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EveryoneTalkAboutPopMusic · 17/10/2017 20:55

I’m reading The Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glusford.

Just wondered what everyone else has on the go and if you are enjoying it.

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Twogirlsandme · 03/11/2017 21:50

I loved A little life, so so sad. I quite like an ending that's not happily ever after.
I've just read Little fires everywhere by Celeste Ny. I loved it.

DaisyRaine90 · 04/11/2017 09:08

Opinions on the book thief? Deciding whether to buy it or not x

IroningMountain · 05/11/2017 11:15

The Scandal by Fredrik Backman and Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill.

Enjoying both.

ZepellinBend · 05/11/2017 12:58

I hated The Book Thief Daisy but I do appear to be in the minority.

Went against the thousands of top reviews of The 100 year old man... and it joined the list of very few books that I gave up half way by thinking life's too short to drag through it.

EmmaGrundyForPM · 05/11/2017 17:41

I've just read The Words in my Hand. It was ok but not great.

I've also recently read The Essex Serpent which I wasn't expecting to like but I absolutely loved it.

I'm currently in the middle of Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. I'm enjoying it so far.

My favourite book that I've read this year so far is Exposure by Helen Dunmore. Brilliantly written.

mstrotwood · 05/11/2017 18:43

Finished 'Never Let Me Go' by Ishiguro, enjoyed it.
Also read 'Autumn' by Ali Smith which was a bit of a disappointing read.
And just finished 'Felix Holt' by George Eliot, which I really enjoyed.
I am currently reading 'Phone' by Will Self, it's quite a fun read so far (40 pages in).

CoolCarrie · 05/11/2017 21:13

I love The Hills Is Lonely and all Lillian Beckwith books,but then I am Scottish so biased, stick with it Clawdy, there is a droll humour and warmth in her books.

woollychimp · 06/11/2017 13:55

I've just finished Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore and really enjoyed it. One of the best books i've read this year.

Currently reading Love, etc by Julian Barnes - very different from the above but also a good read and funny in places.

Before that I read Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe which is supposed to be hilarious but wasn't and dragged a bit.

YoungYolandaYorgensen39 · 04/12/2017 17:00

Just started Days Without End by Sebastian Barry. I read another of his a few years ago that I didn’t rate at all but this is very good. Loving his writing style.

cdtaylornats · 04/12/2017 21:56

1636: Mission to the Mughals

Part of the Ring of Fire alternate history series by Eric Flint

highlandcoo · 04/12/2017 22:12

Days Without End is amazing YYY. Harrowing at times but beautifully written. The best book I read this year without a doubt.

Pootle40 · 05/12/2017 21:30

I loved The Light between the oceans. Ended up stopping reading a little life-not sure whether to start again or not. Just finished The Keeper of Lost Things which was ok.

midsomermurderess · 05/12/2017 22:47

I have just finished John Le Carre’s A Legacy of Spies, in which wecat h up with Peter Guillam and revisit the botched operation that was the Spyb who Came in From the cold.Next up, Alan Hollinghurst’s the Sparsholt Affair.

ellak · 07/12/2017 17:38

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. I haven't seen the film yet, but the book is extremely shocking but well-written and good insight into the mind of a psychopath.

I'm also reading the Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf. It's Alexandra Von Humboldt's biography--really interesting.

Slowly reading The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky. I loved Crime and Punishment but this is a lot heavier so it's taking a while.

Sallystyle · 08/12/2017 20:10

Tin Man. By the 'When God Was A Rabbit' lady.

Short but beautifully written.

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