Anyone up for a X books in 2016 challenge.

Welcome Marilda and it looks like you are doing well!

I finished Us by David Nichols. It was a sometimes uncomfortable description of what can happen to relationships after 20 years of marriage when the kids become independent. It made me reflect on he the things that draw you to a person can also be the things you find challenging.

I'm looking forward to chatting about it with my friends who happen to have read it at the same time but I didn't love it.

Just started reading The Martian

1. Jilliane Hoffman - retribution
2. Jane Fallon - Strictly between us
3. Blue Monday - Nicci French
4. Room - Emma Donoghue
5. The Silent Sister - Diane Chamberlain
6. Disclaimer - Renee Knight

I'm hoping to join in here as the other thread is too fast and fancy and I can't keep up! And this is what I have read so far have invested in a new kindle paperwhite and now have regular visits to our library at home with dsd and library book and brews in work.. So plenty of books available but not all the time to read!

I finished The Road to Little Dribbling. I found it mildly amusing at times, but not as engaging as Bryson's earlier books. He seemed to be going through the motions and basically doing the trip around Britain because his publisher had told him to (which he pretty much admitted to in the prologue).

Welcome Lookdown. Yes we are going at a steady snail's pace here. The 50 books thread is great for suggestions but like you I should read some books in the house.

I enjoyed Bryson's A Walk in the Woods when I was on holiday last year. Haven't tried little dribbling though. I look forward to hearing whether it warms up for you.

Hello, a slower-paced book thread - exactly what I need!

I finished I Capture the Castle in the second week of January (having originally starting it over a year ago, but my father died too and like a previous poster said, my concentration went to pot).

I am now a few chapters into The Road to Little Dribbling. Not really engaging me so far. I loved Bill Bryson books and used to devour them, so hopefully it will improve for me.

Not sure what my next read will be. I have so many unread books at home so really should go for one of those. Maybe The Remains of the Day.

chilly, I loved it. In my experience, books that have won the Man Booker Prize can be a bit of a hard read. This wasn't in the slightest. I'm looking forward to reading it sequel, bring up the bodies.

I'm fascinated by the Plantagenet and Tudor time periods anyway and this had so much detail. It was a wonderful read but definitely not one to turn your brain off to!
I think I'm a little bit in love with Thomas Cromwell now

MyIron I had wolf hall in my hand in a book shop yesterday. Do you think it would defeat someone in reading rehab or it it worth the commitment?

Currently ready Us by David Nicholls. Enjoyed his Starter for ten which was not too heavyweight and nostalgic. Two of my close friends are also reading Us at the same time by coincidence. It's about being middle aged and what happens in marriage when the kids are starting to leave. Lots of resonances for the three of us that we will get together over a glass of wine to discuss

theoriginal I far preferred LOTR to The Hobbit. If you can get through the hobbit then you'll love LOTR!

I've finally started book 2. The memory Closet. It's nothing particularly high-brow but after finishing wolf hall I wanted something easy and quick.

It seems good so far but I'm only a couple of chapters in.

Well it turns out DD has loaned Half Bad to a boy in school who she does regular book swaps with. She assures me he's reliable and we'll get it back.

In the meantime DD is reading the Book Thief and DS and I have picked up Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. To his great joy he can read it quite well.

chilly I read half bad before Christmas and I really enjoyed it. I have the sequel on my wishlist. I'm just waiting for it to go down in price .

Yes I don't know what I was thinking. December is always stupidly busy for us and it's hard enough to get the committed reading done the rest of the year!

We may leave the Christmas Mystery until next year and start on Half Bad instead

Hah, we have that too, untouched! Though to be fair, we are just finishing off another Christmas book.. Time just ran away with us, so busy over Christmas and dc on bloody iPads, as was I so less time than I'd thought.

Hello mumslife. I feel like this is a reading rehab thread. It's what I need anyway.
I've still reading two Christmas books I bought to read in December. I'm reading The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder to DS. It's helpfully split into short chapters, one for each day of,advent. I think we are on December 7th.

I've nearly finished Winter Solstice, which is wearing a bit thin, it's gone on too long and it STILL isn't Christmas Day, but I have ventured into non-fiction this week with Sali Hughes Beauty Companion .

Moving - will look out for The Paying Guest. Gripping is what I need to stay awake.
Theoriginal - amazing they got 3 films from the Hobbit. DD tells me they used lots of stuff from appendices and footnotes and wrote in extra female characters.
I enjoyed LoRings when I was young but wouldn't have stamina or commitment now

I finally finished The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak. It wasn't scary but as it is about a girl living with a foster family in war torn Germany it is sad.
I am glad I read the book as the idea of having Death as a narrator was really interesting. Some of the pictures painted by the author were amazing and will stay with me.
I don't think I can do it justice as I was reading it during a year when I
very little time to reading. I only managed a small amount a week for much of the time and any good book deserves better. I can't tell whether a bit in the middle went slowly or it was just my reading!

Great on to the next. Just finishing JRR Tolkien's Letters to Father Christmas. Then inspired by the 50 book challenge I will read these books already in the house - The Lady in the Van, Ready Player One and An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth.

Apparently the 50 book thread calms down after January, like the gym, so it may get more manageable in terms of keeping up

Yes, felt for his wife too but he was painted as the more sympathetic character until later in the book, wasn't he?

First Moyes I've tried, so not sure. It's about a journalist -and her somewhat self-indulgent seeming life, initially, quite superficial- but seems to be warming up into something quite different going back a few decades. This is following research she's been doing through the archives at work. So will see how it goes. Not enjoyed the first part much.