I do love reading but seem to have fallen into a bit of a slump last year.
I think I was missing my book group in the Blue Mountains and although I keep in touch with them, I haven't beenable to keep up with their book choices.
I needed a new challenge!
So when I saw an on-line friend refer to the popsugar reading challenge, I was defo interested.
The list of reading prompts is certainly stretching me and revitalising my kindle and library card!
I have also picked some books off the library shelves that have been tempting me as I sit in there and use the free wifi.
Here are some things I have read lately that I have enjoyed.
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood. I can't tell you how much I loved this book.
I'm a fan of Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch and The Secret History.
I have newly discovered Helen Garner and am keen to devour more of her beautiful writing.
Elizabeth Stout is the flavour of the moment and I muchly enjoyed Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton.
I have also only recently read Georgia Blain - Between a Wolf and a Dog. It's so sad that she died of brain cancer 2 years ago. Such a loss.
Their Brilliant Careers by Ryan O'Neill, a spoof on Australian writers as you may be able to tell from the title.
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley. He's the guy who wrote the tv versions of Fargo. But the book is nothing like that.
But still a good read.
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith. Another Australian author although the subject is not Australian.
I'm a big David Mitchell fan. I know he may be an acquired taste, and I love all his books apart from number9dream and am not too fussed on The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet although it has got one of the most spectacular sentences ever written, IMHO.
Hopefully this reading challenge will throw up some more favorites.
What have you read lately?
