Booky Meme

I have decided to change it up a little bit for this post. I have seen this meme over on Inkcrush.


1. Book I am currently reading:

This is from my book club at the moment. This is Miles Franklin Literary Award Nominee (2013)

Title

 Lola Bonsky..

Author/Illustrator

Lily Brett

Publisher

Hamish Hamilton        

ISBN

 9781926428475

Pages.
267 pages

 

 

Lola Bensky is a nineteen-year-old rock journalist who irons her hair straight and asks a lot of questions. A high-school dropout, she's not sure how she got this job - but she's been sent by her Australian newspaper right to the heart of the London music scene a the most exciting time in music history: 1967. 

 

2. Last book I finished:

I went and saw this movie, so, I had to read the book.

Title

 The Great Gatsby.

Author/Illustrator

 F. Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher

 Scribner           

ISBN

 9780743273565

Pages.
280 pages

 

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.from goodreads

3. Next book I want to read:

I haven't seen the movie or have read the book. 

Title

 The Book Thief

Author/Illustrator

 Markus Zusak

Publisher

 Scribner           

ISBN

 9780330364263

Pages.
 584 pages

 

4. Last book I bought:

I did buy this book awhile back.. I just haven't got around to read this yet

Title

 The Secret Keeper

Author/Illustrator

Kate Morton

Publisher

Allen & Unwin Australia 

ISBN

9781742374376

Pages.
 592 pages

 

1961: On a sweltering summer's day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London, and the bright future she can't wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over, Laurel will have witnessed a shocking crime that changes everything.
2011: Now a much-loved actress, Laurel finds herself overwhelmed by shades of the past. Haunted by memories, and the mystery of what she saw that day, she returns to her family home and begins to piece together a secret history. from goodreads

5. Last book I was given:

I have seen the movies before I read the books.

Title

Breaking Dawn

Author/Illustrator

 Stephenie Meyer

Publisher

by Little, Brown and Company    

ISBN

9780316067928

Pages.
756 pages

"Don't be afraid," I murmured. "We belong together."

I was abruptly overwhelmed by the truth of my own words. This moment was so perfect, so right, there was no way to doubt it.

His arms wrapped around me, holding me against him... It felt like every nerve ending in my body was a live wire.from goodreads