What are you reading.

I have just finished Us by David Nicholls, who wrote Starter for Ten and One Day. It's about an older couple and their teenage son and trying to shore up their relationship by going on a tour of Europe. I really enjoyed it but can't help wondering if it was written in order to be turned into a film.

Really enjoyed The Seven Streets of Liverpool, it`s a sort of feel good story. I`ve just started a book I bought from a charity shop a while ago, Coming Home, by Rosamunde Pilcher. I`ve never read anything of hers before, my only problem with this one is that, despite being a paperback, it`s very large and heavy, like holding a house brick, makes my hand ache when reading, so can`t read it for long periods at a time.

Has anyone read The Minaturist by Jessie Burton? It's won a number of book awards but that doesn't mean I would enjoy it. Help needed please.

If you have a kindle the 99p books on Amazon to-day are a great read if you like Scandanavian fiction . Sadly I have read all of the m already www.amazon.co.uk/gp/browse.html/ref=pe_151291_60175001_pe_button/?node=5400977031.

The 19th Wife, by David Ebershoff, about a polygamous Mormon sect, really interesting, I am only one third in so far but keep wanting to read more

eGJ - so agree about Louise Penny and Inspector Armand Gamache.
Are there really 10 in the series - I must have read them all but not chronologically - I found the new one 'how the light gets in' as I said upthread one of her best.
am also now reading the latest Elly Griffiths book - 'the outcast dead' which is also very good.
I just wish Phil Rickman would write another merrily watkins novel

I am halfway through 'The Goldfinch' by Donna Tartt. I am really enjoying it, it is a good story which moves along at the right pace and engages the emotions. Without giving a spoiler I would just advise everyone to think hard before they travel from Las Vegas to New York by Greyhound bus in one trip, (especially if you are travelling with an illegal dog).

I am reading Resist by Sarah Crossan. This is the second book of two the first titled Breathe. I'm not sure if it's aimed at young adults or not. It's about a post world disaster when people live in a Pod with piped oxygen and for some reason anything green is killed to make the population reliant on the administration.
Both books are about the resistance communities both as bad and ruthless as the official administration.
A small group of good people are trying to put things right. The first book was better than the second but an interesting read. Both books are books from the library.

I`ve just finished Etta and Otto and Russell and James, the GN January giveaway. I enjoyed it, but also found it slightly confusing towards the end. Am just about to start on The Seven Streets of Liverpool, by Maureen Lee, set in Liverpool during WW2.

Louise Penny's series of Canadian novels with Chief Inspector Gamache as the hero. This is a series of 10 so far, set in Quebec, mostly in a small village south of Montreal near the American border. Each contains a murder, but the interplay between the characters and the developing story of their lives is what makes the compulsive reading! I started the first book on December 1st and started book 9 this morning! There are lots of "read out loud and share" moments (as DH will verify!) Do try them, but start with the first "STILL LIFE" and then work through them. They are the sort that really need to be read chronologically. Highly recommended

Just reading through a couple of previous posts, Greyduster I absolutely loved Margaret Attwood's The Blind Assassin, I have read three of her books, Alias Grace and Cat's Eye being the other two, both excellent but the one you are stuck on will always be my favourite. However, I'm also a great believer in, if it doesn't grab you maybe it never will. There are a couple of books I wished I'd never wasted my time on, particularly when they are very long.

Hildagard I read that book a while back, I did find it a page turner, but quite strange if I remember rightly.

I'm reading Victoria a Life by A N Wilson, which my son bought me for my birthday a couple of weeks ago, he knows I like reading about the 19th century. I'm enjoying it and there are lots of great photographs of her perpetually miserable face like that, but worse!

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Hi I have just finished Sleep with me by Joanna Briscoe and would like to ask what others thought of this book

Have just read Sleep With Me by Joanna Briscoe. I would be interested in what others thought of this

I have just started the last of four novels about Bouddica by Manda Scott - 'Dreaming the Serpent Spear'. They have all been 'unputdownable'. After that I am going to have another go at The Blind Assassin by Margaret Attwood. I gave up on it last year.

have just finished 'how the light gets in' by Louise Penny. It is one of her best Armand Gamache books and she is back in Three Pines for this story.
As it ends with Gamache retiring (?) I hope it is not the last
the title is taken from the beautiful words of the song 'Anthem' by Leonard Cohen (always loved his voice and music)
I do find these words are so emotive and moving
"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in."

Am now reading The Devil`s Garden, by Richard Montenari, but I realised a few pages in that I`d read it before. I can remember some, but not all of it, so will carry on and read it again.

Third book of the Hunger Games Trilogy. I have to keep putting it down to recover. Good though.

MrBags and Minibags have apparently agreed between them that Katniss is a less impressive heroine than Hermione Grainger. Hmm. I think they are forgetting that Hermione did not spend her childhood half starved in a totalitarian world.

marelli Lucky you! i wish I had all Ann Tyler's books unread before me. My favourite is 'Digging to America' about two sets of parents and grandparents who adopted a child from China.

I have been reading Anna Jacobs books, she write about Lancashire and Australia in 1800s. I like her series of books. which start with one person then other family members come in with their stories. They keep you interested and before you know, you are reading the next book to find out how they are all doing. I come from Lancashire and have been to Perth, So know the places she write about.

I`ve read a few books now about life, particularly for women and girls, in Afghanistan, and now have a list of 6 more that someone`s suggested to me, so am going to give them a go, next time I send in an order to Amazon. I find these books very interesting and enlightening.

Same here Lapwing;it's a real 'curl up on the sofa on a cold winters day' book, isn't it. I love The Shell Seekers too, as I lived in Cornwall for a while.

Tegan your Winter Solstice comment made me smile but I will still enjoy my read.

I do love Winter Solstice [even though it is a bit 'we've fallen on hard times so we've had to do away with the butler'ish']. I may dig it out and read it also. I always start a Christmas Carol at this time of year but never get very far. Often try to imagine Christmas without A Christmas Carol but it's impossible....

Just starting Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher, one of my favourite Christmas reads and then I will go on to A Christmas Carol by Dickens.