The Bookworm's Thread 2016

VfM4meplse

I read this today: short, but full of wisdom. 8/10

missbiggles1

pollypenny wrote: »

Oh, you are lucky, Jackie. No many want to come to North Wales. There is Gladfest, though. A literary festival in Gladstone's library in Hawarden.

But you're a reasonable travelling distance from Hay on Wye, which must be some compensation.:)

lynnejk

Evening all

I'm still trying to find a reading group here - but they're all stubbornly full

Just finished
The Marrying Game by Kate Saunders
Quite a bulky chic-lit but most of it was enjoyable. As usual, some of it turns out rather predictably but that doesn't really detract. 7/10

Now reading
No Name Lane by Howard Linskey
Not read this author before. Quite enjoying it so far and finding the characters credible . Will let you know when finished.

Hope you all have a super weekend
Lx

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missbiggles1 wrote: »

But you're a reasonable travelling distance from Hay on Wye, which must be some compensation.:)

Indeed I visited there a couple of years ago and trawled around all of the gorgeous book shops there. I keep promising myself I will have a few days there as I only had an afternoon while passing through. If you're a booklover its the mecca of book places to visit :D

missbiggles1

JackieO wrote: »

Indeed I visited there a couple of years ago and trawled around all of the gorgeous book shops there. I keep promising myself I will have a few days there as I only had an afternoon while passing through. If you're a booklover its the mecca of book places to visit :D

We used to go regularly when we lived in Shrewsbury although we never managed to make it to the Hay Festival.:(

pollypenny

We're about 100 miles from Hay. Only made it once, although we intend to go almost every year. Most of the speakers I fancy are on in the evening and it would be a hard drive back, not on good roads.

I've been overwhelmed since returning from the States so missed the good speakers at Gladfest. Managed to get on a creative writing workshop soon, though.

I have read the Agatha Raisin: hated it at first as the characters are cliched and simplistic. Eventually I lightened up and took it as a relaxation between all the emptying of cupboards before the workmen arrive.

VfM4meplse

I read this book this afternoon:



I found it incredibly touching, and compelling. The child psychologist showed remarkable restraint in the way she managed Dibs, and the approach worked. I was also stunned to see it was published over 50 years ago, it's a timeless book. 9/10

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VfM4meplse wrote: »

I read this book this afternoon:

How I envy you being able to read a whole book in an afternoon:T


I'm a fast reader myself but never seem to have more than an hour without major interruption.


I'm desperately trying to spend some quality time with Madame Tussaud before I forget what I've already read. I'll get that book finished if it kills me;)

VfM4meplse

carbootcrazy wrote: »

How I envy you being able to read a whole book in an afternoon:T

Well brace yourself, I read another one cover-to-cover this evening



7/10, an easy read (although by no means an easy subject to write about). Thank heavens times have changed and women are no longer so dependent on men for their survival.

Treasurequeen

I am reading a really good book at the moment The colour of death by Michael cordy . Wow i just can't put it down for long. It's about a woman who uncovers a crime scene by sensing what happened. But the thing is she is hurt at one crime scene and when she wakes up she doesn't know who she is. Doctors around her think she's psychotic and needs to be locked up in a psychiatric hospital. But Jane doe can relive scenes of people's violent death, she is a psychic who is trying to prove who she is and stop a ruthless killer as well luckily with the help of her doctor Nathan fox who believes she has a gift.