What is your first book for 2019?

[WaterBird]

And if you've already started reading it, do you like it?
Mine is "Sofia Khan is Not Obliged", which is like Bridget Jones from the perspective of a Pakistani Muslim. Am loving it as it is so interesting to learn about the dating rules and there is a lot of humour. Only very minor thing about it that I dislike is that the time stamps do not always match the events, because she will write abbut them after they happen so it just makes it a little confusing.
Would love to know what everyone else is starting.

Like a pp, am reading How to stop time by Matt Haig. It's an interesting story, and both my children also enjoyed it.

Jonathan Coe's 'Middle England' I am really enjoying it, but wish I had refreshed my memory about 'The Rotters Club' as it's so long since I read it I really cannot remember the characters at all.

Snap! Middle England here too. It's not what I'd normally go for at all but
it's really good. Incredibly 'now' in feel.

The hearts invisible duties. It was wonderful

furies

Bounce by Matthew Syed. All about how there’s no such thing as talent. V good.

I've just finished the 2 books I had for Christmas; Lee Child - Past Tense, which was so good I couldn't put it down, and Elevation by Stephen King. I've been a huge SK fan for decades but this book was so thin it was disappointing and I'd finished it in an afternoon.

I've just finished The Good Samaritans by Will Carver, an excellent read.

This is going to hurt by Adam Kay - really enjoyed it, although I had a few birthing flash backs.

About to start The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel

Would recommend Educated by Tara Westover - amazing book!

A re-read of The Year of Living Danishly which I absolutely love.

I really didn’t enjoy Possession at all Nuffaluff. A friend lent it to me, so I ploughed through it. She told me it was her favourite book, and I kept wondering what it was about the book that I had missed. I just found it boring and depressing.

I am currently reading Life of Pi, and not particularly enjoying it so far.

Grace212 the Wideacre trilogy is brilliant.

Man's Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl.

Current read: VOX and really enjoying it. Next :The Water Cure and The Silence of the Girls.
Dipping in and out of Fed Up.

I read it a few months ago and loved it, she had a biting wit

I just finished the Tattooist of Auschwitz. I also have started All the light they cannot see.

Loved The Tatooist, couldn’t put it down,
but I felt the ending was rushed.

I hated Possession, and also The Blind Assassin … and I've just really struggled with My Brilliant Friend. Then finally read Eleanor Oliphant for something completely different. Good, but there were a few things that sat oddly, maybe because it is a first novel? Currently reading Wilding by Isabelle Tree (non-fiction). Skimming over some bits but mostly really enjoying it. All about allowing farm land to return to nature.

I’m reading the inflamed mind by Edward Bullmore. It’s looking at the link between inflammatory conditions and depression

Michelle Obama Becoming
Very easy to read and interesting so far. Only a few chapters in. Also reading Adele Parks I invited her in on my kindle. Enjoying my first Parks.

Finished The Mad Diet by Suzanne Lockhart, a fascinating and shocking read about the food industry and the proven links to disease.

ah, I should probably read The Inflamed Mind.

I'm on the library waiting list for Becoming but I'm guessing that will be a long wait!

I enjoyed both The Colour and The Luminaires. However there were so many characters that I did struggle a bit. It was the sort of book that if I had read it again a second time I would have got it much quicker. It's so big and there are so many other books in the world that I havent gotten back to it.

My second book was Frederick Bachmans Beartown. I read My Grandmother told me to tell you I'm sorry by him in the summer which was incredible. I really enjoyed Beartown. He wrote A man called Ove. Simple books with very strong messages.

Simple is the wrong word - not turgid!

I am going for Abir Mukherjee’s latest