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My theme this year is authors that I've read. More about the books I've read than the authors themselves.
I'm an avid reader. I'm a member of 2 in person reading groups through my local library. I'm gradually working my way through an old BBC reading list of 100 books (I'm about half way through) and I'm taking part in the online 52 Book Club Challenge for the third time this year where the challenge is to read 52 books over the year based on 52 different prompts. You can also find me on Goodreads here.
The C authors I've read are:
- Callaghan Helen
- Campbell Karen
- Candlish Louise
- Cannon Joanna
- Carel Eric
- Carr Charlene
- Carroll Claudia
- Carroll Lewis
- Carruth Jane
- Casey Anne-Marie
- Chamberlain Diane
- Chambers Clare
- Chevalier Tracy
- Child Lee
- Christie Agatha
- Clark-Platts Alice
- Clarke Angele
- Cleeves Ann
- Clegg Bill
- Clinton Bill
- Coben Harlen
- Cohen Tammy
- Colman Rowan
- Colgan Jenny
- Connelly Michael
- Connolly John
- Coolidge Susan
- Cooper Emma
- Cornwell Patricia
- Corry Jane
- Cotterill Colin
- Cousens Sophie
- Cox Sara
- Crawford Susan H
- Cumming Charles
- Cummins Jeanine
- Cutts Lisa
I’ve probably read more Christie than I have logged on Goodreads but many of them were read when I was in my late teens/early twenties. I did read one recently – Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? Unfortunately it was disappointing as I mistakenly ordered an edition that was specifically aimed at readers where English isn’t their first language. Consequently it was abridged and simplified. I did not enjoy it at all.
I also think I’ve probably read more of Patricia Cornwall’s Kay Scarpetta series than I’ve got recorded, another series I was working my way through.
Harlan Coben is another favourite, he rarely disappoints and Michael Connelly also makes my list quite often.
Of course these are mainly crime stories in one way and another but I enjoy Diane Chamberlain’s books for a take on a moral dilemma.
An author that I didn’t pick for myself initially was Charles Cumming – I was gifted Box 88 and loved it so I searched out a few more of his spy thrillers.
I must also give a shout out to Lewis Carroll – his Alice in Wonderland book gave me inspiration for a previous A-Z challenge.
The daftest book from the C’s though has to be “Grandad there’s a Head on the Beach” by Colin Cotterill. Set in Thailand and told in a first person POV it’s bonkers. If this was ever made into a film it would be fast and furious and completely farcical. Which is a shame given that at the heart of the story is the awful way Burmese people are treated in Thailand and used as slaves in the fishing trade. But I just couldn’t get on board with it. It took me 10 days to read this book and it’s only just over 300 pages long! It probably wasn’t helped by it being the 2nd book in a series but I’m certainly not going to read the first or the last.
Which is the silliest adult book you’ve read?
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