What book are you reading atm??

bonzodog2

Ipso wrote: »

Try David Peace's Red Riding series. Corruption, prostitution, paedo rings and the Yorkshire Ripper.
He won't be getting any tourism awards from Yorkshire!

It was also an excellent 3-part TV series

Ipso

bonzodog2 wrote: »

It was also an excellent 3-part TV series

It was good, but only scraped the surface of the plot.

Teyla Emmagan

Just finished Solar Bones, and the Essex Serpent (literally, both yesterday). And last week I finally got to the end of 4, 3, 2, 1 by Paul Auster. Man, what a self indulgent load of tripe. It's basically 4 versions of the same life. I think he just wrote it to prove how smart he is. I have no idea why I persevered with it, I wanted to murder someone by the end. I am getting annoyed just thinking about it again.

Anyway, ignoring the piles of unread books downstairs I heard a great review for 'My Absolute Darling' on Arena this evening and have downloaded that instead.

New Home

If it's any consolation, I only ever read New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, and I loathed it, I felt exactly like that. ^^^

Widdershins

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Just finished Solar Bones, and the Essex Serpent (literally, both yesterday). And last week I finally got to the end of 4, 3, 2, 1 by Paul Auster. Man, what a self indulgent load of tripe. It's basically 4 versions of the same life. I think he just wrote it to prove how smart he is. I have no idea why I persevered with it, I wanted to murder someone by the end. I am getting annoyed just thinking about it again.

Anyway, ignoring the piles of unread books downstairs I heard a great review for 'My Absolute Darling' on Arena this evening and have downloaded that instead.

Is the Essex Serpent any good?

Looking for time-travel books..just finished How to stop time, by Matt Haig.More of an immortality book than time travel. Entertained me.

new Author

Widdershins wrote: »

Is the Essex Serpent any good?

Looking for time-travel books..just finished How to stop time, by Matt Haig.More of an immortality book than time travel. Entertained me.

I wouldnt mind a recommendation of good time travel books myself

Kurtosis

Widdershins wrote: »

Looking for time-travel books..just finished How to stop time, by Matt Haig.More of an immortality book than time travel. Entertained me.

How about The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August? Or The Time Traveller's Wife, I found them both very enjoyable.

New Home

On that same theme, you should read "Ferney" and its sequel "The Lives She Left Behind" by James Long. And "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet", "The Bone Clocks" and probably "Slade House", too, by David Mitchell.

Widdershins

Kurtosis wrote: »

How about The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August? Or The Time Traveller's Wife, I found them both very enjoyable.

They're two of my favourite books..three of the list after that are new to me, thanks!

Kablamo!

If you're looking for a time travel book that isn't too heavy on the sci-fi I enjoyed 11/22/63 by Stephen King.

optogirl

Widdershins wrote: »

Is the Essex Serpent any good?

Looking for time-travel books..just finished How to stop time, by Matt Haig.More of an immortality book than time travel. Entertained me.

I really enjoyed the Essex Serpent - it's odd but compelling

GLaDOS

Finished The Grapes of Wrath there recently. Really enjoyed it, fantastically well written. Felt incredible relevant in todays world of migration, refugees and people losing their homes because of debt.

david75

Bawling happy tears. Just finahed the Hearts Invisible furies by John Boylan.
Incredible. Just so brilliant. Give it a read you'll be glad you did.

Malari

Malari wrote: »

I'm flying through Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb. Can't believe I've never read it before!

At least I have a whole series to look forward to. But next up is All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings. Borrowed that from my dad after watching Dunkirk.

Onto the third one. Can't believe I didn't read them before, she's excellent.

david75

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Onto the third one. Can't believe I didn't read them before, she's excellent.

You're about to read the best books of their genre of all time. Hobb is a magician with story and writing. You have three different trilogies all connected to go through. Fitz and the fool...the boys..

Just read assassins fate this summer. You know what that means maybe. But fitz...you'll be cryng by the end that's all.

Teyla Emmagan

Widdershins wrote: »

Is the Essex Serpent any good?

It's lovely, but not very much happens. It's like an old gothic novel with a few modern touches (a more feisty heroine, an autistic child). A few people concerned with socialism, surgery and the need for sanitary housing. But very evocative, a great sense of forbidding, lots of fog and a few backward creepy yokels. A mix of superstition and science. The characters are very well drawn. She builds a strong world, if that makes any sense.

skylight1987

8mv wrote: »

Hope you enjoy it. Kate Atkinson is probably my favourite author. Outside of the Brodie books, her family dramas are fantastic - especially "Life After Life", a book I've read twice so far and I'm sure I'll return to it again and again...

Just finished Case Histories ,I loved it I couldn't put it down. Im so thrilled there are more Jackson Brodie novels .I don't know how to do the spoiler blocking out thing so all I will say is, poor poor Olivia my heart broke for her .....

Just finished Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough. I enjoyed it and didn't expect that ending

GS11

GLaDOS wrote: »

Finished The Grapes of Wrath there recently. Really enjoyed it, fantastically well written. Felt incredible relevant in todays world of migration, refugees and people losing their homes because of debt.

Great read.

bobwilliams

I'm reading The Saven series by Irish Author Siobhan Davis...she self publishes and I got a great deal on kindle.
Her books are soo addictive.

bobwilliams

I'm reading The Saven series by Irish Author Siobhan Davis...she self publishes and I got a great deal on kindle.
Her books are soo addictive.

Skiup

The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer. Read it in 2 sessions. Beautifully written and a book that will stick with you for a long time.

Akrasia

Little Miss Bossy.

Spoiler: she's a bitch who gets her comeuppance
3 stars

The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

siblers

Widdershins wrote: »

Is the Essex Serpent any good?

Looking for time-travel books..just finished How to stop time, by Matt Haig.More of an immortality book than time travel. Entertained me.

11.23.63 by Stephen King is very, very good. It's not really sci-fi/fantasy like a lot of his books, he does a superb job of recreating what it would be like to be living in the USA during the early 60s

Amirani

Meet Me In The Bathroom

Book about New York music scene in the 2000s.

gutenberg

Re-reading Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace. Want to read it before I watch the TV series.

Widdershins

Seven Stones to Stand or Fall, by Diana Gabaldon. I have read most of the stories in it when they were published together in the previous collection but I'm looking forward to reading more about Master Raymonde. If anyone knows who and what I'm talking about

A Little Pony

Gunpowder Plot 1605 Terror and Faith by Antonia Fraser Part 1.

Birneybau

Amirani wrote: »

Meet Me In The Bathroom

Book about New York music scene in the 2000s.

Same. What do you think of it? Very interesting, easy read myself. Have similar about Seattle grunge scene lined up next, 'Everybody Loves Our Town'

https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Loves-Our-Town-History/dp/030746444X

Also reading '2023-A Trilogy' by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (the KLF), not bad at all, bit mad.