Fifty Books a Year (or fewer)

I am so sick of reading the books written by "Creative Writers " that seem to be so similar
Ie -alternate chapters written in the first person by different characters going back and forth in time so that one gets confused.
There is often an attic involved where a suitcase is found containing letters etc written by a relative who was possibly a maid who eventually either married or had an illegitimate child by the Lord of the Manor's son.
In some cases younger writers do not check facts about times before they were born.
In the last book written by a "Creative Writer" I tried to read there was an anachronism on the second page.
It was 1956 and Cliff Richard was mentioned.
Cliff Richard was Harry Webb in 1956 and would have probably been still at school .
Another book mentioned Heathrow Airport when it was still known as London Airport.
I have now decided to reread the books I enjoyed as a teenager and have started with the books by Nevil Shute.
They are very well written and I am finding them most enjoyable although I don't know if I can bring myself to read "Requiem for a Wren " again.
I dare say that I am in the minority but surely I am not unique n wishing that the "Creative Writing " approach has had its day.

Ok

I managed 27 books last year I think

Currently reading Perfect Death by Helen Fields, a police procedural fictional book, third (I think) in a series of “perfect” books featuring Detective Luc Callanach and DCI Ava Turner based in Edinburgh. Recommended.

I nirmally record this information on the Good Reads site but happy, so long as I remember, to do it on here too.

I have been retired 7.5 years and I've read 291 books that's about three a month. I guess it depends on how much you read and what you read. I read when I wake up for about an hour a day. I read fiction and non-fiction.
My best book of last year was Becoming - Michelle Obama

I have recently lost my husband of 52 years. I find the house so quiet and empty that I have been downloading Audible books from Essex County Libraries. Kent and Suffolk libraries do this too. It is a free service and you can download e books too although sometimes there is a waiting list. I listen during the day to keep me company. I have recently listened to The Glass Room by Ann Cleeves and Broken by Daniel Clay. I don’t sleep so I read light books in bed and have just finished The One who got away by Helen Warner which I really liked but it made me cry. I have now started Veronica Henry Christmas at the beach hut as I have read all her other books and enjoyed them. Great post I hope to find lots of inspiration.

Just started Erica James book 'Coming Home to Island House'. A good gripping start and I'm into it already.

Both my eldest daughter and I have been re-Reading the Peter Robinson DCI Banks series, I got the most recent one as a Xmas present and have just started it. What I like about them is the police procedure, trying to think “who done it” and the glimpses of the detectives private lives. There is nothing gory in the descriptions and lots of hard work is involved in solving the crimes. Long may he continue to write!

Book 1: The Siege by Helen Dunmore.

Thank you BettyEdwards1 for the My library phone app recommendation. I’ve just installed it and listed the book I’m reading - Behind the Throne by Adrian Tinniswood

I kept a list of books read last year (first year of retirement) and managed 69, mainly fiction but did read some non fiction like travel stories and social history. Having just finished 'Do no harm' by Henry marsh (book club) have just started 'whistle in the dark' by Emma Healey which is getting very absorbing.

May I join in please, this is such a lovely thread. I have just finished reading, Lucinda Riley's The Moon Sister - I love her books and my book group choice this month was Jo Jo Moyes, Still Me, which I also enjoyed, I am now reading a light read, Cinnamon Swirls and Snowflakes by Heidi Swain, purely because it is set in the area near to where I live.

I'm almost finished Finding Gobi, and love it. Already knew the story as it was in the news last year but that hasn't detracted from my enjoyment at all.
Not sure which of the unread stack on the bedside table to start next. I'll report back on that.

I hope to join in with this, but I prefer large print books, and altho I am very grateful to Orpington Library for their selection, obviously it isn't as large a selection as the "normal" book library, so probably wont be able to read
what you all recommend.

Owing to not being well I have been forced to read a "small print book" someone lent me, which means I cant read f0r very long at a time. But its a good Midsomer Murder, which I enjoy on the tv, so if anyone out there likes the series as well its called "Faithful Unto Death", by Caroline Graham. I managed to get to the Library today but must finish this first before I embark on more crime!!

Just started Becoming by Michelle Obama. Inspirational

Started the latest C J Sansom "Tombland" just before New Year, but also read the latest Jodi Taylor " And now for something completely different" this afternoon while at my chemo session.

Currently reading How to be Right by James O’Brien.

I;m going to re read the Island Trilogy by Nora Roberts, so well written and something very different

Just sitting down to finish "Catching the Tide" by Judith Lennox so that I can make a start on "The Dry" by Jane Harper - the next read for our Book club. Plus lots of lovely books from Christmas begging to be read.

I mostly read in bed at night. Am in the middle of Christmas at Woolworths by Elaine Everest at the moment. If you have a smart phone you can download free a very good app called My Library to keep a record of books you have read or want to read with room for notes. You just photo the barcode of the book and all the details come up.

The tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris alternating with The Power by Naomi Alderman

Got a folio set of bound Jane Austen books so that is January catered for lol favourite so far is Northanger Abbey

I've just finished The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor and loved the many twists and turns and the very surprising ending. I also read a story from my old Pixi Tales Comic collection from the 1950s to my granddaughter whenever she comes to stay the night. We read The Wild Swans by HC Anderson so I'm counting that one. Now she's 7 we share reading the parts of conversation. So, I'm just starting my third book which is Digging for America by Anne Tyler.

Read ‘I am, I am, I am’ last autumn and totally loved as well as ‘Lethal White’. I tend to download the book and include an audio version for when I’m cooking or driving, mainly reading at night. This has worked well although not for ‘Distant Hours’ which was set locally to me in Kent but narrated by an Australian. Whilst I appreciate the author’s background, it just sounded wrong and irritating. I’ve just finished ‘The Girl Before’ by J.P. Delaney and it was intriguing and gripping from the first page.
I’m enjoying finding out about what everyone is reading so loving this thread.

I read a lot, and like to keep a record each year.
This year I have bought "A poem for every DAY of the year", and the one for every NIGHT too. (Ed: Allie Esiri.)
Aiming to manage each of those every day too. So far I am finding it quite fun to grap one swift poem and put the book down again.

I’m reading Dracul by Dacre Stoker and JDBarker which I received for Christmas and also This Naked Mind by Annie Grace to help with the Dry January craving for a glass of red

Just wanted to mention that I use Amazon at lot for second hand books which are often cheaper than kindle versions and means I can pass the book on to technophobe husband and friends.