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Little I has dramatically cut down the length of her feeds and now we only have one 20 minute night feed. As a result my reading has suffered! At best I am managing to read about half an hour a day. So I have less to report this month! My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell - our latest Book Club read. It is 1935. Gerry Durrell is 10 and his well off family consisting of Mother and 3 grown up siblings decide to up sticks and move to Corfu. And so begins Gerry's memoir of their five years on the island told through his encounters with the Greek wildlife. I found this book incredibly funny. The stories of Gerry's latest animal finds causing chaos in the house are hilarious. My favourites include the 'Magenpies' trashing the party table and the water snakes in the bath. Oh and the baby scorpions in the matchbox. And the dog being carried everywhere on a cushion. I could go on... The whole book must be exaggerated as his family seem like charactertures of people rather than real personalities but that only helped make it funnier. At times the book got a little slow with the descriptions of Gerry's encounters with the Greek wildlife but just as he was about to loose you he pulled it back to another hilarious anecdote about the family. Overall the book was very easy to read and I was impressed with the writing and the storytelling. I'd like to know what happened to the family after they left Corfu and luckily there are 4 more books so I can find out! 4/5 Untouched the second book in The Girl in the a Box series by Robert J Crane Sienna Nolan is 17 and hasn't left her house since she was 5. Her mother has kept her prisoner, locking her in a metal box when she steps out of line. One day her mother leaves for work and doesn't return. Two men break into the house and Sienna discovers she has extraordinary powers. She escapes but is pursued by more than one agency whose motives are not clear. What is she? Who is her mother? And who are these people trying to catch her? These books are pretty short and I read the second installment pretty quickly. Sienna's powers fully develop revealing not only her super strength and regeneration powers but she has an exceptional power; she can suck the life force from people via touch (X-men Rogue parallel). Interestingly the soul of the people she kills somehow transfers to her body and she can hear them talking to her in her head. When they start to take control of her body she realises she needs to find her mother quickly to find out how to control this power. The storyline is taking some interesting turns but the lead character is still whiny and annoying. I am finding my enthusiasm waning slightly. Hopefully the third book will pick up a bit. 3/5  On my Kindle app I am reading Soulless the third book in The Girl in the Box series by Robert J Crane In paperback I'm reading The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty For Book Club we are reading my choice of book The Girl Who Saved The King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson This post is linked to #ThisMonthIRead with mutteringmummy.wordpress.com #readwithme at mamamummymum.co.uk #triedtested with thefamilyfever.co.uk and goingonanadventure.co.uk and AllAboutYou with mama-andmore.com
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30/6/2014 07:25:02 am
Thanks for linking up. I like the sound of My Family and Other Animals. It sounds like quite a funny easy read :) 30/6/2014 12:32:15 pm
I love the sound of My Family and Other Animals...will have to add it to my mountainous 'to be read' list. :) 1/7/2014 02:14:20 am
Oh my goodness I love Gerald Durrell. This has made me go and dig it back out! Fabulous #TriedTested 1/7/2014 05:33:46 am
I love the sound of both of these books, will keep an eye out for them I think! Thanks for linking up with #TriedTested 1/7/2014 12:42:51 pm
I'm impressed that you've read two books this month, and that's you slowing down! I'm averaging two per year since having kids... the first one sounds fab, not sure about the second one though! 1/7/2014 11:23:55 pm
ooh I like the sound of the second book. Might see if I can get that on Kindle! Thanks for sharing- am always looking for book recommendations :) 7/7/2014 04:52:12 am
I went from reading 2-3 books a month pre-children to being delighted if I get through 2-3 a year these days!! Well done you for keeping up, very impressive and thanks so much for your reviews. I find it a shame that now that so many people read on e-readers on public transport I have no idea what the "hot reads" are anymore. Thanks for linking to #AllAboutYou 21/7/2014 02:11:37 am
I do love to read series of books, I always like to wait until the full series has been released so I can read them back to back :) thanks so much for linking up with #ReadWithMe :) x 21/7/2014 02:32:47 am
I loved the husbands secret.
Sophie
21/7/2014 04:58:49 am
Came from the #ReadWithMe linky :) 21/7/2014 12:21:57 pm
Wow, My Family and Other Animals reminds me of my childhood. I think my parents read it to me as we regularly holidayed in Greece. I must try and find a copy to re-read. X #readwithme 24/7/2014 11:02:11 pm
wow, you've got a lot of books on the go. My Family and Other Animals was one of the books we read at school. I've never read any others by Gerald Durrell #readwithme Leave a Reply. |
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