What are you reading at the moment

Oops - no, I've read it! Just looked at a review.

Hi green yes, it seems to be her latest, but having got half way through it, I'm not impressed. I've loved all her other books.

I gave up on Complicit last night - I have enjoyed all of Nicci French's other books, but this one doesn't develop or gather any excitement, given the plot line. Life's too short!

Can I recommend you all to have a look at today's Kindle deal. It's Can Any Mother Help Me? by Jenna Bailey and is all about a magazine run privately by a group of women between the wars. They were lonely and frustrated at being stuck at home with only children and housework to occupy them. I have only
read the introduction so far, but it is absolutely fascinating - obviously the forerunner of Gransnet, and made me realise how incredibly lucky we all are to be able to chat away as we all do.[ smile]

It looks great Ganja - mentioned in the thread directly above, by Libradi. I've bought it this morning.

It does look good Ganja and a bargain at only 99p! I'm beginning to sound like a sales rep

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For anyone who likes blood and gore in their books, I`m nearly finished reading Snapshot, by Craig Robertson. It`s set in Glasgow, and someone`s killing off big gang bosses and drug dealers, police are baffled. Good book, but a bit gory.

On the train today, finished White Nights by Anne Cleeves, sequel to Raven Black, set in Shetland Islands. Engrossing plots and engaging characters - developing relationship.... I think it was gracesmum who recommended this author.

Hope you are enjoying the Ann Cleeves, Annobel - I have now read all 4 and loved them. I can also recommend Can Any Mother (see previous thread) It will resonate with anybody who has confided in GN friends or followed their worries, fears or happiness.

oldgreymare the book you recommended to me has just arrived in this morning's post - 'Till The Sun Grows Cold' - will start reading it in a few days - looks interesting from flicking through it - thanks

I've just finished 'Lustrum' by Robert Harris. Political intrigue in ancient Rome doesn't get better than that! I read 'Pompeii' by RH recently, which I couldn't put down, and now DH can't put it down, and it takes a good story to hold his interest these days (he prefers military biographies to novels). Having nothing else much to go at at the moment (except a book on fly fishing for beginners which is putting me off trying fly fishing at all!), I have started 'Trace' by Patricia Cornwell. I have read and enjoyed most of her other stuff, but am not enjoying this one, so probably won't finish it.

just love reading,have so many book stacked on my unit yet to read have said to other half I will be well peed off if I die without having read them,and to please put in my coffin for the afterlife ,I read for pure escapism from daily life and if it appeals to me then I will read it....does anyone else have the love of new books to hold and sniff and just anticipate the story within...at the moment reading Susan Lewis ''No turning back''...just sound such a saddoxx

I haven't read that one nellie but have read a couple of others she wrote - let us know how it pans out won't you? She does seem to write about such sad and poignant issues.

Just Googled Susan Lewis, nelliedeane - her books look good! I think I've maybe seen them in the library, then been put off by the covers - they look a bit 'girly'!! (I know you shouldn't tell a book by its cover!) I'll have a look in the library when I'm there next.

Have just started Before the Poison, by Peter Robinson. Not sure how it`s going to go down, it`s a stand alone book, and I`m more used to his Inspector Banks stories, but I`ll see how it pans out.

numberplease - I can't get on with the Jo Nesbo books. I did try, but had to give up ! Got a really good Anne Fine one just now, though.

carol think her first and second book where a biography,her mother died when she was very young,must admit just started this one and finding hard to get into..Greenmossgiel her books arent girly as carol says they have a poignancy about them...I do enjoy ''chick lit'' though it depends on my mood at the time.

I am reading "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern, a terrific book, it has been reviewed on here before,it is magical and very interesting.

Green, sorry you don`t like Jo Nesbo, I`m addicted to them, but everyone`s tastes differ. I`ve been googling Susan Lewis, but I don`t think her books would suit me, they sound a bit like Josaephine Cox and Jodie Picoult, and they don`t do anything for me either.

If they are like Josephine Cox's, I'll need to give them the 'go-by' too,*number*!

I could be wrong though, it`s just that they sound a bit "tame", you may have gathered by now that I like a bit of blood and gore in my reading!

I like Jo Nesbo (thanks to number) though I don't want to read them one after another, likewise Lee Child. The character of the detective is interesting and reminiscent of John Rebus and Harry Bosch. At the moment I am taking time off from detective fiction and have gone back to Trollope - not Joanna.

I finished "Can Any Mother Help" a few weeks ago after a recommendation by gracesmum on this thread. It is the story of an earlier form of gransnet.
I am reading "Five Quarters of the Orange" by Joanne Harris. The food descriptions are mouth watering!

I`ve just this minute, well, a few minutes ago, finished a really good thriller, Shut Your Eyes Tight, by John Verdon. A bride gets murdered, and her head chopped off, on her wedding day, at the reception, no less. Wouldn`t do for you Greenmossgiel!
Will be starting The Business of Dying, by Simon Kernick, a bit later on.

OH NO - numberplease!! What an awful mess it would make of the wedding cake, anyway! I'm reading one that you recommended to me - Before I Go to Sleep - very good!