i was tagged by one of my dearest friends @david-watts to do this fun book tag!! thank you so much my wonderful 🏏 i will put this under a line because oH BOY did i go longer than even i expected. in fact it's 1000+ words... whoops <3
the last book i read: i literally finished two nights ago, it was a line to kill by anthony horowitz which is a part of his hawthorne and horowitz series. my favourite crime series ever, i love the way everything is written from the plot to characters to all the twists and turns. i adore the relationship between hawthorne and horowitz, my beloved odd couple <3 i couldn't be more grateful to @snizx for recommending this series to me!
a book i’d recommend: a book that everyone should read in their lifetime is picnic at hanging rock by joan lindsay. one of my favourite books to read and analysis, especially comparing it to the movie. i think mrs lindsay was very ahead on her time with the subtle anti-colonialism writing in this book.
a book i couldn’t put down: for some odd reason, i blitz through richard osman's thursday murder club books. recently, i was coming home from travelling and picked up one of those books from the airport at say 10am, by the time i got back home at 8:30pm, i had finished the book. tbf i have to take a plane, bus and train so i had plenty of time to just sit around to read but still i was like holy shit. i read a book in 10 hours.
a book i’ve read twice or more: i do love a good reread of books but i think my most read book is i read the news today, oh boy: the short and gilded life of tara browne, the man who inspired the beatles’ greatest song by paul howard. it is such a well written book not just about tara's life but about the 60s in general and the social change that was happening at that time. i would take this book with me every time i'd go on long distance car ride because i knew i would just never get sick of it and still discover something new! in fact, i read it recently to reminisce and my beloved sheep farmer/f1 diver jim flipping clark gets mentioned, i had probably read the book a dozen time before this and didn't even notice jim's name !!
a book on my to be read: not book but plays! i really want to read some of oscar wilde's plays, especially the importance of being earnest! i have heard/read such wonderful things about wilde's play from people i admired i feel i simply MUST read them. actually i feel like i need to get more into more classic plays! i'm a big fan of reading the scene settings and stage directions, especially when it comes to analysing !! i also want to read this side of paradise by f. scott fitzgerald because idk. looked interesting.
a book i've put down: i tried to read a line of beauty by alan hollinghurst but i was halfway through it when i realised i didn't know what was happening and i actually hadn't READ the book. i think that was more me than the actual book itself. i left it at the place i was staying so they gained an extra book!
a book on my wish list: i do lowkey wanna read one of my cricketer's autobiography which is on the internet archives but i actually can't read it because i get too excited and i can't actually function reading something so enjoyable for me. i need to find that sweet spot of being interested but not TOO interested to read it. it's really hard to explain.
a favourite book from childhood: surprise, surprise, i had a lot of books from my childhood. one of them, and i was only thinking about it yesterday was this THICK encyclopedia which GOOD GOD I JUST FOUND THE TITLE !!!!!!!!!!! E.encyclopedia !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! grandparents gave it to my brother but 6 year old was way more interested in it! other than that, it was the usual stuff, the hungry caterpillar, the mr men/little miss series, charlie and lola, anything by enid blyton [the magic faraway tree, noddy series, adventures of the wishing-chair, her other probably racist books rip]
a book i’d give to a friend: see, books are a very personal thing. there's no one book i would give to a friend. they are about a miliion different questions i'd want to know first. what are their interests? do they like short or long books? fiction or non fiction? do they want a coffee table style book or a novel? I NEED TO KNOW
a book of poetry or lyrics that i own: i have sylvia plath's ariel which i do really like. i have a soft spot for plath's writing and find her intensity fascinating, i wouldn't say i relate strongly to her work but there are some moments when i go 'wow. she understands it' which i think is the beauty of poetry.
a non-fiction book that i own: literally all the books i have are non-fiction, as you can probably see by these answers. at the moment they are a lot of sports book because they are my interest. i go to bookstore and i head straight to the sports section, look at cricket, golf and motorsports. that is what my sad little pathetic life has come to. i can't do sci-fi or fantasy books because even the fiction books i read need to be based in reality. i am sure i am missing out! to just pick a random non-fiction book i'll just go gough whitlam: the vista of the new by troy bramston because fuck it i love gough whitlam. shoutout to mr whitlam.
what I’m currently reading: i have so many books on the go. i blame the fact i am travelling at the moment. i literally pack 8 fucking books with me whenever i am moving. i was going to write them all down but even then it's way too long! the one currently in my bag is slaughterhouse five by kurt vonnegut, a book which, again, i have read before but it's probably been five years since i touched it. even now i get a little sad rereading it.
what i’m planning on reading next: whatever one of my 7 other books peak my interest 😭 i did start agatha christie: an elusive woman by lucy worsley which i was enjoying before kurt vonnegut got in the way so i imagine that would be it! or i did see my next book in the hawthorne and horowitz series at a bookshop so who knows...
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