Book Loving Blog

 Today I wanted to review a book that my Dad and I listened to on the car journey from Staffordshire to Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire to visit Roald Dahl's former home village.  As someone who grew up reading and being read to, Roald Dahl and Spike Milligan were two people if you had asked me aged eight, who I would like to meet, I would have answered, them. I love Matilda and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory in particular. Quotes such as "all the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen" and "however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there", made me feel like Dahl's words were truly speaking to me and me alone, and that, is the brilliance of a great writer.  When I was around seven or eight I won a competition on the Roald Dahl website. I can't remember the question, though I remember the answer was "The Twits". A couple of weeks later a parcel wrapped in paper turned up in the sl...

 Hello, I hope you're well and enjoying this very lovely June.  Today I wanted to write about a book that is by far the best one I've read so far this year, and that is Lucky, by Louise Thompson.  I have known of Louise since I was about fourteen years old, when Made In Chelsea first hit our screens and I loved the drama and craziness of the reality show. I didn't know much about her life, but I had recently seen interviews where she discussed having an extremely traumatic birth, with multiple life saving operations and how this resulted in severe PTSD. My Mum was driving me to a hosptial appointment and had "Lucky" playing via audio book and I was hooked. I got home and brought the audio book straight away, finishing it in the next three days.  It is so honest, so raw, so necessary (as someone who was born at 29 weeks due to complications with my Mum's pregnancy, that meant she was high risk and stayed in the hosptial for 3 months post birth), so devastating,...