The Bookworm’s Thread 2018

[Deleted User] · 3 April 2018 at 12:58PM

Just started reading our book club book The History of Love not very thick book but very small print so may take awhile ,but I am enjoying it at the moment

Wednesday2000 · 4 April 2018 at 7:56AM

I'm reading The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Not exactly light-hearted reading but interesting.

VfM4meplse wrote: »

This was published last year, wasn't it? It's been on my list since then by not yet in my local library. I rather get the impression that it could offer focus to a lot of people.

I'm not sure, I read about it on a blog and bought it on impulse as it was only a couple of quid.:)

Serendipitious · 4 April 2018 at 4:25PM

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Four families live in a beautiful stretch of English countryside in magnificent listed houses, built for the old aristocracy. They are the new aristocracy and the elite of their village: financiers, business tycoons, lawyers, doctors, magistrates. They leave their rural idyll only to commute first-class to London for meetings, deals and theatre outings or Heathrow flights to winter sun or half-term skiing. They and their children are protected by investments, pensions and expensive security systems.

But ..... an unthinkable act of violence destroys these dream lives and demonstrates that the biggest threat may come from unexpected places. This horrific act happens on the first pages but Lawson provides dramatic twists and false turns and it is only by the end of the book that we discover who the victims are and who committed the crime.

(Synopsis above by PanMacmillan)

I loved this, it was unputdownable, very filling for a voracious reader, and found it funny/dark, light/dense in equal measure. 10/10

Callie22 · 4 April 2018 at 8:08PM

Serendipitous, I really liked The Deaths too - it is very dark but there's enough humour in there to lighten up what is a very serious subject. None of the characters are particularly likeable but it's a well-told story. I recently read The Allegations by the same author and enjoyed that too, but The Deaths was the better novel, I think.

Serendipitious · 4 April 2018 at 9:12PM

Callie22 wrote: »

Serendipitous, I really liked The Deaths too - it is very dark but there's enough humour in there to lighten up what is a very serious subject. None of the characters are particularly likeable but it's a well-told story. I recently read The Allegations by the same author and enjoyed that too, but The Deaths was the better novel, I think.

Glad you liked it too.

It reminded me a bit of some of Jilly Cooper's settings but with a lot more muscle applied to the plotting and characterisation, and plenty of dramatic tension. I'll definitely give some of his others a try.

gettingtheresometime · 4 April 2018 at 10:06PM

Blackcatsreturns wrote: »

Thank you to Gettingthere for the recommendation of Life Death and Vanilla Slices. I'm really enjoying it. Some bits have made me laugh out loud. The main character is the same age as me - a 1960s child so her childhood memories are very familiar.
I recently gave up reading Faking Friends. It started very well but the plot became far fetched and it turned into a "who can be the most horrible?" By half way through I had no empathy for any of the characters.

I think the moral of FF is (without giving away the ending) is that two wrongs don't make a right. In a way it showed how you could be anyone (or even anywhere) on the internet.

Will have to see if the library has The Deaths & will order it if they have as it sounds like my sort of book.

Still struggling with Ready Player One.

RicardaRacoon · 6 April 2018 at 6:19PM

Evening everyone

Right after The Guernsey Literate and Potato Peel Pie Society which I really enjoyed I've found another great book and am speeding through it and am really loving it...

When we meet again - Kristin Harmel
A woman gets a painting of her grandmother with a note saying "He has never stopped loving her, she was the love of his life." and sets out to find the mysterious sender of the note...
It was a bit forseenable - as I have read a story with a slightly similar story line - but sooo good and I cried more than once... My cats think I am a !!!!!... :-)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Nothing much to say about that, my favourite of all of them as it was the first one I read all these years ago.

Books I plan to read:
Everyone brave is forgiven - Chris Cleave
Harry Potter 3-7
Russian Winter - Daphne Kalotay. Read it two or three years ago and think I have to reread it...

Syman · 8 April 2018 at 6:37PM

Hi Guys, it's been a while.

I have read a few "throwaway" thrillers and....

Not sure this is a "male" book, but i enjoyed it nevertheless. The blooming personality of Eleanor is delightfully written. The angst she goes through is also sympathetically and sensitively portayed.

Also...

Listed as historical fiction, but based on a true account.

well written account of a Auschwith/Berkenau prisoner and what he had to do to survive.

sugarbaby125 · 9 April 2018 at 5:51PM

I just finished reading The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and it was a completely enthralling read for me.:j:D:T

This book had me hooked from the 1st few lines of page 1 and kept me wanting to know more even after I had come to the last word of the last page. It is jam packed with unforgettable, believable characters, mystery, love stories and supsense.

This book was a very well deserved 10/10 for me

timehastoldme · 10 April 2018 at 7:05AM

Neville Shute: On The Beach.

The entire population of the northern hemisphere has been wiped out due to nuclear war. In Australia they are waiting out their last few months until the radiation creeps down to them.

Amazing, harrowing, floods of tears and a brain that couldn't escape this story and probably never will. I'm glad I read it, but know it will haunt me.

Next up, The Furies by Keith Roberts. More radiation, but this time with massive wasps.

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