My reading favourites

Last month I decided to try and read more. I love reading, but I sometimes find that there are not enough hours in the day and of course, as things do, reading gets forgotten about. As we were on holiday the first few days of August , it seemed the perfect time to start.

I joined two local libraries. We are lucky enough to live on the border of two counties and two countries - how fab does that sound?! Anyway, I joined Shropshire Libraries and I popped across the border and joined Wrexham Libraries. And the added bonus of both; the have eBooks and audio-books that you can also borrow. This made my little heart sing!

Matt Haig is my author of the moment. When it comes to picking which books to read, I am very sporadic. If I fall in love with a series, I MUST read all the ones I possibly can. I love to discover new authors either through fab recommendations from friends or my fail-safe method is to have a scan down a list of titles and authors and see if any take my fancy, that is my only criteria. I will have a go and read anything: crime, fantasy, chic-lit, personal development.... I will have a go at anything.

And the random way is exactly how I found my first Matt Haig novel, How To Stop Time - the cover intrigued me. After downloading this book, I could not put it down and in less than a day it was finished. Thinking that it was a one off, I popped to the library to finish my registration and found another of his, The Humans, watching me from the shelves. As it had been awhile since I physically held and read a book (a lot have been read on my kindle), I decided to borrow it and give it a go. 24 very short hours later - that one was also finished and I was hooked on his stories. I did a little bit of Google searching and discovered that he had also written a non-fiction book, Reasons To Stay Alive. After enjoying curling up with a 'real' book, this is now on order from the library - hurry up please! Thank you.

I have also listened to an amazing book: The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris. There is no way to describe this book to do it any justice. If you only read or listen to one book this year - please give this a go. It is so beautifully written and I cannot recommend it more. This is one, I know I will go back and actually reread.

The Society by Jodie Andrefski is another book  I read last month. As it has been on my Kindle for so long and I don't actually remember buying it, I *think* that it was a 99p impulse buy. I have been so lucky with my recent choices, this was one more book I found hard to put down. The book is meant to highlight the plight of bullying and how it affects teenagers, but still a really good read. I am not normally drawn to teenage drama, Harry Potter excluded from this generalisation obvs, but it was still an enjoyable read.

A little late to the party but I finally got around to reading Inferno by Dan Brown. This book has been on my Kindle since it was first released, I *loved* The Davinci Code. There is just something about the way he writes that makes me want to visit allll the places in his books and this was no exception. I may have Googled 'holidays to Florence' whilst I was reading it. The story is fantastic, with a very different undertone to the other books of his I have read, but still just as great. I love how fast paced he writes, whilst still managing to keep you interested the whole story, this is great for a skim reader like me!

So there you have a quick round up of the books that I have been reading and loving! And of course if you have any suggestions of books that you have read and loved, please, please send them my way!

I hope you have a fabulous rest of week.

Lots of love

Nina xx