remy sharp's b:log

These are the books I'm currently reading, and have read with my reviews on Goodreads.

Previously

Read	Title	Author
9-Jan '20 9 days	The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2) 📝My review (includes spoilers) Brutal.	Margaret Atwood	5 / 5
31-Dec '19 28 days	We 📝My review Beautiful prose but no idea what it was about!	Yevgeny Zamyatin	3 / 5
23-Dec '19 7 days	Skipping Christmas 📝My review Skip Skipping Christmas.	John Grisham	1 / 5
4-Dec '19 6 days	My Name is Leon 📝My review Sad. Heart breaking. Beautiful.	Kit de Waal	4 / 5
26-Nov '19 10 days	The Book of M 📝My review Engaging from the very first pages, brilliant writing and ideas with some sci-fi without the need to explain absolutely everything. Loved it.	Peng Shepherd	5 / 5
17-Nov '19 20 days	Recursion 📝My review (includes spoilers) Decent sci-fi read, not terribly challenging, perhaps a bit overly grim towards the end, but entertaining all round.	Blake Crouch	3 / 5
29-Oct '19 1 month	Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) 📝My review If this were a technical rating, the book would get 5 stars. For me however, the book felt like a bit of a slog. It took me 2 months to read it and the story line, good gosh, feels like it is stretched across time.	Liu Cixin	3 / 5
1-Sep '19 8 days	The Afterlife of Walter Augustus 📝My review (includes spoilers) A bit obvious, uneventful and a miss for me.	Hannah M. Lynn	2 / 5
26-Aug '19 6 months	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 📝My review (includes spoilers) Unexpected scary bits!	J.K. Rowling	5 / 5
24-Aug '19 8 days	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 📝My review All throughout reading this book, I found myself smiling.	Winifred Watson	5 / 5
17-Aug '19 1 month	The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2) 📝My review A tough/hard science start, but gets picks up and good gosh, the ideas in this book are…wow, expansive!	Liu Cixin	4 / 5
18-Jul '19 12 days	The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) 📝My review My first "hard science" read, but had me immediately inspired to learn more about physics.	Liu Cixin	4 / 5
6-Jul '19 7 days	I Am Legend 📝My review I loved it; gripping, heart warming, shameful, despairing, brilliant and quite beautiful.	Richard Matheson	5 / 5
6-Jul '19 1 day	The Humans 📝My review My first read-twice book. A love letter to humanity.	Matt Haig	5 / 5
30-Jun '19 13 days	No Way Out (DI Adam Fawley, #3) 📝My review Well paced, well written and engaging crime thriller. Not my typical cup of tea, but really enjoyed it.	Cara Hunter	4 / 5
17-Jun '19 11 days	Meeting Mungo Thunk 📝My review There's a clever story in here, with some decent humour but for me, personally, the undertone of sexism and 1980s machismo was a turn off.	Keith A. Pearson	2 / 5
30-May '19 11 days	The Passengers 📝My review Certainly a page turner and an easy read. Interesting concepts on near-future issues, but I was left feeling a bit…unchallenged.	John Marrs	3 / 5
19-May '19 24 days	The Sudden Appearance of Hope 📝My review Great page turner, and I loved the concept of how an individual exits whilst always forgotten in the world.	Claire North	5 / 5
2-May '19 1 day	I Had a Black Dog: His Name Was Depression 📝My review Beautifully illustrated and communicated. Some particular pages rang more than true for me and it's useful and helps to see the way others articulate their own depression.	Matthew Johnstone	5 / 5
25-Apr '19 20 days	Fahrenheit 451 📝My review (includes spoilers) I loved the concept behind this story, but sadly the delivered story fell fairly flat for me.	Ray Bradbury	3 / 5
6-Apr '19 16 days	Lord of the Flies 📝My review Stressful, but solid, reading.	William Golding	3 / 5
22-Mar '19 26 days	The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) 📝My review Absolutely superb stuff. This book was recommended separately by three different friends, and it lived up to expectations.	Patrick Rothfuss	5 / 5
25-Feb '19 17 days	Sleep: The Myth of 8 Hours, the Power of Naps... and the New Plan to Recharge Your Body and Mind 📝My review	Nick Littlehales	3 / 5
9-Feb '19 18 days	Autonomous 📝My review	Annalee Newitz	4 / 5
