What are you reading at the moment?

watermeadow

A Kindle? That suggests technology and complex things I don’t understand and things going wrong and expense.
Books are old friends. Kindles are aliens.

Presumably you are using some form of technology already, as you are on here - Kindles are no more complicated. If you can use a computer of any kind or a mobile phone, you can use a Kindle. Don't get me wrong, I love a 'proper' book, but I would not be without my Kindle now, especially when I'm away from home.

Also, they hold hundreds of books, and you have access to lots of free versions of classic books, like the ones you listed in your post which you prefer reading.

watermeadow

A Kindle? That suggests technology and complex things I don’t understand and things going wrong and expense.
Books are old friends. Kindles are aliens.

If you could get a look at someone else's Kindle and see how it works, you would probably find it a lot simpler that you expect. They are hard to get wrong!

Your book is downloaded to the kindle automatically, and appears in your contents list. You click on its name and it opens. Then you click on the righthand side of the page to turn over to the next page, or onthe lefthand side to go back one. You can make the font several sizes bigger - up to just a few words on the page, which you could read from the other side of the room.

watermeadow, I too much prefer a material book, but tiny print giving you eye strain??
Kindles are not that complicated.

A Kindle? That suggests technology and complex things I don’t understand and things going wrong and expense.
Books are old friends. Kindles are aliens.

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watermeadow

Fed up with modern novels which are rubbish, I’m re-reading The Old Curiosity Shop. Typical Dickens, angelic young hero, grotesque villain, kind old benefactor, lots of funny bits. Oscar Wilde said no one could read the death of Little Nell without laughing. At least that will stop her weeping on every page.
Tiny print which gives me eye strain.

Why don’t you read it on a kindle and you can adjust the font?

Ive just finished The Eights by Joanna Miller. Its about 4 women who were admitted to Oxford University in 1920 to study for degrees.

Highly recommend

Just finished “ The Nightingale “ Author Kristin Hannah .A brilliant book .

Fed up with modern novels which are rubbish, I’m re-reading The Old Curiosity Shop. Typical Dickens, angelic young hero, grotesque villain, kind old benefactor, lots of funny bits. Oscar Wilde said no one could read the death of Little Nell without laughing. At least that will stop her weeping on every page.
Tiny print which gives me eye strain.

Some Cornish chick lit romance as it is too hot to even think.

I’m re reading Quartet in Autumn - the Barbara Pym novel that was shortlisted for the Booker.

Now on to “Miss Ranskill Comes Home” by B.E.Todd in the lovely Persephone edition.
It’s ok, but hasn’t totally drawn me in.

Book 8 of the Poldark series by Winston Graham. I may be biased, being from that part of the world, but he is an excellent writer, not only giving vivid descriptions of the lives of everyday Cornish mining folk and the local gentry, but also providing the historical context, from ongoing wars to the beginnings of steam-driven transport.

My son has just given me Ben Miller's A Very Dangerous Pursuit, so I am starting it tonight,

Nigel by Monty Don.

Just finished “The Killing Stones”. Great book - reprising Jimmy Perez in a new non-Shetland setting. I couldn’t put it down. Ann Cleeves at her best.

Would recommend Matt Haigs new book " The Midnight Train" it is very good.

Missiseff

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Recommend.

We read that in our book group- and would highly recommend also.

Just started Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid for our next book group get together.

I'm about to start Based on a True Story, Sarah Vaughan's new book. I've enjoyed her others. I'm also reading a non fiction book "A Rebel and a Traitor" by Rory Carroll about a disillusioned British Diplomat turned Irish Nationalist, Roger Casement, executed for treason during WW1.

Seeing your choice Cossy, I love Lisa Jewell books. By the way for anyone interested, she has a new one out later this month. "It could have been her" I'm going to buy it rather than order it from the library, cos there'll be such a long queue, and I want to take it away with me early July.

I am working my way through Freida McFadden's books. I started with the Housemaid series and enjoyed them for a change from romances.
I have pre-ordered Santa Montefiore's latest, so look forward to receiving it in July. I have read every one of her books and she is my favourite author.

Just re read the lost child by Julie myerson. As someone who is estranged from a child, (different circumstances to the author) I can emphasise with her sorrow. Apart from this I have several books on the go. I am waiting for the latest Maggie o Farrell to come out in paperback. Good though she is I can’t afford £25 hardback!

grandMattie

“apples Never Fall” by Liane Moriarrty. Gripping family who done it, without violence. Family dynamics, varying memories. Unputdownable

I really enjoyed that book.

I’m now reading “ I found you” by Lisa Jewell.

I like her books, crime mysteries, easy to read, well written and good plots.

Not at all highbrow though

Athrawes You might be interested in reading "The Crooked Cross" and the sequel "The Prisoner" by Sally Carson.

Both were written and published in the UK before the outbreak of WWII by a British women who had friends in Germany and who had visited Bavaria during this period.

The books are centred around a fictional family and the plot follows the effects of actual events, during the rise of Naziism, on the family and their friends and neighbours.