What books are you reading and why?

I also thoroughly enjoyed the Thursday Murder Club.

Am currently reading It Started with a Secret, by Jill Mansell, which I'm also enjoying.

Recently read Forgive Me, by Susan Lewis, and always have a book on the go. For me, it's about the characters. If they are relatable and a gripping story, I could read for hours.

Polnan, I’m so glad it’s not just me. I usually read loads and feel like I really need to be lost in a book at the moment. I’ve got a big pile of to be reads and cannot get into anything, it’s so annoying!

I have just finished reading The Ruffler’s Child - a whodunnit set in Tudor times, that promised much but rather lost its way. I am dipping in and out of The Lost Spells - not a reading book as such but full of sumptuous watercolour illustrations (I can lose myself in a watercolour) and lovely poetry. Saving Bernard Cornwell’s ‘War Lord’ for a rainy day.

I love Lucinda Riley’s The Seven Sisters books. Each one ( there are 7 books altogether) is set in a different country ( some which I’ve visited) and well researched. Looking forward to reading about the last sister which is due out early next year.

milliemabel I am sorry to hear about your father?.

I love Agatha Christie, and am reading lots of Louise Candlish at the moment. Her book Our House is going to be made into a Tv Drama which is exciting. My own book The House Party (by Mary Grand) is a whodunnit as that is what I love to read. The book I am reading at the moment is Louise Candlish's The Other Passanger. I also like Lucy Fowley books.

I’m reading Before the Poison too ,Schnackie! I’m enjoying it - although I keep expecting DCI Banks to appear! Just finished The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell... it’s about hoarding (partly).

'enough' by john naish a brilliant look at modern life and how we have far more than enough. It really makes you stop and look how modern society is nuts!

Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain. Just started and it seems ok

I’m reading FiftyFifty by Steve cavanagh and wow it’s a great book highly recommend for those of you who like me enjoy Harlan Coben books.

I have just finished The Seige and the Betrayal they follow on from each other. They are about the Seige of Lennigrad. I am now listening to an audio book called The Wild Swans, all about the communists in China. Both very interesting if you enjoy Social History.

I am reading a paper back: Along Came a Spider by James Paterson. Was surprised to read the character was walking down Collins Avenue, past the Fountainblue Hotel, Miami. We stayed there 7 years ago!! Sort of came to life.

Just finished The Secret history of Disinformation by Thomas Ridd (I knew it!) and now am deeply enjoying Karl Ove Knausgaard’s A death in the family

Thanks, I read the first two Rosie Project books and just ordered the Result. My upstairs book currently is Jalna, Mazo De La Roche.I'm re-reading the series after many years. I was 14 when I last did so it is new for me and also has a different effect. Downstairs is the latest biography of Georgette Heyer and re-reading DL Sayers/Jill Patton's Thrones Dominations. Audible to fall asleep to, just finished Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie.

Cant read too much right now as need 2nd cataract done before getting new glasses, virus has got in the way of too many things. Reading Mark Leiren-Youngs The Killer Whale Who Changed The World. About Moby Doll who changed thinking about Orcas. Read a lot of my own books over again for light reading at bedtime & get annoyed when my eyes fight back as I read voraciously!

Just finished 'My Wounded Heart' by Martin Doerry, about his grandmother, a Jewish woman who married a non-Jew in Germany before the war. Yes, sad in many ways but so enlightening about how the outcome crept up gradually, and so touching that her young children kept in touch by writing to her in prison. Amazingly, many of the letters survived and are a fascinating description of life under Allied airraids but lots of cake.
I gave this book to my mother-in-law as a present and she said how much she had liked it. Sadly she died in January and I retrieved it from her house. I'll pass it on to my daughter now.

I've just finished Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. It was on my must read list.

I love crime fiction and I’ve been reading quite a few Australian crime novels. I have discovered some great authors so far. I’ve enjoyed books by Jane Harper, Chris Hammer & Sarah Bailey.
I assume I must be making up for not being able to visit my lovely Aussie family at this time ?

I hate threads like this! I read when I should be doing other things and this thread just encourages me!

I was disappointed with the last two by Anne Tyler books. I think she's getting to the end of the road. I found them padded and repetitive although I have enjoyed all of her others.

I am re-reading Alison Lurie instead. I also thoroughly enjoyed Bill Bryson At Home. Fascinating historical information.

I am reading Stephen King, Last Watch as it must be the only one of his I have not read. I love a good thriller or spooky book but not horror as such. Don’t like blood and gore.

Currently I’m reading books by Carolyn Brown, an American author. Once I got used to ‘Y’all’ and looked up what sweet tea was I was hooked. Not my usual genre - I’m more a Jonathan Kellerman reader, but Carolyn Brown appeared on my Kindle Unlimited suggestions. No grisly murders, no psychological thrills just good story lines. I read all the free ones and enjoyed them so much I actually bought some as well!

If I remember rightly, Rosamund Pilcher's books were set in Cornwall (and France?)

I'm a massive fan of crime fiction and thrillers....just finished Lockdown by Peter May (perhaps not the best to read during these times!), and have just moved onto another by him, Entry Island.

Just bought a used copy, from Amazon, of South of Broad by Pat Conroy. I read it many years ago, and was moved by it. Hoping I'll enjoy it second time around.

I’m halfway through the 2020 Booker Prize shortlist at present and feeling somewhat disappointed