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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 D authors I've read are:
There is a tie for my most read D author – I’ve read 6 books by Jeffery Deaver and Lucy Diamond. Very different authors.
The ones I’ve read by Deaver all feature Lincoln Rhyme and unusually I’d seen “The Bone Collector” film before I’d read the book. But I then carried on and I’ve read books 1-5 and 8 in the series. I must track down 6 & 7 at some point.
Lucy Diamond’s books would probably be cast as chick lit but they do have a bit more depth to them than most.
A couple of classics on there by Charles Dickens. I started with his “A Christmas Carol” which is of course quite short but then I moved on to “David Copperfield” mainly because I wanted to see if all the hype around “Demon Copperhead” was warranted and that meant reading the Dickens first. All 900+ pages of it! And soooo many characters. It ticked a box on the BBC list of books too.
And who cannot have read something by Roald Dahl if you have children?
As for 5 stars the one that stands out for me is “All the light we cannot see” by Anthony Doerr which I must get around to watching on the TV as some point.
One that I have read and seen the film of is “Room” by Emma Donoghue.
Do you tend to read first then watch or does the order not matter to you?
- Dahl Roald
- Darbon Leslie
- Davies Emma
- Daly Paula
- Deaver Jeffery
- Delaney J P
- Dewar Isla
- Dexter Colin
- Diamond Katerina
- Diamond Lucy
- Dickens Charles
- Diffenbaugh Vanessa
- Dillon Lucy
- Doerr Anthony
- Dolan Eva
- Donoghue Emma
- Donovan Kerry J
- Doughty Louise
- Douglas Claire
- Douglas Louise
- Drummond Elizabeth
- Duguid Sarah
There is a tie for my most read D author – I’ve read 6 books by Jeffery Deaver and Lucy Diamond. Very different authors.
The ones I’ve read by Deaver all feature Lincoln Rhyme and unusually I’d seen “The Bone Collector” film before I’d read the book. But I then carried on and I’ve read books 1-5 and 8 in the series. I must track down 6 & 7 at some point.
Lucy Diamond’s books would probably be cast as chick lit but they do have a bit more depth to them than most.
A couple of classics on there by Charles Dickens. I started with his “A Christmas Carol” which is of course quite short but then I moved on to “David Copperfield” mainly because I wanted to see if all the hype around “Demon Copperhead” was warranted and that meant reading the Dickens first. All 900+ pages of it! And soooo many characters. It ticked a box on the BBC list of books too.
And who cannot have read something by Roald Dahl if you have children?
As for 5 stars the one that stands out for me is “All the light we cannot see” by Anthony Doerr which I must get around to watching on the TV as some point.
One that I have read and seen the film of is “Room” by Emma Donoghue.
Do you tend to read first then watch or does the order not matter to you?
I definitely read first and sometimes if I really love the book will skip the film so as not to mar my feelings about it. I don't know that I've ever read David Copperfield but I did read Demon Copperhead and loved it. I'd have to make a lot of space to read David Copperfield, but maybe someday.
ReplyDeleteYes it took me about a month to get through David Copperfield!
DeleteI enjoy Jeffery Deaver, some more than others. I love The October List, and reread it once in a while. It is not an easy read, which you know if you have read it, as it's written backwards in time. So clever though, and you really have to pay attention.
ReplyDeleteThat's not one I've read. I'll have to check it out.
DeleteI am not a big reader now, I listen to Audiobooks but in my younger years I think I read all of Roald Dahl's books and then again with my girls when they were little.
ReplyDeleteMost people will tell you that listening to Audiobooks counts as reading :)
DeleteI like to read first and sometimes watch the movie later. Sometimes I am just happy with the book and no movie!
ReplyDeleteYes there are a lot of book based movies out there that I haven't seen and probably will never see.
DeleteWendy, how do you remember all of the authors you've read! I am amazed at your A-Z this year and you are only on "D"!! Wow!
ReplyDeleteHa ha. I've left a comment on one of your posts about this Terri. I'm not that amazing really - without Goodreads I'd never know what I've read and what I haven't.
DeleteOnly two names on this list that I recognised
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