What are you reading at the moment?

An Icelandic crime novel called The Quiet Mother

Noel Coward’s diaries, Alison Uttley diaries, Elizabeth Taylor (not the film star) short stories.

henetha I've read all of the Nicci French books, have you read the Freida Klein series? If not, I recommend them.
I'm reading What you are looking for in a Library by Michiko Aoyama. Totally different to anything I read before, a gift from DD, really enjoying it.

Luckygirl3

Flashlight by Susan Choi.
It is a long book! Sort of family chronicle that encompasses US, Korea and Japan.

I thought Flashlight was an unusual and engrossing story.

I'm reading in the garden right now, "High and Low" by Amanda Craig

Luckygirl3

Litterpicker

The coast Road by Alan Murrin. Women’s (mainly) lives and secrets in a Donegal village in the 1990s. I am enjoying it 😊

I hope it's good ... I havebjust downloaded it to my kindle! I will hold you personally responsible if O do not like it!!

And I have just ordered “Flashlight” to take with me on Holiday at your recommendation😄😄😄

River Kings by Cat Jar a. I saw it recommended on the ‘50 books a Year’ thread. A dense read but very interesting .

Whitewavemark2

Luckygirl3

Litterpicker

The coast Road by Alan Murrin. Women’s (mainly) lives and secrets in a Donegal village in the 1990s. I am enjoying it 😊

I hope it's good ... I havebjust downloaded it to my kindle! I will hold you personally responsible if O do not like it!!

And I have just ordered “Flashlight” to take with me on Holiday at your recommendation😄😄😄

Gulp!

The Smuggler's Cave by George Birmingham (1926)

Entitled. The rise and fall of the house of York. Paper back.

and I read a few pages then have to put it down as it’s not just the weather making me sweat.

And I have to say I am pleased our beloved Queen Elizabeth 11 did not live to read this, as she would have been horrified to know what her precious son did in his private life. The book is red, red for danger and warning.

The Restoration Garden by Sara Blaydes. Loving it, although a big change for me from a series of dystopian adventures!

Some appalling twaddle from Wilbur Smith, interspersed with a reprise of my favourite Mary Renault novel “The Bull from the Sea”. Now there was a writer! Crisply drawn characters that leap off the page……

Cabowich - yes, it is slow paced but I’m half way through now and the tension is cranking up! Says on the back that the conclusion is both shocking and inevitable, oh no!!!!
Oreo - bit confusing there, sorry. It is her ‘last one out’ but is also called Last One Out.
I can highly recommend all her books But this one in particular has really grabbed me.

A Ruthless Need by Catherine Cookson. An easy read!

Re reading "The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 and a quarter years old" by Hendrik Groen, translated by Hester Velmann. I first read it in 2016, and found it again while tidying a bookcase.

It was described as "Funny and frank" by one reviewer. I don't want to put it down - I want to know what the next outing of the anarchic "Old but not dead club" will be, how Henrik's relationship with Eefje is progressing, and whether Henrik and co will succeed in getting hold of the actual written rules of the care home so that they can argue with the dictatorial Director.

Have just been in hospital for 10 days and found the old Reader's Digest abridged stories incredibly useful and readable - good for OPAs too. Read 12 stories plus three complete novels brought to me by the incredibly helpful tea lady! At home, I have two reads on the go in the loo. "The Lady from \Stalingrad Mansions" by Alan Coren and "The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear" (which includes his biography).

All The Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker.

Not really my kind of book but it was given to me as a present so I'm hoping to finish it.

For light relief: The Nation's Favourite Poems

Black Butterflies.
Superbly written story around Sarajevo 1992.