Reading Challenge 2017, here we go!
Well, after successfully completing my Goodreads reading challenge last year, I’ve decided to do it again this year. I’ve had such fun reading, reviewing and blogging and re-discovering my love of reading that I had no real choice, did I?
So this year, I’ve decided too push the boat out a little more, well, kind of. My target last year was 45 books in a year, which I ended up easily completing. So this year I’ve decided to go for 50 books in one year. Gulp. Although that is what I managed last year, so know it’s doable.
So, what have I kicked off with so far, as I head half way through January 2017.
Book #1 – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Wow. This is my first book of 2017 and of my new Goodreads reading challenge, and all I can say is…Wow. This book has fast become one of my favourite books of all time!
USA Today state this book is ‘Willy Wonka meets The Matrix’ and it is, I couldn’t put it better myself. The story follows our main character Wade as he, and many millions of others, enter an online virtual-reality game contest in order to win a now deceased multi-billionaires fortune. With riddles, arcade game challenges and many 80’s film/TV trivia type challenges to reflect and solve along the way plus face many other outside and online obstacles.
This is a difficult review to write, as I’m so blown away with how much I loved it! I can’t imagine any child of the 70’s, 80’s and possibly 90’s not to like this. So short review, I’m simply going to say I loved it! and recommend it very, very much.
Easy 5 stars out of 5. And on my all time favourites list of books…..EVER!
Book #2 – Nod by Adrian Barnes
Well I’ve continued the year with another really engrossing and enjoyable read. NOD is about what happens to the world, when for some unknown reason the vast majority of the worlds population can now, suddenly, no longer sleep. What ensues is the world free falling into madness, mayhem and horror.
The author does a great job making this a completely absorbing and believable story as the world sadly falls into decay and ruin, as our main character Paul tries to get on with and survive this new world as everything and everyone disintegrates in front of him. I really bought into it and felt alongside him every step of the way. The descriptive story telling of the author is one of the best I’ve come across as he paints a bleak, scary and yet familiar world to us. I couldn’t put the book down and read through it in next to no time at all.
So in summary this is a really good book, that get’s you thinking long after you have put it down, but be warned…this book holds no punches and shows us the dark side of the world and of human beings.
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Well, after reading them two great books….I’m eager to start another. Let me know what you think, I’ve loved hearing from those of you that have been in touch or even liked my blog’s. Take care…and let’s continue to enjoy 2017! 
