This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Callan57

Back in Tudor England again with Prophecy by S J Parris

bobbyss

David Copperfield
Beautiful.

Callan57

I'm reading Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends

PMBC

bobbyss wrote: »

David Copperfield
Beautiful.

In a similar vein - just finished Oliver Twist, very enjoyable preceded by Great Expectations which I didnt enjoy as I found the language off putting and overall too long for what is=t contained. However, back to the library tomorrow.

Callan57

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

otnomart

The Fourth Shore by Virginia Baily
Set in 1930's colonial Libya

Callan57

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

adox

Callan57 wrote: »

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

I enjoyed that one.

Xofpod

Finished Chapter & Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me, by Bernard Sumner. This is my third or fourth read through memoirs of that Manchester period, and it's definitely diminishing returns by this stage....
Also read the Fifth Season, N.K.Jemisin, a fantasy novel - great storytelling and setting. I'll definitely pick up the sequels.

Next, on to Washington Black, Esi Edugyan.

Kattunge

Currently reading A Man Called Ove. So far so good.

Wyldwood

Finished The Hungry Road by Marita Conlon-McKenna. A bit of a bleak book but worth reading just to be reminded that there were worse times than those we're going through now.

Going to revisit Thomas McNulty & Co. now with Sebastian Barry's A Thousand Moons.

otnomart

Wyldwood wrote: »

now with Sebastian Barry's A Thousand Moons.

I did read it just a few weeks ago and liked it. Might try other books by the same author.


Have just started The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

eire4

Finished Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything Capitalism v The Climate.
I cannot recommend the book highly enough. It was published in 2014 so things have obviously got worse not better with the climate since it was published but she really gets to the heart of what has happened and what needs to be done to save us and the planet.

ClydeTallyBump

Just finished Uncovered by Leah Lax.

Now onto How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee.

Callan57

Finished My Dark Vanessa this morning ... really disturbing but gripping read, awesome for a debut novel.

Then I read The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse for a bit of kindness and gentleness ... beautiful, inspiring little read

Now it's on to American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Busi_Girl08

Finished Get a Life Chloe Brown, mostly a nice romance story, but some random Mills and Boon-esque sex scenes popped up that were a bit jarring and distracting.

Onto The Silent Patient now.

New Home

"In Times of Fading Light" by Eugen Ruge. Excellent. It deserves all the prizes it won, and then some.

otnomart

Just finished Stoner by John Williams.
I had not heard of it before, found it in a bookshop amongst the "new classics".
What an amazing book, won't forget it.

RandomViewer

Started " All that's dead" by Stuart Mac Bride,

Callan57

Starting Our Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent ... If it's as good as Unravelling Oliver I'll be very happy

Tired Gardener

The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart.

ClydeTallyBump

On to The Young Survivors by Debra Barnes.

adox

Callan57 wrote: »

Starting Our Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent ... If it's as good as Unravelling Oliver I'll be very happy

A great read imo. Unravelling Oliver is the only one of hers I haven’t read!

Callan57

adox wrote: »

A great read imo. Unravelling Oliver is the only one of hers I haven’t read!

You should give it a go, I really enjoyed it

adox

Callan57 wrote: »

You should give it a go, I really enjoyed it

Have it on kindle to read.


Finished Fifty-fifty By Steve Cavanagh yesterday.

Exhilarating courtroom drama.

Callan57

adox wrote: »

Have it on kindle to read.


Finished Fifty-fifty By Steve Cavanagh yesterday.

Exhilarating courtroom drama.

I picked up Twisted from the library earlier this evening

Just started the first book from The Last Kingdom.

I've never really followed a series of books and feet it might be a good time to settle into a sequence of page turners, for various reasons.

I like it after the first couple of chapters anyway.

otnomart

My Coney Island Baby by Billy O’Callaghan

Joe_ Public

Just after finishing Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor. Not previously a major fan but enjoyed this. Hugely entertaining.

Callan57

Orchid & The Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes