What are you reading now 2

P.S I'm reading it on my Kindle. It was on special offer on Amazon recently.

The Summer House Party by Caro Fraser.
All her books are good, and usually set in the world of law courts. This one is different, set around the start of WW2 and is equally good in it's own way.

My library service website has a list of book awards including Richard and Judy, Costa prize et6c. and is very good for getting ideas - give it a try

Like a couple of previous posters I'm reading Jodi Picoult's Small Great Things. The portrayal of white supremacists in the US is chilling..... not just their attitude to anyone with a darker skin than them but the LGT community as well.
The previous JP book I read concerned the problem of who has ownership of frozen embryos. That was an eye opener too.

I have only just got round to reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and am really enjoying it. A friend asked me if I had read the next two in the trilogy and couldn't believe I hadn't read any of them. I didn't think they were my kind of book. I was very wrong.

My DD has been passing on her Liane Moriarty books, which I am enjoying. At the moment I am 3/4 way through 'What Alice Forgot', which has me wanting to hurry to find out what happens. She is an Australian author with two sisters who also write fiction.

" Behind closed doors" I have not read a book for many yrs. seem not to be able to concentrate on anything these days..but went to my mums caravan and she passed me this book...really enjoyed it and has spurred me on to try and find another that I can easily get in to.

Just finished reading "The Postcard" by Fern Britton. This is the first book I have read be her and it was an enjoyable, light summer read. (She's a better writer than another TV-presenter-turned-author who uses Cornwall as a setting for her books). The various characters in the village are just well-drawn enough to want to find out more about them - and I shall be keeping an eye out for "further adventures of..." as it felt as if the scene was set for a follow-up.

(As an aside, I was disappointed not to be a lucky recipient of the Graham Norton book "Holding" so shall scuttle off now to Kindle and see whether it is still on offer, thanks for the tip!)

Whoops - shows I have been away for too long! I thought my last post would be added under the comment from SueDonim about 'Great Small Things' by Jodi Picoult - a great read .

Have you finished it yet? I have just read it and can honestly say it is one of the best books I have read for a long time ... really has made me think about my own attitudes! Sometimes had to give myself a breather before or after Turk chapters. I think it would make a good film - some of t seemed written with scenes in mind.

I`ve just finished The Bone Collection, by Kathy Reichs, a collection of 4 short Temperance Brennan stories. Alright, but the stories were over too soon, not a lot of build up in the plots. I`m now reading The Kept Woman, by Karin Slaughter, great so far.

Read a couple of good books whilst I was away on holiday, first being the "Lie of the Land", Sunday Times reviewed this a couple of weeks ago very favourably. About a London couple, down on their luck jobs wise, who want to divorce, but can't sell their house, so make a pact to relocate to rural Devon and rent a ramshackle farmhouse for a year whilst letting their own property in the meantime. Lots of different strands, but at the heart N1 couple living in the London bubble finding out what life is like in a rural idyll without the opportunities of London. Lots of different strands including the reality of sheep farming and an unsolved recent murder that took place at their rental home. Nearly finished 2nd book, "The Girlfriend" which I know was a GN book of the month a while back, gripping one of the best I've read of this type of genre. . My husband's passed me his latest book "Love like blood" by Mark Billingham, I've never read him before, but he tells me it's good, about honour killings. I'll start it after I've finished "The Girlfriend"

Heart and Home turned out quite well. I followed it with A Summer at Sea, by Katie Fforde, nice story. I`ve just started The Runaway Actress, by Victoria Connelly, looks like another of the sort I don`t usually read, a light hearted romance type of book, but it might be OK.

Graham Norton's debut novel Holding. Is on Kindle for 99p. It has good reviews. Ive downloaded if for a holiday read.

Finished "The Girls" this morning, not a particularly thick, just 350 pages or so. This is a book that has had a lot of praise heaped on it from serious publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Guardian, so maybe I was expecting more. The narrative switches between present day and West Coast America of 1969 when the main character, Evie aged 14, becomes caught up in a Mansonesque cult and anyone who remembers the end of the '60s will be familiar with the scenario. The writer has borrowed heavily from the crime, but gives very little detail surrounding the immediate aftermath, it all fell a bit flat. I keep feeling this about books that are hyped up, they don't live up to the expectation.

There is a lot to go at - so many books. I like a good autobiography and amazon just sent me the last in Alan Johnson's trilogy. I always wait for the paperback edition

I still like Ruth Rendell and Peter Lovesy for crime.

the whisperer by donato carrisi

crime

I LOVE Jack Reacher! Heart and Home is quite good so far, but haven`t read much yet.

I have just finished Michael McIntyre's autobiography, funny and sad - he had a tough time getting started. I am currently reading The Definitive Book of Body Language -can't say I am learning much as most of it is quite obvious but as I am halfway through I will finish it. For easy reading thrillers I like Lee Child (the Jack Reacher series)

A Nurse`s Courage was a lovely read. My next book is going to be Heart and Home, by Lyn Andrews.

Just started reading "The Girls" which I see is on GN Summer Reads book list, have also read the "Girl Before" from that list, the latter was quite a good thriller, obligatory twist at the end if I remember rightly.

Yes, a bit overhyped, Terribull. I'd say don't let that put anyone off reading it, as it's a good story, but I don't think it's top class.

The Missing Wife turned out to not be at all bad, but won`t make a habit of that sort of book though. Am now reading A Nurse`s Courage, by Maggie Holt, set during WW1.

Just read your comment Sue Donim re The Essex Serpent, I agree, I enjoyed it very much, but maybe a little over hyped?

Recently finished The Essex Serpent which is still in my head, I'm not really enjoying the crime book I'm reading at the moment "Where the Bodies are Buried", but 3/4 through I'll probably keeping going. I enjoyed a previous book by the author Chris Brookmyre, but this is not my cup of tea Glasgow gang war.

Sara53 I have also read the first two of the Lucinda Riley books in the series you referred to, enjoyed the first one more than the second one, "The Shadow Sister" is on my shelf so I will be starting that soon.