I
was having a duvet day; the first one in two years. I was feeling sorry for
myself. Then my husband told me that a certain online bookstore was offering a
£5 voucher if you spent over £25. Then I also remembered I had an unspent
voucher with the same online store; a birthday present from my Dad.
💡
After
ten minutes of salivating over loads of books, I narrowed my choice down to my
favourite author, Margaret Atwood. Simple. I could pre-order her forthcoming
sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale: The Testaments. BUT NO!!!!!! It wasn’t going to
arrive until September! 😢
Right.
I’ll look for another Margaret Atwood novel, I thought. It didn’t take me long.
The Heart Goes Last – the story of a couple living destitute in their car, who
are then offered a home in a new town. Great! But every second month they have
to live in a prison. Fab! … I love a bit of dysfunctional society fiction.
Mmm
… I then felt a pang for a bit of Scottish lit. I’d seen the 1998 film, Acid
House, years ago and I remembered that it was based on the book of the same
title by Irvine Welsh. This book is a series of short stories and flash
fiction, some comical, some dark, and some dark and comical. Ideal to dip into when
I’m on call for the Mum taxi service. Sorted.
At
this point, I have to admit to two secrets: I love good teen fiction (probably
more than my own teenager) AND I also love zombies.
So,
my last book choice was Anna and the Apocalypse. The film from which the book
is based on (other way round this time), depicts a group of teenagers who have
to fight their way through a broken society full of zombies in order to rescue
their friends and parents from an over zealous headteacher (while singing and
dancing too). The screenplay was written by the late Scottish filmmaker Ryan
McHenry, and also Alan McDonald. If you get a chance to see the film, do! It’s
mint (as my teenager would say).
Update:
the books have arrived. Now all I need to do is make time to read them. 🤔
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