Luna's Book Blog 2023

[lunababymoonchild]

1 Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut - completed (paperback)

2 The Stranger from the Sea, Winston Graham - completed (paperback)

3 Kew Gardens, Virginia Woolf - completed (e-book, short story)

4 The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver - completed (paperback)

5 Society, Virginia Woolf - completed (e-book, short story)

6  Interim, Dorothy Richardson - completed (e-book)

7  The Whispering Muse, Laura Purcell - completed (e-book)

8 Maigret's Memoirs, Georges Simenon - completed (e-book)

9 The Astonomer and the Witch, Ulinka Rublack - completed (e-book)

10 The Owl and the Nightingale, Simon Armitage - completed (hardback)

11 Plunder Squad (Parker 15), Richard Stark - completed (paperback)

12 The Hamlet, William Faulkner - completed (hardback)

13 Mary Ann Cotton, Britain's First Serial Killer, David Wilson - completed (e-book)

14 Fair Helen, Andrew Greig - completed (e-book)

15 Hard Times, Charles Dickens - completed (e-book)

16 Pietr the Latvian, Georges Simenon - completed (e-book)

17 The Man in Black, Lynn Shepherd - completed (paperback)

18 Hear No Evil, Sarah Smith - completed (e-book)

19 An Unwritten Novel, Virginia Woolf - completed (short story, e-book)

20 The String Quartet, Virginia Woolf - completed (short story, e-book)

21 The Glucose Goddess Method, Jesse Inschauspe - completed (e-book)

22 Humanly Possible, Sarah Bakewell - completed (hardback)

23 Take My Hand, Dolen Perkins-Valdez - completed (e-book)

24 The Watcher, Charles McLean - completed (e-book)

25 A Haunted House, Virginia Woolf - completed (short story, e-book)

26 The Mark On the Wall, Virginia Woolf - completed (short story, e-book)

27 The Karamazov Brothers, Fyodor Dostoevsky - completed (paperback and e-book)

28 The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, H G Parry - completed (e-book)

29 The Rime of the Ancient Marriner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - completed (e-book)

30 The Devil and the Dark Water, Stuart Turton - completed (e-book)

31 Pet, Catherine Chidgey - completed (e-book)

32 Helter-Skelter, The True Story of The Manson Murders, Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry - completed (e-book)

33 From the Depths and other Strange Tales of the Sea, British Library Tales of the Weird - completed (e-book)

34 Amras, Thomas Bernhard (novella) - completed (hardback part 1 of Three Novellas collection)

35 Playing Watten,Thomas Bernhard (novella) - completed (hardback part 2 of Three Novellas collection)

36 Walking, Thomas Bernhard (novella) - completed (hardback part 3 of Three Novellas collection)

37 Maigret Takes A Room, Georges Simenon - completed (e-book)

38 Nightshade, E S Thomson - completed (e-book)

39 Sea fever, Meg Clothier and Chris Clothier - completed (e-book)

40 The Ladies of Grace Adieu, Susanna Clarke - completed (e-book)

41 The Revels, Stacy Thomson - completed (e-book)

42 Talking To the Wild, Becky Hemsley - completed (paperback)

43 De Profundis, Oscar Wilde - completed (e-book)

44 Letters From Life, Becky Hemsley - completed (paperback)

45 Under Ground, E S Thomson - completed (paperback)

46 The Woman In Me, Britney Spears - completed (e-book)

47 The London Vampire, Lynn Shepherd - completed (e-book)

48 Nathan Dylan Goodwin, Hiding in the Past - completed (e-book)

49 Lee Child, 61 Hours - completed (paperback)

50 Ronnie O’Sullivan, Unbreakable - completed (e-book)

Edited January 18 by lunababymoonchild

[Hayley]

Sorry if I missed your review elsewhere but what did you think of Cat's Cradle? I liked the concept but found it very depressing!

[lunababymoonchild]

2 hours ago, Hayley said:

Sorry if I missed your review elsewhere but what did you think of Cat's Cradle? I liked the concept but found it very depressing!

That's alright, I'm adding books to my bookshelf and review them there so easily missed.

 

I loved it! The writing is superb and I was getting comfortable with the satiric method - it comes across as sarcastic to me but I finally got it. The title was explained in the book, more than once, and is absolutely genius. It brings the whole book together but is a spoiler so I won't mention it. I did laugh out loud a couple of times as I was reading and Vonnegut does a superb job of sending up that which he targets. It's absolutely superb and I'd recommend it (it's not that long)

Edited January 17, 2023 by lunababymoonchild

[lunababymoonchild]

I just realised that my reading rate has gone up because e-books (Kindle in my case) are shorter than print books, some by quite a way.

[France]

On 2/11/2023 at 3:44 PM, lunababymoonchild said:

I just realised that my reading rate has gone up because e-books (Kindle in my case) are shorter than print books, some by quite a way.

I also find I read much quicker with Kindle books - which is fine with detective novels but biographies etc are better in print I find.

[lunababymoonchild]

I was so impressed by this sentence that I had to type it out and post it (he's describing a thirteen year old girl, the youngest of sixteen)

 

 

On the contrary, her entire appearance suggested some symbology out of the old Dionysic times - honey in sunlight and bursting grapes, the writhen bleeding of the crushed fecundated vine beneath the hard rapacious trampling goat-hoof.

William Faulkner The Hamlet (book 2, chapter 1)