I have got through quite a few books over the last few weeks. I like to sit and escape into a book before bed, as long as it is not too exciting. If it is too exciting I read it during the day.
My sister gave me a nod to these next three books. She said they were written for young adults but I might like them. They are by Phillip Pullman and although not the most riveting books I have read they are entertaining. If you like fantasy and science fiction you might enjoy these books.
"Set against the dreaming spires of Jordan College and the dangerous wilderness of the frozen north, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy offers an intoxicating blend of imagination, science, theology and adventure."
Then another friend suggested "Flesh Wounds" by Richard Glover.
This review on Amazon says it all.
"A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family.
Richard Glover's favourite dinner party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?'. It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob, who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed-toy collector. There was his father, a distant alcoholic, who ran through a gamut of wives, yachts and failed dreams. And there was Richard himself, a confused teenager, vulnerable to strange men, trying to find a family he could belong to. As he eventually accepted, the only way to make sense of the present was to go back to the past - but beware of what you might find there. Truth can leave wounds - even if they are only flesh wounds."
It is a bitter sweet kind of story but still very positive. An enjoyable read.
Part poignant family memoir, part rollicking venture into a 1970s Australia, this is a book for anyone who's wondered if their family is the oddest one on the planet. The answer: 'No'. There is always something stranger out there.
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