What I am reading Wednesday

[paranoidangel]

What I Just Finished Reading
A load of Elly Griffiths' Dr Ruth Galloway series. I've been putting holds on the early ones, one at a time, and then when I go to the library to pick them up, getting another one. I finally read one where they made Norfolk sound really pretty. It was the first one that wasn't set in the middle of winter or a summer heatwave, so that probably helped.

Upper Fourth at Malory Towers, Into the Fifth at Malory Towers and Last Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton. I struggled a bit with the fourth series because a lot of it about the First Formers and there was a lot less of the original characters. Turns out the book is all about the original characters and I enjoyed it more. I am saving series 5 until there's less on TV because it has 20 episodes(!), but I've seen the preview. There was one bit that sounded partially like the fifth book and one bit that sounded partially like the sixth book. It feels like they're gradually getting further and further away from the books, but we'll see.

A Good Enough Mother by Sheila Norton
The Lost Letters of Evelyn Wright by Clare Swatman
Her Guilty Secret by Emily Cavanagh
The World Outside My Window by Clare Swatman
Not Your Child by Sheila Horton
I was ill and wanted some easy reading and these were. But they were all about women whose exes were terrible, but it's ok because they found romance (except one). I just felt like I was reading the same books all the time. I thought I liked contemporary fiction, but it turns out I like some contemporary fiction. That doesn't involve divorce or romance or small children.

What I'm Currently Reading
To The Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei. I needed something different and I really wanted to read something written by a man. This is not fiction, so it's different in that respect. It's also really interesting because there's stuff about the anti-Japanese American prejudice during WWII and the sort of roles that were available to him as an actor.

What I'm Reading Next
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. For the 'Banned Book' square on my bingo card. And also because something from the book came up ages ago and I realised that I read it so long ago that I remembered absolutely nothing about it.

And then books 4 and 15 from Elly Griffiths' Dr Ruth Galloway series, once the library has got both of them in. Then I'll have read the first four and last four in the series and will just have the middle seven to go.

Mirrored from my blog.

Comments

[watervole]

The George Takei one sounds interesting.

[paranoidangel]

It is really interesting. I'm pretty sure I got it on Kobo when it was 99p, so it might be that cheap again sometime.

[thisbluespirit]

I finally read one where they made Norfolk sound really pretty. It was the first one that wasn't set in the middle of winter or a summer heatwave, so that probably helped.

LOL, I'm pretty sure the one I read they were having floods! I didn't realise it was an eternal problem. Do they need to move somewhere else?? XD

I struggled a bit with the fourth series because a lot of it about the First Formers and there was a lot less of the original characters.

Yes, I watched half of 4.1 and keep meaning to go back, because it was generally sweet and fun, but I was not up for reverting to the first formers like that! I mean, I get that it is children's TV and the older ones are getting older, but...

[paranoidangel]

Do they need to move somewhere else??

I think they do. They've got lost on the saltmarsh more than once.

get that it is children's TV and the older ones are getting older, but

There are things I can understand why they changed, but with each series they're changing more and more. And clearly things that never would have been in the original. I did get into series 4 eventually, but I am very much approaching series 5 with trepidation.