50 Book Challenge (part 1)

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A Tap On The Window by Linwood Barclay (3/10) – The first book I read this year was a bit of a flop. I had high hopes for this, the plot sounded promising and I was in the mood for a good thriller, but this book just didn’t deliver. The story seemed to drag on for a long time without anything interesting happening, I found it hard to follow the characters, and I didn’t care enough about the main character to get involved in his back story.

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (8/10) – With this book, Jeffrey Eugenides has officially cemented his place on my list of all-time favourite authors. This book was not my favourite of his, (fyi my personal ranking of Mr Eugenides books is as follows: 1. Middlesex, 2. The Virgin Suicides, & 3. this one), but still, I loved it. The characters in this book were so vivid that I felt like they were jumping off the page at me.

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (8/10) – I loved this book. This is my favourite book by Gillian Flynn so far, I just couldn’t seem to put it down. I It was a real page turner, and I raced through it because I was desperate to find out what happened at the end. A great mystery/thriller and a very easy read.

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (2/10) – Ugh, this book. Firstly, I may have read Flowers In The Attic at least 25 times when I was a teenager, but that doesn’t mean I’m down with pointless incest popping up in books. Especially when there is no character or relationship development whatsoever. You’re just supposed to roll with it? No. Also, I really did not like the way this book was written. I’m not a big fan of stream of consciousness writing, and I found it hard to pull anything from the story. Thankfully this book was super short and I zipped through it in two days.

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10 Thoughts on “50 Book Challenge (part 1)”

  1. tomate farcie on January 28, 2014 at 1:03 am said:

    Best book I’ve read in a long time, “A Tale for the Time Being” by Ruth Ozeki

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  2. wtmontana on January 29, 2014 at 5:41 pm said:

    Going to add The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides to my ‘tbr’ list.

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  3. Kimberley on April 15, 2014 at 7:17 am said:

    I watched the film of How I Live Now and I enjoyed it of course BUT couldn’t handle the incest. Like you said, it seemed pointless? It could have been an incredibly different near dystopian novel without this weird throw in of distant cousin love. I watched it thinking wow, that was really well done but uh…. incest? Yuck.

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