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What's the last book you really enjoyed reading?

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Kasterborous · 06/10/2013 18:52

I'm just over halfway through Dominion and loving it. I wasn't sure I'd like it, but am enjoying it so much I almost don't want to read it iyswim as then I will have finished it.

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ChipAndSpud · 01/11/2013 21:07

I've just finished reading 'Child 44' and found I couldn't put it down.

LordPalmerston · 28/10/2013 10:17

i loved lots recently

sassytheFIRST · 28/10/2013 10:10

The Snow Child. brilliant, quite magical in style. WEPT over it.

Now trying to read The True something blah blah of Ned Kelly for work (English teacher) and hate it. Grr.

Morrigu · 28/10/2013 10:09

I like the sound of that one Tabby

Mine are oldies that I' ve only recently got round to reading. The Time Machine and The Road.

I have Doctor Sleep and The Husband's Confession downloaded on my kindle once I get a chance to start them so glad to see them mentioned here.

killpeppa · 28/10/2013 10:09

the good girl by daniella Steele

MrFranklyShankly · 28/10/2013 10:08

The Cry, it was recommended on here, and it was quiet good,

currently reading the peguin classic morrissey autobiography ;-) and loving the witty mozzer satire of it all, it is beautifully written.

LordPalmerston · 28/10/2013 10:07

i am reading Swimming in the moon thing which looked crap ( and isnt exactly the most taxing book) but is REALLY good!

www.amazon.co.uk/Swimming-Moon-Novel-ebook/dp/B00BATIKQ6/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382954842&sr=1-1&keywords=swimming+moon

cocoleBOO · 28/10/2013 10:05

W Is For Wasted by Sue Grafton, a Kinsey Millhone book. Have Bill Bryson lined up next Smile

chickensaresafehere · 28/10/2013 10:01

I loved 'The boy who could see demons',fell upon it by accidnt in the local library & couldn't put it down.

ErrolTheDragon · 28/10/2013 09:55

American Gods

(well, and re-read a couple of discworlds to DD, which I always really enjoy Grin)

Branleuse · 28/10/2013 09:54

the morrissey autobiography.

Beeyump · 28/10/2013 09:50

Light Years by James Salter. The writing is startlingly beautiful.

bettterandnow · 27/10/2013 22:59

Another one for Bill Bryson's One Summer here.

Tabby1963 · 27/10/2013 22:48

Literally just finished The Returned by Jason Mott.

I remember recently watching the French 'Les Renevants' (The Returned) last year (second series coming soon) and wondered whether it was like that.

It shares the similarity that the dead come back after many years, but that is where it ends.

This story is set in a small town in middle America (although it is a worldwide phenomenon) and it asks the question "what do you do when the dead start to return to life again?" It focused on particular families and scenarios and I found myself thinking about it even when now reading the book.

How would society at large cope? What about the logisitics of dealing with a massive and constantly growing influx of 'people' to towns and citie?.

The impact of returning dead family members to surviving members was explored and focused particularly on a elderly couple whose son came back to them. He had drowned over fifty years before, aged 8. He was exactly as they had last seen him.

1gglePiggle · 27/10/2013 22:34

The husbands secret - complicated at the beginning getting to grips with all the characters but worth persisting with

BikeRunSki · 27/10/2013 22:31

The Paris Wife - Pauline McGuinn, kept me up a few nights.

sleepymummy28 · 27/10/2013 22:28

Same as Housesellerihope and cowmop, Me before you by Jojo Moyes. Read it some time ago and read quite a few books after but still keep thinking about it, I just loved it

MurderOfBanshees · 19/10/2013 20:45

Wool by Hugh Howey, really enjoyed that.

MillyONaire · 19/10/2013 20:44

Apple Tree Yard - I loved that too MrsDesperado. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it - quite a different story. I have just finished "The Bronze Horseman" by Paullina Simons and adored it - again to my huge surprise! Not so much the undying love part but the Siege of Leningrad and the miserable history of life in Russia which is fascinating. I'm about to atrt on the sequel......

bunnybing · 19/10/2013 11:08

the Uninvited by Liz Jensen

and The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian is a really good read - Harry Potter for grown-ups.

purplewithred · 19/10/2013 09:00

Just finished Bill Bryson One Summer. Really enjoyable and interesting.

darkdays · 19/10/2013 08:58

Just finished we are all made of glue. Really enjoyed it Smile

DuchessofMalfi · 19/10/2013 08:54

Another one, just finished reading a couple of days ago - The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin. Feeling a bit wrung out after reading it, and don't want to pick up another book just yet. Still thinking about it.

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cowmop · 18/10/2013 19:28

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. I just couldn't put it down.