I love reading, and I mean LOVE. I always have a book on the go, sometimes two. So instead of recommending just one book for the month of October In honour of the wonderful Carrie Hope Fletcher I will be choosing four books that I will read in October, an average of one a week.
Booktober ties in with the nationwide Books Are My Bag campaign, which is now in its 2nd year. The aim of the campaign is to get people to visit and celebrate physical book stores, rather than just buying them online, which yes might be cheaper and yes it can be more convenient, but is just not the same, and is sadly putting physical bookstores under threat. One of the best things in life, well if you're a book lover like me, is to going into to a bookstore and being able to pick up flick through books and are able to discover new books and authors that you may never have found online, and talking to the staff and other customers finding out what they like to read and what they recommend.
So without any further rambling here are the four books I will be reading this month:
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North:
Harry August is on his deathbed. Again.
No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes.
Until now.
As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. 'I nearly missed you, Doctor August,' she says. 'I need to send a message.'
This is the story of what Harry does next - and what he did before - and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.
Severed Heads, Broken Hearts - Robyn Schneider:
Golden boy Ezra Faulkner believes everyone has a tragedy waiting for them - a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. His own tragedy waited until he had everything to lose - in one night, a reckless driver shatters Ezra's knee, his athletic career, and his perfect life.
No longer part of the popular crowd, Ezra finds himself at the table of misfits, where he encounters Cassidy Thorpe. Intelligent, effortless and wonderfully weird, she is unlike anyone Ezra's ever met before. Together they discover flash mobs, buried treasure, secret movie screenings and a poodle with a questionable history.But as Ezra dives into new friendships and new love, he is forced to ask: if you've managed to survive disaster, what happens when it strikes again?
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen:
The story’s unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry’s mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Catherine finds dreadful portents in the most prosaic events, until Henry persuades her to see the peril in confusing life with art.
Northern Lights - Philip Pullman:
Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however,nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing—victims of so-called "Gobblers"—and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved.
Let me know if your getting involved with the Books are my Bag campaign and what books you will be reading during Booktopber.
Thanks For Reading,
Sam x
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