April has been a great month, not only with the amount of reading that I’ve been able to do but also with the celebration of, firstly, my wife’s birthday and then my sister-in-law’s. Also during the month I was able to take a mini vacation from work, a great chance to recharge and enjoy some reading. In terms of reading, I managed to read more books than I imagined, including some great recent releases, a chilling classic and unfortunately a high amount of below average novels.
Surprisingly, I read a few Magic Realism books with The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey and the massive 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami; while this genre is weird and not really my style, it was good to experience some the genre first hand. I also read a few novels that have recently been adapted into movies in preparation for their releases; The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. Overall this month has been a great month of reading for me, knocking out twelve different books.
Highlights for this month included the steampunkish action adventure novel Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway; imagine if Charles Dickens wrote a good James Bondish novel and that is what you’ll find in this book. Also the dark disturbing story of a woman suffering the effects and after effects of a very unhealthy relationship in Elizabeth Haynes’ brilliant debut novel Into the Darkest Corner. As well as the Henry James classic, a gothic horror masterpiece; The Turn of the Screw.
April’s Books
- Frankenstein: Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz
- The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
- A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale
- The Hanging Garden by Patrick White
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
- Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S, King
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
- Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
