Book bingo book reviews

[deinonychus_1]

Not even the end of January and I've already finished two books, and am reading another two (one is a bloody huge weighty academic tome, so I'm multi-tasking and reading a quick-read fiction at the same time).

But since I'm claiming two bingo squares for my first two books of the year, I felt I ought to do a quick review.

Comments

[fififolle]

Cool! I love that you liked The Galbraith book so much! I'd totally forgotten it was Strike. I really liked the show.
Great start to the reading year!

[deinonychus_1]

I really wasn't expecting to enjoy it that much, but I saw it for a couple of quid in a charity shop and decided to give it a go. So glad I did.

[honor_reid]

I have never heard of the tv series but the book sounds good. It's awesome that you've already finished two books.

I am doing the same as far as reading two books at a time. One is a very heavy book as far as subject matter, it is a bit emotionally draining. So I am also reading a fairly easy lighthearted book to take a bit of a break.

[deinonychus_1]

It was on TV last year, they've done TV adaptations of the first two books, and I'm pretty sure they went down well enough that they're going to do an adaptation of the third book as well, but I've no idea when it'll be airing.

Yes, I have to admit the heavy-going academic book has been somewhat neglected since I started reading the Strike books. I've already finished book 2 in the series, and am partway through book 3 now!

[cordeliadelayne]

That's excellent, well done! I love the Strike novels and thought the adaptation was done really well.

[deinonychus_1]

Well, I've now finished the second Strike book, and am already partway through the third! Are there any more out yet, or are we still just stuck at three?

I have to admit my memories of the TV versions are a bit hazy, but certainly for the second book I thought there was a lot in the book that had been left out of the TV version. Although I might need to read the second one again sometime, as I have to admit there was so much detail going on that by the end of the book I was still somewhat hazy about exactly why or how the killer had done it :-(

It's certainly been a productive start to my reading year, though :-)

[cordeliadelayne]

There's just three at the minute but I think I remember JKR mentioning she's working on the fourth now so hopefully it won't be too long till we get the next one.

Fingers crossed the productivity continues! :D

[deinonychus_1]

Bugger! She needs to write faster! :-)

I just finished Career of Evil yesterday, so if there aren't any more out yet, at least it means I can get on with reading something else for a bit, as the Strike novels seem to have distracted me from everything else for the last few weeks.