Book One Hundred and Fourteen – Dear Fatty by Dawn French
This is Dawn French’s autobiography, written by her in a series of letters to various people in her life (and various popstars, haha!). Its just a normal autobiography, going from childhood, to adolescence, to how she began to be famous, to how her life is now. I enjoyed this book, the style was good, and it was interesting to read about her background and how her experiences shaped her. It was nice how she wrote letters to her school friends, previous boyfriends, and her teachers and things, it was a nice tribute to them. It was a bit sad in places as well, as her father committed suicide when she was 19, and then towards the end of the book she talked a lot about Lenny Henry and how much she loved him, but they’ve split up now, which is sad. I would recommend this if you like Dawn French, and reading about how her comedy career started. Its not as good as her book A Tiny Bit Marvellous, but its still amusing. 8 / 10
Book One Hundred and Fifteen – “Found” by Davy Rothbart
This is basically a collection of notes and pieces of paper that people have found in various places and sent in to the “Found” magazine. I did think it might be cheating a bit to include this book, as its mainly pictures, but on the found things there was writing, so it did include some reading! Some of them are great, some of them are terrible, haha. Great for people like me who are a little bit nosy! There are ones from children, ones from adults, serious ones, funny ones, and some which make you feel sad that the person they were intended for never read them! I would recommend this, it’s a nice little book. I think there is a website as well! 7 / 10
Book One Hundred and Sixteen – As Easy as Pi by Jamie Buchan
This is one of those gift-y books you get around Christmas, which we bought for my grandad. It’s a book about numbers – the significance of them in popular culture (e.g. Catch 22), mythology and religion (e.g. the fear of the number 13) and other places. It was really interesting actually, and quite an easy read, as for most of it it was just about the numbers, not the calculations behind them – but there was a bit of maths at the end which was a bit over my head, haha. It was good though, and included the type of trivia which I really like. Recommended for a quick read! 7 / 10
Book One Hundred and Seventeen – A Mind to Murder by PD James
Luckily this was a lot better than the last PD James book I read! You can definitely tell how her style has changed / improved though, as her newer books are a lot more detailed, this is her second or third book and its quite straightforward. It starts with the murder of the administrative officer at a psychiatric clinic, and describes her relationship with the other people who worked in the clinic, and what motives they all might have for her murder. I like PD James’ books as they give you little clues all the time, and go through each person setting out the reasons why they might have wanted to kill her. It got a tiny bit confusing at the end – it turned out it was something to do with blackmail, which hadn’t been mentioned in the book until that moment! – but it was still good. PD James is definitely one of my favourite crime writers. 8 / 10
Only a couple of days to go now until the end of the year...will I make 120??? Probably not, to be honest! I'm currently reading one of Stephen Fry's novels, which is good but I probably won't finish it quick enough, haha. I got 10 books, (TEN books! woo! :D ) for Christmas though, so I want to get this finished so I can start them! I am planning to go to the library more next year though - I shockingly haven't been for at least a year!!!!!! which is really terrible! Its just because I have too many of my own books to read, but its still bad! I also only read 13 of the 1001 books to read before you die, which is also terrible, so going to the library should make that total go up too! :)
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