This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Ithaca by Alan McMonagle

For The Most Beautiful - Emily Hauser

Fathom wrote: »

Stranger and Friend
by Hortense Powdermaker

Qualitative methods. Reads like novel. Interesting.

Plays 1 Brian Friel

lockman

Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol

We Are All Made Of Glue by Marina Lewycka

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

FINALLY finished Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series. I really don't know what to make of them. First two were decent enough but the 3rd and 4th seemed overly long and unnecessary. The 3rd in particular was a real struggle to get through. The 4th picked up again slightly but by the end I was glad to be finished.

lockman wrote: »

Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol

Good read.

Sapphire3

Just started reading "Conclave" by Thomas Harris, not bad so far.

quickbeam

^^ Is that the one where Hannibal Lecter becomes Pope?

Xofpod

Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer.
Deeply creepily brilliant.

Silent Wife
by Kerry Fisher

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

Callan57 wrote: »

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

Good read? Fast page turner?

Daisy78

Where Angels fear to tread by E.M Forster.

Next up Elinor Oliphant is completely fine.

(And Harry Potter: The Chamber of Secrets, read the first one over 15 years ago and only getting to the rest of the books now!).

Fathom wrote: »

Good read? Fast page turner?

Real page turner .. and 600 to turn

Loving it

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Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine.
It was brilliant.

Daisy78

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine.
It was brilliant.

It seems to be getting great reviews.

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Daisy78 wrote: »

It seems to be getting great reviews.

Yeah, it was just a lovely read..read it in a day pretty much..laugh out loud funny at times..

Callan57 wrote: »

Real page turner .. and 600 to turn
Loving it

Thanks. Put on list.

Fathom wrote: »

Thanks. Put on list.

Just finished it ... highly recommend, flew through the 600+ pages

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

The View on the Way Down by Rebecca Wait

It's about a family struggling to deal with the death of one son and the "disappearance" of the other shortly after. It's told from a few different points of view and one section is entirely rambling unanswered letters from one character to another. It all fits together really well though and I am flying through it.

Black Water by Louise Doughty

Solomon Pleasant

I'm currently 3 chapters into Derek Landy's 8th book in the Skulduggery Pleasant series.

This is quite possibly the finest piece of young adult/teenage fiction that I've ever read. Honestly I've enjoyed it more than the Harry Potter books. Landy has produced a masterpiece, not just with one book, but with the entire series. I feel that words such as captivating, gripping and scintillating are often overused when describing a book, but they sum up the Skulduggery Pleasant series with such accuracy.

The author's ability to build characters who are genuinely intriguing and really contribute to the plot is electrifying. He does it so well that it creates this special connection between reader and character, enticing the reader to keep reading. It's truly enthralling and a fantastic achievement by the author.

Xofpod

The Incarnations, Susan Barker.
It sat on the bookshelf for about two years but I'm really enjoying it now that I've started.
Considerably more vicious than I would have imagined...

ahlookit

Enjoyed Graham Nortons debut novel "Holding", I'll definitely read any other fiction he writes.

Just finished Val McDermid's "The Mermaids Singing", I was looking for a new detective series to get stuck into so decided to give her Tony Hill/Carol Jordan books a go. Decent opener, will give the next one "Wire in the blood" a try.

The Occupation Trilogy - Patrick Modiano . Just outstanding

Kurtosis

Currently reading Silence by Shusaku Endo. It's been in my To Be Read pile for far too long.

North Water
by Ian McGuire