The Bookworm's Thread 2016

Goldiegirl

I'm working through the unread books in my Kindle archive, so what I've been reading is a random mix.


This is what I read in June




31 - London Falling – Paul Cornell
32 - A Load of Old Bones – Suzette Hill
33 - Silent Scream – Angela Marsons
34 - The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth – Stuart Clark


31 - a London based supernatural police story, in the mould of Ben Aaronovitch. Very enjoyable, and I'd probably read the next book in the series.


32 - I thought it was going to be a cozy 1950's vicar investigating murders. It's actually a bit different to that, and the story is told from some very unusual viewpoints. I liked it a lot - quite quirky


33 - Fairly bog standard police procedural, but interesting enough to keep me reading. As in common with many of these stories, the main character, is unconventional, with 'issues'.


34 - Astronomy and religion collide at the start of the 17th Century.

Treasurequeen

I have got a few books on the go at the moment, Things get better by Katie piper, Presumed guilty by Tess gerritsen and Christmas at Rosie Hopkins sweetshop by Jenny colgan.

At midnight I finished Never say die by Tess gerritsen, I love her books and this one was a good read. I still prefer the rizolli and isles series but this book had a lot of twist and turns. I Struggled to put it down and sleep.:rotfl:

pollypenny

I'm rereading To Kill a Mockingbird. I'm finding that I'm reading and hearing my voice and the voices of pupils who read various characters when I last taught it.

What an excellent, well-structured book it is, with so many themes.

I also have the kindle loaded ready for my trip to the States in a couple of weeks.

VfM4meplse

pollypenny wrote: »

I'm rereading To Kill a Mockingbird. I'm finding that I'm reading and hearing my voice and the voices of pupils who read various characters when I last taught it.

What an excellent, well-structured book it is, with so many themes.

I also have the kindle loaded ready for my trip to the States in a couple of weeks.

Its always worth keeping copies of classic books you love. I feel the same way about this, Animal Farm, Jayne Eyre and countless others!

I have an ambition to cover all the books listed here.

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missbiggles1 wrote: »

I certainly hope it's better than mine - people often say "It's an easy read" as if it's the highest praise you can give.

missbiggles, I have to report that it isn't, in fact it is one of the minute amount of books that I have no intention of finishing:o. This probably puts me at odds with the legions of Julian Fellowes' fans, many of whom must have bought it as it made the Sunday Times Best Seller list;). That doesn't mean they enjoyed it though.

I really thought I'd enjoy it, split between the late 60s/early 70s(which I actually remember;)) and the present (though with much harking back to the post-war way of life). Sadly, I felt I was being lectured to:(.

I hadn't bothered too much with reviews of this book but since I gave up on it I was very interested to see how much my opinion accorded with others. It gained a 4* rating on Amazon but there was one less than glowing review (below) that echoes my views exactly:

This is 20% story, 40% social history of upper class 1968 and 40% Daily Mail style harrumphing about how things have gone wrong since then.

This was a vehicle for Julian Fellowes to get across his opinions on what has happened upper class life and traditions since 1968, and to show off his knowledge of their quirks and way of life - which he never misses an opportunity to expound on.

I'm not sure what he was trying to achieve with this as a story - the plot is a silly back story to his opinions which becomes repetitious. Not a lot happens - rather like the Scottish Christmas Day episode of Downton Abbey.

This wouldn't inspire me to read anything else by him.


I'll still go along to the reading group on Tuesday as a visitor as I'm interested to hear the type/quality of their discussions. Perhaps I was trying to race through this book too quickly in readiness for my first meeting. I didn't find out what the current 'read' was until recently and have had so much else going on that long reading spells have been very rare:(.

pollypenny

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Its always worth keeping copies of classic books you love. I feel the same way about this, Animal Farm, Jayne Eyre and countless others!

I have an ambition to cover all the books listed here.

I've taken most of my old Penguin paperbacks to the charity shop, as the print is too small and pages yellowed.

I've bought them on Kindle now. Most classics were free, they tend to be 49p now.

Treasurequeen

I've been a busy bee reading so many books in the last 2 weeks. I have read: presumed guilty by tests Gerritsen 5/10 it wasn't that good I could guess what was going to happen straight away there wasn't really any suspense.

I've also read, Christmas at Rosie Hopkins Sweet Shop by jenny colgan. 8/10 you really need to read the first book to get the meaning of this book.

And lastly I've read Neals yard updated homeopathy book, I'm trying to get back into homeopathy and natural medicines.

Syman

Can't remember where i got the recommendation from but Silent Scream by Angela Marsons Is a great debut novel.

The lead character is [as usual] a troubled individual, but ultimately likeable. the story moves along at a good pace and the twists are, in the main, believable.

It is the first of a series, so will hunt the next one and report back.

well worth a read.

**edit - the recommendation was from Goldiegirl's post #614**

VfM4meplse

I read a couple of books from this weekend's 6 for £1 chazzer haul:


6/10 - an easy albeit entertaining read, like a teenager's book.


8/10 - short and to the point, this books describe the different kinds of debt there are and exactly how it should be dealt with, totally MSE. It should be compulsory reading for every school child!

elsien

I'm putting Anne Patchett's Bel Canto on the list of books that I've given up on because life is just too short. It had good reviews so I'm curious as to if anyone stuck with it and enjoyed?