This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Alex86Eire

I just finished reading Blood Orange and really wasn't a fan.. at all!
I read American Dirt before it and really enjoyed it!

Just started The Dressmakers Gift and so far so good.

Xofpod

The Lost Man, Jane Harper. Brilliant stuff. I was worried it was going to be a retread of her earlier book The Dry but despite sharing many of the same elements (outback! dead body! family secrets!), it's a unique, character-driven book. Well worth a read.

Wyldwood

Xofpod wrote: »

The Lost Man, Jane Harper. Brilliant stuff. I was worried it was going to be a retread of her earlier book The Dry but despite sharing many of the same elements (outback! dead body! family secrets!), it's a unique, character-driven book. Well worth a read.

I like Jane Harper, I'm listening to her latest book The Survivors and it's also good albeit a slow burner.

Busi_Girl08

Starting Sleeping Beauties by Stephen and Owen King.

Xofpod

White Butterfly, Walter Mosley. One of the Easy Rawlins series. I started reading these all out of sequence (there are 14 in total) and after loving the first few I read, I was suffering from diminishing returns and was about to call it a day with the series.

I had this one in my pile however and picked it up on a whim. One of the earlier entries, I absolutely loved it - it's the strongest of his books I've read so far. Gritty LA noire, set in the 50s. Rekindled my interest in reading the rest (just as well I have three more in the TBR Pile of Doom...)

eire4

Finished book 10 of Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld series Frostbitten. A return to the werewolf characters of the first 2 books in the series and another enjoyable read.

eire4

Finished Ken Bruen's The Magdalen Martyrs. The third book in the Galway authors Jack Taylor crime series set in Galway also and nothing short of brilliant. At times dark at times witty and funny always brilliant. Loved this one.

Wyldwood

Away With the Penguins by Hazel Prior, a nice easy read. An eccentric eighty-six-year-old millionaire with no family doesn't know who to leave her money to when she dies. Then she makes a strange decision.

Up next Black Widows by Cate Quinn

Xofpod

The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen, the follow-up to the brilliant The Sympathiser.
Good so far but doesn't appear to be in the same league as the first one.

HalloweenJack

Started Girl, Woman, Other today and I haven't had a book make my stop and think so much in such a short space of time. Loving it so far.

I've had a copy of "A Tale of Two Cities" in a box of school books (property of the school library:eek:), since renting it for a school report, 16 years ago. At that time, I got through about 12 pages, got bored, read the blurb, flung the book, and faked the report.

Picked it out of the box last sunday and, like a fine wine, it has come along very well. I can hardly put it down. The gradual spinning together of seemingly minor plots into a single thread is brilliantly done, so exciting when it happens — just found out that the brother, Solomon, of Lucie's maid is Mr. Barstad, the spy!

I'm assuming these links will become less coincidental as the novel reaches its conclusion.

When I am finished, i will be good, I will send the book back. The fine may be heavy, but the book will be worth it.

A Tyrant Named Miltiades!

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I've had a copy of "A Tale of Two Cities" in a box of school books (property of the school library:eek:), since renting it for a school report, 16 years ago. At that time, I got through about 12 pages, got bored, read the blurb, flung the book, and faked the report.

Picked it out of the box last sunday and, like a fine wine, it has come along very well. I can hardly put it down. The gradual spinning together of seemingly minor plots into a single thread is brilliantly done, so exciting when it happens — just found out that the brother, Solomon, of Lucie's maid is Mr. Barstad, the spy!

I'm assuming these links will become less coincidental as the novel reaches its conclusion.

When I am finished, i will be good, I will send the book back. The fine may be heavy, but the book will be worth it.

I forget exactly, but dickens has coincidences all over the place.The house Oliver ends up in as an example.

eire4

fvp4 wrote: »

I forget exactly, but dickens has coincidences all over the place.The house Oliver ends up in as an example.

Finished book 11 of Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld series Waking the Witch. As the title suggests this one is focused on the witches in the series and is another fun and enjoyable read.

Busi_Girl08

Started the Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner. First physical book in a while too.

I am Pilgrim.

Quite a shocking opening chapter but am loving it so far. I don't read many thrillers.

Paddy Samurai

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I am Pilgrim.

