2022 50 BOOKS - OR AS MANY AS YOU CAN MANAGE

Maggiemaybe

I loved Deric Longden’s Lost for Words, about his mother. It was made into a TV film with Thora Hird.

I’ll have a look at that one. Thank you.x

The Woman Next Door turned out to be better than I thought it would be. Now just starting book 6, Fatal, by Jaqui Rose.

#4 Children in Art by Janette Anderson. It’s what it says, a book about how children are depicted in art through the ages.

MaggieMayBe and Sara1958 alerted me to my #9 Lionel Shriver ‘The Motion of the Body Through Space’. A bit too long though I like the way Shriver doesn’t shrink from observing every twitch of conscience.

As for reckoning with ageing in a long marriage, I think I preferred Shriver’s ‘Should I stay or should I go’ as having a lighter touch.

Just finished #7 In a Datk Dark Wood, by Ruth Ware.

Oh and #8 Cathy Rentzenbrink ‘Dear Reader. The Comfort and Joy of Books’. A bookseller’s memoir, interesting in itself, with recommendations too. If some Georgette Heyer turns up I’ll want to see if I find humour there now.

#7 Malcolm Gladwell ‘David and Goliath’ audiobook - 8 hours, some half a dozen documentary stories, that confound ‘common sense’. Best to question our assumptions. For instance I liked that research showed medium class size to be better for learning than small classes.

#7 The Widow K L Slater.
I wanted a change of genre from my recent reads; so a psychological thriller from an author new to me. It really gripped me and I think I may look for other books by Ms Slater.

Onto my 4th book of the year already. previous books were the Ladies of the Secret Circus, a bit far fetched and elongated.
The Bette Davis Club, an OK read. about a bride that absconds before the wedding. Lil's Bus Trip a funny, amusing story about a group of 10 people who go on a European Tour with the local bus company. Really enjoyed that one.

Just finished “Her Last Request” by Mari Hannah
Oh my it’s fabulous I’ve read all the Kate Daniels books by Mari Hannah and all are great. But this for me was her best so far…mind you I say that about every one I’ve read!

I loved Deric Longden’s Lost for Words, about his mother. It was made into a TV film with Thora Hird.

My 4th book this years again is an old one.

Diana’s story by Deric Longden. (Nothing to do with Princess Diana)?

It’s funny and sad but really inspiring what the human spirit can do faced with such adversity. Written with love and compassion it’s the story of his wife’s illness and how the family coped

#6 Matt Haig, The Midnight Library. I quite liked the imaginative approach to depression, but I thought the self help message became increasingly clunky.

#7. Innocent Graves by Peter Robinson.

I loved Felix, the Railway Cat, very heart warming. Have just started book 5, The Woman Next Door, by Cass Green, a psychological thriller, it says.

BlueSapphire

So far this year:

1 The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
2 A Spy among Friends by Ben MacIntyre
3 Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
4 Dead Ground by M W Craven
5 My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay

Don't know what to read next, too soon to start my next book club read.

Thank you for your list, BlueSapphire. You reminded me that I enjoyed Ben MacIntyre’s later novel A Spy Among Traitors - a Russian ‘traitor’ who served the West. I may try A Spy Among Friends this year in hopes it’s just as gripping.

Parsley3

^What May Burn^ by James Oswald. If you like a crime novel with a dash of the supernatural then this author is for you. One of my favourite recurring characters is called Mrs McCutcheon’s cat.

Sounds intriguing. I will definitely check the author out. Thank you.

#4 And The Rest Is History Jodi Taylor.
An audiobook read by a brilliant narrator Zara Ramm. Number 8 in the St Mary's Chronicles.
#5 The Infinity Engines - Maelstrom Andrew Hastie.
The second in a 5 book series. I read the first, Anachronist, last year and enjoyed it but I found the second confusing and difficult to get on with. I shan't be continuing with the series just yet.
#6 A Perfect Storm Jodi Taylor.
A St Mary's Chronicles short story, it was very enjoyable.

What May Burn by James Oswald. If you like a crime novel with a dash of the supernatural then this author is for you. One of my favourite recurring characters is called Mrs McCutcheon’s cat.

Finished my first two.
no 1: Trust Me T M Logan, good plot and twists but not quite as enjoyable as The Catch.
No 2; Without a Trace the second book from a new Author Jane Bettany, a D I Blood murder mystery set in Derbyshire, right up my street. I loved her first book In Cold Blood so hope there’s more.
No 3: Just started this - Dear Boy - Keith Moons autobiography All good so far.
My next one is The Beekeeper of Aleppo Maggiemaybe I’m looking forward to reading this, just a case of finding time.

#5 Kate Atkinson ‘Human Croquet’ Phew! Touching and mad and overwhelming. Atkinson finds all the right words and tingling sentences and exciting pace. Glorious fireworks of stories all over the place. Just pleased she addresses readers more gently in later works.

#6 Put a Wet Paper Towel on it! By Lee and Adam Parkinson. Funny stories from the primary classroom - a bit of light relief.

So far this year:

1 The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
2 A Spy among Friends by Ben MacIntyre
3 Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
4 Dead Ground by M W Craven
5 My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay

Don't know what to read next, too soon to start my next book club read.

I loved Die of Shame. Book 4 is Felix the Railway Cat, by Kate Moore, the story of the station cat at Huddersfield station.

Oh, silly me!
Ignore me please ladies!