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Best book you've read recently

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cupoftea33 · 14/11/2022 10:29

Sorry...lame I know!

I'm trying to get back into reading in the evenings after I get the little ones to bed...

Something I can lost in...i don't mind a creepy tale but nothing too scary !!

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constantindigestion · 17/11/2022 00:01

I've just read Daisy Jones and the Six which I really enjoyed. Have also read Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes which was the follow up to Rachel's Holiday. Finished Matthew Perry's book Friends , Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing in a day - how he is still alive I don't know! Have just started How To Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie and it's looking good.

BedTaker · 16/11/2022 23:56

JaneJeffer · 16/11/2022 22:37

I hated How to Kill Your Family and didn't finish it. The only pleasure it gave me was DS1's face when he saw me reading it Grin

My kids constantly went on about the title whilst I was reading it! Grin

I actually really enjoyed it, not the best book I've ever read, but a good'un.

I have also recently read American Dirt - if you want something that is gripping from the first paragraph, that's the book for you! I know it's a bit 'problematic' as it's written by an American white woman, and that did occur to me a lot as I was reading it, but I still liked it and really liked the main characters which definitely isn't always the case, even with books I enjoy.

Gronkle · 16/11/2022 23:50

If you like non-fiction; The Happiest Man in Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku is good. The man was a truly beautiful soul.

Shortkiwi · 16/11/2022 23:17

@damekindness 👍😊

TheDivineOddity · 16/11/2022 23:08

I've just finished How to kidnap the rich, Rahul Rainer which I really enjoyed and I'm currently reading The bullet that missed, Richard Osman which I'm loving and is one of those books I'll be sad to finish.

damekindness · 16/11/2022 23:04

Agree @Shortkiwi Small Pleasures was excellent. I subsequently started on the rest of Clare Chambers books and ver much enjoyed them all

I also read recently and loved The Manningtree Witches by AK Blackmore

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 16/11/2022 22:56

I haven't had a great yield of fiction I've loved this year so I'm going to recommend Taylor Jenkins Read books in general. Super easy going page turners that should get you back in the spirit. I would start with Daisy Jones and The Six

PinkHeadphones · 16/11/2022 22:50

Favourites I have read recently are Still Life by Sarah Winman and House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Kline.
Favourites in last few years have been A Gentleman in Moscow, Station 11, Once Upon a River.

HeddaGarbled · 16/11/2022 22:47

@geminiflanagan

Whalebone Theatre by Jo quinn

Agree

Shortkiwi · 16/11/2022 22:46

Small pleasures by Clare Chambers

TheFormidableMrsC · 16/11/2022 22:46

I Found You - Lisa Jewell. Also Where the Crawdads Sing

Bogglebrain · 16/11/2022 22:45

House of Silk is by Anthony Horowitz- I’ve read most of his adult work recently and enjoyed them all.

Sunnidaze · 16/11/2022 22:44

The last thing he told me by Laura Dave
Call me Evie by JP Pomare
The wife and the widow by Christian White

Bogglebrain · 16/11/2022 22:43

I’m currently reading House Of Silk, enjoying it so far.

I also really liked How to kill your family but it was a bit daft at the end (honestly would you really write a diary in prison).

PoseyFlump · 16/11/2022 22:42

I love these threads! Gathering ideas for my next library visit.

JaneJeffer · 16/11/2022 22:37

I hated How to Kill Your Family and didn't finish it. The only pleasure it gave me was DS1's face when he saw me reading it Grin

ThatshallotBaby · 16/11/2022 22:30

I loved How to kill your family!
Absolutely brilliant.
Im waiting for my sister to finish Lucy Foley The Paris Apartment, I really liked The Hunting Party.

WhatICallMyUsername · 16/11/2022 22:27

heartchakra · 14/11/2022 11:09

How to kill your family

Did you enjoy it? It was a book club read and I think only 2 or 3 people out of about 30 enjoyed it! I didn't!

WhatICallMyUsername · 16/11/2022 22:26

The Couple at Number 9 which was a book club read followed by The Girls Who Disappeared. Both by Claire Douglas and enjoyed both so much I've asked my mum for another of hers for Christmas

Paranoidandroidmarvin · 16/11/2022 22:18

I finished The collective. Not a storyline that any book I have ever read has touched on. Very good.

Dustyblue · 16/11/2022 06:56

The Covered Wife by Lisa Emanuel.

Awesome fiction about a woman who marries a Jewish man who then joins a strict offshoot/sect and gets more devout by the chapter. Very believable account of how women get sucked into these situations, with fabulous pace and some jaw-dropping detail. Pretty dark towards the end. Loved it!

yoshiblue · 14/11/2022 13:02

@DameHelena I second All The Light - it's a proper novel and I felt sad that it ended!

DameHelena · 14/11/2022 12:54

Pick of the very recent bunch is probably All the Light We Cannot See, but although I did love it, I didn't LOVE it wholeheartedly in the way I've loved, say, Bel Canto or Alias Grace (two all-time faves).
A bit longer ago, Apeirogon by Colum McCann blew me away. I slightly hesitate to press it on people though as it's such difficult subject matter and it is undoubtedly harrowing. But it's a masterpiece, IMO, and devastating, albeit with hope and humanity visible too. If that's what you're after in a book Grin
I also very much liked Dancer and Let the Great World Spin by the same author. I just love his writing.
And Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney, while not quite deserving words like 'brilliant' or 'masterpiece', is satisfying and sweeping and very moving in parts.

JaneJeffer · 14/11/2022 12:45

The Family Upstairs though it doesn't bear much scrutiny and ended oddly I'd still read the sequel mentioned above!

MissBattleaxe · 14/11/2022 12:45

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Best book I've read in years.