What are you reading today?

Half way through ‘Any Human Heart’ William Boyd. I am enjoying it but it’s a long read, 500 pages and small font ?

Windswept and Interesting by Billy Connelly.

I’m finding it quite sad and he’s brutally honest about his childhood. I’ve read books that have been written about him before, but this is the first book he’s written himself.

His love for his sister though shines through the book and his description of the neighbours who showed him kindness and helped him feel safe had me in tears.

It’s raw in parts of course, as he is raw, but he paints a picture of a scared wee boy who grew into a man that never really got over the loss of his mother.

I’m half way through it.

I’m having a ‘new reads’ rest at the moment, so I’m re-reading some books by Jude Deveraux and Judith McNaught. I’m starting with Paradise, then Perfect.
If I don’t enjoy them as much this time round, they’ll go to the charity shop.

Just finished The Catcher in the Rye, that was my classic for 2021 (trying to read 1 a year). Didn’t enjoy it at all; I’m sure it was good in its time.
Will be starting Love and Other Words, hopefully a bit more interesting/entertaining.

And I loved ‘The Siege’ SueDonim it made me very acutely aware of just how fortunate we really are and how much we whinge and take things for granted. That novel stayed on my mind for ages afterwards when I read it many years ago. I found it heartbreaking.

The Siege by Helen Dunmore.

Urmston lots of the places in Lagos that are mentioned in your book are familiar to me from our time living there. It was very odd to read about them!

‘The Girl with the Louding Voice’. It’s our book club read to be discussed next month. Set in Nigeria. I’m really enjoying it, I’m about a third of the way through.

NotAGran oh dear just me then. I should have got out more!

Sara1954

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker.
Grandpajo, if you are enjoying One flew over the Cuckoos nest, you may be interested in this, an American family with twelve children, six of whom develop schizophrenia, parallels with the Jack Nicholson character, really interesting.

Thanks that's sounds my type of read..goes on the list

Just finished Attention all Shipping by Charlie Connelly.

Susan56

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman.

I've just started reading The Thursday Murder Club. It had some bad reviews so I was going to give it a miss but somebody gave me a copy for Christmas.

Crochet patterns, and the Duolingo Gaelic (Scottish) course.

Snow Country. Sebastian Faulks

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker.
Grandpajo, if you are enjoying One flew over the Cuckoos nest, you may be interested in this, an American family with twelve children, six of whom develop schizophrenia, parallels with the Jack Nicholson character, really interesting.

baubles

Kate1949

Miriam Margolyes autobiography. She's a shocker.

Also reading this. Not shocked so far though.

I listened to the audiobook and she really brought it to life with her incredible repertoire of accents, such a good actress.
I loved it, surprised but not shocked ?.

Just finished reading ‘The Room in the Attic’ by Louise Douglas, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

Yes there was a sticker inside the front cover LadyGracie
I hope you can get one.

baubles I think I've led a very sheltered life!

I’ve just finished John le Carre’s final book - Silverview. Highly recommended.

The Madness of Crowds, by Louise Penny - the latest Inspector Gamache novel and certainly gives pause for thought.

NotAGran55 can I ask please if you got a sticker for your car in the handbook. They usually come just inside the cover, mine was either missing or you don’t get them anymore.

Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden.

The 1947 film is one of my all-time favourites but I've never read the book.

I've always fancied myself at Sister Ruth!

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman.

Kate1949

Miriam Margolyes autobiography. She's a shocker.

Also reading this. Not shocked so far though.

Waded through this week's Radio Times, and half way through a Jack Reacher book.
Waiting for me is the second Raynor Winn book.