Welcome to my feature, Pastime Pleasures all about books I have loved and adored and were published over five years.  Today is the turn of Game of Throne by George R R Martin. So other than The Lord of The Rings, this is one of my favourite High Fantasy books. And out of this whole series this is probably my favourite book. To be honest I am struggling to describe my feelings on this book. Because I loved everything about it. It is detailed, completed and there is a lot of information to understand. I also loved that the chapters are told from multiple perspectives. After all it is a vast world that we are having to deal with and this is the easiest way to look at it. My favourites are defiantly Arya and Jon Snow. I had to speed through the other chapters just to get to theirs. While this story feels very medieval in telling there is also a hint of fantasy as there are constant mentions of dragon and we even have dragon skulls in the […]

Welcome to my feature, Pastime Pleasures all about books I have loved and adored and were published over five years.  Today is the turn of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. With that huge announcement last month (or was it the month before??) that Midnight Sun, Twilight from Edward’s perspective, was going to be released in August I thought that it was high time that I had a reread. I remember at the time being slightly snobby about this book. Like who really cares for Vampires? And maybe I was slightly older that the intended audience. All I remember is that my sister and she friends were obsessed. So with that six year age gap, I had every right to be a snob and not read the baby book. Oh my days, what a mistake I made! I saw the build up for this book as took my sisters copy to read. As a bookworm I had to see what the fuss was about. From the beginning I was hooked. And I need to know the answer to all the secrets. And […]

Welcome to my feature, Pastime Pleasures all about books I have loved and adored and were published over five years.  Today is the turn of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.   I cannot believe that this book is over ten years old. It feels only like yesterday that I was reading it as fast as possible before going to see it on the big screen. And yes I can admit now that I hadn’t heard of this book until being dragged to the cinema by my younger sister. And being the person who has to read the book before seeing the adaption I had approximately two hours to read. From page one I was hooked. So much so that this is a series that I practically read every year and is up there with Harry Potter for some of my favourite pastime pleasures.  There is just something about Katniss that is compelling and endearing and makes you want to root for her from page one. Katniss is fearless and flawed. She follows her heart and is determined to protect […]

Welcome to my feature, Pastime Pleasures all about books I have loved and adored and were published over five years.  Today is the turn of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin.   I think that Pride and Prejudice was the first classic book that I ever fell in love with. Perhaps it was the iconic first line that really did it for me:-“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” There was something that was so whimsical in that sentence that it was very hard not to keep reading. And, let’s be honest it is a classic for a reason. Everyone, without really realising it knows the plot. There are hundreds of adaptions, parodies and satires based on it plot, that you will end up seeing something related without even meaning to. Yet the actual story of Pride and Prejudice is hard to describe and hard to justify as a book that should be read before you die. Luckily I ticked this off my bucket […]