What are you reading.

I`ve still to read Lamentation, but I`m waiting for the paperback, is it still only in hardback? Last time I had to wait over 2 years for the paperback.
I still haven`t finished Don`t Let Me Go, but it`s a very good read. Bought 3 books from OXFAM yesterday to add to my collection.

I've had a look at the end of Lamentation numberplease and it definitely leaves the way open for Shardlake to carry on for at least one more book. I suspect he may intend to carry on until Elizabeth becomes Queen. With Edward burning catholics and Mary burning protestants it would give plenty of scope for conspiracies.

Sorry, I should have typed Don`t let me Go, old age again!

Henetha, I only discovered Susan Lewis recently, but I do like her books. Don`t leave me is turning out to be very good.

Book 3 in the Shades of Grey trilogy.
Looking forward to moving on, hopefully, to something by Susan Lewis,
one of my favourite writers, numberplease.

After t5he last one, he was reported to have said that there was only room for one more in that time period, so sadly, Deedaa, Lamentation could be the last Matthew Shadlake story.
I`ve just finished Blind Alley, by Danielle Ramsay, a thriller devoted to the search for a serial rapist in Whitley Bay ad North Shields. Very good. I`ve just started Don`t Let Me Go, by Susan Lewis, looks like it will be good, I only came across Susan Lewis a few months ago, this is the third book of hers that I`ll have read.

I'm just getting into C.J.Sansom's new book Lamentation. I'm trying to read it really slowly in case we have to wait another two years for the next one!

I'm reading A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. I heard it discussed on Simon Mayo's radio 2 book club and it piqued my interest.
Ove is a grumpy old man, but we find out his back story which is touching and funny.
He is adopted by a cat he calls Cat Annoyance. I'm about 3/4 through so don't know the whole story yet.

I could not read the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. The first one was a struggle, then I tried two more but oh dear, so long-winded, ludicrous and quite frankly boring especially the one set in America. I gave in and threw them all out to the charity shop. Someone's gain I suppose!

I have just finished another book by Liane Moriarty - Little Lies. It was very enjoyable and I had to stop myself from carrying on reading all night!

I have just finished Frances-A Tragic Bride by Jackie Hyams. It's a written documentary (that's the only way I can describe it) about the first wife of Reggie Kray. It left me cold. I even had a dream with myself in a destructive scenario that I couldn't escape from. Couldn't put my kindle down.

I have just read the harbour girl by Val Wood. I have enjoyed several of her books. She is a bit like Catherine Cookson but her books are set in Hull and surrounding areas. As I was born and brought up in that part of the country I can vividly imagine the settings.

I am also just coming to the end of Miss Carter's War which I had from GN. Thank you GN. A great read.

I have just downloaded Sea of Poppies which is my book group book for October.

Re-reading The Greatest Show Off Earth, by Robert Rankin, also re-Reading Roy Hudd's A Fart In A Collander, and I'm on the home stretch in Ulysses (James Joyce) which has been far more of a pleasure than I expected.

I have several books on the go. Light reading is a re-read of an old 80's favourite by Rona Jaffe 'Class Reunion' about a group of four women at Radcliffe in the fifties and the subsequent lives they led.

I am starting 'Bastard Out of Carolina' by Dorothy Alison and I also have a re-read of 'Doubling Back' by Linda Cracknell and Alison Uttley's 'The Country Child' which I like to indulge myself with every Autumn- goodness knows why as it is not an 'Autumnal' book.

Other books in the pile are one by Jamaica Kincaid, the new cookbook by Gabrielle Hamilton 'Prune' that I was sent a review copy of and several other food memoirs.

Oh I like a bit of sex in a book. That one sounds good. Might give it a go.

I am reading Diana Gabaldon series The Outlander. Though I find there is too much sex and introspection. Sometimes it feels a bit like the old TV show Soap where if anything could happen it would! On the other hand it is set in dangerous times and there is lots of excitement.

I have just finished The Deaths by Mark Lawson (GN book club book a few months back - I got it in kindle). Really enjoyed it. Best read for a long time.

I loved that book too Bobby

Reading The Island by Victoria Hislop, and can't put it down! A must read and having been to Crete I feel a special connection to a lot of the places mentioned in the book.

thistle I've just finished reading a book about the US criminal justice system, called Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. It is a deeply moving - and unsettling read to say the least.

www.randomhouse.com/book/224792/just-mercy-by-bryan-stevenson

I noticed that John Grisham commented on it in the review above. It's not even out yet, I seem to have got on to a publisher's advance list somehow and from time to time I am sent books for my Kindle (for free).

Just finished reading The Innocent Man by John Grisham. Its the only work of non fiction that this author has written. Well worth reading. It will leave you thinking very hard about the American Judiciary system.
Would be interested to hear from anyone who has read this book,

So beautiful. Thank you Grannyknot.

I am currently completely immersed in "Under the Wide and Starry Sky" by Nancy Horan. It is the fictionalised account of the love story of Robert Louis Stevenson and his "tempestuous American wife, Fanny". She was ten years younger than him. I haven't even got as far as the part where they meet yet, she has only just managed to escape her philandering husband with the excuse of taking her three children to Europe so that she (and they) could study art.

When we went to Monterey in California some years ago we went to the house they lived in there. I've long been fascinated by him - abandoning the family tradition of becoming a lighthouse engineer, to pursue his art and indulge his wanderlust.

And I'm so thrilled to be reading a nice hefty hardcover again, with proper pages, instead of peering at a screen! And it means I can re-read his beautiful Requiem on the back cover as often as I like, simply by closing the book:

Under the wide and starry sky
Dig my grave and let me die
Glad did I live and gladly die
And laid me down with a will.

And this be the verse that you 'grave for me
Here he lies where he longed to be
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

I`m presently reading Valley of the Shadows, by Carola Dunn. It`s the third, and latest, in a series of gentle murder stories set in a tiny, pretty village on the North Cornwall coast, featuring a little old lady who keeps getting mixed up in murder most foul, a sort of cross between Miss Marple and Murder She Wrote, but very enjoyable. The first two books were Manna from Hades, and A Colourful Death.

Just finished 'Campari for Breakfast' by new writer, Sara Crowe. Both funny and touching by turns, it's narrated by a young, naive girl in the 1980s whose spelling and vocabulary are a bit dodgy, and whose mother has recently killed herself leaving Sue to live with an aunt in a big old country house. At first it looks like chick lit, but it's more than that. The accounts of the writing group formed by the residents of the house are hilarious.

I absolutely love Peter Robinson