The year 2009 was the year that I bought my first graphic novel - and this was the last I read last year.

Unfortunately, it meant I left the year on a bit of a downer.

I’m not sure exactly what it was that meant I didn’t enjoy this as much as the others, there as just something that didn’t quite catch my attention.  It’s not particularly bad, it’s just not particularly good either!  In my opinion obviously…

Hmm, this book left me a bit mixed up.

I love the Young Bond series and so jumped at the chance to read a new story in the series.  As far as that’s concerned, I really liked this book but unfortunately that only covers the first fifty pages or so.

The rest is taken up by covering stuff anyone who has read the previous books already knows.  It’s a bit like a Young Bond encyclopedia if you like.

I had heard of Harlen Coben, or at least seen his books on the shelves of various bookshops anyway, but had never been interested enough to actually buy one- not for any particular reason I don’t think.

For one reason or another, when ordering some other stuff on Amazon, Long Lost managed to slip into my basket and I must say that I’m glad it did.  It’s obviously the latest in a line of books featuring the lead character, the intriguingly named Myron Bolitar, but not having read any of the previous ones wasn’t a huge handicap I didn’t feel.

It’s been a little while since I finished this book to be honest, and so there’s not much detail I can go into about it!

As I’ve said before, I really like trying out new authors and Adam Creed was not someone I had heard of before, but he’s definitely someone that I’d look out for in future despite this book not exactly sticking in the memory.

There were parts which were quite cliched - the main police character has a bit of a drink problem and runs about in an old car much like a Morse or something, but for a first attempt I wouldn’t mark him down too badly.

Oh dear! I read this book in November last year, can’t believe it’s been that long since I wrote something on here! Oops.

Anyhow, this is not surprisingly the autobiography of current Radio 2 Breakfast Show host, and sometime bad-boy, Chris Evans - up to a point anyway, this is just Part One with Part Two due later in the year I think.

Like most people, I became aware of Mr Evans when The Big Breakfast hit our screens as the antidote to the dullness of BBC News and TV-AM or whatever was on ITV back then.  For some strange reason, I can still remember getting up a little bit earlier to watch that first show - no idea why!