Bookworms 2020

Charly27

Ruby_Eskimo ‘Why I’m no longer Talking’ is also on my list. Wednesday 2000 I just loved the Malory Towers books if they are the Enid Blyton ones? I haven’t reread those in years though I did read some of hers to my own children. I don’t know how they’d read as an adult. It was a world I could never inhabit as a child but didn’t stop the enjoyment. 

I’ve finished The Winter Lodge and I loved it. I do like Susan Wiggs writing, there’s a warmth and compassion for her characters that seeps through, even when they are flawed and mess up, which inevitably they do. Sometimes you just want to shake them!

This book is also interwoven with Polish recipes that I’m just itching to try. Challenging in the midst of the Fast 100 diet when the sweetest thing I’ve had in over six weeks is an apple!! One day I will though.

I’m just going to go right into reading the next chronicle ‘Dockside at Willow Lake.’

ruby_eskimo

Charly27 - would highly recommend as it also links into talks about Feminism and Class as well as race.

Finished 'Why I'm No Longer Talking' yesterday and immediately picked up another Sue Perkins book from the Library, this time 'East of Croydon' about her filming a documentary travelling up the Mekong River.  Not quite as laugh out load as Spectacles but still very amusing.

Still have 3 more library books to get through that I picked up last week and have another 5 to pick up tomorrow!  Will get back to my TBR pile soon, I'm just playing catch up with all the books I wish I could have read during lock down.

Wednesday2000

Charly27 said:

 Wednesday 2000 I just loved the Malory Towers books if they are the Enid Blyton ones? I haven’t reread those in years though I did read some of hers to my own children. I don’t know how they’d read as an adult. It was a world I could never inhabit as a child but didn’t stop the enjoyment. 

Yes. Enid Blyton. I have always wanted to move to the sea. I might start to reread them next week.

pollypenny

Charly27 said:

Though harrowing do you think it’s a really good read PollyPenny?

Yes, it's an excellent read. It would be better to read Yellow Crocus first, though. 

elsien

Yay. Our library has just re-opened.
No browsing but they've waived the reservation fee for now so you can reserve and collect; or you can tell the librarian what you like and get the lucky dip of their choice. 
Thankfully existing books are extended till the end of August as I'm still ploughing though Ducks, Newburyport from the start of the lockdown.  How anyone with a life could get through it on 3 weeks is beyond me.

ruby_eskimo

Sounds like a tough read elsien!  Our library also has the lucky dip option but I'm a bit scared to try it as my reading history is a bit eclectic according to my loan history.

Finished East of Croydon and Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut over the weekend.  Started A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas yesterday and I'm already half way through (yes I sometimes read YA fantasy novels as a quick break but this is definitely rather steamy in places!).  Also picked up a few more reservations from the library on Saturday which I should finish in the next couple of weeks.  Really happy they've wavered the fee so I can reserve books from that branch and have them waiting for me rather than worrying about bumping into people in the stacks.

elsien

To be honest I keep dipping in and out. I know I've got it for a few more weeks, while my library ebooks that I reserved all seem to have arrived at once so I'm trying to get through them as well. 

pollypenny

I returned the book group copies to the library on Friday. So sad!  Books to go in a large, bin-like, box. The whole place boxed off with white plywood apart from a small hatch, where books ordered online are issued. One way route through walls and out of the back door  😢

It was a lively, busy place. 

Wednesday2000

I started The Comparison Cure - How to be less them and more you a while back but have began reading it again. It's by Lucy Sheridan.

I have a terrible habit of starting books and then leaving them for weeks/months. I'm hoping to finish it tomorrow.

Charly27

I finished Dockside at Willow Lake #3 Lakeshore Chronicles on Sunday. I gave it 5 stars because once again I believed in her characters, despite the fact that sometimes they irritate me. Maybe that makes them more human? I also enjoyed that at the head of each chapter there were some facts and some background information about the properties and their History. 

Now started #4 Snowfall at Willow Lake. I haven’t figured out a library visit yet so bought this and the next 2 on my Kindle.