What have you just finished, what are you reading now and what next?

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Plus recommendations/reviews if you like!

1. I have just finished Yellowface by Rebecca F Yuang

2. I am now reading Daughter of The Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

3. I am going to read Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus next

Great thread! I read several books at once, so:

1. I have just read August Blue, the new Deborah Levy and Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler

1. Currently reading Hamnet (in French), another Deborah Levy (the man who saw everything) and The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Armin

1. Next I have Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen and I need to bloody finish Shantaram!

I love threads like this-a good place to add books to my tbr pile.

1. Just finished Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
2. Currently reading Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
3. Not sure-maybe an easy James Patterson after Prophet Song or Lucy by the Sea

1. Finished - Promised by Caragh M. O'Brien
2. Reading - Mist Over Pendle by Robert Neill
3. Next read - Before and After by Andrew Shanahan (probably)

I loved Lucy by the Sea. It's a lovely book and quite peaceful I thought

Yellowface, I thought was excellent. I really enjoyed it. It was sort of grim, dark humour with an unreliable narrator. Themes of racial tension, cultural appropriation, social media toxicity and how the publishing industry works.

I have only just started Daughter of the Moon Goddess which is a fantasy type novel based on the Chinese legend of Chang'e, who lives on the moon as a prisoner. So far it's lovely, but I'm only a few pages in.

Just finished the girl
with all the gifts - Mike Carey

currently ready my child by Romy someone

next read will be the new Stephen king

1. Just finished River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure (one of the Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist)
2. Currently reading The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey.
3. Next Up A Late Beginner by Priscilla Napier

I love anything by Elizabeth Strout, too.

oh, I also just finished “No one tells you this” by Glynis Macnicol, (autobiography) really good, about a new paradigm for women.

(I read fast and was travelling last week, so I can get through books.)

Just finished Salem Falls
Now reading House Rules
Next probably Tales of the Humpback Whale
All by Jodi Picoult, recently discovered and really enjoying.

I enjoyed the Girl With All The Gifts and the sequel @IAmAnAdultHumanFemale. Something a bit different!

Yes I really enjoyed it. Have you seen The Last of Us on sky? It reminded me of that

Finished If This Was Happiness (Rita Hayworth biography)
Reading Blood and Gold (Anne Rice. Read as teen but rereading due to Interview with the Vampire TV series)
Not sure what next!

Finished -I have some questions for you by Rebecca Makkai (book club read)

Reading - All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski

Next up - book 5 in the St Mary’s series

Ooh I loved the girl with all the gifts - such a satisfying ending. What did you think?

I love Jodi Picoult. Highly recommend 19 Minutes, Mad Honey and The Storyteller.

Just read - Verity by Colleen Hoover (didn't like)

Reading - Where the Crawdads Sing

Next Read - Seven Summers by Paige Toon

Just read The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, currently reading Horse by Geraldine Brooks, currently listening to Long Island by Colm Tóbín.

Just finished Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, which I enjoyed but probably won't remember next week and normal rules don't apply by Kate Atkinson which I loved - I think her writing especially the non detective story stuff just gets better and better.
Currently reading the new Zadie Smith which I'm enjoying

Yes I loved it (despite the violence) and I am not a gamer. DS, who has played the game, was waxing lyrical about how well done it was and faithful to the spirit ot the game. He got me to have a go and it did nothing for me.

GWATG has been made into a film - it's good too.

Recently read The Beach Cafe by Lucy Diamond

Currently reading Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

I'm not sure what's up next - I really want to read Blue Sisters by Coco Mellor so maybe that!

I liked the ending some don't - my husband for one! It felt nice and finished for me but again it's like anything to do with books - subjective 😂

has anyone read his Felix Castor novels? They are excellent. Detective with a paranormal element. I would highly recommend

@DontBiteTheCat

Just read - Verity by Colleen Hoover (didn't like)

Me neither. Utter tosh with a lame ending.

Tom Lake is a bit like Lucy by the sea, if you're looking for recommendations

The only Anne Patchett book I liked was the one the Dutch house all the other ones have been so complicated. I’ve found it hard to get into them.

Great idea for a thread!

Finished "Hades and Persephone" was not what I was expecting, was rather spicy

Current "The White Hotel" fiction but about a patient of Freud's. Very good, and beautifully written.

Next, I'm not sure. I need something easier going. Might read an old shakespeare.

Just finished The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Currently reading Wise Children by Angela Carter

Not sure what I'll read next, and my recommendation is to not read Lessons in Chemistry!