The Bookworm's Thread 2016

Hard_Up_Hester

Well I tried, I've tried really hard to ignore the thread, but now I've read it and ordered 3 books for my kindle. I prefer real books but can no longer see well enough to read them.
I'm not keen on chick lit or Catherine Cookson, I've read all the Terry Pratchett, all the Lee Child because hubby has them on his kindle.
I like Pat Mcintosh, Stuart McBride, Ben Aaronovitch and many many others. I'm reading Girl on a Train on my laptop, The Advocate's Dilemma on my tablet and A Room Full of Bones on my Kindle.

THIRZAH

DD has lent me "Girl on the train"but haven't read it yet.I usually read crime novels these days .At the moment I'm reading Linda Castillo but also like Stuart MacBride, Elly Griffiths, Peter James and Dana Stabenow.

One day I'm going to attempt to re-read "War and Peace". I read it over 40 years ago when I was 18.

Nonnadiluca

I'm an avid reader and am probably keeping our local library going singlehandedly. I really enjoyed 'Oryx and Crake' and 'After the flood' by Margaret Atwood. Other favourites are 'The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry' and the companion book which I can't remember the title of, but has the name Queenie Hennessey in the title, and if you like books that are a bit out there, I highly recommend'1Q84' by Haruki Murakami. Other favourites that I can read again are 'Veil of darkness' by Gillian White, 'The longings of women' by Marge Piercy, and 'Rule Britannia' by Daphne du Maurier. It's really interesting seeing what other people like and a good way to hear of books and authors you might not come across, so thanks for your suggestions.

monnagran

I'll read any old rubbish actually. If it's the printed word I'll read it, books, leaflets, magazines, newspapers, ,letters, backs of cereal packets,, labels on bottles, anything. No discrimination at all. When the children were small and there was no time any solid reading I had books all over the house even one propped up behind the kitchen sink taps, so I was never more than feet away from a quick fix.

PETULA: I started my teaching career in a little two-Teacher village school in the late fifties so Miss Read could have been writing about about me. I had all her books until recently and loved them.

The only genre I can't get on with is Sci-Fi. Favourites are anything written in or about life during WW2. I was born before the war so that period is very nostalgic for me. I also love biographies, being excessively nosy, also family sagas and series. I have recently treated myself to Elizabeth Jane Howard's last book. Can't remember the name of the series but it has the gift of being both a family saga and being set in the forties. Sadly at the moment they are among the books still imprisoned in a cardboad box somewhere.

Other favouritevauthors have already been mentioned but I also have many books which are probably well out of print now but that are my old friends and I never mind reading them over and over again. The best thing about getting old is that you can't always remember what happens next so it is still interesting.

This is a brilliant thread. Keep going.

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AliBee16

I really liked The Goldfinch Pollypenny, worth giving it another go, and I also love Small Island. One I really couldn't finish this year, despite the brilliant reviews, was The Illuminaries, but I've kept it just because other people thought it was great. I really liked Girl on the Train and Gone Girl as well. Full of tension.
Just finishing My Brilliant Friend which also came highly recommended but although the writing is brilliant and atmospheric, I thought the plot was a bit light - nothing much happens.
One book that has never had a bad review from everyone I know who has read it is The Book Thief, and another funny light one is the Nina Stibbe book Love Nina, which I loved

Nonnadiluca

Another vote for The Goldfinch, fab book!

mumps

pollypenny wrote: »

I'd recommend Small Island. It's very sad in the way the Windrush immigrants were treated, compared to the way West Indians had been treated during the war.

I'm going to have another go at The Goldfinch now. I just couldn't get into it before.

I'm not sure how West Indians were treated during the war but my husband's parents married in 1944, he was a black soldier and she was a white British girl. They had some horrible experiences including being thrown out of a church!

mumps

AliBee16 wrote: »

I really liked The Goldfinch Pollypenny, worth giving it another go, and I also love Small Island. One I really couldn't finish this year, despite the brilliant reviews, was The Illuminaries, but I've kept it just because other people thought it was great. I really liked Girl on the Train and Gone Girl as well. Full of tension.
Just finishing My Brilliant Friend which also came highly recommended but although the writing is brilliant and atmospheric, I thought the plot was a bit light - nothing much happens.
One book that has never had a bad review from everyone I know who has read it is The Book Thief, and another funny light one is the Nina Stibbe book Love Nina, which I loved

I am ashamed to admit that I have read The Book Thief and I can't remember much about it. I can't remember the ending at all. I sometimes think I read to much and my memory then clears a bunch off my mind, bit like clearing the hard drive on the computer. Wiped and space for something else.

elsien

I have been looking at the new Kate Atkinson, A Life in Ruins.

Reading the back, it's not something I'd normally consider. WW2 fighter pilots as a rule really don't do it for me.
However it's one if the characters from Life After Life which I did enjoy. Has anyone read it yet?

Hard_Up_Hester

I've read Small Island, I enjoyed it greatly, one book I didn't finish was Captain Corelli's Mandolin, though many people raved about it, I've also read all the Miss Read, lovely gentle books.
Anne Rice, who wrote Interview with a Vampire, also wrote some BDSM erotica that make 50 Shades look tame. I read book one of 50 Shades but didn't bother with the others, some of the BDSM was very well researched and accurate but otherwise it was a bit too Mills & Boon for me.
I'm not a fan of James Patterson as I find his books too formulaic, I liked the witches trilogy by Deborah Harkness.
I'll shut up now, I could go on for hours about books, I have over 400 hundred on my kindle archive that I have already read, I've only had my kindle about 4 years!