Well this summer looks to be a busy one! I have all these books to read/review over the next couple of months, added to which is a manga my sister has demanded I read called Fairy Tail :/ Apparently it's about magic and stuff, which sounds good... but... you have to admit it looks a lot like One Piece, which I love... but I don't want to have to read a crappy rip-off of it. Even the title font is the same! Argh.And no it's not the s
ame author (damn it)Anyway, most of these books were bought when blitzing Waterstones the day I finished all my assignments (yay!) and you might notice that the second new book by L.J Smith is there (yes! it's out!) I'm actually a few pages in, but I'm also a couple of pages into the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo... so it's gonna be a choice of which to read.
Theres also an anthology of Victorian ghost stories, which I'll be reading by the light of my phone for extra effect :D I love scary stuff!
Which is reflected in the purchase of World War Z (Shotgun/Bagsy the reviewing of this!) which is a reporter's account of the war against... zombies?!?! Haha Adele! We need to tell Zombie Ed about this! (Though he probably knows already!)
I'm also reviewing We need to talk about Kevin, which is the correspondence between parents after their child is arrested for starting a massacre against his classmates.
A softer storyline in The Sisters who would be Queen, a tudor docunovel (haha rather than docu-drama, geddit?) since I can pass that on to my mum after.
ALSO I've got The Tale of Genji, which is the most famous piece of Japanese historical literature to be translated to English (think famousness on the scale of Will Shakespeare) which is about a womanising Shogun and his life. (He falls in love with his stepmother and tries to forget her by taking an endless string of lovers from court...)
Lovely!
And of course, the historical non-fictions about the Nuremberg Trials.
Wooah. Fun :D
4 comments:
If Adele hasn't read World War Z yet, I'm gonna have to fly over there and smack her around!!
I'm sorry, never even heard of world war z, but feel free to fly over here to smack me. :)
Waterstones sounds like a cool bookstore. Wish we had them here in the USA.
Haha is World War Z good?
and Alex, Waterstones is really the only viable chain of bookstores in England nowadays, since Borders went under and WHSmiths... well WHSmiths is more of a stationery shop :P
But yeah, it's not bad. They have some good offers on and each shop has reccomendations by the people who work in that store, which is a nice personal touch ^_^
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