February books
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Date: 28 February 2010 17:36:23
I would love to tell you all about Black and Blue and The Hanging Garden both by Ian Rankin. However, as I read them both at the beginning of the month I cannot actually remember anything about them. They were both John Rebus detective novels and I definitely enjoyed reading them, but as so often happens the stories have all blended into one. Sorry about that!
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I listened to Hoping for Hope by Lucy Clare on my last and final journey back to Hatfield and back. It was about Liddy who discovers a couple of days before her 50th birthday that she is not in fact going through the menopause but she is six months pregnant. I thought this was going to be a fairly typical mid-life crisis story, but what I got was a rather sweet story about a whole family who have a bit of a crisis. I predictable story but nice characters and I enjoyed it.
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The Secret History by Donna Tartt is about a slightly weird group of college students who are all taught by this equally weird classics teacher. Basically all that happens in this book is that the students do loads of drugs and actually kill someone and the rest of the story is them trying to cover up what happened, and one of the students gets killed as a result. That's it. No real story to be honest. The reviews on Amazon rave about this book but I thought it was rather rubbish to be honest!
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That's it... a rather pitiful 4 books this month. I guess moving and lots of stuff going on has meant I have been a bit busy to read!