Book List #3

Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Fantastic book – read my review here.












Little Miracles by Giselle Green
This book is a good read but have some tissues handy as there are quite a few sad bits!










Mum’s The Word by Kate Lawson
I didn’t find this book very exciting to be honest but it’s not so bad that it’s unreadable.












Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
I enjoyed this and it was quite different to some of her other books.












The Iron Witch by Karen Mahoney
I didn’t really like this book but I think that’s because I don’t usually like books about the supernatural. If you do then you’ll probably love this!










The Code of Destiny by Sara Enochs
This was another book which I didn’t enjoy because of the supernatural element. To be honest I can’t even remember what happened in the end!










The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter by Ambrose Bierce
This book is under 100 pages long but it was much better than I thought it was going to be.

Wild Swans

I’ve learnt so much from reading this book!  Wild Swans is the autobiography of Jung Chang and tells the story of her childhood and early adult years in communist China.  It is really gripping and some of the events that she mentions seem unimaginable.  Some of the stuff I was reading I couldn’t quite believe would actually have happened, especially so recently.  Jung Chang also writes about the lives of her mother and grandmother before she was born and you can really see just how much China changed in such a short space of time.

I’d definitely recommend this book as it teaches you loads about the history of China but is much more interesting than just reading a history book as you get a real life account.  According to my copy, Wild Swans won the NCR Book Award in 1992 so it must be good!