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When the Saints Go Marching In - Louis Armstrong

Last Christmas - Wham (I had to! I’ll get my coat………..😜)

Hello and welcome to the forum. Great question! I’ve been choosing my own reading material for more than fifty years so it takes a lot to surprise me. One of those was by Justin Cronin, called The Passage. A totally new concept in vampire stories. It’s the first of a trilogy and absolutely epic at more than 900 pages long. It’s got everything, story, characters and atmosphere. Kept me turning pages until the end. Then I came across another epic, Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. It comes in at a ‘mere’ 700 odd pages and another totally different take on the vampire story. It too is the first of a trilogy. And has everything, story, characters and atmosphere. I have read the whole Passage trilogy and looking forward to the second Jay Kristoff book (the third was published in hard back in November this year) I can recommend those to you.

The King’s Witches, Kate Foster

Ah well, perfect for the job then!

I saw the picture of the guy playing him and he fits a lot better than Tom Cruise. I haven’t seen it though. Saw a bit of Tom Cruise and it just wasn’t believable, in my opinion.

Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen

I was in hospital at the time and the only other book my brother brought in was also Jack Reacher. I thought my brother was having me on but I enjoyed it at the time, so he was right. An online friend of mine calls these a ‘park-your-brain’ book

Will look at The Crow Garden, sounds interesting.

I’ve been thinking about this since you posted and it’s a great subject. The book that I thought I would not enjoy was Worth Dying For, Lee Child. It’s a Jack Reacher book and I honestly thought that it would be truly awful but, in the absence of anything else to read at the time I picked it up and was pleasantly surprised to find that Lee Child can, in fact, string a sentence together and that there was an actual plot to follow (I have no idea what I expected to find, to be honest but was fairly sure it would be badly written)

Have gone back to Honoré de Balzac’s Celibates Trilogy and reading part 2 The Vicar of Tours

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) - Harry Belafonte

I Didn’t Mean to turn you on - Robert Palmer

@Tryrema you are welcome and, sadly, I don’t know any recipes

Hi @Tryrema and welcome to the forum. I’ve deleted your second post because it was the same as your first and wasn’t needed

The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides Clearly (I've just discovered), I like an asylum story from time to time, and this is one of them. And it's a good one. Well written and well plotted with enough twists to keep me wanting to find out more, this was an easy read and a good palate cleanser after Krasznahorkai. Highly entertaining and well worth the time. Recommended.

Feel Like Making Love, Bad Company

Heaven is a place on earth - Belinda Carlisle

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She talks to Angels - The Black Crowes

Laszlo Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East Another one that's difficult to review. It's a short book, some 130 pages long, and describes a Buddhist Monastery and its surrounding area. And that's pretty much it. There is no story to speak of, nothing much happens, and it might be a study in something symbolic for all I know - I'm not good at reading symbols in creative writing. The prose is lyrical in some parts, and despite the lack of story, I was absolutely captivated. I also learned a lot. Krasznahorkai is one of my favourite authors, so I'm probably biased. I would recommend this, since it's short. But it will stretch you.

Heartbeats, Björn Borg It’s difficult for me to write about this book. I’ve let it sit with me for a while to see what I can make of it, and I’m no closer to a resolution. For those who don't know, Björn Borg was a professional tennis player and is a childhood hero of mine. Björn Borg dictated this book to his (third) wife, Patricia, and it took three years. He doesn’t say if he dictated it in English. His whole life is here, from his childhood to the present day. And yet, I’m no closer to understanding the man he is. It’s all so dispassionate and lacking in feeling, as he appeared when he played. It’s also, in my opinion, surprisingly short for a biography of a man who travelled the world as an elite athlete. He has certainly lived a full life, but I got confused more than once. He stated several times that he was uncomfortable in crowds, yet he spends a lot of time remembering partying with his many friends. He also states that he can’t stand to be alone and always had a girlfriend (or two) so that he didn’t get lonely. He makes much of his discomfort at being the centre of attention and positively hated being subjected to press and fan attention when he was at Wimbledon – he was as famous for this as he was for his unbelievable tennis talent. He was the first man to win Wimbledon five times in a row, and he did it with the old-fashioned, nowadays, wooden racquet and only his coach. In today’s game, players have a whole team to help them, and bigger racquets. He lost to John McEnroe in the final, bidding to win for the sixth time in a row, and not long after that, at the age of 26, he retired from competitive tennis. A great deal happened to him after that, but it’s all related without any emotion. It’s very difficult to describe. One for the fans, I think.

The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides

A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East, Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Brilliant!

Good suggestions @Hayley. I’m entering my current read : A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East, by Laszlo Krasznahorkai for this category. The title fits, the cover fits and the story contains much in the way of description of the natural world. This was not my intention when I chose this to read. Krasznahorkai is a favourite author of mine and I like to read him once a year, I just happened to have this one, and it’s short.