The Bookworm’s Thread 2018

C_J

I am thoroughly enjoying A Darker Shade of Magic by V E Schwab.




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VfM4meplse

Book 47:



8/10 - but 9.5/10 for MSE-worthiness. Much I knew (the book was published in 2010) but there were some real gems here that made me think hard and I created a list of actions as a result. The author's comments on 4X4 drivers I thought were particularly pithy :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Really inspiring stuff!

Wednesday2000

I'm reading Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life.

greentiger wrote: »

I'm now reading
29 by Bobbie Doctor, on Flickr

What if a single 29 second phonecall could change your life forever? 'Give me one name. One person. And I will make them disappear . . .'

I read that recently.:)

greentiger

Wednesday2000, I finished "29 Seconds"; I did enjoy it with the moral dilemmas it posed.

Next up is
100 by Bobbie Doctor, on Flickr
I read "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared" some years ago and enjoyed it, so here's hoping...

Syman

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Book 46:



8.5/10. Ok, so it's a children's book....but it was so well-written, gentle and touching, I thought it was a great read. I'd been meaning to read it for a while but it wasn't until I found it for 25p in a chazzer last month I got the chance. It was a very worthwhile way of spending an evening.

I love this book. Along with Boy in the striped pyjamas. Both deemed to be children/YA books.


Just finished


Was good, but not great, gave it 3 stars.

now reading the 4th Cormoran Strike book by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)

greentiger

Syman, I really enjoyed the Miss Jean Milne book; sorry it didn’t hit the spot for you. But then, I didn’t enjoy “Warhorse”! I’ve come to the conclusion that Mr Morpurgo and I are not suited to each other as I haven’t particularly liked any of his books. I have read several of them to classes of kids and they seem to like them, so that’s what matters.

VfM4meplse

Book 48:



8.5/10. I was encouraged to read this from the many recommendations on this thread - thank you! I was 13th in the queue of libarray reservations, which I was pleased to cancel when I found this for 50p in a chazzer . Wittily written and very touching, it was a quick and entertaining read.

VfM4meplse

Book 49:



4/10. Just dreadful - a small helping of facts liberally coated with assumptions, conjecture and sensationalism. Who writes this carp? I wasn't too happy about some of the sweeping statements made about medics either! If anything, I think I need to read a less dramatised version of events that have a much higher factual content! Avoid unless you like stories where truth is shrouded in supposition.

pollypenny

I've just finished Eleanor Oliphant, too. It's our book group choice this month.

Intriguing.

I've just begun a very different Tess Gerritsen. 'Playing with Fire'. When mother plays a particular piece of music on her violin it has a strange effect on her 3 year old daughter, leading to extreme violence.

Edit to add: Eleanor Oliphant was a big hit with book group today.

VfM4meplse

Book 50:

8.5/10 - There were so many nuggets of wisdom buried inside the different - and sometimes contradictory - accounts of pathology from a range of doyennes in the field, it really made me think hard about what happens next...(career-wise, not the after-life).