The Bookworm’s Thread 2018

sugarbaby125

I finished reading The Hunt by T.J. Lebbon in the early hours of the morning because I just could not put it down. It is a very fast paced, taut, thriller. What would you do if suddenly your life was turned upside down because your wife and children are being held hostage and you are told that you have become the human target in the hunt? I would give this book 9.5/10

pollypenny

Days Without End - Sebastian Barry!

It’s our book group choice and I can’t put it down! Such beautiful writing, with a very clear narrative voice. I am reading it quite slowly as I relish every word.

It’s set in America during the Indian and, later the Civil War.

Syman

Finished the Brunel book.
What an amazing engineer he was. His achievements would be amazing even with today's tech. What he did with the tools available to him are truly spectacular. The book also explored the darker, more ruthless side to his nature.

Also, we know about the GWR, bridges and ships. What i found remarkable was that he had so many projects running concurrently.

Next book is back to murder and mayhem...

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I'm not much of a bookworm as I never used to have the time to read or just it didn't appeal to me ,
but I have a lot of my books still in a cardboard box and would like to have less screen time.

I've begun to read Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children but not too far into the book yet.
I've set myself a good read challenge of reading 10 books, biggest me just picking up A book is a big thing for me lmao

Syman

2674644 wrote: »

I'm not much of a bookworm as I never used to have the time to read or just it didn't appeal to me ,
but I have a lot of my books still in a cardboard box and would like to have less screen time.

I've begun to read Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children but not too far into the book yet.
I've set myself a good read challenge of reading 10 books, biggest me just picking up A book is a big thing for me lmao

I think the trick to getting your reading up is to find an author, or subject you enjoy and go for that. Then you can branch out for similar writers and subjects.

Don't pressure yourself into reading a book just because you have bought, or been given it.
The last book i read i bought in 2013, but just wasn't "feeling it" finally read after 5 years on the kindle.

greentiger

Doh! Lost my post!

My challenge for 2018 is to read the books I already have! Somehow I seem to attract them, e.g. a bowling friend of my husband has been sending me (and his wife's) his finished books! I have never met the man and he doesn't have clue what my taste is!

Rather than just grabbing any book off the shelf, I am going to 'read the alphabet', by titles. That'll do 26. After that I'll do books with numbers in the title. It's unlikely, but if I finish that lot I'll go back to the alphabet, but by author.

I'm cheating a bit and starting with 'O' because I started Philippa Gregory's "The Other Queen" last year. I'm not a great fan of historical novels, but I like Mary, Queen of Scots. I did enjoy this book.
queen by Bobbie Doctor, on Flickr

My list is
A - "According to Yes" by Dawn French
Not the greatest literature but a quick read.
A by Bobbie Doctor, on Flickr
B - "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? What can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? Why should you never run for a train or read a newspaper? This book is all about Black Swans: the random events that underlie our lives, from bestsellers to world disasters. Their impact is huge; they're impossible to predict; yet after they happen we always try to rationalize them. A rallying cry to ignore the 'experts', The Black Swan shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertainty.
I think this will be a 'dip in and out' book
B by Bobbie Doctor, on Flickr

I have plenty of 'C' titles to choose from.

VfM4meplse

A bit late to the party, but Book 1:



7/10. I liked this book for a number of reasons, and the plot line was probably the least of it! The familiarity of many of the locations described, the humanity of the characters, and their progressive views given the time set this apart. It was also very funny in parts.

Am making substantial progress on several others

CurlyTop

Syman wrote: »

I think the trick to getting your reading up is to find an author, or subject you enjoy and go for that. Then you can branch out for similar writers and subjects.

Don't pressure yourself into reading a book just because you have bought, or been given it.
The last book i read i bought in 2013, but just wasn't "feeling it" finally read after 5 years on the kindle.

So true are those words Syman. I have bought books in the past and persevered and seen the reading of the book a real chore. Over the past few years, with an author I don't know of, I will read the first chapter via Kindle to see if I like the style of writing and this makes it easier for me to decide whether to part with my money via kindle (if reasonably priced) or go to the library even. I have also stopped reading books that I am not getting after a couple of chapters as there are too many books and so little time.

Syman

CurlyTop wrote: »

So true are those words Syman. I have bought books in the past and persevered and seen the reading of the book a real chore. Over the past few years, with an author I don't know of, I will read the first chapter via Kindle to see if I like the style of writing and this makes it easier for me to decide whether to part with my money via kindle (if reasonably priced) or go to the library even. I have also stopped reading books that I am not getting after a couple of chapters as there are too many books and so little time.

I don't finish books i am not enjoying either, and for exactly the same reason, however, i do hang on to them.....Just in case i have a change of heart!

Callie22

I've just finished 'The Power' by Naomi Alderman. I didn't love it quite as much as I thought I would, but it was an interesting read. Quite graphic in parts though. For fun I'm just about halfway through 'Greensleeves' by Eloise Jarvis McGraw, which is a really charming YA novel from the 70s about a girl who goes to live in a small community for the summer whilst investigating the terms of a really odd will. I saw it recommended on a book blog recently and saw that it was quite cheap for the Kindle, and if you like that sort of thing I'd definitely recommend it. I've also just finished 'Too Marvellous for Words!' by Julie Welch, which is a biography of Julie's time at a girl's boarding school in the 60s. That was an enjoyable and fairly quick read - I saw it recommended in an article about Ysenda Maxtone Graham's 'Terms & Conditions', which I read last year. That's a sort-of memoir of girl's boarding schools from the 30s to the 70s, again a quick read but very enjoyable.