The Bookworm's Thread 2017

Syman

I always get books at christmas.
DW and DD thought it would be amusing to buy me the George Bradshaw guides (Michael Portillo has done a few TV series based on them) as part of an in-joke about my liking for steam trains and history

Clicky

Joke is on them.....Fantastic reference books that i have wanted for ages.

Also



This one is good fun. Can see lots of rainy evenings in playing along.

sugarbaby125

Just finished reading Jig & Reels by Joanne Harris which is a collection of short stories, that I enjoyed reading and found easy to digest 8.5/10 from me

Primrose

Lots of recommendations. You can tell Christmas TV has been lousy when everybody has been busy reading over the festive season!

Serendipitious

Hope everyone had a good Christmas. :j

My Christmas reading from the library included this:



Imagine living in a very unusual and minimalist house which captures data on your every movement, and being subject to hundreds of rules simply for the 'privilege' of living there, then falling in love with its strange architect, without knowing that all this has happened before, to the last girl who lived there.

The reader knows, because the book consists of alternating chapters of their two stories.

I liked it, it has a nice economic style, and I read it over a couple of nights. My only problem was that occasionally in the middle of a chapter, I forgot whose story I was actually in...

CurlyTop

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Book 54:



6/10. This was a fun anthology of lists, nothing serious but I did discover a new (to me) word that applies to me: Tsundoku. It is the Japanese term for acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them . If only there were more hours on the day!

Omg, Vfm, this word so describes me - I just need to remember it. I've just mentioned it to DH and he was howling with laughter as he remembers when we first started courting and I introduced him to my bookcases. One being full of books I'd read and one equally as full of books yet to be read. Oh dear. Whoever would have thought there was a word for this.

I'm currently reading David Niven's The Moon is a Balloon - recommended by a friend who then went on to buy it for me for Christmas. I can almost hear him reading it out loud in his rather English distinguished voice. This is a real book that I wind down with of an evening, just before I go to bed - takes me away from white light etc.

In the day and when I'm travelling, the Kindle comes into play and I'm currently reading Harriet Evan's Happily Ever After which I'm really enjoying. I've read a few of hers and find that whilst they are really easy to get into, they usually have a theme to follow - this one deals with alcoholism, not in a nasty way but more of an awareness of the characters background.

I'm waiting for the Goodreads.com reading challenge to come out for 2018 and I'll join that for the new year, although I don't know how many books to set as my target. I did 40 this year but this can be improved on.

Happy reading to all.

pollypenny

I’m thoroughly enjoying The Glovemakers's Daughter, by Leah Fleming.

Set in the 17th century, a young Quaker girl has to make her own way in the world, to the States eventually, but I’m not there yet.

sugarbaby125

I have just finished reading The Gift by Cecilia Ahern. I loved this book so much I read it over less than 24 hours (we all have to sleep). 9.5/10 from me

CurlyTop

Oops, I'm getting my authors muddled. Harriet Evans wrote Happily Ever After.... still really good.

Need to find an author whose surname begins with F on my kindle as my next book to read. As I have so many on there, I didn't know where to start so came up with one author A-Z and will then go back to start. :j

VfM4meplse

Book 56:


6/10. This should be labelled as Steve Jobs for dummies, as it offered a flavour of the man and what drove him, and is an ideal book to motivate children. Of course I have the Walter Isaacson biography, which I haven’t yet had a chance to read. Maybe next year?


Book 57:

8/10. I loved this book as the subject is of interest, but can appreciate it won’t float everyone’s boat!


Book 58:


8/10- as above!


Book 59:

6/10 - a few valuable insights, but far too many lists of trivia for my liking. This book does well when it gets the the point.


And finally, book 60:

7/10 - essential reading given my circumstances! Much I knew, but there were a few insider tips that made it well worth reading.

There have also been plenty of part-read books in 2017, just about scraped my target 60 in though despite being consumed with other things this month!

Signing off for the year now, see you on the other side...:)

Serendipitious

Happy New Year to all bookworms - hope 2018 brings lots of good books our way.