Reading as a cheap hobby

HouseMartin567

I’ve just read ‘Carrie Soto is Back’ by Taylor Jenkins Read. It’s about a famous (fictional) tennis player making a comeback. The main character feels so real it reads like an autobiography. I really enjoyed it so have put ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’, by the same author on my library ‘to-read’ list.

Coxy11

I’ve just finished Raven Black by Ann Cleeves - the first in the Jimmy Perez Shetland series. Bit late to the party and I’ve not seen the TV series. Enjoyed it and will be looking for others in the series.

Now reading A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie. Only my second AC read - enjoying it so far.

AlwaysAllie

Why have I never realised before that there is a ‘book’ thread!

As a child I was an avid reader, sort of lost my way and trying desperately to claw it back in the short amount of time I seem to have free each day.
This year’s favourite book so far, and a complete change of genre for me, was Echoes on a Fractal Line (Lee-Anne McCaulay).

I’m currently reading Raising Hare (Chloe Dalton) and The Knapdale Murders #1 (Daniel Sellers) the latter being my more usual Scottish crime genre and set in an area I know well.

Looking forward to adding more to me TBR list

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daz378

Still rereading raymond e feist..magician series....think I'm on last 3 books in series demonwar saga....also reading latest Charlie parker novel...red river road by John connolly...

Wednesday2000

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I liked The Magician books. I read them more than 20 years ago!

DigForVictory

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Yes indeed, um, a little further back but then I got engrossed in the Mara trilogy as it fitted rather too neatly with Machiavelli & History

The Knapdale Murders #1 (Daniel Sellers) 

I do like a nice murder. I don't think my parents quite realised what they were letting me into when I binged on Agatha Christie & then mopped up my grandmother's Dorothy L Sayers. Before negotiating with Grandfather for the D!ck Francis he was reading (honestly, a lesser man would have disinherited me on the spot: by his fire, in his armchair, reading his book) but he chose to be amused bless him & that sorted out what I got for Christmas for several years.

Blackcats

nice memories @DigForVictory

I've just finished Run as a River by Shelley Read. It was a book group choice and it divided the group between really liking it and not liking it very much. I was in the latter category. However, it provided a great insight into small town America after WW2. The descriptions of nature were exquisite.

London_1

working my way through Val McDermid books and denise Mins all tartan noir stuff Stuart Macbride is my favourite though

JackieO xx

PipneyJane

I’ve just finished rereading “Death on the Ballarat Train” by my old acquaintance Kerry Greenwood. I hadn’t read it since the mid-1990’s and my memory was distorted by the dreadful portrayal in the Miss Fisher Mysteries TV series, which inexplicably depicts the train as a sleeper, even though the 80-odd mile journey from Melbourne took less than 4 hours on the slow train and the one in the book is the Express!

(Kerry would never have got that wrong. She researched things diligently.)

The book is set in Australia in the late 1920’s. It’s beautifully written and the crimes are believable. For me though, the best part is when the heroine attends the inaugural meeting of the (unnamed in the book) Melbourne University Choral Society, at the university’s boat house beside the Yarra, when the men’s choir and the women’s decide to join forces. At the party, the choristers sing madrigals, hymns and spirituals, just as we did when I was a member during the 1980’s.

I must admit to biase, though, because it was like being back there and being present at the party, probably because of the memories it triggered. It was through that choir that I knew Kerry. We sang together for years. In fact, I had dinner with her the evening after she got her first publishing contract. I also remember, on another occasion, quizzing her about her research process. (She spent hours in the State Library of Victoria, reading microfilmed newspapers and magazines from the 1920’s.)

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Brie

Out in the charity shops today and convinced my friend that she needed a copy of Elizabeth Oliphant is completely fine. Hope she enjoys it as much as I did. (read 3 times already!)