What will be your last book of the year?

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Mine will be Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling. What do you hope to wrap up by Hogmanay?

The Story of the Forest. It was ok, started well but tailed off. It was my 54th book this year!

Have you enjoyed it? It's on my list just waiting for it to come down in price!

@hopeishere Yes, I've enjoyed it a lot. It's a slow book - but not in a bad way. Hollinghurst is such a good writer.

Just finished the 1st of the seven sisters and about to start the 2nd

I’ve just read The Women by K Hannah. I had high hopes as had amazing reviews. I was so disappointed. Thought it was dreadful!

Thank you for the recommendation. I've heard of AW but don't think I've read anything of his. I'll give Late Call a go as my first of 2025.

@Gotback I hope you enjoy it! It's a tragedy that AW is so little known now. One day I hope there will be an AW revival, like there was for Barbara Pym.

Pierre Martin, Madame le commissaire und das geheimnisvolle Bild. What better way to improve my rusty German than reading cosy crime.

Mine was Cityboy, a memoir of someone who was an analyst in the City during the boom years when they'd get guaranteed bonuses of millions for doing nothing special.

I got that one off the back of reading the excellent The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson but unfortunately this one didn't live up to it. I finished it but it wasn't a patch on Stevenson's book. Quite a lot of self indulgent, look how many drugs I took and how clever I was moving banks to get more money, whereas Stevenson was a little more introspective and went into the intricacies of the job day to day and the industry.