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First book of the year...

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golddustwomen · 01/01/2021 22:06

Started 'We Begin at the End - Chris Whitaker' tonight. Really enjoying it so far, which I am glad about as my expectations are quite high with this one..
Anyone else started a new book today?

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dementedma · 06/01/2021 17:28

Miss Smilla 's Feeling for Snow is one of the few books to defeat me. Tried a couple of times and then gave up.

Currently reading, and loving, Mythos by Stephen Fry

NeedToKnow101 · 06/01/2021 17:26

I'm struggling a bit with the book I started, so I've just read My Sister the Serial Killer. Loved it; a brilliant read.

Hairbrush123 · 06/01/2021 10:55

I’m reading “Why We Get The Wrong Politicians” by Isabel Hardman. Such an eye opening book detailing flaws with our parliament. Would recommend!

trifleandbaileys · 04/01/2021 00:02

Miss Marley, by Vanessa Lafaye. It's a prequel to A Christmas Carol. I enjoyed it, I love anything Dickens related though!

Livinginthecity · 03/01/2021 14:46

The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver. Amazing how many women were drawn into the orbit of this sexual predator, seducing female students at the Slade where he was a visiting professor.

AllGongNoDinner · 03/01/2021 14:07

practical magic and just starting life after life

iklboo · 03/01/2021 14:03

I've started & finished Near Life Experience by Dave Turner, halfway through Rivers Of London 5. I'm going to try to give more time to reading this year.

Lalalatte · 03/01/2021 13:55

Started Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre. Good so far, if a little complicated!

Divebar · 03/01/2021 09:31

@Frouby

I think my second choice was Tipping the Velvet (although you might want to read something else and come back). The war time ones had a completely different feel although I enjoyed them.

Frouby · 03/01/2021 08:58

@Divebar I absolutely adore it! Got about 20% left, am going to try and finish it tonight then look at her other stuff, have read The Paying Guests and enjoyed it but didn't love it. Think am going to go with The Little Stranger next.

PersonaNonGarter · 02/01/2021 23:14

Piranesi - started and finished in 2021. If I read a better novel this year I will be amazed. Amazed, I tell thee. It is magnificent (and at points very funny).

Hamnet was the last book of 2020 for me. Meh.

BrimfulOfBaba · 02/01/2021 22:11

@plus3

Piranesi - love it so far
Impulsively bought this on Kindle while tipsy, excited to start it!
plus3 · 02/01/2021 20:30

Piranesi - love it so far

GrouchyKiwi · 02/01/2021 20:28

Ooh, yes, DH gave me The Midnight Library for Christmas so that's going to be my next read. I love Matt Haig.

GrouchyKiwi · 02/01/2021 20:27

I read my first book yesterday (it was a reread and the third of a series so it was just an easy start to the year). Fantastic series that I absolutely love, though: the Ollie Wit series by Donna Augustine. Fabulous stuff, if you like urban fantasy.

My first new read for the year is the first Cormoran Strike book by Robert Galbraith/JKR. I'm about halfway through and LOVING it. Her writing is so much better than in Harry Potter. It's excellent.

ImAllOut · 02/01/2021 20:22

@YakkityYakYakYak

I’ve also started a new book today - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. I rushed to finish the last book so I could start fresh on 1st Jan Smile
That was my first book of the year, it only took two days and I loved it! Using this thread for inspiration for my next one off to Google.
Standrewsschool · 02/01/2021 20:20

Goldfinch - a lot of detail in the book

MercedesDeMonteChristo · 02/01/2021 18:59

I’m reading Outlander by Diana Gabaldon on my kindle. It’s satisfying and I’m enjoying it.

I’m also reading Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy. I’m reading a chapter a day over breakfast. I should finish around September!

The decision to pick two massive books to start is a bit flawed.

Monday I’m starting Frenchman’s Creek with book club.

Divebar · 02/01/2021 18:54

@Frouby

OMG I love Fingersmith - her other novels are good but that’s definitely a favourite.

MacavityTheDentistsCat · 02/01/2021 18:26

Factfulness by Hans Rosling. Am about two fifths of the way through. It's interesting but I'm not entirely convinced by parts of it (so far).

Ellmau · 02/01/2021 18:22

Necessity, by Jo Walton. Last of a fantasy trilogy with SF elements. Brilliant.

JacobReesMogadishu · 02/01/2021 15:25

I’ve just finished The Wych Elm by Tana French. Very good.

Frouby · 02/01/2021 15:23

I'm reading Fingersmith and it's absolutely amazing. Been on my to read list for ages but kept finding more exciting things to read and wish I had read it ages ago!

Chocolatecake29 · 02/01/2021 15:11

I'm just about to start the Hating Game by Sally Thorpe.

RecipeStealingBitch · 02/01/2021 15:11

I’m a non-fiction reader mostly. I’m reading Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain by Pen Vogler on my Kindle, and A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

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