I mentioned Greg Rucka’s Keeper sometime last week. It went downhill a lot from the first few chapters. Maybe there weren’t as good as I thought at the time and I was just in the mood for them. It’s worth noting that I have a sister named Katie with Down’s Syndrome, I think that put me off a little bit and I’m not convinced on how accurate or even close the descriptions there were. Not majorly but it sat wrong in a couple of places. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t a bad book and if Amazon had the next one in stock it would be in this morning’s order it just didn’t live up to the first few chapters.
Mitch Albom’s The 5 People you Meet in Heaven sat in Border’s as part of their 3 for 2 for a good while before I picked it up. The cover drew me in a lot, it was very simple but titled nicely. It’s a very charming story and had me thinking throughout about who my five people would be (hypothetically of course) and of how people do pass by each other in life. It’s quite a light read and it made me smile a whole lot.
Anonymous’ Belle De Jour was given to me by a friend because it was about a famous blog. Not really complaining about that, I had read her blog on and off and found it funny. I knew the book was coming and vaguely had it on my list of things to keep an eye out for in paperback down the line. I didn’t know that it was going to be in the same diary format as the blog with slightly expanded entries/chapters. So not hugely rewarding, I had read a good bit of it already. As a book, it shows up much more of the flows than an odd journal entry does. Every second page doesn’t need to go on about how pretty she thinks she is or more importantly how pretty others think she is. Not a hugely bad read but you won’t miss much by sticking to the website.
Right now, I’m in the midst of reading Lord of Misrule, Christopher Lee’s updated autobiography. It’s very well written, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Close on 200 pages and all of the tales about his family, his younger life and the war is fascinating. Some of them are far more interesting than the stories about the films we get later on. He goes on about golf a bit much for my taste but peppers it with enough anecdotes to keep it going. So, not a my life in films book but an actual autobiography which is good.
I’m sure there was something else I read recently but I can’t think of it right now. Next up is probably The Time Traveller’s Wife. Picked this up on Friday due to the massive tube advertising calling it the next Lovely Bones, enough to have me take a glance in Borders and the back made me laugh so that was that.