What are you reading at the moment....

[cjt110]

..(other than this post). Looking for some inspiration for books, mags, blogs...

Just downloaded a book via Overdrive about the Chernobyl disaster. I was born in December 1986 so don't really know much about it.

Just finished Do Not Disturb by Claire Douglas, drivel but the idea was good.
Eleanor Oliphant, I loved.
The wisdom of Sally Red Shoes, it was ok.

The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones. I got Charmed Life for —myself— DD and then we had visitors. They are great but I still wanted them to fuck the fuck off so I could carry on reading. I had to go and start the kids’ tea just so I could find out what happens.

Colin Thubron’s book In Siberia is fascinating - especially as so much in the world has changed since the 1990s when it was written.

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you need to turn off smart punctuation

UnderHisEyeAndUpYourArse yes its not my first reading. The first time I read Birdsong I sobbed on the first page

Reaa so I do. I CBA don’t know how though.

Right. Testing testing 123.

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testing sorry for derailing thread OP

Keepservingthedrinks - love your name,btw.Whatever made you think of it?
Why thank you AviatorShades. It's actually named after something a character says in a not-very-good play I saw. She's an air stewardess and is talking about what they're trained to do when a plane is crashing and said something like "Keep everyone calm and keep serving the drinks". I thought that would be handy over on AIBU!

I've only just started The Slap, so the jury's out atm. Hmmm. Good luck. Personally I thought it was a good premise wasted. But one of my good friends massively disagreed and loved it (but we rarely agree about literature)

To the person who liked the Rosie Project (above). So did I. Actually, I preferred it to Eleanor O (which I loved), and they're similar-ish.

Having a retro crime phase:
The Murder Room - P D James
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy- Ruth Rendell

Just discovered P D James and will be scouring the charity shops for more!

The Slap - horrid book peopled by horrid characters.
Reading The Outsider by Stephen King currently but loved loads of the above, especially Eleanor Oliphant.

I'm reading such a good book damn it can't remember the name

It's about a young boy who has been accused of the murder of a younger boy

Just finished reading The Wife by Alafair Burke. Brilliant book I was gripped and read it quickly because I couldn't put it down.

Now starting The second child by Caroline Bond, seems a good storyline.

currently i'm reading 2 books the one is about American tradition like their dressing ways their food or like famous food of American people and majorly about their ascent like what is the difference between American ascent and England and some other staff and the second book which named as the "Animal Horn" many early hornbooks were made by printing letters onto paper or vellum (animal skin) – both expensive materials at the time. To protect them, the letters were covered with a layer of animal horn like cow horns, buffalo, goat etc so thin that it was see-through. This horn was fixed to a wooden or leather base, which was known as a hornbook. Sometimes the ‘books’ were made from metal, ivory, or bone like this one, but they still kept the same name. Some were even baked out of gingerbread to tempt children to ‘swallow what they read’!

Retreading this which is written by my friend.

www.amazon.co.uk/Gift-Treason-Cultural-Marxist-Civilization-ebook/dp/B07XPCTD79/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=a+gift+for+treason&sprefix=a+gift+for+trea&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1610362982&sr=8-1