It's addictive

Every year the National Book Tokens website runs a Hidden Books competition. (I don't know if you'll be able to access the page outside the UK.)

There are twenty book titles hidden in the picture and all you have to do is find them in order to be in with a chance of winning £500 of book tokens. It is very hard. It's as much about deciphering clues as knowing book titles. I've been trying since last night and still only have eleven and that's having clues from Daughter who has completed it!

Here's one I'm struggling on.

Mean anything to anybody?

Still on the subject of books I've read two 5* ones recently. Before that I had a spate of disappointing ones so I'm pleased.

The Gosling Girl by Jacqueline Roy. 5* A girl who committed a serious crime as a child is released from prison with a new identity. Things go downhill from there. Sad, challenging, depressing, real. And if that doesn't make you want to read it I don't know what will. 

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. 5* The other extreme. Funny, delightful, wonderful. A cleaning woman befriends a giant octopus in an aquarium. He helps to change her life.