On a day out with my mother that included jaw-dropping dumplings for
lunch, coffee and cupcakes, and knob shopping (…Door Knobs, ya’ nasty) we also
popped into Friday’s Lifeline Book Fair, and what had been a good day quickly
turned itself into a brilliant one!
*Breathing Intensifies*
I amassed quite a collection of beauties, but there are a few that I brought that I absolutely cannot wait to get my teeth into....after all this university work is done that is! The first is The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde. This books seems anything but serious, it follows the typical who-dun-it archetype with one catch, its basically about Humpty Dumpty, yes I know. I read a page on the spot, and the hilarity of the puns brought a tear to my eye, it seems like a lighthearted read! Plus, puns, I really like puns.
Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka is another one I can't wait to get my nose into, literally, it oddly smells like vanilla. Two Caravans seems like a sweet read, about gypsy strawberry pickers in the Ukraine -not something you would have imagined am I right? The writing style seems lovely and so to does the story! On the hope that I would like her work, I also picked up another one by her We Are All Made of Glue.
The reason that the next work caught my eye was because of its description, if I may
"This diary will tell the real life story of my great-grandmother Yasuntani Jiko. She was a nun and a novelist and New Woman of the Taisho era. She was also an anarchist and a feminist who had plenty of lovers, both males and females, but she was never kinky or nasty. And even though I may end up mentioning somer of her love affairs, everything I write will be historically true and empowering to women, and not a lot of foolish geisha crap."
Now you can't tell me that doesn't sound interesting? It follows Nao, a young woman who writes a diary, and Ruth in Canada who finds said diary after the 2011 tsunami. The book is called A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki and it most likely going to be the first of the lot that I read.
The next book seems a slight bit denser and 'seriouser' then the others is The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. A winner of the pulitzer prize for fiction, and novel about a Nazi-Busting saviour. I've looked up a couple of reviews, some good, some less then so I will have to throw the dice and see what I roll!
I also brought seven or eight others, all fiction (My niche you could say) and I will be sure to review them for you as I go! Now enjoy your weekends, and be sure to check back sometime, would be a shame not to see that pretty face again!
Stay Classy x
