When Will There Be Good News?

Title: Jackson Brodie 3: When Will There Be Good News?

Author: Kate Atkinson

Genre: Mystery

Time: unfinished or read already?

Rating: N/A

This was the only book of the series I haven't read yet.  Or so I thought.  As I was reading chapter one and I got a sense of deja vu.  As I read on, I get vague flashbacks.  Like there was a train derailment or was it a collision?  I remember people so many people on the train, so many people trying to help the injured.  A dilapidated/ramshackle house near the trains?  A well-off lady disappearing or did she run away?  The family in the introduction part of the book.  The two girls and a baby brother with their harried mother.  This all feels familiar, like I've been here before.

This happens to me once in a while.  That's the thing with reading soooo many books, you end up getting a book you've read before without realizing it until you're a few chapters in.  I have no idea how many books I've read in my lifetime and I've only started tracking since 2013 and I've found out that I average like 80-100 books a year.  I started reading and collecting books at 5 or 6 but the almost "non-stop" reading started around 8 or 9 when I discovered the school library.  Not mentioning my age but I probably read like a thousand books already.  

And I think I've read this book before.  But I just can't put my finger as to when but I think it's fairly recent.  And I can't remember anymore the ending.  And since I wanna end with 100 new books read this year I'll just skip this for now until I'm sure.

Ravenel 2: Marrying Winterborne

Title: Ravenel 2: Marrying Winterborne

Author: Lisa Kleypas

Genre: Historical Romance

Time: 4.7 hours

Rating: 10 out of 10

Missing Jackie Collins

As I've probably mentioned a couple of times here in my blog, that whenever I find a good book I like, I tend to get all the other books that author wrote and read all of it... kinda like binge watching a new series on netflix, but with books.  When I've read that author's books (and all of my other favorite authors' books), I try to discover a new "favorite" author.

But a couple of times a year, I check in with my top favorite writers and see if they have anything new.  I've been doing this for years now... some of my go to amazing authors are Lisa Kleypas, Sue Grafton, Candace Bushnell, J. D. Robb, Sophie Kinsella, etc., etc., etc.,

Well today, I was doing that and realized that I had to take one off that list... I forgot that Jackie Collins has passed away a year ago... I felt sad.. I love her books... and she was a very prolific writer and one of the few authors that I really went to collect the actual (not ebooks) books of.  Some I had to troll ebay for because she published since the 80s.

She had a distinct way of writing and some characters resembled real life celebrities that I try to guess who they were loosely based on.  I'll miss her books and I'm sad that it's one less thing to look forward to every year.