The Mark and the Void

Book 108 The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray is quite an unusual book, very original in the way its structured, being a book about writing the very book you the reader are reading. It's a romantic comedy set during the financial crisis in Ireland. In places it is very funny, but I did find all the charcters blurred together and there were times where my interest was flagging, only to resurface a few dozen pages later. Not a bad read. 6/10.

Two more books

Two recent books read have been Born Survivors by Harry Bingham (unnamed shelf) which was an interesting read about three women who had babies in Nazi concentration camps. They survived as well as their children, in three amazing stories, and none of them even knew about one another. This book got 8/10. The other book (Humour) was Five Get Gran Online by Wendy Holden an Enid Blyton rip-off that wasn't remotely funny, 1/10

Next, I make a long-overdue return to fiction which the next few shelves all being fiction books. Something I can't say has been the case for a couple of years.