Book Review – Get to know the iconic Smart Passive Income guru – Let Go, Pat Flynn
I’ve also been ‘let go’ and it’s hard to bounce back but Pat gives you the tools, and motivation to do it.
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Book Review – Business for Authors: How to be an Author Entrepreneur, Joanna Penn
I knew I wanted a different career, I frequently said to myself ‘There must be more than this.’
Book Review of the Invaluable Non-Fiction – The Art of Social Media, Guy Kawasaki and Peg Fitzpatrick
There’s a brilliant helpful ‘schedule’ of what to do when you ‘Peg’ a blog post – invaluable!
A Page Turner Thriller! No Spoiler Book Review – Love, Lies & Clones, Joynell Schultz
I had a vision of ‘Bones’ Temperance Brennan, you know the character created by Kathy Reichs. She’s not as ‘detached’ but certainly similar.
No Spoiler Book Review – Autobiography – The Motorcycle Diaries, Ernesto Che Guevara
You will learn so much about this iconic figure from 20th century history I don’t want to spoil it for you, but wow it’s worth the read.
Book Review of Non-Fiction / Autobiographical Book – On Writing, A Memoir of The Craft, Stephen King
We may not all end up with a back list as long as your arm, but if you want to write it’s a great place to get advice from someone who knows. He truly does have the t-shirt.
No Spoiler Book Review of the Beautiful, Curious, Booker Prize Winning – The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Before I watch any movie or TV adaptations I try to read the book. This frees me to immerse myself in the writer’s original work and, importantly, my own imagination.
Young Adult (YA) Fiction Book Review – Matched, Ally Condie
The young characters are not only learning about love and honesty, but also hidden agendas. They learn that not everything is as it seems, decisions are not always easy, in other words adulthood does not bring all the answers.
Book Review of THE BRILLIANT – His Bloody Project, Graeme Macrae Burnet
A small town murder occurs, in true ‘TV detective Columbo’ style you know who did it, but you are still drawn into the tale. Brutal moments, hidden undercurrents and stubborn survival instincts all described simply and in deserved prize-winning ways.
Book Review – The Girl In The Spider’s Web, David Lagercrantz
Lisbeth has quite a few really good reasons to hate men and I believe Mr Larsson’s writing shows he was a true feminist
Book Review – The Hunger Games – Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
If you wish to analyse it further rather than just see it as a piece of fiction you can see a political tone to the novel.
Book Review – The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
By the way there is a new genre creeping onto the bookshelves ‘New Adult’ which is YA with sex, odd really surely a new adult is just an adult.
Book Review – The Narrows, Michael Connelly
The stereotypical FBI agent was ineffective and egotistical which is disappointing but I guess usual for this type of novel.
Book Review – Guilty Wives, James Patterson & David Ellis
I wasn’t going to pick up this book, despite recommendations, as it looked a bit tacky and predictable with a beautiful woman in evening dress and handcuffs on the cover. However it was brilliant!
Book Review – Wikileaks – Inside Julian Assange’s War On Secrecy, David Leigh and Luke Harding
The authors were ‘at the centre of a unique publishing drama that involved the release of some 250 000 secret diplomatic cables and classified files from the Afghan and Iraq wars’
Book Review – Lasting Damage, Sophie Hannah
A classic storyline and mystery of a woman, is she going mad, is she already insane or, is it a set up.
Book Review: No Time For Goodbye, Linwood Barclay
Very cleverly written, is she going mad or is someone trying to make it seem she is losing her grip? If so, who?
Book Review – The Son, Jo Nesbo
I read this in just over a day, it really grabs you and over you through the plot. I guess I’d describe it as ‘Gritty Scandinavian’.
Book review – A Boy of Good Breeding – Miriam Toews
Well, the blurb just about covers it, it’s a quirky tale of small town life with all its glorious triviality and complication.
Book Review – Robert Graves – Goodbye to All that
This definitely appears high up in my long list of book recommendations. War is sadly a necessity and I do think this book is worth a read to know how brutal it can be on the individual.