Kylie Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 We're nearly halfway through the year! What's your book activity today? I've sadly done very little reading lately, although I ordered a few books online in the last day or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeleine Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 I've just bought 3: Let me tell you about a man I knew - Susan Fletcher The Dry - Jane Harvey The Secrets of Wishtide - Kate Saunders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 (edited) Finished Georges Simenon's The Misty Harbour this morning, the next Maigret in the series I'm reading. Usual high standard. Am meant to be reading Dave Eggers's book, The Circle next, for my book group, but twenty pages in and it looks decidely unpromising (trying to be polite!), so will see if can keep it going. Edited June 1, 2017 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 Made a start on The Persephone Book of Short Stories this morning, and the first three were fantastic, including a Katherine Mansfield story. I can't believe I'm only just reading Mansfield - she's an amazing short story writer. Will definitely be reading more of hers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 I'm currently reading a book off the TBR pile! It's a Finnish novel by someone I've met once: someone who's self-published. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawnbirduk Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 I am reading a book from the Grab n Go Eurocrime from the Library the oil in Reading is Third Voice by Cilla and Rolf Borjlind set in Sweden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 I've started on May Sarton selected letters 1955-1995; I'm reading a few pages every day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 (edited) On 01/06/2017 at 3:59 PM, willoyd said: Am meant to be reading Dave Eggers's book, The Circle next, for my book group, but twenty pages in and it looks decidely unpromising (trying to be polite!), so will see if can keep it going. Kept going for another 130 or so pages, but couldn't take any more. An interesting concept ruined by simply awful writing. Mae, the central character, is the most uninteresting, shallow protagonist I can recall coming across. Maybe it was deliberate, the thought of another three hundred or so pages of this filling me with the sort of dystopian horror that I think the author was trying to inspire. Perhaps not so deliberate though, the horror was more to do with the future of novels than the future of society. More of this would surely sink us all. Finished with this sooner than anticipated, so not sure what am going on to next. Later edit: Have moved on to Tracey Chevalier's The Lady and the Unicorn. Whilst I am not ecstatic about all her books, she is a consistently good story-teller and writer. Edited June 3, 2017 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 I'm still reading How The Mind Works by Steven Pinker. I think I'll be reading it for a while as it's a very lengthy book with loads of information. I bought quite a few Kindle books this morning, from the daily and monthly deals. Here's what I got: Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman Total Recall - Arnold Schwarzenegger Superforecasting: The Art of Science and Prediction - Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardener The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair - Joel Dicker Here I Am - Jonathan Safran Foer The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It - Owen Jones Breakfast Is A Dangerous Meal - Terence Kealey A History of the World - Andrew Marr House of Cards - Michael Dobbs (never watched the series but it's on my Netflix list) Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and The Age of Amazon - Brad Stone Who Rules The World: Reframings - Noam Chomsky The Lost City of Z - David Grann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 I hope you, BB and Madeleine, enjoy your new books ! I've been trying to read but nothing seems to really stick right now. I don't know if it's because I'm very tired, but somehow I've read the beginnings of about 10 books but there isn't one that really makes me feel 'yes, I must read that right now'. So, I don't know. I guess have to see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 I've started reading The Little Book Shop of Lonely Hearts by Annie Darling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 I've bought a few books since I last posted. On Kindle: The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester The Castlemaine Murders by Kerry Greenwood Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders And I've also bought a couple of paperbacks from the Wainwright Prize 2017 longlist: Wild Kingdom by Stephen Moss Foxes Unearthed by Lucy Jones I've read Murder in Montparnasse by Kerry Greenwood and also Wild Kingdom by Stephen Moss, and have started The Castlemaine Murders by Kerry Greenwood this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 Still reading Last Days by Adam Nevill. Thoroughly enjoying it, just not got a lot of time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 I'm reading The Unmumsy Mums Diary - I love Sarah Turner and her blog it makes me feel like I'm a normal mum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 Finished The Castlemaine Murders yesterday, and starting Foxes Unearthed today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjpimlico Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 Currently reading "Hitch 22" by Christopher Hitchens and "The World of Jeeves" by PG Wodehouse. There's nothing like variety! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Finished Foxes Unearthed yesterday and very good it was. Bought a couple more books on the Wainwright Prize long list - Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham, and The Running Hare by John Lewis-Stempel. Also fancied something silly and fun to read in between, so I've also bought a couple of M. C. Beaton regency romcoms, The Glitter and the Gold and Miss Fiona's Fancy. Currently reading The Glitter and the Gold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander the Great Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 (edited) Just finished John Irving's Until I Find You and still not quite sure how I feel about it. I've started Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, a book I received as a birthday gift last year - almost a year ago! Finally got to it (although I admit I moved it up over about 1,000 other books on my TBR pile). Edited June 10, 2017 by Alexander the Great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 Started The Running Hare this morning, and already know I'm going to love it. My kind of nature writing and about farming ... don't think it'll take me long to finish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 Finished The Running Hare this morning, and it was excellent. A perfect mix of farming, wildlife, history and nature. Forgot to mention I bought a couple more books yesterday. I'm inspired by a lot of the books they talk about on the Backlisted podcast, and I'm intending to read all of Anita Brookner's books, so I bought her second novel, Providence. I've already got a copy of Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield (an old Virago Modern Classics, I think?) but it's in storage and also I want to buy all the Persephone catalogue eventually, so when I spotted their edition in the bookshop yesterday, I couldn't resist. TBR is getting out of control again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 (edited) Ooh,ooh, Diary of a Provincial Lady - all the volumes - are some of my favouritist ( ) books ever. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did ; she's like a 1930`s Bridget Jones. I think those were my first Virago books. Edited June 11, 2017 by Little Pixie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 I have read the first one of the ...Provincial Lady books, but I have the complete set to read on Kindle. I'm still reading The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. I'm up to 39% now. I imagine this will take me a few weeks, not because of the content, which I am enjoying, but because of lack of time! Peter and I started listening to The Call of the Wild by Jack London - I think we're about two-thirds of the way through, but we only listen in the car and are going away for the weekend with friends on Friday, so won't finish it until the following weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shirley Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 How to Find Love in a Bookshop - Veronica Henry - close to the end The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry - just started A Cornish Stranger - Liz Fenwick - taking away with me when I go away for a few day this week. Cherringham books 19-21 - just finished book 19 - these are so easy to read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCat Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 I have started reading The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. After around 200 pages or so I'd say that the book is quite good honestly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 I loved The Blind Assassin. I've read it a couple of times, and will probably read it again at some point. It's one of my favourite Atwood's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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