What book are you reading now?

[kentgal]

Why you chose it and would you recommend it?

‘My grandmother sends her regards and apologies’ chosen because it’s the same author as ‘A man called Ove’ which I loved.
It’s a slow burner but I am enjoying it.

A respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory. She is a historian and always researches any historical facts thoroughly. The book is about the slave trade in Bristol, and the way we treated slaves back then is heartbreaking.

It is an excellent read so far.

I have just finished Follow You Home by Mark Edwards. It is a psychological thriller and is, IMO, an unputdownable book. Really easy to read and a cracking story with loads of plot twists. I highly recommend it.

I just finished ‘How to survive a plague’ by David France. It’s about the outbreak of aids in New York, the complete lack of response from anyone in the position do anything and the way the gay community took action into their own hands. It’s a long book but a fascinating and heartbreaking read, throughly recommend it.

They all sound like good reads I'm reading 'this game of ghosts' by Joe Simpson. I loved his story 'touching the void' a testament to the strength of the human spirit.

I just finished 'Devil's Feather' by Minette Walters. It was very empowering...I'm thinking reading a Kate Atkinson next, as she was recently on Desert Island Disks (worth a listen)

My list for books to read is going to grow... a lot can't beat getting lost in a good story

2030: Your Children's Future in Islamic Britain by David Vincent

Just about to start ‘milkman’ by Anna Burns. It won the Booker and is set where I currently work so looking forward to it.

The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman. It’s my Reading Group’s Christmas choice.

I loved two out of the original trilogy, so I was looking forward to this. So far so good...

Life of Pi. I recently got a kindle and was so spoilt for choice that I googled a list of “100 books to read before you die” to help me pick! This one seemed to strike a balance between being a book I’d heard of but not very heavy classical literature. So far I’m enjoying it! Haven’t seen the film though.

Forgive me by Lesley Pearce.
She is just so easy to read. I leave loved all of hers so far.

Currently reading Jane Eyre, I enjoyed it at the beginning but now that she's at Thornfield Hall I'm finding it insufferably boring! Mr Rochester has zero redeeming features and NOTHING is happening.

If you've read it would you recommend sticking with it?

I'm definitely going to check out that slave trade, Bristol book...sounds just my sort of thing!

Jane Eyre .... boring??? Maybe you should stick with chick lit, dear

War by nessa last

I somehow managed to mix up the order so read her 2nd book peace first!

Then il read the 3rd book 1950's

Iv meant to get them for ages after watching housewife 49 with Victoria wood but never got round to buying them.
So far they have been very good, she was a really interesting woman with a lovely writing style and had she lived later would have made her mark. I think.It's a great insight into how normal everyday people lived (and what they ate) day to day through the war years.

Ilikepaperhats I hope you were trying to be amusing and witty and Iv misunderstood because actually it sounds like you just had a nasty snobby dig for no reason.

How incredibly rude ILike bits of Jane Eyre are dull and Mr Rochester is a massive wanker but it is worth sticking with!

Jane Eyre is worth sticking with. I found it fascinating that a woman who lived a sheltered life in the 19th century had the imagination to write such a cracking read.

Jane Eyre isn't boring,it's a lovely book. Stick with it.

Recently finished reading John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939.With its tale of a family forced to move from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma where they'd (literally) been scratching a living on land now wanted by Developers and seduced by the Promised Land of California with its perpetual sunshine, oranges and grapes free for the picking and good money to be made harvesting same, it's a tale of the migrant life,of broken promises,hardship and gradual starvation as they travelled west.
The similarities between that and what is happening now to the caravans of families travelling to find the New Promised Land in Trump's America are too real to not be profoundly unsettling.

I'm reading Anything is possible by Elizabeth Strout. It's vg

Listening to Everyone brave is forgiven & about to buy lots of audiobooks on bogof at audible

The Northern Clemency by Plilip Hensher. It'a bit slow but growing on me.

Agatha Christie’s autobiography. I love her and have meant to read this for years. I’m loving it. She was born in 1890 so she was a Victorian child and her comparisons between life just after WW1 and even the 1950s when she was writing are incredible.

Definitely keep on with Jane Eyre 🙂

Just finished 'silent child' by sarah a denzil
Quite a good read, had me gripped the last chapter

Jane Eyre has its longeurs, certainly but I promise you there’s a hell of a lot of incident in the last half (as well as some properly batshit plot twists).

I’m rereading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Then I’m going to reread the last 3 Rivers of London books in preparation for getting the last one for Xmas (the family will know my wrath if I don’t get it). Also hoping for the new Laundry book, and am getting DD the new Drearcliffe Grange and Wells and Wong books so will nick them off her (not in a highbrow mood - so sue me).