The Bookworm’s Thread 2018

VfM4meplse · 5 February 2018 at 10:14AM

pollypenny wrote: »

I!!!8217;m not keen on those Shardlake books. OH and I loved Sansom's Winter in Madrid. However, I was not pleased when I found that so much 'echoed' Orwell's Homage to Catalonia.

One of my treasured chazzer finds was the total works of Orwell - the guy was a genius! - and you have inspired me to start reading it

Hobsons_Choice · 5 February 2018 at 1:16PM

I loved the Shardlake series! Sadly, I think the author is quite poorly and it'll be a while (if ever) before he writes another book.

Wednesday2000 · 5 February 2018 at 1:45PM

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

1. The Marriage Pact - Michelle Richmond, a thriller.

4. A Jeremy Bates book, a horror. I'm not sure which one as I have three of his books on my kindle.

The Marriage Pact - I'm about a quarter of the way through, but the premise is so silly I don't think I will carry on.

The Jeremy Bates book I read was called Black Canyon. It wasn't all that good, but at least it was a short read.

Hmm, not a great start to my February books!

Wednesday2000 · 5 February 2018 at 1:46PM

Katiehound wrote: »

If you are interested start with 'Dissolution' as the series builds up using the same characters- and progresses through the reign of the increasingly autocratic Henry.

Thanks. I just bought it as it was on Am*zon at a cheap price and will see what it is like.

greentiger · 6 February 2018 at 12:07AM

Finished "The Darkest Goodbye"; I really enjoyed this.

Now I'm moving across the central belt from Glasgow to Edinburgh for my 'E' book, "Even Dogs in the Wild", by Ian Rankin.

As well as 'reading the alphabet' I am trying to read only books that are lingering on my bookshelf or Kindle. Bookshelf books take preference over e-books so that I can declutter some, lol.

pollypenny · 6 February 2018 at 9:55AM

I let my Kindle books build up for when I!!!8217;m at DS' place in the USA.

I!!!8217;ve made the mistake of buying books there many times; strangely they seem to go for smaller print than us.

Finished 'Open the Cage, Murphy', by Paul O' Grady! 10/10 for humour and pathos. I laughed out loud in many places.

Wednesday2000 · 7 February 2018 at 11:42AM

I'm not having much luck with books this month.

I read Close to Home (Richard & Judy pick by Cara Hunter) yesterday and it really was very exciting and hard to put down, apart from the awful ending!:mad:

I did guess the ending as well, but thought it was too silly and then it really was the twist!

8 books read now for 2018.

black_cat · 7 February 2018 at 4:03PM

Having recently moved house, we're in the process of setting up our library (as now we have the room). Not all of our books will be housed there, but most of them will be. Unfortunately we don't have enough bookcases to unpack all the books!
Read so far this year:
Closed Casket - a Poirot novel by Sophie Hannah I enjoyed this, although I wish that Poirot had a bigger role.
Belgravia - Julian Fellowes Surprised by how much I enjoyed this one! I love his writing and couldn't put it down. A great pleasure.
The Diary of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell This gave me a dilemma - I'm not supposed to be buying any more books until I've read the ones we've already got, but this book made me want to buy more. Also looked up the website and YouTube channel.
Jacob's Room is Full of Books - Susan Hill This is a follow up to "Howard's End is on the Landing" which I think I enjoyed more. This one was still worth reading - I love knowing what other people read and understanding their relationship with books.
Living Dangerously - Katie Fforde I first read this when it was published in 1995 and then bought all her books until about 2009 when I got a little bored. I absolutely loved re-reading this and am going to read the other novels in order in between unread books and non-fiction.

What to read next?

RicardaRacoon · 8 February 2018 at 7:36PM

I am in reading mood at the moment, managed an average 60 pages a day for the last two weeks and intend to continue like this. I suddenly see books and think that I could read them all while some weeks ago I thougt "I could read them but I don't know when...."

So since my last post I read:

Miss Pettigrew lives for one day - Winnifred Watson
Really enjoyed it and had some good laughts

Mr Skeffington - Elizabeth von Arnim
Read it a couple of years ago and really liked it. Found out this time that I could only remember the beginning and the end, so in between was a whole new novel I could not remember. Didn't enjoyed it at all and the book is now in the donating pile...

Plus a German novel that is not (yet?) translated into English, about the Nazis last propaganda movie that turns into something completely else in the end.

Tomorrow I will start reading The Knot by Mark Watson, read it before (noticed that it is already 5 years ago) and really think that it is a book that needs to be read more than once to be fully enjoyed.

blackcatsx2 · 8 February 2018 at 8:00PM

I!!!8217;ve just finished The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarity. It!!!8217;s set in Sydney and feels like a good book to read when on holiday. An enjoyable read. 7.5/10. I preferred Big Little Lies by the same author which was made into a mini series on Sky (which ruined it in my opinion).

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