Aprils Reading Challenge: Exploring New Genres and Authors
Where are the months going, I say this as we enter the second quarter of the year, I am happy to say that my reading challenge is still going strong. For April, I set out to diversify my reading list by including works by authors from different countries and cultures. I was excited to explore new voices and perspectives, and I am pleased to share my thoughts and recommendations on the books that I read this month. April was a month full of rich and thought-provoking reading experiences. Join me as I reflect on the books that have left a lasting impression on me this month through my reading challenge.
My chosen books from my reading challenge in April 2023 were:
Young Adult – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, I loved the film and have wanted to read the book for a long time
A Book picked based on the front cover – Broken Dreams by Aditya Banerjee, I am very often swayed inot buying a book by its cover
An Author you love – A Bitter Remedy by Alis Hawkins, one of my go to authors
Book you own but have not read – Those Who Know by Alis Hawkins
I am enjoying choosing books based on a variety of categories. It can definitely surprise you in many ways, some good and some not so good, but each book whether you love them or not, can bring a great discussion to the table at your book club meeting. I always like to remember that a lot of blood, sweat and tears have gone into writing a book, and although it may not be a favourite of mine someone will love it.
Let me know what book you are reading that has changed your mind about something, or opened your eyes to something new?
Love Alis x
April
13. Young adult book - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
About Book : HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE
1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.
Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.
14. Book picked based on the front cover – Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly GriffithS
About Book: DS Cassie Fitzherbert has a secret - but it's one she's deleted from her memory. In the 1990s when she was at school, she and her friends killed a fellow pupil. Thirty years later, Cassie is happily married and loves her job as a police officer.
One day her husband persuades her to go to a school reunion and another ex-pupil, Garfield Rice, is found dead, supposedly from a drug overdose. As Garfield was an eminent MP and the investigation is high profile, it's headed by Cassie's new boss, DI Harbinder Kaur. The trouble is, Cassie can't shake the feeling that one of her old friends has killed again.
Is Cassie right, or was Garfield murdered by one of his political cronies? It's in Cassie's interest to skew the investigation so that it looks like the latter and she seems to be succeeding.
Until someone else is killed...
15. Author you love - A Bitter Remedy - Alis Hawkins
About Book: Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings. When the young man’s guardian blames the college for his death and threatens a scandal, Basil Rice, a Jesus College fellow with a secret to hide, is forced to act and finds himself drawn into Sidney Parker’s sad life.
The mystery soon attracts the attention of Rhiannon ‘Non’ Vaughan, a young Welsh polymath and one of the young women newly admitted to university lectures. But when neither the college principal nor the powerful ladies behind Oxford’s new female halls will allow her to become involved, Non’s fierce intelligence and determination to prove herself drive her on.
Both misfits at the university, Non and Basil form an unlikely partnership, and it soon falls to them to investigate the mysterious circumstances of Parker’s death. But between corporate malfeasance and snake-oil salesmen, they soon find the dreaming spires of Oxford are not quite what they seem…
16. Book you own but have not read - Those who Know - Alis Hawkins
About Book: Harry Probert-Lloyd has inherited the estate of Glanteifi and appointed his assistant John as under-steward. But his true vocation, to be coroner, is under threat. Against his natural instincts, Harry must campaign if he is to be voted as coroner permanently.
On the hustings, Harry and John are called to examine the body of Nicholas Rowland, a pioneering schoolteacher whose death may not be the accident it first appeared. What was Rowland’s real relationship with his eccentric patron, Miss Gwatkyn? And why does Harry’s rival for the post of coroner deny knowing him?
Harry’s determination to uncover the truth threatens to undermine both his campaign and his career.
An unputdownable Victorian historical crime thriller, perfect for fans of D. V. Bishop, Andrew Taylor and Ambrose Parry.
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