The Bookworm’s Thread 2018

Wednesday2000

It was dull and raining yesterday so I snuggled up on my chair and read The General Theory of Haunting - Richard Easter.

I really liked it as it had a very clever storyline. I can see it being made into a BBC programme.

peachyprice

I've just started reading two crime series:

The DI Marnie Rome series by Sarah Hilary and the Frieda Klein series by Nicci French

I'm alternating between the two as they become available at the library. Both are great psychological dramas and both are pretty gruesome, but unputdownable nonetheless.

gettingtheresometime

peachyprice wrote: »

I've just started reading two crime series:

The DI Marnie Rome series by Sarah Hilary and the Frieda Klein series by Nicci French

I'm alternating between the two as they become available at the library. Both are great psychological dramas and both are pretty gruesome, but unputdownable nonetheless.

Read a couple of the Frieda Klein books but got fed up of them basically regurgitating what had happened in previous books so stopped reading them.

Since I last posted I finished 'Let me lie' which was quite readable & 'The wife between us' which again I found another page turner.

I've also finished, via audiable, Two Steps Forward which about the Camino de Santiago. It's a bit of a 'When Harry met Sally' but I enjoyed it....perhaps because partly it's something I'm going to do (in 2020) but from what I've read, it captures the spirit of the Camino.

Going to start ' Pearls before Poppies' which is the story of how the British Legion raised funds by selling off pearl necklaces to raise funds that had been created by the donation of pearls....either individually or by communities. Mum had read it & said the stories are a bit samey but we'll give it a go

Mr_Singleton

Spider_In_The_Bath wrote: »

This one is on my reading list too.



It would be great if you can let me know what you thought of the book when you get around to reading it

Sorry, just seen this.... yup will let you know what I think of it. Just finishing my current book and gagging to start...



Will definitely be starting All that Remains after that so should have my thoughts (for what there worth!!) by the end of the month(ish) Give me a prod if I forget!

VfM4meplse

^^ OMG this sounds awful :eek::eek::eek: What made you pick it?

It's time to start posting my holiday reading:

Book 36


7/10. An easy and entertaining read. Once more, it made me realise just how much better off we are now than 100 years ago when most people really had to think about whether they could afford the food they were buying. Relative poverty does exist today, but in those times a man could work long hours in a mine and still not be able to afford the basics for his family. It was all about opportunity and location, you could be the brightest spark yet still have a very limited future in those days. I preferred the second half when the author recounted tales of her working days, her stories were hilarious.

VfM4meplse

Book 37:


6.5/10. At the beginning, I found the author to be a self-centred silly girl but warmed to her as the book progressed, particularly her insistence to see where she was born and her birth mother died. When it got going, I found I preferred to to Red Dust Road (similar themes, although Jackie Kay is a much better writer). Both were very lucky with their adoptive families.

sugarbaby125

Yesterday I finished the book Another Hour On A Sunday Morning by Julia Scheeres. It is a Memoir. This book is heartbreaking but it is not harrowing because of the author's great sense of humour in the face of real adversity. I would give this book 9/10

peachyprice

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

Read a couple of the Frieda Klein books but got fed up of them basically regurgitating what had happened in previous books so stopped reading them.

I'm about a third of the way through the second book now, I can see if the regurgitation continues it will become annoying.

Really if an author writes a series (especially one that is so obviously a series with sequential titles using days of the week!) they need to have the confidence in their target readers to be able to follow the threads from book to book and acknowledge that people are reading the books because they are a series.

VfM4meplse

peachyprice wrote: »

I'm about a third of the way through the second book now, I can see if the regurgitation continues it will become annoying.

Really if an author writes a series (especially one that is so obviously a series with sequential titles using days of the week!) they need to have the confidence in their target readers to be able to follow the threads from book to book and acknowledge that people are reading the books because they are a series.

That would drive me nuts too. It's a tactic that disrespects the readership.

Book 38:


7/10. This book looked at Nietzsche's life story, and what drove his thinking rather than the impact his work has had on the world, which came later. This book allowed me to draw a few conclusions. Firstly, I am pretty sure that Nietzsche would have been sectioned in modern times. His thinking was so off the scale, today he would have been considered as psychotic. Secondly, the society of thinkers thrived because the gap in scientific thinking had been allowed to thrive for so long, even though the resurgence in scientific discovery started in the previous century. Society was so far away from evidence-based thinking at the time, he would have been revered for his wisdom. And lastly, I had no idea that the work of musical composers (ie Wagner) was an expression of their abstract philisophical theories. The mind boggles.

gettingtheresometime

peachyprice wrote: »

I'm about a third of the way through the second book now, I can see if the regurgitation continues it will become annoying.

Really if an author writes a series (especially one that is so obviously a series with sequential titles using days of the week!) they need to have the confidence in their target readers to be able to follow the threads from book to book and acknowledge that people are reading the books because they are a series.

Will be interesting to see if I'm the only one who finds it annoying.

I agree with you re the series thing (my local library will recommend books for me & the only condition I have is that they're not part of a series) - if I want to read a series then I'll read the first one first!

I did wonder if it was the books were written by two authors but I've read 'The wife ibetween us' & that was a two author book but felt as if only one had written it