22-Jan '19 13 days	All the Birds in the Sky 📝My review (includes spoilers)	Charlie Jane Anders	3 / 5
10-Jan '19 5 days	Clawthorn (Clement, #3) 📝My review	Keith A. Pearson	3 / 5
6-Jan '19 1 month	A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes 📝My review	Adam Rutherford	5 / 5
2-Jan '19 3 months	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3) 📝My review (includes spoilers)	J.K. Rowling	5 / 5
1-Jan '19 10 days	The Chrysalids 📝My review (includes spoilers)	John Wyndham	4 / 5
29-Dec '18 13 days	The Truth Pixie (Christmas Series, #3.5) 📝My review (includes spoilers) Good to read aloud to the kids (took about 15-20 minutes), and a beautiful message in the story, whereby the adult reading...me...might have caught a frog in their throat!	Matt Haig	4 / 5
22-Dec '18 6 days	Christmas Jars Collector's Edition 📝My review	Jason F. Wright	3 / 5
16-Dec '18 1 day	The Gift of the Magi 📝My review (includes spoilers)	O. Henry	3 / 5
29-Nov '18 24 days	Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4) 📝My review	Martha Wells	5 / 5
4-Nov '18 18 days	Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3) 📝My review	Martha Wells	4 / 5
28-Oct '18 1 day	Saga, Vol. 9 (Saga, #9) 📝My review	Brian K. Vaughan	5 / 5
16-Oct '18 7 days	Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2) 📝My review	Martha Wells	4 / 5
9-Oct '18 22 days	The End Specialist 📝My review	Drew Magary	2 / 5
17-Sep '18 8 days	Tin Man 📝My review	Sarah Winman	4 / 5
10-Sep '18 3 days	The Brighton Mermaid 📝My review	Dorothy Koomson	4 / 5
7-Sep '18 19 days	War with the Newts 📝My review	Karel Čapek	5 / 5
6-Sep '18 2 months	Beetle Boy 📝My review (includes spoilers)	M.G. Leonard	5 / 5
20-Aug '18 6 days	Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls 📝My review	Robert Rankin	4 / 5
11-Aug '18 10 days	Dogs of War 📝My review	Adrian Tchaikovsky	5 / 5
1-Aug '18 2 days	Past Mortem 📝My review	Ben Elton	4 / 5
30-Jul '18 13 days	Neuromancer 📝My review	William Gibson	3 / 5
12-Jul '18 9 months	The Obesity Code: unlocking the secrets of weight loss 📝My review	Jason Fung	5 / 5
9-Jul '18 6 days	Good Omens 📝My review	Terry Pratchett	5 / 5
3-Jul '18 3 days	The Dead Fathers Club 📝My review	Matt Haig	3 / 5
1-Jul '18 2 days	All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) 📝My review	Martha Wells	5 / 5
30-Jun '18 8 days	Brave New World 📝My review (includes spoilers)	Aldous Huxley	5 / 5
21-Jun '18 6 days	Postcards From the Edge (Suzanne Vale, #1) 📝My review	Carrie Fisher	4 / 5
15-Jun '18 26 days	Snow Crash 📝My review (includes spoilers)	Neal Stephenson	4 / 5
10-Jun '18 1 day	Jessica Jones, Vol. 2: The Secrets of Maria Hill 📝My review	Brian Michael Bendis	4 / 5
9-Jun '18 2 months	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) 📝My review	J.K. Rowling	4 / 5
20-May '18 15 days	1984 📝My review (includes spoilers)	George Orwell	5 / 5
6-May '18 13 days	Stories of Your Life and Others 📝My review	Ted Chiang	5 / 5
22-Apr '18 13 days	The Catcher in the Rye 📝My review (includes spoilers)	J.D. Salinger	3 / 5
31-Mar '18 23 days	Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (Adrian Mole, #8) 📝My review	Sue Townsend	3 / 5
3-Mar '18 8 days	Silent Victim 📝My review	Caroline Mitchell	4 / 5
11-Feb '18 11 days	Who Sent Clement? (Clement #1) 📝My review	Keith A. Pearson	4 / 5
31-Jan '18 10 days	The Night Masquerade (Binti #3) 📝My review	Nnedi Okorafor	5 / 5
22-Jan '18 15 days	The Lives of Tao 📝My review	Wesley Chu	2 / 5
7-Jan '18 3 days	The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power 📝My review	Ryan North	4 / 5
4-Jan '18 2 days	Wishful Drinking 📝My review	Carrie Fisher	3 / 5
3-Jan '18 2 days	Saga, Vol. 8 📝My review	Brian K. Vaughan	5 / 5
2-Jan '18 4 days	The Power 📝My review	Naomi Alderman	5 / 5
29-Dec '17 21 days	A Gentleman in Moscow 📝My review	Amor Towles	4 / 5
8-Oct '17 9 days	Beyond Broadhall (The '86 Fix #2) 📝My review (includes spoilers)	Keith A. Pearson	5 / 5
26-Aug '17 4 days	The Girl With All the Gifts 📝My review	M.R. Carey	5 / 5
1-Mar '17 16 days	A Boy Made of Blocks 📝My review	Keith Stuart	5 / 5
1-Feb '17 8 days	The Song From Somewhere Else 📝My review	A.F. Harrold	4 / 5

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Previously