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What are you reading this weekend?

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SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 20/05/2023 10:53

I'm reading Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant as recommended by another MNer.

What are you reading and is it any good? Wink

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TheNewlmprovedMrsMadEvans · 27/05/2023 16:30

Started reading Salt Lake by William Shaw am enjoying it so far 🤗

Bbq1 · 27/05/2023 10:20

RashOfBees · 20/05/2023 10:57

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. I’m finding it unbelievably long-winded and boring, but I just want to finish and get it to the charity shop now. I’ve read two other novels since I started!

I had to start it twice but kept going and about halfway in it became really gripping and I ended up really enjoying it.

CharlottenBurger · 27/05/2023 10:13

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 27/05/2023 07:48

Well I'm still reading Blood & Beauty. I can't seem to read more than about 10 pages recently with falling asleep!

Anything by JK Rowling has that effect on me.

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SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 27/05/2023 07:48

Well I'm still reading Blood & Beauty. I can't seem to read more than about 10 pages recently with falling asleep!

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WhoWants2Know · 26/05/2023 20:06

RashOfBees · 20/05/2023 10:57

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. I’m finding it unbelievably long-winded and boring, but I just want to finish and get it to the charity shop now. I’ve read two other novels since I started!

I felt that way too

CallieQ · 25/05/2023 01:04

@EmptyBedBlues

How have you found it? I saw him performing a monologue from it with a musician recently, and was left unconvinced, despite liking Lanny.

My son loved it but I'm not convinced either so far... very unusual style

marmiteloversunite · 25/05/2023 00:20

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney. Read half of it in one sitting this afternoon. Looking forward to the rest.

ATerrorofLeftovers · 24/05/2023 23:41

The Change by Kirsten Miller. About to finish it and I’m gutted.

honeyfox · 24/05/2023 23:29

Just finished All Adults Here by Emma Straub. Reminded me a bit of Elizabeth Strout's books, enjoyed it.

EmptyBedBlues · 24/05/2023 23:23

CallieQ · 23/05/2023 11:30

Just starting Shy by Max Porter

How have you found it? I saw him performing a monologue from it with a musician recently, and was left unconvinced, despite liking Lanny.

mamaduckbone · 24/05/2023 18:48

'The Lacuna' by Barbara Kingsolver.

I loved the Poisonwood Bible but finding this one slightly hard work. I'm determined to persevere though as I feel like it will be worthwhile.

Trying to resist American Dirt, which arrived at the weekend and is giving me the side eye from the bookshelf. I read the first few pages and love it already.

SpikeWithoutASoul · 24/05/2023 08:51

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 23/05/2023 11:31

Mary Stewart is brilliant, I don't think she was capable of writing a duff book or an awkward sentence and her plotting is amazing. Try the Merlin trilogy, but they are all first class.

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I’m afraid that I wasn’t that keen on it. She writes beautifully. The descriptions of the South of France made me desperate to go on holiday, but the plot was very thin with ridiculous coincidences. I might try a later one.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 23/05/2023 11:31

SpikeWithoutASoul · 20/05/2023 17:47

Someone on MN said Mary Stewart was their favourite comfort read author. I’d never even heard of her, but looked her up and am just starting Madam, Will You Talk? Enjoying so far.

Mary Stewart is brilliant, I don't think she was capable of writing a duff book or an awkward sentence and her plotting is amazing. Try the Merlin trilogy, but they are all first class.

CallieQ · 23/05/2023 11:30

Just starting Shy by Max Porter

CountessBathorysBeautySecrets · 23/05/2023 11:24

Imabitbusyatthemoment · 23/05/2023 11:17

Oh no! I’m not very far in yet, now I fear what I’m in for!

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Eeek, I'm sorry, maybe I shouldn't have said anything. Lots of people love the book though. It's just Hardy, and his penchant for the less light hearted side of life.

Imabitbusyatthemoment · 23/05/2023 11:17

CountessBathorysBeautySecrets · 23/05/2023 10:18

I'm haunted by that book. Haunted I tell you.

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Oh no! I’m not very far in yet, now I fear what I’m in for!

CountessBathorysBeautySecrets · 23/05/2023 10:18

Imabitbusyatthemoment · 22/05/2023 22:14

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy and enjoying it more than I anticipated!

I'm haunted by that book. Haunted I tell you.

Papergirl1968 · 23/05/2023 10:17

On yes, May 2022 not May 2023. Was rather misleading the way it was reported in the Daily Mail about the driver being charged.

Riverlee · 23/05/2023 00:30

Papergirl1968 · 22/05/2023 22:07

I just read in the Daily Mail that Lucinda Riley's stepdaughter and her three dogs had been hit by a car and killed a few days ago, @Riverlee Absolutely tragic.

She died last year, but I think someone has just been charged. Henry Whittaker, the co-author acknowledges her, and also his gran who also recently passed away in the acknowledgements at the end.

Imabitbusyatthemoment · 22/05/2023 22:14

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy and enjoying it more than I anticipated!

Papergirl1968 · 22/05/2023 22:07

I just read in the Daily Mail that Lucinda Riley's stepdaughter and her three dogs had been hit by a car and killed a few days ago, @Riverlee Absolutely tragic.

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beguilingeyes · 21/05/2023 22:56

JaninaDuszejko · 21/05/2023 19:49

I'm reading South Riding by Winifred Holtby which I'm loving. Been wanting to read it for ages and really enjoy it. Glad it's 500 pages so I luxuriate in it.

Did you see the adaptation with Anna Maxwell Martin and David Morrissey? I loved that.

prampushingdownthehighst · 21/05/2023 22:34

Just ignore him by Alan Davies, its heartbreaking and enjoy is the wrong word, but I'm glad I've read it

Inadvertentlyspring · 21/05/2023 22:33

pigalow27 · 21/05/2023 20:22

That's one of my absolute favourites of all time! I literally couldn't put it down. Loved it so much. It's so strange that the same book can elicit such different responses.

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It is SO odd isnt it, I think she is a genius and Fingersmith a complete structural and stylistic work of art but i too found the little stranger hard going.

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