Fifty Books a Year (or fewer)

I read mostly on my kindle and have been keeping a list of book since I got it, otherwise I don't remember all the titles I have read. Just checked and got through 51 books 2018, bang on track! Love the Lucinda Riley Seven Sisters series finishing the most recent one over Christmas. My other favourite book this year was 'Girl on the Line' by Alice Vinten, well worth a read.

I have read Elinor Oliphant and did find it quite hilarious in parts .. also quite sad .
Well written and definitely worth reading ?

I have two books on the go which I started mid December.
1) The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media and the Mafia by Eric M Jackson.
2) Londongrad: From Russia with Cash; The Inside Story of the Oligarchs) by Mark Hollingsworth and Stewart Lansley.
Riveting reads. I only read factual books.

I am reading The Sealwoman’s Gift by Sally Magnusson. Set in the C17th, it’s about a group of Icelanders who are captured by slavers and taken to Algiers where they are sold. So far, the story centres around one family who, at the point I stopped last night, have just been separated and sold. Good reading so far. Link provided for anyone who wants to find out more.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XR3Z4KH/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1&tag=gransnetforum-21

The book before it was The Tie That Binds by Kent Haruf which comes well recommended by me. I have enjoyed all his books so far particularly the Plainsong/Eventide/Benedictine series.

www.amazon.co.uk/Tie-That-Binds-Kent-Haruf-ebook/dp/B015D17DXC/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+tie+that+binds&tag=gransnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1546446203&sr=8-1

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.

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

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.

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'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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Just started Becoming by Michelle Obama. Inspirational

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!!

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.

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 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.

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

Book 1: The Siege by Helen Dunmore.

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!

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