June 2011 books

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Tags: books, reading

Date: 30 June 2011 20:22:11

Trust Me, I'm a Vet by Cathy Woodman is a lovely book. Maz is a vet and she agrees to locum for her friend who runs a country veterinary practice. She is neither used to running a practice or living in the country and things take a turn for the worse when she has problems with the locals. Hilarious and I loved it. The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia: A Black-Hearted Comedy by Sarah May is a dire book. It was all about neighbours and the things they get up to behind closed doors. I got about half way through before deciding that a) I didn't have a clue about what was happening and b) I didn't actually care. So, I decided not to bother finishing it and it is going back to the charity shop. Fox Evil by Minette Walters is one of her more mediocre books. The story is about an old woman who freezes to death on her terrace and her husband is slowly going nuts after locals accuse him of killing her. Next arrives a bunch of travellers to taunt him and create trouble and his solicitor sticks around to support him. Add to the mix an illegitimate heir to his fortune and there is the (very confusing) story. Not one of her better ones. The Forgotten by Faye Kellerman is a pretty good read. Featuring Detective Pete Decker and his Jewish family this book features Nazis, the desecration of a synagogue and a bit of S&M. A good book. Bon Appetit by Peter Mayle is a poor relation to his book A Year in Provence. As the title would suggest it is mainly about French food and the importance this plays in the culture, but it wasn't as interesting as his other books. The Taking by Dean Koontz is genuinely one of the most frightening books I have ever read. It is a sci-fi book about aliens taking over the world, a genre I tend to avoid, but I have to admit this book was great but it did scare me shitless! Pedalling to Hawaii by Stevie Smith is an impressive book written buy a bloke who is a complete and utter lunatic. He decided to attempt to circumnavigate the globe by human power only, that would be either by bicycle, pedal boat or roller skates. The man is a complete eccentric and completely mental but it was an entertaining, if rather rambling read.