What are you reading?

@Greybutterfly I love Kristin Hannah so far read The Nightingale and The Winter Garden which both left me an emotional wreck also The Great Alone which again was fantastic and now want to move to Alaska!!

I've never read Lucinda Riley so will have to take a look on Amazon always after discovering new authors, thank you!!

@Stella8686 her books are amazing my favourite so far is the The Forgotten Garden set in Cornwall/Australia which is somewhere a love and the story was amazing. I get so caught up in her stories and can't put it down! I didn't realise she was from Australia amazing considering her books are mostly set in the UK and the amount of detail!

I watched the film years ago The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood with Sandra Bullock in it really enjoyed it didn't realise it was a book!

@Boredsillyathome
You have to read Lucinda Riley if you like Kate Morton.
She has written a series called the seven sisters which is amazing. Each book is based on a different sister who has been adopted and after their fathers death are left clues to trace their heritage. You will be hooked.
I also love Kristen Hannah who wrote the winter garden and the nightingale both brilliant books

@Boredsillyathome I LOVE Kate Morton, discovered her last year. Read them all since then. Finished the distant hours last month and hugged the book at the end with a contented sigh! I guessed some bits but it all came together in such a good ending.

Her books are like unraveling string! You have an idea, you can see a misleading bit and then suddenly you go OH! There it is! And it all falls satisfyingly and wonderfully into place
☺️
Kate Morton is Australian too! How does she do it!

Currently re-reading
The divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood
So much atmosphere and depth of characters

I am definitely drawn to complicated women in novels with a family secret, flashback to then and now

Thank you!

Don’t think that’s pathetic at all!

I get some free from my local library using the Libby/Overdrive and BorrowBox apps - your local library may have details of those or similar.

Also the BBC Sounds app has some abridged books (eg Book at Bedtime) which can be a good way to get started with shorter ones.

And you can get a free trial to Audible.

I know this sounds pathetic, but how to start with audio books?

Just started The Hare with Amber Eyes , Edmund de Wall. I have had it on the bookshelf for ages and never started it.

Reading Milkman by Anna Burns. It's quite dense and the way it's written can make it hard to follow. But once you get into the narrative (which can be very funny) it really brings to life how disturbing and scary life was in1970s NI.

Listening to the audiobook of Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi, it’s pretty good.

Just finished The Ascendance Protocol: Endeavour by Chris Scott for the 3rd time, it's a really enjoyable read.

I am reading The Flight of Cornelia Blackwood - about 75% of the way through. It was recommended on another reading thread here but I am finding it very hard going.
Looking forward to treating myself to The Mirror and the Light as a reward for finishing it!

Currently reading The Lake House by Kate Morton love her books she's such a great storyteller

Just finished The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. Not bad I would say 4/5. A thriller that is easy to follow.

Also recently read Just an Ordinary Family by Fiona Lowe, an Australian writer, loved it, very much in the style of Liane Moriarty. Easy to read & enjoyable.

@Catrescue1971 - so pleased that you are reading Ferney; it is a fabulous tale. There is a sequel - The Lives She Left Behind.

I've just finished The Heart's Invisible Furies. It was so wonderful and immersive that I can't stop thinking about it or imagine getting into another book! I've got A Gentleman in Moscow lined up for when I'm ready and I hope it doesn't disappoint.

Marks place x

The Truth in Our Lies, Eliza Graham. 99p this month as an ebook on Amazon.

I've just finished The 24 Hour Cafe by Libby Page. I really enjoyed it so borrowed The Lido- her first book- from the library. That was fine in itself but I much preferred her second novel :)

I do find that I'm turning to books nowadays so much more now. Less stressful than the news or social media!!

Hamnet by Maggie O' Farrell

It's about the death of Shakespeare's son Hamnet/Hamlet and his wife, and their grief. Shakespeare is never named in the book.

I am loving it so far.

Have just started to read Ferney by James Long as a result of recommendation on here. It is a time slip novel - very good! Good character development / history. Very distracting which is great at the moment with Covid 19 about!!

Everything I Never told You by Celeste Ng, it is sad but very good - a family saga

The Fatal Shore. It's about the colonization of Australia and I ended up giving up on the first chunk. I was interested in the journey and the arrival, not law in the 1700s. However, now that I've got to the arrival I am loving it. I have the paperback and it's huge. I can hardly hold it.

Meet Me in Cockeberry Bay.

It's the 2nd of a 3 parter and is an easy read(ie total trash). But it's free on kindle unlimited and sometimes I love an easy read