Oct 2022 what are you reading today?

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I've just started reading The Blacktongue Thief.

I'm listening to Hold Back The Stars on Borrow Box.

I read 100% on Kindle. I am new to audio books. It is great to listen when carrying out mundane tasks, makes me feel productive.

What are you reading today?

Hold Back The Stars by Katie Khan, it was ok. I loved Beartown so much, it just didn't stack up.

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I started the Family Remains by Lisa Jewell this afternoon and have just finished it. Great read!

I also have “The night she disappeared” which I will start tomorrow - looking forward to it as I see some other posters have read/are reading.

Hurrah have finished The MIrror and the Light. I thought Thomas Cromwell was never going to reach the scaffold. I am Tudored out.
I have started A Village in the Third Reich.

I am about to finish Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. If I can stay awake tonight. I fancy something a bit trashy next.

I'm struggling through murder Before Evensong by Rev Richard Coles. Now I love listening to him on radio and TV but this is so hard to read. Every sentence is 3 times as long as it needs to be, there are loads of similar characters and it's peppered with Latin and words I have to look up (and I'm fairly intelligent).

I have two great books recently I'd recommend wholeheartedly: Last One at the Party and Dreamland. Both dystopian type novels. Dreamland in particular is so bleak and desperate - I loved it.
Any recommendations for similar dystopian novels would be much appreciated!

I'm on the point of giving up on this one. I quite like looking up the words I don't know, but I have no idea who's who in this book. Far too many similar characters, and he even refers to the characters sometimes by first name, sometimes as Mrs. Thing. Also nothing much is happening.

i’ve enjoyed these novels..

Margarets Ark - Daniel Keohane
The Wall - John Lanchester
The girl with all the gifts

Dreamland is on my short list to read for the new year, especially as it’s set in Margate, not far from where I live.

I might give Dreamland a go. I’m battling through The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy but may have to give up. I loved his other books but cannot fathom this one.

@Riverlee The Wall is fab and I love girl with all the gifts. I will check out the third suggestio, thanks!
Dreamland is definitely worth it - although I was gutted when it ended and desperately wanted to know more! I love books where the bleakness is just all-encompassing. (Cheery soul, me. I should be mates with Cormac!)

I’ve finished Tinker, Tailor but what’s next? Over on a thread about Christmas books I mentioned a Maeve Binchy book A Week in Winter (I think that’s what it’s called). I might give that a read. Or the new Ken Follet, or I’ve got a Pat Barker I haven’t read yet. I might start A Christmas Carol as I’d like to read the read along book not just the thread. I’ve got a busy week so might not get a chance otherwise.

Decisions, decisions.

Dreamland sounds exactly like my cup to tea, so that’s on the wish list now.

I bought Dreamland yesterday after reading the recommendations on here and could not put it down last night!

Morning all!

After some interest on another thread I've started a read along for Charles Dickens Yeultide classic A Christmas Carol.

Please come and read with us; we start with Stave 1 today.

@PrunellaMcTat I've been on a couple of long bus journeys over the weekend so have managed to read quite a bit more. I'm now up to 60% on my Kindle but it hasn't really improved. There's been another murder but there's too much padding and it felt like a history lesson as it rambled on about stuff that was totally unnecessary to the plot.
I feel sorry for unknown authors who are trying to get, possibly good, books published when it appears celebrities can succeed regardless of the quality,
What annoys me most is that I usually only get free or £1 books for my Kindle but this is the first time I've paid a lot more.

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Oops. I have got as far as the second murder too. Struggling to care. Don't think I'll see it through. I went away over the weekend and didn't fancy bringing it with me. Started Longbourn by Jo Baker instead. And I've got a Leanne Moriarty waiting. Its chances are slim.
Agree with you about how easy it seems to be for well known people get get a book out - especially children's books.

Oh God, I have just finished The Story of O by Pauline Reage which I started in the summer. What a gross novel. I’m not sure if I was supposed to be disgusted by the debasement (I was) or titillated by the sex (I wasn’t). Just such an odd book. Can’t actually believe I read through to the end.