13
entries
for 2019
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Since 2010
J. K. Rowling
★★★★☆
No Review.
J. K. Rowling
★★★★☆
An easy read. I’ve read the Harry Potter series before, and was worried that the movies would cloud my mind’s eye during a re-read, but I needn’t have been concerned.
Adam Kay
★★★★☆
A short and sweet companion to “This Is Going To Hurt”. Equally as funny. I like that Kay clarified a couple of things from his first book in this one, and explained why he ended up quitting the NHS.
Anna-Lou Weatherley
★★★☆☆
Easy read, and there weren’t as many characters to keep track of as I feared when I started this one. A few twists but nothing that blew my socks off.
Mark Lawrence
★★★☆☆
Very imaginative, but didn’t give me a burning desire to read the next book in the series.
Billy Connolly
★★★★☆
Plenty of laugh-out-louds. Classic Connolly humour.
Bill Bryson
★★★☆☆
I’m a big Bryson fan, but I wasn’t sold on the way he whizzed through the major organs of the body in this one. I suppose you have to draw a line somewhere, and while each chapter was full of fascinating facts, I frequently felt unsatisfied at the end of them.
Bridget Collins
★★★★★
I really enjoyed this. It was dark and mysterious and had twists I didn’t see coming. I cried at the end 😳
Serhii Plokhy
★★★☆☆
Interesting enough but as with most modern history books I end up reading, was much more about the people and politics than it was about the science and engineering.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
★★★☆☆
No review.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
★★★★★
A roller coaster of emotions! Impossible to imagine anything as compassionate as the work presented in this book going on inside the 2019 US administration. This was recommended to me by a friend, and I have since recommended it to several other people who have all praised it.
Adam Kay
★★★★☆
Very funny, but don’t read this while you’re recovering from an illness or about to go into hospital for any reason!
Ean Higgins
★★★★☆
Pleasingly technical, pretty haunting, but somehow reassuring.