July was a fantastic reading month for me. I enjoyed almost everything that I read, leading me to read for longer than usual. In total I finished 14 books.
Three were so good that they’ll end up as my 2010 favourites:
The Book of Negroes – Lawrence Hill
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
The Birth of Love – Joanna Kavenna
The White Bone – Barbara Gowdy
The Surrendered – Chang-Rae Lee
The Republic of Trees – Sam Taylor
White is for Witching – Helen Oyeyemi
Plans for August: The Booker Long List!
I’ll be spending August working my way through the Booker long list. I don’t think I’ll have time to read anything else. In fact I’ll be lucky to finish the long list before 7th September (the day the short list is announced), especially since I also have to squeeze in The Sopranos by Alan Warner as it comes before The Stars in the Bright Sky.
I’m also considering reading The Siege by Helen Dunmore as The Betrayal is the follow-up to it. I’ve been told that they work as stand alone books, but I don’t like reading things out of order.
Have you read both books? Do you think I’ll enjoy The Betrayal less if I haven’t read The Siege first?
There will be more than Booker on the blog…
Unfortunately I’m a little behind in writing reviews, but the good news is that I have finished almost everything in my sidebar and so I’ll be able to intersperse those reviews with the Booker ones.
Summer holidays
It is the school Summer holidays here in the UK and so I’ll be spending my days looking after my little boys.
This means that you probably won’t see me on Twitter much and my blogging time will be greatly reduced. I apologise in advance for taking longer to respond to your comments and my dwindling Internet presence – I’ll be back to full blogging speed in September.
Have a wonderful Summer!