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Reading Recommendations after a Partial Lobotomy
Lazy blog post tonight. What can I say. I’m tired, I’m chill-axing to some lovely tunes and too busy singing very loudly and tweeting about beards on twitter.
I was actually wondering if you could all do me a favour.
In my life B.K. (before Kai) I was an avid reader. I’d get through two or three books a week most weeks, devouring literature in the way I comparatively now only consume Whisper Golds (have you tried them? They’re divine!)
But then something happened.
I had a baby.
I think it would have been nice if someone had told me that somewhere between delivering the baby and the placenta a good portion of your brain would also somehow be mysteriously parted from your head space. Along with your common sense, ability to behave in a rational manner and speak coherently and, most important, read a book any more challenging than ‘The Hungry Caterpiller’ (and I struggle with that one some nights I can tell you. Counting to 5?! Who do you think I am? Carol Vorderman?!).
I tried many times over to get into a new read. But I’d end up just reading the same sentence over and over, or finally get through a whole page then have no recollection of what it was I had actually just read (the caterpillar ate what? A piece of cherry pie?)
Good news though. After 14 months and some concentrated writing effort to get my brain back in gear it seems I am finally recovering my cerebral abilities and even (gasp!) managed to read a WHOLE BOOK whilst on holiday. A whole GROWN-UP book.
And now the bug is well and truely back. I’m hungry for words and adventures and witty prose but feel like I’ve totally lost touch with what’s out there and what’s good.
So… your reading recommendations please!!
Here are the rules: no murder mystery/crime (unless it’s REALLY good), absolutely no romance chick lit crap, humour is ok as long as it’s clever humour. Mostly I like books that make you think, though there’s definitely room for a little well-written fantasy in there too.
Just to give you a flavour, here’s a few books I’ve read and loved recently (mostly B.K. it has to be said).
The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
So now it’s over to you… what should I read next?
