The Bookworm’s Thread 2018

Wednesday2000

I realised I have 40 books to read! I went through them yesterday and looked at the start of some of them and deleted them. Lucky a lot of them were free as I checked on Am*zon!;)

I have about 25 left now as I got rid of so many and I read one more. I think that is 22 books now for this year.

Syman

Just finished this. Probably the best read of the year thus far.

Set in occupied france during WW2.
Tells the story of two sisters and how they got through the war.

^ that really doesn't do the book Justice, better reviews are here
Clicky

VfM4meplse

I'm falling well behind in the completer-finisher stakes - Book 10:



7/10. I first read this as an 11yo as a set text for school, but found it quite hardgoing for some reason (it might have had something to do with the English teacher), but at 200 pages found it easy to read in one go yesterday. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

sugarbaby125 wrote: »

I just finished reading The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and it was a completely enthralling read for me.:j:D:T

This book had me hooked from the 1st few lines of page 1 and kept me wanting to know more even after I had come to the last word of the last page. It is jam packed with unforgettable, believable characters, mystery, love stories and supsense.

This book was a very well deserved 10/10 for me

I bought this from the chazzer last week on your recommendation. I consider it to be 25p well spent!

greentiger

I'm in the middle of Howard Jacobson's "J"
Set in the future !!!8211; a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited !!!8211; J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying.

J by Bobbie Doctor, on Flickr
Not my kind of book, but it was the only book title starting with "J" on my shelves, so I bit the bullet. I hope I will finish it.

I don't have anything starting with "K" ( I ignore "The ..." or "A ..."). Can anyone recommend something, preferably not sci-fi or dystopian?

pollypenny

Roll of Thunder was probably a bit too old for you, Vfm. There are two other books following the family which I am sure you would enjoy - Let the Circle be Unbtoken is next. I have forgotten the third.

I have just read Calon, Owen Sheers' book after a year as writer in residence at the Millennium Stadium. I felt as if I was there again at the wonderful 30-3 win over England when they expected the Grand Slam!

Also reading, in a desultory manner, Why Mummy Drinks. Trite rubbish!

Oakdene

I am currently in the middle of Jo Nesbo's Macbeth which is amazing. I've read pretty much all of his Harry Hole series of books which are equally great.

turtlemonkey

timehastoldme wrote: »

The furies was a daft read incorporating giant wasps, earthquakes and maybe alien interference, but I liked it.

Hi everyone, I'm new here and very happy to find a thread for fellow bookworms! :j The Furies has actually been on my wish list on Amazon for years now! I have been waiting for the price to drop and when I checked it now it seems it finally has - £2.99 for the Kindle version. (Anita, also by Keith Roberts, is still £4.99.) My local library hasn't got any books by this author in their catalogue, so I guess it may be time to buy, but I was planning on today being a no spend day, so I guess I have to be patient. And it's not like I'm short of reading material! I am currently reading The Reptile Room (book two of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket - I downloaded the e-book for free from my library via the Overdrive app) and I am roughly halfway through Audible's Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection read by Stephen Fry (I bought it with a credit I got during a discounted, 3-month trial, so I got 72 hours for £2.99 - very pleased with that! :rotfl: ). As you can tell, my taste in books is very varied! I also really want to read Jo Nesbo's Macbeth, but I haven't read Shakespeare's Macbeth yet and I guess I really ought to do that first!

Winchelsea

Oh, I read this recently.
I didn't like it at first - thought it wasn't that well written. But, once I was into the story, that didn't matter - by then I couldn't put it down.
Recommended.

VfM4meplse

Winchelsea wrote: »

Oh, I read this recently.
I didn't like it at first - thought it wasn't that well written. But, once I was into the story, that didn't matter - by then I couldn't put it down.
Recommended.

Name that book please?

peachyprice

I'm reading 'Last Seen Alive' by Claire Douglas at the moment. OMG what a plot twist half way through, even I didn't see it coming and I'm usually very good at spotting clues when one is coming, but this, wow, totally took me by surprise.

I only picked it up from the library Monday, this is one of those books that you can't wait to read the ending but don't want to end.

I read her other book 'Local Girl Missing' last week, that was very good too, both are well written and flow well.