The Bookworm's Thread 2016

pollypenny

I liked the ending of The Revenant, bear. I like his continued journey and the irony of him being out on trial.

I'm reading The Light between the Oceans. Excellent. More later.

Hobsons_Choice

I love Simon Kernick books, but I'm really struggling with his latest "The Witness".
About a third of the way through and I'm hoping it picks up!

pollypenny

Finished The Light Betwen the Oceans yesterday. In fact I read all afternoon and couldn't put it down, as I had a big hole of tension in my stomach.

It's an excellent, but harrowing read, dealing with a dilemma none of us would want to face.

Treasurequeen

Finished under the knife by tess Gerritsen, it isn't the best of her books but was a good read.

lynnejk

Hiya everyone


Past week's reads


'Hostage to Murder' by Val McDermid. Quite good 8/10


'The life you want' by Emily Barr. Bit of a curate's egg though and plot quite thin in places 6/10


atm reading 'The Mysterious Miss Mayhew' by Hazel Osmond - about half-way through and not sure about it yet.


Hope you all have an enjoyable weekend, with plenty of reading time
Lx

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Just started yesterday Find Her by Lisa Gardner pretty good so far and quite a page turner, I am half way through it already

Hobsons_Choice

JackieO wrote: »

Just started yesterday Find Her by Lisa Gardner pretty good so far and quite a page turner, I am half way through it already

I read this a while ago JackieO, really enjoyed it and now she's one of my favourite new (to me) authors.

Callie22

I still haven't got round to reading 'Rush Oh!' by Shirley Barratt - I've bought rather a lot of books recently and it's sort of slipped down the to-be-read pile ...

I have been reading quite a bit though. I read 'A man called Ove' by Fredrick Backman and really loved it. I'm glad it wasn't my lunchtime reading book as I will admit that the end made me cry a bit and that would have been embarrassing in the canteen at work ... I also read 'Sister Anne Resigns' by Josephine Elder. It's quite an old book that was originally published in 1931, and is about a woman who trains as a nurse, her subsequent career and relationships. I really, really like Elder's adult novels (she also wrote quite a few school stories) and this was as good as everything else written by her.

I also read 'The Ship' by Antonia Honeywell. It's a modern, dystopian novel about group of people who escape an apocalyptic London to live on a cruise liner. It was interesting, although it suffered a bit from that modern novel malady where you realise that you're about three-quarters of the way through the book and nothing much has happened yet. I'm still undecided as to whether I'll give this one permanent room on my bookshelf or whether it goes in the Oxfam bag!

Then I read 'Unorthodox' by Deborah Feldman, which is an autobiography about her life in an Orthodox Jewish community in New York. I found it really interesting to read about a culture that is so very different from my own - a quick google suggests that there is some controversy about the book in terms of what's included and what isn't, but I still found it interesting. That led me to read a novel called 'The marrying of Chani Kaufman' by Eve Harris, which is about a young girl living in the Orthodox Jewish community in North London. I really enjoyed the novel, it was well-written and very engaging.

I also read 'Bodies of Light' by Sarah Moss and I thought it was really, really good - it's hard to describe what the novel is about but in a nutshell, it's set in Victorian Manchester and tells the story of a young girl who eventually ends up training to be a doctor. It covers so many things as the girl's father is a Pre-Raphaelite artist and her mother is an advocate of women's rights - it's the kind of novel where you learn an awful lot without realising it! Sarah Moss has written a second novel that carries on the story - 'Signs for lost children' - and I've just ordered that There is also a third novel, 'Night Waking', which is set in the modern day but is loosely connected to 'Bodies of Light' and 'Signs for lost children' and that's on my list to read soon.

And to top it off, for 'fun' I'm reading a non-fiction book about TB, called 'Living in the shadow of death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History'. I came across it when idly googling TB sanitaria after re-reading Betty Macdonald's 'The Plague and I' and Susan Coolidge's 'In the High Valley', both of which are about TB. It's really interesting, we really have forgotten how prevalent TB used to be and it's quite scary to think that we may be heading that way again.

VfM4meplse

I've had this languishing in my bookcase for years, 8/10:


It's a quick read at under 300 pages, but is a real eye-opener as to how society can take a backward leap, the power men have over women, the rich over the poor, family hierarchies etc. Made me angry but grateful. Onto the next - something a little lighter, perhaps.

VfM4meplse

And now for something lighter....not everyone's cup of tea I know but for me another quick read (big print and an entertaining writing style) and highly motivating, as it reinforced what I already know. 9/10.