Last three books you read

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Demon Copperhead
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
The Whispers

The Running Grave - Robert Galbraith
Yellowface - Rebecca F Kuang
Small Pleasures - Clare Chambers

This is not a pity memoir - Abi Morgan
The Running Grave - Robert Galbraith
The thing about Clare - Imogen Clark

Babel - R. F Kuang
So Late in the Day - Claire Keegan
Big Swiss - Jen Beagin

Have started a couple of things this weekend;

The Premonition - Banana Yoshimoto
The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
One Day by David Nicholls
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

I thought Small Things Like These was well written, but was more like a short story than a fully developed novel, an interesting read though.
I didn't really enjoy One Day, couldn't feel any sympathy with either of the main characters, and thought it needed seriously cutting. I skipped large chunks of it when it just became too tedious. I should have just abandoned it!
A Town Like Alice was enjoyable, I especially liked the narrator, but the ending was a bit too cosy and twee.

I'm now reading Bournville by Jonathan Coe.

A Murder is Announced - Agatha Christie
One Two Buckle My Shoe - Agatha Christie
The Last Remains - Elly Griffiths

All read while I plough through Mary Beard’s SPQR and book eleventy thousand in the Wheel of Time series, both of which I’m making very slow progress with.

Bleak house, by Dickens
One for sorrow two for joy, by Marie-Claire Amuah
All the rage, by Cara Hunter
Reading No Name by Wilkie Collins right now, it's very good.

A Town called Solace
7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Mother Mother
Sunset

The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Suzanne Collins)
The Lunatic Caffe (Laurell K. Hamilton)
"To Work" (Katerina Nedbalova, not available in English, a sociologic collection of recollections of people in different professions)

Honorary mention
Through the language glass (Guy Deutscher) - it is the book I read over the time, bit by bit. It needs pauses to let the ideas sink in.

True History by Lucian
Our Hidden Lives by Simon Garfield
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

anxious people is an excellent book, littlecrackers

My silent war - K Philby having watched A spy among Friends. V disappointed as it doesn’t explain why he became a committed communist nor why he believes what he does nor how he got away with it. It’s v boring narrative about what job he held when.

The Hearts invisible furies - J Boyle. Hated this book. So disappointed as it had such good reviews. A
most awful main character who behaves appallingly at every turn but is justified and entitled all the way through cos he’s a man and ‘can’t help it’ while the real victims are the women in the novel who literally have their lives ripped apart but they are the unimportant backstory. I was infuriated all the way through!

A Hillbilly Elegy - thought provoking, eye opening, depressing in equal measures ,

The Vegatrian Myth, Liere Kieth
A hard read, but interesting and terrifying.

The Player of Games, Ian M Banks
Wish I lived in the Culture.

Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
A good read.

Exactly the same as me!

Just about to read new Jack Reacher.

Books 2-4 of the wheel of time series.
About halfway though book 5 now.

So interesting. I absolutely loved The hearts invisible furies. Loved One day. Whet did you think of Small pleasures @ADHDat43 ? It's one of my favourites. Such a gentle book.

Murder In The Family by Cara Hunter
Mother's Boy by Payrick Gale
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

Currently reading The Three Dahlias by Katy Watson.

The Running Grave - Robert Galbraith
The Satsuma Complex - Bob Mortimer
Regenesis - George Monbiot

About to start The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell and Metronome - Tom Watson

Loved the RB latest, a good return to form as couldn’t get on with all the text in Ink Black Heart at all and gave up on it.

The Coach Trip- Izzy Bromley 8/10
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 10/10
Stepping Up - Sarah Turner 8/10
All great easy reads which is how I like them these days.

Cuckoos calling, The Silkworm and Steven Kings Fairy Tale . Continuing with the Strike series next

Lessons in Chemistry
Dear Mrs Bird
Hamnet

I loved all three!

A Taste of Ginger by Mansi Shah.

Thirty Days in Paris in Paris by Veronica Henry.

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.

Osman The Last Devil Alive
Pym Crampton Hodnot
Rhys The Wide Sargasso Sea

Currently enjoying The Running Grave

Fresh Water for Flowers: Valerie Perrin
Bournville: Jonathan Coe
Still Life: Sarah Winman

A Year of Marvellous Ways by Sarah Winman
The Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson
The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson, captured by pirates in 1627 by Ólafur Egilsson

Enjoyed them all especially The Sealwoman's Gift

Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
The Patient - Tim Sullivan
Taste - Stanley Tucci

The Marriage Portrait

The Facemaker
Writing in the Dark