The Bookworm’s Thread 2018

Syman

Just finished this


Not too bad a thriller, first of a series.

Next is



The Gary Oldman film is based on this book i think.

Also have acquired this


Another book that i will be dipping in and out of.

Wednesday2000

The 4 Pillar Plan: How to Relax, Eat, Move and Sleep Your Way to a Longer, Healthier Life - Rangan Chatterjee.

I'm going to read this now, it will be my 10th book of the year.:T

RicardaRacoon

Went to the library today to pick up two new books, I will try to get two from the library each month and read two from my own stash...

The Knot - Mark Watson
Read it a couple of years ago and thought that it needs to be read twice to be fully appreaciated. Was more than right, enjoyed it far more this time.

Up in the clouds, Gentlemen please - Sir John Mills (Autobiography)
Read it three years ago, actually only wanted to flicker through and see what he writes about his sister (Annette Mills of Muffin the Mule fame, whom I really admire) but ended up reading the whole books as it was good fun and well written. Still enjoy it this time around, but flicker through some pages every now and then.

Plus read a German short stories book which I didn't enjoyed at all. It was quite praised but I thought most stories lacked a point, they went up to some sort of a climax that never came...

Things I want to read soon:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer /Annie Barrows. Always in for a book set during WWII
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine - Gayle Honeyman
Herman Banks and the Ghost Writer - Cecilia Ahern. I've read most of her books, enjoyed most of them but there are also a few which I didn't liked (for example gave up on Hundred Names after 1/4 of the book), so quite curious how this one is

Wednesday2000

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

The 4 Pillar Plan: How to Relax, Eat, Move and Sleep Your Way to a Longer, Healthier Life - Rangan Chatterjee.

I'm going to read this now, it will be my 10th book of the year.:T

It was very good!:T I have ordered some amber glasses as if you wear them they are supposed to block out blue light before you go to bed at night.

VfM4meplse

Book 5:



8/10. It's not the kind of book you would read end to end, any more than you would a dictionary, but it does pick up on commonly made mistakes in the use of language, including in the so-called quality newspapers. Great if you enjoy writing, or the nuances of language.

My reading list is a total mess, am part way through at least 20 and no closer to finishing a single one!

mickeymouse303

Just started reading The Power by Naomi Alderman - heard great things about it so I'm keen to decide for myself!

Hobsons_Choice

Just finished "The Doll Funeral" by Kate Hamer, who won the Costa prize for "Girl in a Red Dress". A bit spooky at times but a good story beautifully written 9/10.

greentiger

Still reading the Alphabet

I could have just read the whole series, but then I'd have been annoyed because there's no 'Z'! I have read the preceding 5 books, so happy to read this one (I hate reading series like this out of order).
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After this it'll be the third Bernie Gunther (yes, I have read the others, lol).
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Callie22

My 'lunchtime reading' book this week has been The Citadel by A.J. Cronin and I have to say I really enjoyed it Cronin was perhaps best known as the author of the Dr Findlay stories but The Citadel is probably his most (in)famous novels. It was written in 1937 and is the story of a Scottish doctor who struggles to maintain his integrity in a time when there was wholesale 'corruption' in medicine, and when it was published it was used very much as a rallying call to develop what eventually became the NHS. I was fascinated to find out that at the time the novel was published there were calls for it to be banned as it infuriated so many members of the medical profession. I read about it on a blog some time ago and have been wanting to read it for ages, so when I saw a 99p copy in a charity shop I snapped it up. I'd definitely recommend it, if only to make yourself grateful for modern healthcare!

pollypenny

Callie22 wrote: »

My 'lunchtime reading' book this week has been The Citadel by A.J. Cronin and I have to say I really enjoyed it Cronin was perhaps best known as the author of the Dr Findlay stories but The Citadel is probably his most (in)famous novels. It was written in 1937 and is the story of a Scottish doctor who struggles to maintain his integrity in a time when there was wholesale 'corruption' in medicine, and when it was published it was used very much as a rallying call to develop what eventually became the NHS. I was fascinated to find out that at the time the novel was published there were calls for it to be banned as it infuriated so many members of the medical profession. I read about it on a blog some time ago and have been wanting to read it for ages, so when I saw a 99p copy in a charity shop I snapped it up. I'd definitely recommend it, if only to make yourself grateful for modern healthcare!

Cronin was actually a doctor in the Valleys . We also had a Dr. fergus Armstrong who was another Andrew Manson. He took my appendix out when I was 7. I have an enormous scar.

Cronin had a number if good reads. I wonder how many are in print.