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InterstellarDrifter · 01/12/2019 11:32

I’m reading Artemis by Andy Weir. Really enjoying it.

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Downunderduchess · 20/04/2020 04:47

Just finished The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. Not bad I would say 4/5. A thriller that is easy to follow.

Also recently read Just an Ordinary Family by Fiona Lowe, an Australian writer, loved it, very much in the style of Liane Moriarty. Easy to read & enjoyable.

Boredsillyathome · 21/04/2020 11:14

Currently reading The Lake House by Kate Morton love her books she's such a great storyteller

rosegoldwatcher · 21/04/2020 13:01

I am reading The Flight of Cornelia Blackwood - about 75% of the way through. It was recommended on another reading thread here but I am finding it very hard going.
Looking forward to treating myself to The Mirror and the Light as a reward for finishing it!

Aveisenim · 22/04/2020 01:08

Just finished The Ascendance Protocol: Endeavour by Chris Scott for the 3rd time, it's a really enjoyable read.

millymaple · 22/04/2020 08:23

Listening to the audiobook of Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi, it’s pretty good.

Ifkip · 22/04/2020 08:33

Reading Milkman by Anna Burns. It's quite dense and the way it's written can make it hard to follow. But once you get into the narrative (which can be very funny) it really brings to life how disturbing and scary life was in1970s NI.

RosesandIris · 22/04/2020 08:35

Just started The Hare with Amber Eyes , Edmund de Wall. I have had it on the bookshelf for ages and never started it.

RosesandIris · 22/04/2020 08:36

I know this sounds pathetic, but how to start with audio books?

millymaple · 22/04/2020 10:12

Don’t think that’s pathetic at all!

I get some free from my local library using the Libby/Overdrive and BorrowBox apps - your local library may have details of those or similar.

Also the BBC Sounds app has some abridged books (eg Book at Bedtime) which can be a good way to get started with shorter ones.

And you can get a free trial to Audible.

RosesandIris · 22/04/2020 21:29

Thank you!

Stella8686 · 22/04/2020 23:49

@Boredsillyathome I LOVE Kate Morton, discovered her last year. Read them all since then. Finished the distant hours last month and hugged the book at the end with a contented sigh! I guessed some bits but it all came together in such a good ending.

Her books are like unraveling string! You have an idea, you can see a misleading bit and then suddenly you go OH! There it is! And it all falls satisfyingly and wonderfully into place
☺️
Kate Morton is Australian too! How does she do it!

Currently re-reading
The divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood
So much atmosphere and depth of characters

I am definitely drawn to complicated women in novels with a family secret, flashback to then and now

Greybutterfly · 23/04/2020 00:02

@Boredsillyathome
You have to read Lucinda Riley if you like Kate Morton.
She has written a series called the seven sisters which is amazing. Each book is based on a different sister who has been adopted and after their fathers death are left clues to trace their heritage. You will be hooked.
I also love Kristen Hannah who wrote the winter garden and the nightingale both brilliant books

Boredsillyathome · 23/04/2020 09:23

@Stella8686 her books are amazing my favourite so far is the The Forgotten Garden set in Cornwall/Australia which is somewhere a love and the story was amazing. I get so caught up in her stories and can't put it down! I didn't realise she was from Australia amazing considering her books are mostly set in the UK and the amount of detail!

I watched the film years ago The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood with Sandra Bullock in it really enjoyed it didn't realise it was a book!

Boredsillyathome · 23/04/2020 10:38

@Greybutterfly I love Kristin Hannah so far read The Nightingale and The Winter Garden which both left me an emotional wreck also The Great Alone which again was fantastic and now want to move to Alaska!!

I've never read Lucinda Riley so will have to take a look on Amazon always after discovering new authors, thank you!!

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