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To ask, what are you currently reading?

112 replies

ZeldaOfHyrule · 12/07/2019 15:09

I have just finished the Me Before You series and have serious book hangover. I've started The Silent Patient but still too hung up on my last book. Whats everyone reading?

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penguingorl · 13/07/2019 02:10

11:22:63 is so good. It's actually on my pile to be reread soon. Currently reading The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, good so far, about a 3rd in. Really looking forward to Jesse Burtons' new one, out in September I think.

heath48 · 13/07/2019 02:17

Just discovered Tim Weaver,working my way through all his books.

Currently reading Fall from Grace.

ElizaPancakes · 13/07/2019 02:22

Re-Reading The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett and also reading All The Light We Cannot See, which I thought I would love but am finding hard work.

ShinyForrid · 13/07/2019 02:44

I’ve also just finished An American Marriage. Loved it.
Just started The Year of the Runsways by Sunjeev Sahota. Decent so far.

FattyPedalsFuriously0hPipNo · 13/07/2019 07:22

Love these threads, that's a couple more ordered Grin

BethanyGilbert · 13/07/2019 07:44

I’m reading the first game of thrones book after years of avoiding the book and the tv show. I’m enjoying it a lot but I’m a painfully slow reader and have only read 68% after 8 weeks Blush

TapasForTwo · 13/07/2019 07:50

I loved GOT. It wouldn't normally have appealed, but a very well read friend whose opinion I respect said to give it a try because it is so well written. I devoured the entire series.

I haven't watched them all as we don't have Sky.

Stillhouse Lake was unoutdownable. I think the author was influenced by The Ted Bundy murders, Dexter and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

SoftBlocks · 13/07/2019 07:54

There is No Planet B by Mike Berners-Lee
Very good, readable and informative.

Before that I re read Catch-22 in anticipation of the tv series.

LaVieilleHarpie · 13/07/2019 08:34

"Russia Under the Old Regime" by Richard Pipes. And anything and everything written by Pipes. His knowledge of the entire Russian history, from before Russia became Russia to modern times, is... well, I don't even have words. I really wanted to know what they REALLY mean when they say 'Russia is a state of mind'. And now I know. Wow. Just wow.

nitgel · 13/07/2019 08:37

I picked up fear of flying by erica jong so have just started that

claracluck78 · 13/07/2019 09:08

I've just finished Ruth Jones' Never Greener which was easy light reading (and I could hear her voice doing the narration throughout, love her!)

Before that I read Vox and The Last - both let down by their endings IMO

Just picked up Elly Griffiths' Janus Stone - crime series centring on a forensic archaeologist. So far so good.

Agree with PP about Tombland - I love Shardlake!

myusernameisnotmyusername · 13/07/2019 09:14

Out Of Bounds by Val McDermid for my book group.

SystolicSyster · 13/07/2019 09:22

Calypso by David Sedaris. I'm not very impressed.

VanillaSugarr · 13/07/2019 09:25

A lover of unreason - the story of Assia Wevill. Ted Hughes was an absolute XXXXX Angry

zukiecat · 13/07/2019 10:36

Council by Snorri Kristjansson

A Viking murder mystery. I don't usually like murders or crime stories but I love all things Viking so giving this a go

TheInebriati · 13/07/2019 10:55

Vox by Christina Dalcher. Its like Twitter meets the Handmaids Tale.

ZeldaOfHyrule · 13/07/2019 11:42

Loving seeing what everyone is reading! My TBR pile is already massive and I'm gonna have to add these to it too. Taking my little one to the library soon so no doubt come back with more. Blush

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Purpletigers · 13/07/2019 13:17

Just finished The Retreat by mark Edwards . Now reading Karin Slaughter ‘s Triptych .

SusanWalker · 13/07/2019 13:22

Just finished 'Travellers in the third reich' by Julia Boyd and am about to start 'A visitors companion to Tudor England' by Suzannah Lipscomb.

Footle · 14/07/2019 14:23

Diaries of Anne Lister aka Gentleman Jack. Can't put her down.

AwkwardPaws27 · 14/07/2019 14:28

"Gone Viking" by Helen Russell.

Aebj · 14/07/2019 14:35

The Poppy Girls by Margret Dickinson and then the follow up book Brookfield Girls. I now need to get the third in the series. !!!!

Steamfan · 14/07/2019 14:40

Have just finished Kingdom of the Blind, by Louise Penny, the most recent Armand Gamache book, and really enjoyed it. I sort of read The Dark Path, by Michelle Sacks - I think the reviewers must have read another book as it was utter drivel, with the most unpleasant people in it. I got up to page 127, decided it's no going to get better, and just speed read to the end. I'm just going now to finish Feat of a Mafia Don, by Michele Giuttari, and am enjoying that

BigSandyBalls2015 · 14/07/2019 14:44

I’ve also just finished Ruth Jones, Never Greener, loved it.

TapasForTwo · 14/07/2019 15:04

Glad to hear it Footle
I have downloaded it on to my kindle