What are you reading this weekend?

[SiouxsieSiouxStiletto]

I'm reading Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant as recommended by another MNer.

What are you reading and is it any good?

I started 'Wrong Place, Wrong Time' by Gillian McAllister at the weekend.

I hope it picks up as I've got this one lined up for my holiday.

Agree... was looking forward to reading but have put aside for now

I'm just finding that she is spending so much time building the characters with all their back stories that the actual plot promised on the bumf at the back has yet to actually happen. And there just feels to be so many unnecessary characters that im having to go back and read who they are again!!! I'm over half way and well without spoiling it for anyone, something has actually started to happen. Disappointing really as I really like Kate Atkinson. Maybe it's me!!! Don't let it put anyone off 🙂

Onto this bad boy next 😁

You won't put me off but thank you for your honest reply. I'll give it a go on holiday and if I'm not liking it, I'll just swap to something else till I get back

Lev's Violin, by Helena Attlee. For some reason have stopped reading anything but old favourites for the last month or so, and trying to ease myself in gently.

The Moth by Catherine Burns. It was a Christmas gift which I had completely forgotten about until I found it by accident looking for another book.
OMG, it is so unique.

Reading F*ck You Chaos by Dominika Choroszko as part of a book club. It's about decluttering main aspects of life (home, mind, finances). Loving it, so easy to follow and I actually decluttered loads - and the weather has been perfect for it!

Not my usual tripe of book this weekend but I've started The Holiday by TM Logan and I'm enjoying it so far. It's set on the south of France if anybody is off there this summer

Invitation to the Waltz, Rosamund Lehmann. Started it a couple of weeks ago and have lost the thread so might go back and start again.

I am having a bit of a Stephen Fry weekend. I'm reading his autobiography, Moab is my Washpot, and have started collecting his audiobook recordings of Sherlock Holmes. Laying in a hot bath listening to Stephen Fry read Sherlock Holmes or P. G. Wodehouse is pure bliss.

I've also got a fascinating book about the Inklings. The Inklings were a drinking group at Oxford, mostly academics, whose most famous members were Tolkien and C S Lewis. I love the description of these brilliant men, who could read Greek and Latin and Italian and French and Anglo-Saxon (and god knows what else), sitting in a pub swigging beer and listening to Tolkien read The Lord of the Rings. It's nice to think that even the most brilliant intellectuals still love a good yarn.

I'm reading The Appeal by Janice Hallet and loving it so far.

Tripe was a bit of a telling typo!

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.

The Paper Palace- as recommended on another MN thread. Well written and draws you in right from the beginning.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Could-Make-This-Place-Beautiful-ebook/dp/B0C7CKFHC4/

it's about the author discovering that her husband has been/is having - an affair. It wasn't what I was expecting or anything like the type of book I read but I am a big fan of her writing - a previous book, one of very few I have given to other people is

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Keep-Moving-Notes-Creativity-Change-ebook/dp/B0891WDHZW/

so beautifully written, thoughtful, moving - her way of looking at life, dealing with the ups and downs - particularly for anyone who does anything creative.

I'm on 11.22.63 by Stephen King after hearing a lot of good things here. Given the length, I may be some time... 😂

Yellowface by R F Kuang.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - it’s been on my shelf for ages as the small type for 600+ pages put me off, but I started it last night and it’s actually a pretty quick read. I won’t be polishing it off in a weekend though!

Fiiiinally got round to starting Hamnet. Been on the shelf for months.

The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont.

Not brilliant tbh.

The Blackmailer by Isabel Colegate. Loved The Shooting Party and was initially meh about this - thought yeah, first novel and it shows, no characterisation and nothing happens and the heroine is peculiarly inert (and irritating), but I'm re-reading and it's a real read between the lines book.

As usual the admiring blurb on the cover bears no relation to what's inside.

The Strange Adventures of H

Loved Hamnet