What book are you reading atm?? CHAPTER TWO

Its a great book - maybe worth reading Down and Out in London and Paris as a 20th century counterpoint…

Thanks - I've read that.
In this instance I am looking for non-fiction

I'd recommend going back to it in a year or two but listening to the fantastic audiobook.

Just finished ‘The Hunger Games’ trilogy i enjoyed it, keeps the interest going but really it’s one story split into three. Got loads on my Kindle but might try ‘Wuthering Heights’ as I passed an advert for Kate Bush earlier and after the song becoming an ear worm realised I’d never read the book.

I've put The Bee Sting on the long finger yet again and am reading Patrick Ness' A Monster Calls instead. Only started it yesterday but I'm enjoying it immensely already. Very reminiscent of Neil Gaiman, which is a Very Good Thing in my book.

Finished Persons Unknown by Susie Steiner. I saw an obit for this writer in the Irish Times and had never heard of her, she died at 52 from a brain tumour. Saw the book in the library and thought I’d give it a try. It’s the second book she wrote. It was a good read, the characters were a bit different and it was very witty in parts. It was about a man found stabbed to death close to where the detective and her sister are living in Cambridgeshire. It turns out they have a connection to him. When her adopted son, who’s only 12 is arrested for his murder, she has to find out what really happened. I enjoyed it and will try the other two in the series.

He can be very hit and miss, just be warned. Avoid The Given Day like the plague.

Shutter Island is worth reading.

Mystic River was a far better film than book. Likewise Gone Baby Gone.

I’ve just finished The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell. It was enjoyable a page turner with short chapters. It went backwards and forwards in time and each chapter dealt with one of the characters. I found it a bit convoluted at times but maybe that was me! I think it’s a follow on from another of hers which I haven’t read The Family Upstairs.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, I read Something Wicked this way comes a while back and there was something about it that just didn't grab me. I feel somewhat the same about this but I am enjoying it.

Educated by Tara Westover - incredible book.

Mexico Set - Len Deighton, its slow paced but I like his writing.

Have taken this advice and am now reading They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera. It's a bit meh so far, but I'm only a few chapters in.

I really liked A Monster Calls. Very bittersweet and evocative.

The Bee Sting isn’t a bad book. Dickie and Cass’s storylines (father and daughter) were almost entirely pure brilliance. The others though, were not. They were predictable, convoluted in places and their inclusion changed the timeline/era of Dickie’s early story which was a loss IMO. At 600 odd pages, it wasn’t worth the investment in time.
Spoiler alert:

One plot line irked me and it was a simple thing to get the facts correct on. A mechanic Dickie hires is stealing the catalytic converters out of cars that come into his garage for service. The customers come back days or weeks later complaining. If your cat is nicked, your cat will sound like a tank right away. Even if you try to cover up, every other mechanic in the place will know what you’re at and shop you in to save themselves and their job.
It was just an implausible tactic that shouldn’t have made it to publication.

My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor

A really enjoyable read about an Irish priest in occupied Rome, who deceived both the Nazis and the Pope in operating an escape line for POWs.