What MrsRobertDuvall read on her hols last week.....

[Mrsrobertduvall]

Nearest thing to Crazy...Elizabeth Forbes (average gas lighting type thriller)
One step two far...Tina Seskis (woman disappears from her marriage, hiding secret...again average)
Linda Lovelace ...Ordeal (disturbing autobiography of a manipulated woman)
The Other Typist...superb
The Safest place..Suzanne Bugler..enjoyed this...family move to country away from London, but husband commutes daily.
The son in law...Charity Norman (loved this...son in law comes out of prison after killing wife)
Waiting for Wednesday..Nikki French ( good thriller, 3rd in Friedan Klein series)

Great selection, you did well to read all of these! Certainly concur on the Other Typist and The Son-in-Law as being great reads. Thanks for sharing.

i loved the other typist

rest look a bit chic litty...

MrsRD, Charity Norman's other two books are 99p on Kindle at the moment, if you haven't already read them.

I am so keen to read The Other Typist, waiting for price to drop/get it from the library.

Also pleased to hear that The Son in Law is good, as I enjoyed After the Fall and I have her Freeing(?) Grace on my TBR.

This school holidays, I've read:
The Safest Place - enjoyed this, and liked her other two books also.
One Step Two Far - agree with you about this.
What Kind of Mother Are You? - v enjoyable thriller type.
The Poisonwood Bible - excellent
The Dinner - strangely enjoyable, some bits a bit odd in translation but that adds to the quirkiness.
Husband, Missing - toss, wish I hadn't bothered.
Accidents Happen - ditto!
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - excellent
Apple Tree Yard - enjoyed this v much
Reconstructing Amelia - excellent
Edward Adrift - sequel to 600 Hours of Edward - both thoroughly enjoyable.

i have some lists on amazon of mine if anyone is interested drop me a Dm.

beautiful ruins was way up there and Black diamond

Reading list for now and next-

Catfish Alley by Lynn Bryant (light deep South fiction)
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty (American fiction)
Light Years by Susannah Moore Poetry memoir of Hawaiian childhood)
Swamplandia by Karen Russell (again because I love it)
American Ghosts by Janice Owens (American fiction)
The Cracker Kitchen by Janice Owens (Non fiction cooking memoir bya Florida 'Cracker')
Wild Girls by Mary Stuart Ansell (Appalachian crime)
The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood.
The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers

Dipping into-

Birds & People by Mark Crocker (mega natural history Opus)
American Pie by Pascale Le Draoulec (cooking road trip travel writing, again)
Arkansas Pie by Kat Robinson (culinary road trip/history)
Gumbo Tales by Sara Roahen (food & Culture of Cajuns and Creole people)
Waterlog by Roger Deakin (again!)

My lists on pin if anybody is interested-

fiction and non fiction;

Travel writing;

Food writing.

mignonette you have impeccable taste. I am currently reading Cold comfort farm, very amusing so far.
I have also just bought The perks of being a wallflower and cannot wait to get started on it!

Bex Thank you for saying that. I do get a lot of suggestions from MN and also from AGoodread.com so cannot take all the credit. I love Cold Comfort Farm BTW. Have you read A Tree Grows In Brooklyn?- a wonderful novel. Also 'My Antonia' by Willa Cather?

Nice thread - always looking for new ideas for authors..

I've read on hols -

Sharp Objects - Gillian Flyn - gruesome in parts but readable - her first novel before 'Gone Girl' which I sped through.

The Girl with the Glass Feet - Ali Shaw - beautifully written and quite moving/poignant.

The Past Lies Waiting - David Treanor - pretty dreadful - a direct lift from the much better book by Sarah Waters (The Little Stranger) - but it was only 99p for the kindle.

Perfect People - Peter James - very entertaining thriller - easily readable if not exactly highbrow - great holiday read.

Next one lined up to read is Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty - I got it after I heard Ian Rankin yesterday on Radio 2 enthusing about it....

loved apple tree
i started a thread on it.

Mignonette...fantasti ook list.
I will be on Amazon later.....

Loved Appletree yard.
Still have to read
The Deception Artist...Fayette Fox
Heft...Liz Moore
Big Brother (new Lionel Shriver)
Behind the candleabra
New Peter James
Kiss me first...Lottie Moggach

That was fantastic by the way

oh i loved heft a lot
a bit like harold dry or 100 year old man in a way

oh and i hated wallflower and Alex thingy - that book
DID love the teen book t stars something by ? david green

I have Big Brother on my Kindle (which DH has commandeered) and just heard that 'Major Pettigrew's Last Stand' is to be made into a film. I loved that book. Will be interesting to see who they cast....

www.amazon.co.uk/Fault-Our-Stars-John-Green/dp/0141345632

I've just read this which was excellent
This which was okay.
This which was really good.
Am having a non-fiction moment!

I read The Perks of Being a Wallflower in Greece last year. I really liked it until the end, which I thought was ridiculous (the 'revelation' bit - trying not to do a spoiler).

Marian Keyes tweeted just now about 'The Fault in our Stars', what a strange coincidence!

Oh mignonette, I need to move closer to you so I can borrow from your bookshelf

Biblio I lend loads of books out, one of the main reasons for buying them as opposed to putting them on my Kindle. I do love my books and have shelving full of them lining most rooms in my house (crazed book owner emoticon)......

I need new presbyopia Px for my glasses as got a new pair last week and they do not work {Specsavers bloody useless) so finding reading a bit challenging at the moment ...Just ordered 'The Longing of Wayward Girls', 'The Boy Kings of Texas' and 'Eight Girls Taking Pictures' from Amazon.

You're a better person that I am, mignonette. I occasionally lend books but hover so anxiously over the lendee until they're returned that most people decline the favour.

I read mainly library books and send non-loved volumes to the charity shop, so the books I do have are ones I hate to part with.

I do hover a little bit Biblio....