Richard and Judy book club
Don’t you just love it when the Richard and Judy book bus comes into town. They bring with them a selection of bookish goodness with them and some nice recommendations that showcase a whole range of writing.
This summer’s list goes something like this:
All this week on the Booktrail we’ll be looking at one of the titles and looking at the various settings and storylines and choosing our favourite. It looks like a good and varied TBR pile which didn’t talk us that long to get through but which really took us to some far and distant places..
Rogue Lawyer – American Midwest
Sweet Caress – London, Paris, Berlin, New York and Vietnam
Those We left Behind – Belfast and Lisburn
A Mutual understanding – Nagasaki
The Girl on the Train – London
The Last Act of Love
There is one book that takes you on another journey completely and whilst not suitable for a booktrail, it’s an important choice for a book club as it’s about the harrowing journey of one woman’s quest to stand by her brother who’s in a coma, willing him to live, and come back to her.
Cathy Rentzenbrink is an author and works for the Bookseller so she’s read thousands of books and memoirs, but who would have thought that she would be writing her own. This is so moving and poignant that I can’t begin to say. Cathy has to be a remarkable woman for writing this and reliving it and for her young self to have been so strong!
I still feel so moved and humbled in reading this. It’s harrowing and hard to read in places as you would imagine. It’s the kind of book that you read and think ‘ but for the Grace of God….’
Happy reading and thank Richard and Judy for adding 8 books to your TBR pile!
COMPETITION!
If you’d like to win a copy of The girls by Lisa Jewell, a story of teenage angst and hidden secrets between neighbours then just leave a comment what you loved or hated about being 13. Competition closes Sunday at 5pm!
