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What will be your last book of the year?

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whatausername · 28/12/2024 15:21

Mine will be Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling. What do you hope to wrap up by Hogmanay?

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HPandthelastwish · 28/12/2024 20:21

I just remembered I've got Witches of Vargo on the go in the car and Alchemist but I didn't really get into that

I used to be such an avid reader but I just keep falling out the habit. I like the idea of 12 books for the next year, I think I'll make that my New Years resolution.

Oh I love A Week in December although not read it for at least a decade. I love Sebastien Faulks although took DD to see Birdsong which was awkward far more nudity and sex than I'd anticipated on stage.😂

Notmydaughteryoubitch · 28/12/2024 20:19

I got bought The Mad Women's Ball for Christmas and started this afternoon, it's short so it's likely to be that.

student26 · 28/12/2024 20:18

Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness

fourelementary · 28/12/2024 20:18

Mad Honey

Jodi Picoult and J Boylam

Everythingaches · 28/12/2024 20:18

Im reading Frankie by Graham Norton, absolutely loving it.

Notmydaughteryoubitch · 28/12/2024 20:16

For those suggesting they will finish the year with Seventh Son - honestly don't. I really rather enjoyed it until I hit the last couple of chapters and I don't know the last time I've been so angry with a book! I'm not saying don't read it but I really wouldn't want to see the year out with it.

@HPandthelastwish - I recently read BBO and very much enjoyed and Once and Future Witches is great, as is WSM. The Strike series is amazing!

Lunaballoon · 28/12/2024 20:15

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

Redshoeblueshoe · 28/12/2024 20:13

The resident by David Jackson, it's about a serial killer who has broken into an end terrace. The house is deserted, and he has realised he can go through the loft - and get into all the other houses.

OrsolaRosso · 28/12/2024 20:13

I am currently listening to Land Lines by Raynor Winn.

DreamyRedNewt · 28/12/2024 20:08

A clockwork orange

MoodEnhancer · 28/12/2024 20:08

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. Loving it so far and hoping I get enough time to my self to be able to finish it by the end of the year!

AthenaWhite · 28/12/2024 20:07

I finished Holly by Stephen King now reading Mr Mercedes which is the start of that series.

Yirk · 28/12/2024 20:06

The Library by Bella Osbourne.

HPandthelastwish · 28/12/2024 20:05

Anansi Boys - I bought it before Neil Gaiman came out as a twat.

I just realized I have 12 books on my current TBR pile, so if I can resist adding to it that's one a month

  1. The Black Bird Oracle (last of the Discovery of Witches series)
  2. We Solve Murders (Richard Osman, shouldn't take long)
  3. Argylle (Already part through this)
  4. Once and Future Witches
  5. Lessons in Chemistry
  6. The Seventh Son
  7. Rivals 8 - 12) Strike series
Manysocks · 28/12/2024 20:05

The Country of Ice Cream Star. Think it was recommended on here somewhere. 😊

AuntieMarys · 28/12/2024 20:00

I'm on my 98th book of the year....will do 100 by the end of it! Currently reading Lula Dean's Little Library of banned books

ThinksALot · 28/12/2024 19:57

I'm almost half way through The Bell Jar by Slyvia Plath. TV is awful tonight, so there's a good chance I'll finish it before the New Year.

Tana433 · 28/12/2024 19:50

Im reading Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher and enjoying it very much. It is a thick book but im fairly confident i will have finished it before the start of the New Year.

Livinginaclock · 28/12/2024 19:21

V late to the party but I'm finally reading Demon Copperhead.
I haven't read anything else this year really so time to get back into it.

Decafflatteplease · 28/12/2024 19:16

I really want to finish the Mercies and then I think that should take me to 18 books out of my goal of 24 which I'm happy with

cheezncrackers · 28/12/2024 19:11

I doubt I'll finish another book before new year, so the last one was Orbital. I quite enjoyed it, although I didn't love it. It just felt rather detached and cold and because it's so short (it covers just 24 hours aboard the ISS), you don't have time to get to know the characters and relate to any of them. So while there are a couple of touching moments, I just felt like a stalker watching them go about their business!

Orland0 · 28/12/2024 19:07

I’m reading Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge… very slowly 🙄 It’s ok, but I just can’t be bothered, not in the right head space. I’m wanting to put it aside to read Gillian McAllister’s new one, but I’m over 100 pages in so I sort of invested. Phhhww, dunno what to do 🤔

Dappy777 · 28/12/2024 17:05

I've re-read all of Aldous Huxley's novels this year, in chronological order. Funny how he gradually got worse as a novelist. As an essayist and non-fiction writer he remained faultless, but as a novelist he deteriorated. His first novel, Chrome Yellow, is superb, and the fact that he wrote in his 20s staggers me. But his second from final novel, The Genius and the Goddess, is almost unreadable.

Right now, I'm finishing Island, Huxley's final novel, and my last book of 2024. A wonderful and fascinating book, but a poor novel (as Huxley himself admitted).

Actually, I'm also reading Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, so maybe that will be my last.

PigInADuvet · 28/12/2024 16:02

An unwanted guest (or something similar) by Shari Lapena. Easy reading because I'm exhausted!

New bookcase arriving in a few days, can't wait to fill it!

Lonxy · 28/12/2024 16:00

roseyposey · 28/12/2024 15:57

Seventh Son?

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