Quite a shocking opening chapter but am loving it so far. I don't read many thrillers.

A top notch thriller well worth reading.

Busi_Girl08

Reading Pachinko at the moment and to be honest I'm struggling a bit. Hoping it kicks off a bit soon.

Xofpod

Just read The Nothing Man, Catherine Ryan Howard. Not my normal type of read but my wife recommended it and I absolutely loved it.
A serial killer-type story set mainly in Cork, the plotting and the structure were great (multiple time periods & POVs, story-within-a-story, potentially unreliable narrator), but it was the attention to and correctness of detail (90s/'00s Cork - those halcyon days...) that nailed it for me.

miamee

Xofpod wrote: »

Just read The Nothing Man, Catherine Ryan Howard. Not my normal type of read but my wife recommended it and I absolutely loved it.
A serial killer-type story set mainly in Cork, the plotting and the structure were great (multiple time periods & POVs, story-within-a-story, potentially unreliable narrator), but it was the attention to and correctness of detail (90s/'00s Cork - those halcyon days...) that nailed it for me.

That's great, I just bought it on Kindle the other day but have yet to read it. Looking forward to it now

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Reading Pachinko at the moment and to be honest I'm struggling a bit. Hoping it kicks off a bit soon.

I'm reading it too. I'm enjoying it so far but I'm 100 pages in and it's only just gotten to where was already established by the blurb on the back

eire4

Finished Lars Brownworth's Lost To The West. A concise but very good look at the 1000 odd years that the Eastern Roman Empire lasted after the Western half collapsed in the 5th century CE. Makes some very good points about how important the Byzantine Empire as the Eastern Half of the Roman Empire became know was to the development of Europe in later centuries and to also how some of the mistrusts between east and west in Europe can be traced back to the later centuries of the Byzantine Empire.

Wyldwood

Snow by John Banville. I was very disappointed in this offering by the much-lauded Banville. It plods along at a slow pace, there's a lot of sloshing about in the freezing cold in a borrowed coat and gloves. The murder of the priest was obviously heading down a predictable route. DI Strafford imagining himself in love with all the female characters who, in turn, all seem to throw themselves at him, is totally out of sync with the rest of the novel. I felt the ending was unsatisfactory too.

Mr.Nice Guy

I read The Institute by Stephen King. Without giving too much away, it's about a facility for children with special abilities.

I found it a fun read. I found myself rooting for the main character Luke and his friends. I could see this working well as a TV series.

The White Feather

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I read The Institute by Stephen King. Without giving too much away, it's about a facility for children with special abilities.

I found it a fun read. I found myself rooting for the main character Luke and his friends. I could see this working well as a TV series.

I loved that book too. It is already getting a limited tv series made about it! Shots for Dots!!!

https://ew.com/tv/2019/09/10/stephen-king-the-institute-tv-series/

Xofpod

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I read The Institute by Stephen King. Without giving too much away, it's about a facility for children with special abilities.

I found it a fun read. I found myself rooting for the main character Luke and his friends. I could see this working well as a TV series.

Liked it too. I thought it was a real return to 80s Stephen King - reminded me a lot of Firestarter.

HalloweenJack

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky. 600-odd pages in, just under 500 to go.

It's interesting and, for the most part, doesn't delve too much into preaching, though I find some of the time dedicated to backstories excessive and they get in the way of properly getting into the story.

HalloweenJack

HalloweenJack wrote: »

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky. 600-odd pages in, just under 500 to go.

It's interesting and, for the most part, doesn't delve too much into preaching, though I find some of the time dedicated to backstories excessive and they get in the way of properly getting into the story.

Read it when I was a student and really enjoyed it. Of course back then I had 12 hours of lectures a week and made about 6 so time wasn't such an issue...

eire4

Finished book 12 of Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld series Spellbound. The first book which brings together all the different supernatural characters introduced earlier and another fun read.

Mr.Nice Guy

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I read The Institute by Stephen King. Without giving too much away, it's about a facility for children with special abilities.

I found it a fun read. I found myself rooting for the main character Luke and his friends. I could see this working well as a TV series.

Enjoyed this recently too

RandomViewer

Dirty South by John Connolly, okay so far