Reading Rut...

[bootygirl]

So since about November I ve not gotten into a book and I can't seem to conscentrate... I ve been listening to audio books on my walks but since I started new job and it's been hectic. I can read 2/3 at a time dipping in & out.

So how do I get my mojo back???
If I liked "Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine", "A Man Called Ove" "Pilgrim " , "if I stay" etc I like thrillers too...

Where’d You Go Bernadette is a great, funny book - slightly eccentric female protagonist but better than Eleanor Oliphant (which I also liked)

I don’t read thrillers as such, but when I get stuck I’ve found the Shardlake historical crime series very easy to read, can knock off a chapter here and there to begin with and then usually finish in a rush to find out whodunnit. Also recently discovered Robert Harris for well written but easy page turners.

One I've enjoyed recently:

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
About a perfect all American family in a perfect community - it starts with a house fire and one of their kids has burned the house down. It then goes back over the last year to discover how they ended up at the point where the daughter sets the fire. The relationships are well written and complex and I thoroughly enjoyed it (Teenage sex, abortion, forced adoption, sibling rivalry, deception)

Thanks satsuk read and enjoyed both. Will look up the thrillers.

madame yes I was thinking of downloading "little fires".

Have you read 'The keeper of lost things'? Was a sweet little book, bit daft but easy to read.

And The Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French I think it is had me hooked.

I enjoyed the Vera series and the Shetland series too.

frouby I listened to it on audiobook the "keeper of lost things". I love "Vera" & "shetland" on the tv but never read the books 📚

Madamepince I have that on my kindle waiting to read but just wanted to say that Celeste Ng’s first book was excellent so I recommend that one too. Can’t think what it was called.

Ageee with the suggestion of Where'd you go Bernadette - I really enjoyed that. I recently finished The Silent Companions and it was brilliant. It is a ghost story set across two time periods.

I couldn't put down this is going to hurt by Adam Kay. Such an important and interesting book.

Read the books then Booty. I would start with Vera. They reignited a regular reading habit with me the other year.

I enjoyed 'little fires everywhere' - it kept me hooked from start to finish- but I've found myself reading too much of that 'perfect American suburbia' lately so found it was not as affecting as it might have been.

I will plug a friend of a friend's book 'the alarming palsy of James orr' - it's about a mans crisis-descent I suppose set in perfect English suburbia.

Where'd you go Bernadette is brilliant. For something quite 'out there' I recommend 'the last bad man' by Miranda July. It's a really daring 'wow' kind of book.

Thanks for the recommendation