my opinions on His Dark Materials, but I may need some serious fortification before I attempt that!
I'm going to start and review some more classics, including a few titles which were huge a couple of years ago, sadly I no longer have the books, but I think I can remember enough about them to review them effectively enough.
That's my plan anyway. Of course there may be something that springs up that I just have to read... I'd be very surprised if there wasn't.

2 comments:

  1. I say go for it with His Dark Materials, I never got round to those but they are always in my peripheral vision...

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  2. I think if I start on His Dark Materials I may get a severe telling off... I'll need an awful lot of dutch courage!

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