I'd wanted to read this for sometime, so it was my "read at home" hardback. I think as it had so much hype, I was a little disappointed. The prose is certainly beautiful and Cline clearly really talented but somehow it just didn't quite work for me.

My sister @AnnieMay has started a south London book group.. Homegoing is first on the menu and it just arrived in the post with Swing Time too. And look so pretty.. I love orange!

Oh wow. I'm pretty sure I can't add anything to what's been said about this book before, I loved it. Finished it on the beach in Wales yesterday. This will stay with me a while. The chapter about Obama 2008 was so full of hope it hurt. This book is more than the sum of its parts- people, race, countries, love, change, our world. I will read this again I know.

I'm a little behind on my Litsying of books but I literally just finished this in the bath. I really enjoyed this third of a series of 7, but it felt a little more Hunger Games and a little less like its own exciting thing. Still brilliant, though, and I'd really recommend them.

I read this on holiday in Zanzibar. A compelling, affecting, dark and twisty novel. Now I really want to watch the tv series and see how they did it. It's stayed with me, thinking about the ways in which it dealt with affairs, rape, truth and lies. Very compelling.

The first book I'd read by a man in a while. I read it on the plane to Tanzania and while on holiday, and I enjoyed it. Partly because at the time I felt a bit like I was at the start of something with a man, and the essays resonated, made me smile, laugh, worry, wonder, hope. It didn't work out, but I'd still recommend this book- almost as a supplement to Animal, it's a philosophical rather than physiological approach to love. Kindle read.

This is one of my favourite and most important books I've read this year. I met Sara on Tuesday and told her as much. She writes from such a real place, everything resonated with me. She bravely writes about her own abortion, and she talks a lot about experiences that every woman will identify with, and I think this should be vita reading for all women and men. Top.

Another book I read in February. I loved this. Jessie Burton paints such vivid worlds that it's really easy to fall into them- 60s London and 30s Spain in this case. It's heart-wrenching, cleverly plotted and full of fascinating characters I empathised with. I loved it. I also love Jessie Burton on insta, she comes across so well.

This book was in my Christmas stocking and I read it in (I think) February. I liked it a lot. Willa Cather captures people and a time very well, it's vivid, affecting, and easy to read. I may have enjoyed it more than My Antonia, or at least I think the plot has stayed with me better. Thus far!

Finished this on Sunday, having started it back in June 2016 as part of #bustlereads. My first Margaret Atwood, probably not my last, but it's taken me so long to get through because the state of the world (brexit referendum, refugee crisis, trump election) meant I kept having to stop reading and get some escapism. And finishing it? Too close for comfort, I feel like we're almost in an Atwood-written world. Great writing though.

I finished this kindle read on Saturday and given its themes around violence against women, domestic violence, bullying, body issues, gaslighting (and probably more) it seemed apt that I finished it the day I joined the women's march on London. This book was a real page-turner which kept me guessing on some counts right til the end, although on others less so. I felt real empathy for the central female characters and children. Recommended.

The first book I finished this year was Bellwether, which I loved. @AnnieMay recommended it and we agreed it had shades of Scarlett Thomas and Douglas Coupland. I loved that it was set in the 90s and I always enjoy a book where I accidentally learn a bit of science/theory that I didn't already know, and it was very funny to boot. I read it on our shared kindle library so sadly no pretty picture!

Just finished this wonderful book which I started in Iceland last Friday, having read most of it at the airport and on the plane back last Saturday. Vivid, beautiful descriptions of people, places and a slightly magical twist on Victorian England which I totally enjoyed, and now I want to go to the Essex coast!