What are you reading at the moment?

[Hope54321]

What are you reading?

What is your favourite book?

I'm reading the new Val McDermid 1979, loving the cultural references but finding it tedious so hoping it picks up a bit.

I have just finished American dirt which I loved now reading Lesley Pearce Remember me

Therese Raquin by Emile Zola

Heads You Win by Jeffrey Archer, which I’ve nearly finished and Watching You by Lisa Jewell, which I’m only about a quarter of the way through.
I’m enjoying both but really should concentrate on one book at a time, especially as the Archer is two separate storylines based on a choice the main character had to make. He fled Russia and alternate chapters are written about his life in Britain v his life in the USA. I’m easily confused at the best of times!
I don’t have an overall favourite book.

I've just finished Jews don't count by David Baddiel. I'm not sure what prompted me to read it because it's nothing like what I usually read and I've not read any of his other books but it was truly amazing. Probably one of the most thought provoking books I've read.

The Testaments - really great but need to have read/ seen Handmaids tale.

Also read Where the Crawdads sing recently- just beautiful!

Lisa Jewel is also a favourite of mine. Read two of her books recently.
Invisible girl and the family upstairs were both a good read.

The Midnight Library is also a good story.

@MistySkiesAfterRain

I want to read Bookseller of Kabul and Kiterunner again. I did love Kiterunner. Also not read a Thousand Splendid Suns which I think covers the history of Afghanistan more.

A thousand splendid suns is just brilliant please Read it!

Just finished Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. Pretty bland.
Now embarking on Hamnet (Maggie O Farrell) but finding the beginning a little tedious.
What are you reading, OP?

Just read mayflies by Andrew o hogan and us by David nicholls.

Both brilliant

I have been reading the Frieda Klein series by Nicci French and the Marwood and Lovett series by Andrew Taylor, both crime/ thriller series, also the Grishaverse series by Leigh Bardugo (young adult fantasy). Am in mood for light genre reading at moment.
Favourite books - The Secret History, Gaudy Night, Rivers of London.

Following for ideas

Too many beloved books

I am reading 'Chocolat' by Joanne Harris for the fourth time.. I know... but the language is so delicious and I feel like she is my soulmate (Vianne I mean)

Reading and absolutely loving Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. The same author wrote The Martian.

I am almost finished the book and already grieving the loss of it.

The story is really so unlikely yet so believable.

Just finished The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller.

Thinking of Amy & Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout next. She wrote Olive Kitteridge, which I loved.

Just started A walk across the Sun by Corbin Addison.

I’m currently reading the Song Of Achilles. I just finished The Vanishing Half which I loved. And I’m also listening to the A serious of unfortunate events books on audio whenever I’m in the car with the kids… I actually started them alone but the kids are now loving them lol.

My favourite is The Shining and I will re-read it soon!

I'm reading The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel, I've really enjoyed the Wolf Hall series but I'll need an extensive break from the Tudors when I've finished.

I don't think I have a favourite book as such but my go to book gifts are Life After Life, and A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson, A Place of Greater Safety also Mantel and The Course of Love Alain De Botton.

Im reading That Old Black Magic by Cathi Unsworth. A wartime saga about spies and black magic.

I'm reading 'Moby-Duck' at the moment, which is non-fiction about a journalist who went searching for some of the 28,800 bath toys that ended up in the Pacific after a container came off a cargo ship in the 90s. It's good, but not gripping, so it's taking me a while to read.

I don't have a favourite book. I'm a big reader, so I have loved many books!

I've just finished Persuasion (Jane Austen) as DD was reading it for A Level prep, and finding it difficult to get into, so I said I'd read alongside her so we could discuss it.

Would struggle to choose a favourite book, but I've always loved Jude the Obscure (Hardy), and tend to recommend Any Human Heart (William Boyd), Life After Life (Kate Atkinson) and The Secret History (Donna Tartt).

@zafferana

I'm reading 'Moby-Duck' at the moment, which is non-fiction about a journalist who went searching for some of the 28,800 bath toys that ended up in the Pacific after a container came off a cargo ship in the 90s. It's good, but not gripping, so it's taking me a while to read.

I don't have a favourite book. I'm a big reader, so I have loved many books!

Have they found any?

Reading 'Shuggie Bain ' at the moment. It's gripping.

So many favourite books, amongst them are the James Herriot series, Beloved by Tom Morrison, Dirt Riders by Tim Winton and Cold Mountain by Charles Frasier.

@LST the book is actually 10 years old and much of the searching was done in the decade before that, so yes, they have! It's a good book - about ocean currents and environmental issues and the people who study that stuff.

@hellswelshy

Reading 'Shuggie Bain ' at the moment. It's gripping.

So many favourite books, amongst them are the James Herriot series, Beloved by Tom Morrison, Dirt Riders by Tim Winton and Cold Mountain by Charles Frasier.

I really loved this book