'No More Buying Books Until I've Read the Ones I've Already Bought' Thread

mrs-moneypenny

Welcome to the new readers.
Started my next book, the haunting of the sunshine girl, I don't normally read horror/suspense books but I won this recently so have made a start, only a few pages in and it's already grabbing me. Not too sure I want to be reading it at nighttime.

Happygreen

DD2 set up my tablet today and transferred my work-stuff over, so I can read anywhere. To my distress I found that it has an e-reader built in for free book downloads...I'll leave it for now although I did have a peek what's on offer!

Bubblesmum

Struggling to read in the last couple of weeks other than threads.... Tonight home alone so managed to finish Gideon by Jeff Lucus.

I find this author very relevant and thought provoking and I have learnt a lot

Penguins86

Ivejust finished Heaven is For Real. it didn't take me long despite only reading it on the bus (apart from the last chapter last night). It's a father's account of his little boy's out of body experience during surgery and the experience he came back with saying he had met Jesus and angels. Made me cry a couple of times (usually a sign of a good book!) and made me think about the afterlife in a different way.

mrs-moneypenny

Finished the haunting of sunshine girl by Paige McKenzie. Really enjoyed it, as I said I'm not normally a spooky/suspense fan but this has really changed that, I will now have to look out for others when they come out. Apparently it started off as a YouTube story but I've not seen any on there so went into it with an open mind. Would recommend to fans of that genre

kezbabybabe

Finished Twenty Thousand leagues under the sea, it was a good read.

Also finished the Kindle read: Morning Star.

Now reading Turning Forty by Mike Gayle, follow up to his Turning Thirty book. I like his books, they are well written and move along quite quickly. Though I'm already half way through.

On the Kindle now is also The Illusionist, written by my colleague, who writes under the name of CJ Morrow. This is the second one in her Stonehaven series, following on from The Finder. Again, this is also moving at a nice pace.

wishus

Right - I know I was on David Barnett's Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl but I took a break to read a Clarke Award-shortlisted book called Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta.

Noria Kaitio is an apprentice tea master at her father's tea house, even though she is a girl, and on her seventeenth birthday is shown a powerful family secret.

Her village is under military occupation, with travel anywhere beyond heavily restricted. Her village is by the side of the dead forest and the plastic grave. Water is heavily rationed, and not always good to drink. Many villagers try to build secret water pipes, but if they are found out their houses are marked for water crime, and no one knows what happens to them. The soldiers are respected and feared, but at least Commander Bolin, who regularly visits the tea house, is on her father's side. But then one day, he brings another man - Commander Taro - who disrespects the customs. He is highly suspicious of how a tea house can survive and serve such good quality tea when water is so scarce. Noria's mother wants to tell the soldiers the family secret - that the tea masters are guardians of a hidden natural spring, but Noria's father thinks this would not be a good thing to do at all.

In the meantime, Noria's friend Sanja gets an old machine working and plays some discs that talk of an expedition to find the lost lands where the water runs freely. Who were these people, and why did they leave these discs behind. What happened to them? These are secrets that could tear the girls' families apart and destroy their village - or possibly save them all.

On the surface this is a simple dystopian story, but the tension is kept high throughout, the characterization is very well done and the prose beautifully written, evoking the delicacy of a mannered tea ceremony. I loved it and read it really quickly. A deserved shortlist place for this science fiction award.

Gem-gem

kezbabybabe wrote: »

Finished Twenty Thousand leagues under the sea, it was a good read.

Also finished the Kindle read: Morning Star.

Now reading Turning Forty by Mike Gayle, follow up to his Turning Thirty book. I like his books, they are well written and move along quite quickly. Though I'm already half way through.

I read his book 'Turning thirty', when I was turning 30. Look forward to hearing what 'Turning 40' is like.

Happygreen

I just put a book in my basket, lol. Gut. the secret powers of a little known organ by Giulia Enders. I have read it in German and it's brilliant. Funny and very, very informative. The first non-fiction book I really enjoyed reading after Blossom. Will read it again in English, then pass it onto OH and the DDs, might need more copies!

Torry_Quine

Just finished Lamentation by CJ Sansom which in the sixth in the Shardlake series. It is brilliantly written and although fiction is written so well you would believe it to be true.