50 Book Challenge 2015 Part 4

29 The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty - I liked the mystery of this story and the links between the characters. I did prefer The Husband's Secret and Little Big Lies but a good quick read.

30 Daughters of Fire by Barbara Erskine - well, I abandoned it really. I loved Rivers of Destiny and Lady of Hay so bought another ages ago which I liked about Egypt, but now have realised they are all the same story with different characters fitted in each era. Different era but essentially same story. So gave up as I really didn't care.

31 The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller (and yay, bless him, he favourited by tweet recommending it!) I enjoyed this A LOT. It is very funny, insightful, thoughtful, not patronising, and has some great recommendations. Very much a book about love of reading, trying to overcome reading guilt and also pursuing more difficult books. I would definitely recommend this.

32 Now reading What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty and I am planning to read Anna Karenina whilst on holiday next week. LOts of time on a coach and I hope I will have uninterrupted reading time!

76. Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire by Andy Stanton
77. Mr Gum and the Goblins by Andy Stanton

Taking a break from this series to read Awful Auntie by David Walliams which I've DS has been waiting to read for ages :)

78. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell. Not sure how I feel about it now I've finished. I liked some of the sections better than others, enjoyed the way they all connected together. Undoubtedly a clever novel but perhaps ultimately not one for me. Am still planning to read The Bone Clocks but not until September.

Southeast - I've read Warhorse. I like WW 1 novels but this one didn't do it for me. But, having said that, the film was good.

33. An Atlas of Impossible Longing - Anuradha Roy, an Indian saga, not one of the epics but a perfectly pleasant well written book. A little light on the actual plot but as it was so well written and I cared for most of the characters it didn't matter too much. Downloaded this book to my kindle in July 2012 and it's been sitting there all that time!

Mumsnet always rescues me !

Thank you !!

Has anyone got today's saturday Times ?
There's a book review on a book about butterflies I wanted to get my dad for his birthday but I've forgotten the details & can't find on Amazon

Thanks in advance

I'm 13% into Irène, by the way, and finding it rather badly translated. I keep finding myself trying to figure out what the original French sentence might be. It might turn out interesting if the story gets going soon, or it might not. In any case, it'll be a good pastime on the beach

Remus, if you like Bill Bryson, have you read anything by Stuart Maconie? Pies and Prejuduce is good. Northern travelogue. Plus there's a lot of Morrisey love in there and I know you're a fan.

:) Haven't started, 'The Invisible Library' yet - will keep you posted.

Good! Hate to pay more than £3 personally!

Yeah I drifted off after a few

Actually Janet evanovich is another funny pi type writer. Again it wears after a while but I really enjoyed the first few.

HHhH might be worth a shot. A pal of mine finally read it lately and enjoyed it and she recommended the invisible library to me!

Will order HHhH from the library. It's £6 on Kindle, and I'm too fussy to justify paying that much!

Thanks for the recs.

Oooh - somebody else recommended 'HHhH' to me irl too!

Don't like Jasper Fffffffffffffffffff - find him v annoying, although in theory he should be right up my street.

Hmm I don't really read detective novels that much. Have you read the Thursday Next books? Might be too silly tho.

Or how about Jon Snow's memoir?

Or HHhH by Laurent Binet, about the assassination of Heinrich Reinhard in ww2 but done v originally, bit of a marmite book tbh.

Or totally different kitchen confidential by Anthony Bourdain?

24. My First Summer In The Sierra - John Muir

Classic of nature writing (recommended by R Macfarlane at a talk I went to), he was a Scotsman who moved to the United States in the 1800s and became an early exponent and protector of the American wilderness. This is his account of a summer helping to herd sheep in the Sierra Nevada - heady and inspiring stuff.

I don't mind going out of my comfort zone at all, but only if it's good!

Mystery would be good, or a classic that I've somehow missed (but not Dickens). Or something quirky. Non-fiction fine, but I'd like some fiction too. Are there any classic detective novels that I might have missed? Something funny would be good - something like Bill Bryson, maybe? Or a sort of off-beat history book?

ok Remus, give us some hints. Facts or fiction? Mountains? Mystery? Heavy literary? What type of book are you yearning for?

Tho sometimes you know, you need something out of your comfort zone to wake you up a bit...

Thanks South, but I really, really can't stand him. Sorry. :(