Cop Hater by Ed McBain became book number nine this week. This is the first book in the 87th Precinct series written in the late 50's. I have read a couple of other books by this author before but I enjoyed this one more. He writes with a lot of conversation so sometimes it feels like you are reading a script but I quite like that. It is only a diddy little thing at just 188 pages so this got polished off over the weekend in a couple of short sessions without interfering with everything else I had to do. A good old fashioned whodunnit type novel where the killer is only revealed in the last few pages.
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My step daughter is becoming a right little book worm too and she has started reading the Rainbow Fairy books. This is a huge series of books aimed at little girls who like all things pink and sparkly. Last weekend Ella asked if we could pop to The Works (the bargain book shop) to see if they had any Rainbow Fairy books because she had read all the ones her friend had given her. Of course, being the lovely Stepmother that I am, I agreed. (Now would be a good time to admit I have a shopping addiction where bookstores are concerned.) We managed to find Ella seven new Fairy books and I managed to pick up a huge volume containing all the Chronicles of Narnia books in one.
BOOK CHALLENGE 10/1000 (16)
So The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S Lewis became book number 10 on the challenge. Here is where The Guardian's book list is a little naughty, this is actually a set of 7 books. There are a few like this on the list so I am going to start recording my true total in brackets as above from here on. I had only ever read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe as a kid so I was really looking forward to reading all the other books in the series. I am also a big fan of Science Fiction/Fantasy novels so this was right up my alley. I could not put it down. It went everywhere with me and I enjoyed every single page. If I was compiling my own list of books every child should read, this would be number 1. They are beautiful stories, beautifully written.
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Waiting for my return to work last Friday was a nice little padded envelope containing two ebook discs ordered from Ebay. 16,000 sci-fi/fantasy books on two discs for the bargain price of £3.49 including p&p. You can't argue with that. Anyway, this meant I just had to go out and get a book reader! (Okay, I know I didn't have to but I really really wanted to!) I did have my heart set on a Kindle but I just couldn't wait so I went out a bought a cheapy little one instead. Within a couple of hours I had it loaded up with a couple of dozen books to get me started. Once I've bought a bigger memory card for it I'm going to work on uploading all the books in the challenge to make things simple.
Clint can't wait for me to start clearing off the bookshelves. I did promise that once I had my reader I would start thinning them out. It's just I'm a little busy at the moment reading.
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