Books Thirty Five, Thirty Six and Thirty Seven, and Code 64 gig at Slimelight

I mentioned in my last book entry that I had to read five books in a week to keep up with my target - well I almost achieved it! Although I did cheat a little by reading crime books, which take me about 2 days to read each! And the other book I read was a very stereotypical one..haha.

( Book Thirty Five - Dracula by Bram Stoker )

( Book Thirty Six - The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen )

( Book Thirty Seven - Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs )

These are all the books I've read in April - and I think I'm going to post a link to the reviews on the Bookish community now. Not sure whether they're going to shoot my reviews down in flames, but I'll see! And it might get more people reading and commenting on them, which would be good.

I'm currently reading Riders On The Storm, by John Densmore. Its about the Doors, and by the drummer of the Doors, so its really good so far (about half way in). I like to read books about bands by the bands themselves, otherwise things do probably get misreported.

Oh and I went to a gig! :)
( Gig - Code 64 at Slimelight )

Apart from that, Slimelight was excellent. Its been great the last few times I've been, I really want to go more often. The food is great as well - which seems a weird thing to say about a club, but its such a good idea to have food! Sophy had some really lovely chilli with rice. Such a shame that Katie can't come back from uni more and go though :( But when she comes back we will definately have to go! :)

Today I haven't really done anything as in going out, but its been a very productive day - I wrote my last essay for my current OU course, even though I can't submit it until June!! So now I'm going to go and look for another one to do. I think I will do another 10 point course, probably the Archaeology one as I've always been interested in that, and then the Heritage course, but after that I'm not sure whether to concentrate on psychology courses, or just do ones which I am interested in..I might try one of the level one courses which you have to do for the Psychology degree, and see what thats like. Is it sad to get exciting about degrees and studying though, because I am! :D

Book Thirty Eight

Book Thirty Eight - Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgewick

This book was fantastic! I love most books about Russia anyway, but this one was especially good. It was the fictionalised story of Arthur Ransome (the author of Swallows and Amazons) 's time in Russia in the early 20th Century. He was there as a reporter when the Russian Revolution really started, from about 1914. He became friendly with the leaders of the revolution - and married Trotsky's secretary in the end - and this book describes how he managed to live there, and how he got out of Russia in the end, with the secretary. The writing is just excellent, you really feel like you're there, and the style is really good. I think this is a book for teenagers, but I didn't realise that when I bought it, and it was only when I looked it up on the internet that I realised it was. I think its similar in style to The Book Thief, which could be either a adult or children's book. I'm definately going to get more of Marcus Sedgewick's books, I think he's written one about the Trenches in the First World War as well, so hopefully that's as good as this one. Recommended for anyone who likes Russia, history, or just really good evocative writing! :) 10 / 10