Something to rekindle my reading...

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BarrelOfOtters · 25/01/2024 11:51

Don't like gore or horror. It has to be well written. Apart from that anything goes really.

I used to read voraciously and widely - classics, crime, spy novels, modern literature.

The last things I really enjoyed were Still Life, Portrait of a Marriage and Wolf Hall.

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CadyEastman · 26/01/2024 21:28

Have you settled on one yet @BarrelOfOtters?

Moro93 · 26/01/2024 22:07

Don’t have any specific books to recommend but just wanted to make a couple of suggestions of things that help when I’m in a reading slump.

I like to choose quite a short book. Sometimes finishing a book gives you motivation to read more.

Also, I try to choose something like a murder mystery, or any type of mystery really, that will make me want to keep reading.

Sometimes if there’s a film I want to see that was based on a book, I like to read the book first. So if the film is already out/being released soon, it can encourage me to read the book sooner/quicker.

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BarrelOfOtters · 26/01/2024 22:45

I think I’ll try mr lover man, I heard about it on r4 and it’s been mentioned above…it might just do it!

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Perfectlystill · 26/01/2024 22:50

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy is excellent

Anoisagusaris · 26/01/2024 22:52

Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

Divebar2021 · 27/01/2024 10:23

I think I’ll try mr lover man, I heard about it on r4 and it’s been mentioned above…it might just do it!

Yay. That was my suggestion. Hope you love it

Hibernatalie · 27/01/2024 10:31

Lisa Jewell books are well written and compelling. The House We Grew Up in is my favourite so far.

MsAmerica · 09/02/2024 00:39

This might be a possibility:

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