Good reads please.

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Forgot to say there's 24 of them! I'm up to no.18......

I've been reading Reginald Hill, the Dalziel and Pascoe series. I've never watched the TV series but the books are really good if you like police procedural novels. They are progressive, in terms of the characters lives, so it's good to read them in order but there's a new investigation each time.

I like Persephone books too but they are very expensive as Kindle downloads.

Just to say I checked out the Tarquin Hall books suggested by Mildred and loved them. Have now downloaded several of his about the highly amusing detective Vish Puri. Very entertaining if you need cheered up.

How about looking at the Persephone catalogue. I hope someone hasn't mentioned this up thread as although I've read it I'm having a goldfish memory problem today.
Perhaps we could have a kindle cheapo thread. I've bought some good things on the freebie 99p£1.99 cheap Kindle reads. I'm also on Bookbub and have some weird things but some good ones as well.

Misled you on Edward finding love - that happens in the sequel, "Edward Adrift"

I finished it, hummingbird and in a way was glad I did, but as you say, the subject matter is not a bundle of laughs. There were a few lighter bits in it, though, and as a portrait of what the congregation expected of the young pastor and his convert wife and the collision between their private grief and the teachings of their faith, and how each of them dealt with that grief, it was excellent.

I'm trying to read Issy Bradley, Elegran, but the subject matter terrifies me, so not sure if I'll be able to finish it!

Thank you, that's very reassuring

And thanks for all these books....hope I live long enough to read them all

anya You might also like these (have looked at the contents of my kindle, Will post more later)

"The House of Happy Mothers" (surrogate pregnancy in India, 3dimensional characters)
"Best Wishes, Sister B" Fran Smith (letters from a nun in UK to one in South America. (more 3d characters, gently humorous story of resourcefulness)
"A Song for Issy Bradley" Carys Bray (impact of a child's death on a devout Mormon family. 3d characters, sometimes painful reading)
"600 hours of Edward" Craig Lancaster (diary of another autistic young man. This one eventually finds love)
"What Milo Saw" (small boy sees things adults miss)
"The Summer Book", Tove Jansson (grandmother and granddaughter on remote Swedish Island. Quirky.)
"Eve's diary" Mark Twain (Yes, that Eve)

I don't know about arms clicking, but since I dislocated my shoulder it clicks sometimes at certain movements. Apparently it is a bit of tissue caught between the bones. It isn't painful, and it does it a lot less often now than at first, but it is disconcerting. Yours wasn't dislocation, so it'll be different, but perhaps there has been enough healing to permit more movement and that reveals something that wasn't evident before. Ask your GP or the hospital.

Mine clicked for a while, when I had a similar fracture. Everything eventually went back to normal. Full recovery does take some months.

It was very important to get good physio. My local NHS had a fracture Gym, where everyone with arm fractures went to exercise, all ages. It was quite fun, we all met as a group for a few weeks and it was a bit like primary school PE!

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Well just finished the first Rebus book and I doubt I'll be reading any more in that series. As someone said, everyone is different.

So I'm going to look at other suggestions. Some of yours Elegran sound like they might hit the mark.

Woke up with a bad pain in my right elbow this morning (right radial head fracture) but now it's worn off I've suddenly found more lateral movement in that arm, though it does click sometime when I try to straighten it which it never did before. Anyone know if that's normal?

Oops, I shouldn't really have mentioned turning pages, should I? Sorry, Anya!

It's difficult, isn't it, because we all like such different things? I'm reading what I think is a cracking thriller at the moment - Watching Edie by Camilla Way, a real page turner. It's very dark and unsettling though, so you'd have to have a liking for that sort of thing. But I think I might be enjoying it all the more because I've really struggled to finish the two books before that, one a best-seller for my library reading group, the other a Mumsnet book club choice. Yet both groups seemed to enjoy them on the whole.

I'd agree 100% with Eleothan's endorsement of Ann Tyler - I've loved all her books. And I also love Kate Atkinson. Her Behind the Scenes at the Museum is still one of my favourites.

Must charge up my Kindle first; a kind friend keeps passing on real books so I haven't used the kindle for ages.

All those downloads will magically appear when i turn it on

It was one of the ones I got from Gransnet as a prize.

I found it a little slow for the first few pages but got drawn in and was surprised at the twist. I hope you enjoy it and would love to know if you saw the ending coming ??

Enjoy

I have just downloaded it N&G, hope it is as good as you say

www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=ibeani&tag=googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=106166688495&hvpos=1t2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11347368623293135114&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=t&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006500&hvtargid=kwd-28113698127&ref=pd_sl_3uuqgw7mzq_e

This is the solution for holding your kindle, even works in bed :-)

How about Lie with me by Sabine Durrant.

Wonderful plot twist I never saw coming :-)

ps impresed at your typing I mean

I didn't like Girl on a Train but other people may enjoy it.

I have a leather cover for my Kindle which has a stand at the back of it, like a picture frame.

I am reading a CJ Samson book too (Dissolution) and apparently other posters enjoy his books too (murder mysteries set in the time of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell).

I like books by Stephen Saylor about Gordianus the Finder

suzied Liane Moriarty books are very good, I have read them all and can't wait for the next one.
www.amazon.co.uk/Liane-Moriarty/e/B00459IA54

I think if you download free books or very cheap books on to your Kindle, it doesn't matter if you can't get into them as you can delete them!

Hope you mend very quickly Anya
Impressed!

I picked Up The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd one day in the local library and really loved it. It had been quite a while since I enjoyed a book as much, it was such a beautiful,story.