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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 F authors I've read are:
- Faulks Sebastian
- Feltz Vanessa
- Fforde Katie
- Fielding Helen
- Filer Nathan
- Finch Paul
- Fitzgerald F Scott
- Flock Elizabeth
- Flowers Ashley
- Flynn Gillian
- Flynn Katie
- Foley Lucy
- Forster Kate
- Francis Clare
- Frank Anne
- French Dawn
- French Nicci
- Furnivall Kate
Nicci French is my most read F author (with 10 books) although of course that's actually 2 people writing together - Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, a married couple. Most of the ones I've read feature Frieda Klein, a psychotherapist. I read one of that series and was hooked so I worked my way through all of them. "Waiting for Wednesday" even got 5 stars. I do love a crime thriller.
I loved Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks but didn't enjoy A Week in December nearly as much.
I enjoyed Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and have read another couple by her.
Classics are The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald and The Diary of Anne Frank.
There are a couple of autobiographies on there too. Vanessa by Vanessa Feltz and Dear Fatty by Dawn French. I'm not a great reader of biographies but a few have slipped in here and there.
I also read "Because of You" by Dawn French which is fiction. My review was, "This is definitely well written in terms of characterisation but the story is not unique and I really didn't find the ending plausible. To me the ending was tied up neatly with a bow on top and life isn't usually like that. I certainly engaged with the characters and I did enjoy it but it felt a bit light in places given the seriousness of the story." (The blurb reads: As the old millennium turns into the new, two very different women give birth to two very similar daughters.
Hope leaves with a beautiful baby girl.
Anna leaves with empty arms.)
I sometimes think authors who are also celebrities can trade on their name and popularity. Or maybe it's just the publishers who do that but I can't help wondering if celebrities submitted their books under an anonymous pseudonym whether they would actually get published.
What do you think?
Hello, from a fellow Wendy! Oh, I'll have to check out that 52 Book Club challenge! That's quite a list of authors whose names begin with "F." Most of them I haven't heard of. I'm sharing authors over on my blog, too.
ReplyDeleteI have read books as soon as I learned reading ! I also was the best client of the Waterloo's library. I tried to read the books in their original language, not always possible. Now I read old blogs from 2007 on, of people who still post or they are dead, some blogs are closed, some have a last word for us readers and the comments are blocked and others who are still there. One Blogfriend was a South African lady, lived in all countries with Gold and Diamond mines, because her husband worked as manager for Gold and Diamond mines. She had such an unbelievable interesting life ! I didn't know that albino kids in African countries are killed or saved by white people and live in a secured home.
ReplyDeleteI don't recognize one of your "F" authors, but I am still fascinated by your lists in this year's A-Z.
ReplyDeleteI could NOT get into Gone Girl but I did enjoy 2 of her other books (I can't remember the titles off hand). I LOVE LOVE LOVE The Great Gatsby of course as do both my daughters and hubby. Hm.....i wonder where my copy of that classic is??? methinks a daughter took it when she moved out!
ReplyDeleteI have heard of three of these authors but the only I anything by was Dawn French's The twat files
ReplyDeleteI do wonder how much writing is actually done by 'celebrities ' or is it all done by a ghost writer.
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