I apologise I know I haven't posted in a while, I've started taking some mood stabilising tablets and just felt very unmotivated but I am back and we will power through, thank you for your patience;
I hope you are all well and having a lovely few weeks so far.
1) The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett.
The Discworld is a lot like Earth except it's disc-shaped, safely stands upon four rather large elephants which are safely travelling through space on a giant tortoise, whose sex remains unknown; not to mention, it's home to many magical creatures such as wizards, trolls, magical luggage bags with legs etc. and it follows it's own rules, the Discworld is somewhere between reality and thought.
Synopsis: The Colour of magic follows the tale of the first tourist in the Discworld and possibly the very last, for the survival of the Disc's peace and prosperity lies on Twoflower's shoulders. However, when he's being protected by Rincewind, a wizard who never graduated from wizarding university and who at present is being chased by Death, not to mention the robberies and mercenaries on the way, it doesn't look all too promising.
Terry writes with a comedic and refreshing style, which personally through my reading of The Colour of magic so far, I have really enjoyed so I am stoked to read this novel and the next one lined up on my reading list. Unfortunately, I did get into Pratchett just after he passed and I wish I had read his beautiful work before now. The Discworld series is actually intended for adults with "Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents" (book 28 in Discworld series) being the first children's book within it.
Synopsis: Night watch (published in 2002) follows protagonist Sam Vimes, commander of the police force, through the times of a serial murderer, who is killing off coppers and during a revolution as well (just to put more stress on this guys plate). This is actually the first book of Pratchett's I picked up and I still have yet to read it, but the storyline really intrigued me, the commander of the police force within the novel is whilst dealing with these murders and a revolution, also dealing with his past issues; he's almost reliving it all.
3) Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
I am on a little bit of a Pratchett rampage because I haven't found many novels, which make me laugh aside from his and I've only just begun reading his work, but his happy and comedic, adventurous style is thoroughly enjoyable throughout his books.
Synopsis: The world being sentenced to end on a Saturday, "next Saturday to be exact. Just after dinner" a misplaced anti-christ, frogs falling and chaos striking, everything seems to be going according to gods plan with this whole rapture of the world. The one thing that he didn't anticipate was the fallen angel and the demon falling in love with the lifestyle and kind of being upset about the end of the world.
4) Flesh and blood by Patricia Cornwell.
Synopsis: About to leave with her FBI profiler husband, Benton Weasley, for a vacation to Miami to celebrate her birthday, Kay Scarpetta finds these plans to be sadly and suddenly changed when she receives a call declaring a high school music teacher was found dead after being shot with uncanny precision, whilst he was unloading groceries from the car. A serial sniper on the loose with nothing in common between the victims, no clues or patterns as to where they will strike next and the shootings taking place from Massachusetts, New Jersey and then the depths of South Florida coasts, Scarpetta begins to analyze and investigate a shipwreck near this coastline, looking for answers only to discover those answers might be a little bit closer to home than she would like.
5) Silent Scream by Angela Marsons.
I am super excited about reading this one because it is actually set in the hometown I grew up in the West Midlands, known as "the Black Country" and the reason it has that name is because it was so heavily polluted with smoke and fog, it used to repulse Queen Victoria and Charles Dickens as well as many other artists because of all the black, heavy smoke. Angela Marsons is a new British author with a total of five books published, three of these following the story and cases of D.I Kim Stone, which this novel "Silent Scream" also belongs to and is the third novel in the series. What I also love about Kay Scarpetta and D.I Kim Stone I think will be the way you can pick these up, without reading the other novels first so there is no pressure to read anything in order.
Synopsis: A headmistress is found brutally strangled, the first of many gruesome murders which shook the Black Country. When human remains are found at a former children's home, there are many disturbing and twisted secrets also unearthed. In order to prevent the body count from rising, Kim must face the demons of her past and catch the killer before it is too late.
Other Books on the reading list:
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
American Psycho by Brett Easton.
Harry potter (Re-read) series.
Insomnia by Stephen King.
Prime Suspect by Lynda La Plante.
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams.
One flew over the Cuckoo nest by Ken Kesey.
I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou.
Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
I am 100% sure this list will get longer, I am very excited to take this year to reading, can not wait to get my head in some of these novels. If there are any you would recommend I would love to hear it. :)) thank you all.
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