E is for Eclair (A-Z Challenge 2026) 6/4/26

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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 E authors I've read are:

• Éclair Jenny
• Edwards Kim
• Ekback Cecilia
• Eliot George
• Elliot Kendra
• Elliot Laura
• Elliott Lexie
• Ellis Janet
• Ellwood Nuala
• English Rachael
• Evans Lissa

Not so many on the E list and I’ve only read one book by each of these authors!  Some of them go back to pre- Goodreads so they don’t have a star rating or reviews.

One book that does stand out, although not in a good way, is “The Butcher’s” Hook by Janet Ellis – I only gave it a 1 star and my review was,

“I read this as a book club challenge and that was the only thing that kept me reading. I really didn't like this book. The main character was a horrible person and I didn't find that all the things she did were plausible or believable.

It was set in Georgian London and was very gloomy. I'm glad to be able to say I finished it but that's about it.”

Maybe one to give a miss lol.  But there is a classic on there “Middlemarch” by George Eliot which I read for the BBC challenge but again there’s no rating or review.

I rated “Day of the Accident” by Nuala Ellwood 5 stars but didn’t enter a review.  It’s a thriller so it probably had some good twists in it for it to merit that rating.  But having read it back in 2019 I couldn’t tell you how it ends.  I think that is one downside to reading a lot of books – it’s hard to remember them all.

Have you finished any one star books?  Or are you happy to DNF a book?