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

We get books donated so I read whatever comes in.
Just finished Lisa Jewel -Now I found You and Susan Hill -Various Haunts of Men

Really liked both. Perfect sat in the sun reads and both weren't too predictable.

@IAmAnAdultHumanFemale

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

[frantically looks them up and orders the first one from the library]

That's interesting as I have only read The Dutch House and loved it! Such a beautiful book. I will maybe get another of hers from the library instead of buying. I struggle with complicated books tbh. Crime and Punishment took me years and several attempts to finish

Missed this - thanks, I will see if library has this one

Just finished 'Last one at the party' I love post apocalyptic fiction and this one has really stayed with me. Hoping for a second book.
Just started'The midnight feast'
Will read Hamnet next as I recently read 'The marriage Portrait' by Maggie O'Farrell and really enjoyed it.

Oh no! I'd heard it was good from a school mum which made me spend my waterston3s gift card on it 😩😂. I'll give it a go since I've got it now

I have read those two Maggie O'Farrell books and loved both. Think Hamnet is my favourite of the two

1. Did I Kill My Hisband? By AJ Campbell
2. Amma by Saraid de Silva
3. How to age disgracefully by Clare Pooley

@Catsinaflat

Just finished 'Last one at the party' I love post apocalyptic fiction and this one has really stayed with me. Hoping for a second book.

I picked that one up as a Kindle deal ages ago. Maybe that will be my next read?

Love Maggie.

I saw the the RSC perform Hamnet last year. It was absolutely superb.

I loved it and read it on the recommendation of three people in one week, got it for my mum who loved it too - so you may well enjoy it!

Read - Death comes to Pemberley, PD James

Reading - (right about to start!) Transcription, Kate Atkinson

Next - I have an embarrassing number to choose from due to a local amazing charity book shop! Possibly Shrines of Gaiety, Kate Atkinson or the Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce

Just finished Father by Elizabeth Von Arnim - loved it
Reading The Lark by E Nesbitt and loving that too

Next up probably another Elizabeth Von Arnim as just read three in a row and thoroughly enjoyed them all.

Just read Leviathan, by Rosie Andrews
Reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow which I am not blown away by despite a friend raving about it
Next (in fact have already started it as not getting on with Tomorrow, although I will plough on) Companion Piece by Ali Smith
I enjoyed Lessons in Chemistry

👏

Yes I enjoyed it too.

The Vera books. Currently on The Mothman.

I’ve got three on the go at the moment, all very different.
The Doors Unhinged by John Densmore about the court case between Doors band members. The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht (just started it). And How To Make Love Like A Porn Star, the autobiography of Jenna Jameson.
Have just finished When The Dust Settles by Lucy Easthope (awesome).

Sorry! I think it's quite Marmite, going by previous threads - I hope you enjoy it.

Just finished- The Heart of London, Monica Dickens

Reading now- Thursday Afternoons, Monica Dickens

Reading next- In A Summer Season, Elizabeth Taylor

I'm going through a bit of a vintage novel phase.

I loved The Girl With All The Gifts.

I have just read the Crimson Moth and currently reading the Woodsmoke Women's Book of Spells. I don't think it has been published yet as it is an arc from Netgalley.

@SpikeWithoutASoul Am loving EvA, just discovered her!

It’s got an E.M Forster vibe and that same sense of languid Edwardian summertime that I love!

I might have spoilt The Enchanted April as I found the film on YouTube and watched it, but I’ll try and finish this weekend. Glad to know there are other good ones by her.

Just read- the Hating game for book club. Rubbish book! None of this is true, Lisa Jewell, was good, but not great.

Now reading- the ink black heart, JK/ Galbraith. Love the Cormorant series, but I struggle to get into big massive books, so I'm avoiding it at the minute.

Next books- strange Sally Diamond (book club, my choice) & the good bad girl.

I have just added the Felix Castor book and the Girl with all the gifts to my Amazon after this thread, so thanks ☺️

Oh, I didn't think anyone else had ever read 'The Making of a Marchioness'. My friend Richard who went on the be the Pepys Librarian gave me a copy 50 years ago. He was always good for recherché reading matter. He also started me on Nancy Mitford - not so much celebrated then - and Emily Eden. Emily Eden was writing in the mid 19th century and anyone who like Jane Austen will like her book 'The Semi-Attached Couple' and 'The Semi-Detached House'. Anyone else read these?
I loved 'Wise Children' too.

Just finished: 'On The Cusp' by David Kyanaston. An examination of three months in the summer of 1962 when the world turned.

Currently reading (but not for much longer) 'In Remembrance of Past Times.' I'm half way through but running out of steam. I've tried before but I don't think I've got the right sort of mind for Proust.

Reading next: Not sure but something cheerful.