What are you reading?

[GandolfBold]

I have just finished Hearts Invisible Furies and I feel befert. I haven't felt like this at the end of a book for ages. I need something to dive back into and have a waterstones voucher to spend.

Bereft, obviously.

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets... in Spanish (to help improve my Spanish).

Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson but it seems not a recent book so you may have already read it.

I'm reading "Need you Dead" by Peter James it's book twelve or so of a series and would say the later ones are better than the early books.

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine someone. Just started it this morning. Seems quite interesting.

I've also just finished The Heart's Invisible Furies and am reading one of Peter James at the moment, I've read a lot of his books but Invisible Furies is a hard one to match! I also enjoyed Little Fires Everywhere and He Said/She Said

Anything you read after that will be a disappointment! Definitely in the running for my favourite book

Brave new world

I’ve just finished Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and also felt bereft. Watching for recommendations of what to read next.

The Goldfinch by Donna Taart. I promise you it will fill your void.

I've just finished Wolf Hall/Bring Up The Bodies (was a two in one download on Kindle) so following.

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is really good

My DD’s School For Good And Evil. I’m hooked! Have nearly finished book 3 and am chivvying DD who’s only halfway through book 4....

I feel like I tell everyone to read “Heart’s Invisible Furies”; likewise I feel bereft (despite finishing it ageeeees ago).

Home Fires? Older, but like HIF, Any Human Heart (Boyd).

The Last Tudor by Philippa Gregory. Way better than I thought it would be. It’s about Lady Jane Grey, Queen for 9 days, and her sister’s Katharine and Mary. Mary was a dwarf.

I think if you liked hearts invisible furies you’ll like a little life.

I’m reading conversations with friends which has mixed reviews but I am enjoying it

"Little" by Edward Carey, it's a fictionalised biography of Madame Tussaud (based on an autobiography/notes she wrote about her life) I'm not that far in but it seems really well written with some lovely illustrations. I read a lot and i'm enjoying it more than anything else I've read in a while.

The Economist
New Scientist
Private Eye
The Garden
Birdlife
Accounting and Business
Small Business voice

Pride and Prejudice
A Town like Alice
Shadow of the Moon
Jane Eyre

I think if you liked hearts invisible furies you’ll like a little life that's good to know, I loved A Little Life.

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker - it's brilliant, as her books generally are. I didn't love her recent art school novels, though, so for me this is a total return to form.

The heart's invisible furies is definitely in my top 5 of all time. I recommend it a lot now.
I'm currently reading cutting for stone.

Op The Kite Runner and a Thousand splendid sounds are up there with The hearts invisible furies too.

A thousand splendid suns. Not sounds 🤦‍♀️

A Little Life is incredible. I felt like it did something to me.

I'm reading The Fish Ladder by Katharine Norbury. Very good.