This meme is hosted by Sheila of Book Journey, and I found it through Nancy at Readerbuzz. It is all about the first book you read during the year. Others are probably more organised than me, and plan what to read. I just go along with the first book I finished.
It turned out to be an audio book. I am not all into audio books, but some of them are working out very well. My first book, started already last year, turned out to be one of them.
A psychological thriller, with unexpected twists and turns. Here is the main story.
The story is told from the wife and husband's point of view. Although we are given what happens from the very beginning, the development of the story from the past months is thrilling. The characters are well defined with both their good and bad sides. Hurst slowly builds up the events until we reach the end. By that time we have been lured into thinking we know the whole story. But we are deceived. Is madness lying beneath a normal appearance?
It was an easy book to listen too, maybe because the story is clearly told. By the time I reached the end another twist of events followed. I thought this was the end of it. Left to the reader to figure out how it all ended. But, no. I discovered that this is the first book in a trilogy. Although it was rather late at night, I started the second book; The Doctor's Widow. The third book is The Doctor's Mistress. I can't wait to see where these two books will take the story.
About Daniel Hurst
Daniel Hurst is an Amazon #1 bestselling author of fast paced psychological thrillers. His most popular titles include Til Death Do Us Part, The Passenger and The Doctor's Wife, the latter title reaching #1 on the Amazon UK Kindle store in February 2023. A regular KDP Select All Star since he became a full-time author in 2021, Daniel prides himself on writing fast, releasing stories often and engaging with his readers.
You can visit him at www.danielhurstbooks.com, where you can also download a copy of his FREE thriller 'Just One Second.' (From Goodreads)
Plans for 2025
The end of 2024 was difficult for me. Not feeling entirely well, a lot of things to do and plans for Christmas and New Year. Looking at events world wide, the prospects were not so good in 2024. I do hope this new year will make the world a better place.
Having written very few reviews, at least at the latter part of the year, I hope to improve in 2025. I will also consider how I want to proceed with the blog and my reading.
To start the year, my aim will be to finish the books I am currently reading. Turn out to be eleven books(?).
Brook, Timothy - Vermeer's Hat (NF) - Following a story on a Vermeer painting.
Camus, Albert - Myten om Sisyfos (Le mythe de Sisyphe) (NF) - a book I read while waiting in the car. Difficult.
Desmond/Moore, Adrian/James - Darwin's Sacred Cause, Race, Slavery and the quest for Human Origins (NF) - interesting account on Darwin's thesis, and how it changed the world.
Ekman, Kerstin - Min bokvärld (NF) - Kerstin Ekman, and which books have influenced her.
Eriksson, Erik - Jag såg kärleken och döden (NF) - Swedish journalist who went to Vietnam in the 1960s to write about the war. Reading it for our upcoming trip.
Gibbons, Edward - The Rice and Fall of the Roman Empire, I (NF) - A classic and I am always interrested in the Roman Empire.
Johannesson, Jan - Experimentet - The second book in a series, based on Tycho Brahe's scientific exploits, and a secret society trying to follow his research some four hundred years later.
Nietzsche, Friedrich - Also Sprach Zarathustra, Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen (NF) - A classic tale. Difficult read so it will go slowly.
Schindler, Meriel - The Lost Café Schindler (NF) - A family saga of the Schindler family. How a daughter is following in the footsteps of her parents to discover a new world to her.
Vincent, Patrick (ed.) - Chillon, A Literary Guide - A guide I bought while visited this castle in Chillon. Byron was here!
Walker, Matthew - Why we sleep - unlocking the power of sleep and dreams (NF) - Can this book help me sleep better. One can always hope.
In mid January we are heading for South East Asia so my reading will mainly be e-books. I might take with me a few pocket books that I will leave behind. Hopefully, giving someone else a good read.
I wish you all a very good reading year.
Enjoy! I have ony read the one by Caus, and possible by Nietzsche, but too many years ago to really remember. I didnt realize Sheila was still doing that. My official first book of the year is Poems by Mary Oliver
Good luck on your trip to Asia. One of the members of our naturalist group went last winter and she said it was the most beautiful place she has visited.
Good luck also with your blogging and reading plans for 2025. I am always astonished when I realize I have been blogging for more than sixteen years.