50 Book Challenge 2018 Part Four

[southeastdweller]

Welcome to the fourth thread of the 50 Book Challenge for this year.

The challenge is to read fifty books (or more!) in 2018, though reading fifty isn't mandatory. Any type of book can count, it’s not too late to join, and please try to let us all know your thoughts on what you've read.

The first thread of the year is here, the second one here and the third one here.

How're you getting on so far?

Thanks Biblo
Terpsichore that is genius!!! Thank you

Congratulations on the new job splother

Have bought Educated and Neurotribes on the back of these recommendations.

biblio that could explain where mine wanders off to half the time. I’m glad you saw it the same way.

Thanks murine for the heads up on educated.

Nice to have so much to read just as I am about to have my time forcibly removed by two youngsters for a fortnight.

Congratulations toomuchsplother

Congratulations, toomuchsplother!

Satsuki, I'm trying to think of softest ions and failing. Revisit Bernadette?

Softest ions?!?

Suggestions!

I'm going to go slightly against the grain and say that I thought Neurotribes was okay but not brilliant. My memory of it is lots and lots of detail about historical, now discredited theories of the causes and treatments of autism (eg the famous 'refrigerator mother') and not as much as I would have liked about the latest ideas.

Bibliomania I also have a 10yo DD who enjoyed A Spoonful of Murder! Can yours recommend anything else to mine?

Just bought Educated and I Am, I Am, I Am - thanks guys! And congrats to splother!

Congratulations on the new job toomuchsplother!

Also, commutes were invented to enable reading, toomuch Congratulations!

Congrats Toomuch - good luck with the new job.

Congratulations, toomuchsplother!

24. Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon a nice light, quick read, very predictable but not too bad overall...sorry I'm not very articulate this evening!

Just bought Sourdough (only £1.29 on kindle) and ordered the Jeremy Hardy book (Sadly not on Kindle)

I confess that I have completely lost track of what I’ve read this year.

Thanks cote, have bought

Whether I understand or not will be another matter but one can only try!

Thanks for all the lovely wishes. Unfortunately the commute is useless for reading Terpsichore. 1/2 an hour drive, don't think the local constabulary will be too happy if I try to read at the same time!
But hey, full time job = more book money

toomuch I see the difficulty

Audiobooks, then?

I used to have a whole hour to myself commuting by train to my old job. It was bliss in the mornings, coffee, kindle and the most amazing dawns.

The journey home was usually a nightmare though.

toomuch lunch hour though?

vanderley “Softest Ions” sounds like the introduction to science I need. It is hard to find something akin to Bernadette. My dh just walked in with the beautiful hardback of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock for me - beats a bunch of flowers

I didn’t think Neurotribes was for me then I saw the content so might get that as well.

I used to read on the train and loved it. My dh reads on the bus but when I try I get travel sick.

Terpsichore big tick for audiobooks. Satsuki lunchtime sounds great in theory but ... not sure teaching and lunch hours have ever mixed well in my experience.
And your husband sounds bloody great!

Teacher lunchtimes = a wee if I'm lucky and then ramming down a sarnie without choking (ideal scenario). If I'm really lucky nobody will want a piece of me whilst I do those two things.

And I used to have a whole hour in the centre of Cardiff for lunch.

Why did I leave again?

toomuch sorry I didn’t pick up it was teaching - in that case you knock off early every day anyway and get all those holidays right? I’m kidding don’t kill me teachers I know how hard you work

And yes dh has his moments

Ok fellow teachers, step away from the sharp objects.....

To be fair, I snuck to a quiet room at school and tried to read some of Middlemarch in a free (well, given I am an English teacher it was work) and I fell asleep...