My 2019 Book Reading Statistics

From 1 January to 31 December 2019 I have read 42 books.  

The shortest book was Key Under Blue Pot and Please Milk the Goat by Marie Sever which was only 121 pages (a Kindle book). 

The longest book was The Dying Hours by Mark Bellingham which had 498 pages. 

I have read a total of 14,814 pages over the year which is almost 1000 more than in 2018.  

Tomorrow I will begin my first book of 2020.  

Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson

Every morning Christine wakes up and does not have any recent memories.  She awakes next to an unknown man who explains that he is her husband Ben.  He shows her a photo album to remind her of their lives together and tells her that she was involved in a hit and run car accident 20 years ago.   

After Ben has gone to work she receives a phone call from Dr Nash who tells her they are working together to try to help restore her memory and to look in the shoe box in the bottom of her wardrobe and read the journal she has started to write.  The journal tells her what has been happening over the last few weeks.  Slowly bits of memories pop into Christine’s mind.  She remembers that she was attacked in a hotel room and that she and Ben had a son.  Why is Ben not always telling her the truth?  Could it be that it is just easier for him to not tell her the whole truth every day as it is painful to keep on reliving it and grieving again and again? 

Die Again by Tess Gerritsen

A Rizzoli and Isles Thriller

Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles are called to the scene of a murder.  They find a man hanging in a garage who has had his insides removed.  Soon afterwards they attend another murder which has similarities.  Maura is convinced that these murders are connected with some old cases she has seen.  

Six years ago a small group of people had set off on a safari trip in Africa. One by one they were murdered.  Only one person, Millie Jacobson, returned from the trip alive.  If the connection that Maura suspects is correct then all the murders were carried out by the same person and Millie may be the only person who has seen, and can identify, the murderer.  

Rizzoli and Isles need to find a connection between the murder victims, work out who the murderer is and convince Millie to return to America to help them find him.