Brian. Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 Last night I finished Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire. I started two books, one fiction, one non-fiction. The choices are Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline and Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted March 11, 2023 Author Share Posted March 11, 2023 Started Mary Ann Cotton: Britain’s First Female Serial Killer by David Wilson. Companion to the William Faulkner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cringepop_offline Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 Started Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolffson and Andrew McAfee. After that I plan on reading Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, which is a series I will take my time on. These two have been sitting on my nightstand for quite some time so I am going to finish them and look into some of the recommendations I got here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 I have been reading About Time by Jodi Taylor, a roaring romp through the ages with the Time Police. This is the fourth book in her Chronicles of St Mary's spin off series, and so far is as enjoyable as the previous three. Escapism reading at it's finest! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hux Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 Started Austerlitz by Sebald. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 Finished About Time by Jodi Taylor, and thoroughly enjoyed myself with it. Her latest installment of her Time Police series. I have been laid up with a chest infection this week, so have spent most of it wrapped up to the gills in blankets and snuggled on the sofa, with hot drinks, a box of tissues, and my kindle close to hand. Reading in short bursts has been all I could manage, but has actually been a delight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted March 16, 2023 Author Share Posted March 16, 2023 1 hour ago, Chrissy said: Finished About Time by Jodi Taylor, and thoroughly enjoyed myself with it. Her latest installment of her Time Police series. I have been laid up with a chest infection this week, so have spent most of it wrapped up to the gills in blankets and snuggled on the sofa, with hot drinks, a box of tissues, and my kindle close to hand. Reading in short bursts has been all I could manage, but has actually been a delight. I envy you the reading but not the chest infection. Hope you're on the mend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 So many bugs going round at the moment. I was floored with the flu for 3/4 days in January and I’ve come down with something similar this morning. On the reading front I have recently started The Dark Tourist by Dom Joly. It is a collection of his stories from traveling to untypical places. For example, his first trip was to go skiing in Iran. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayley Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 On 3/16/2023 at 5:43 PM, Chrissy said: Finished About Time by Jodi Taylor, and thoroughly enjoyed myself with it. Her latest installment of her Time Police series. I have been laid up with a chest infection this week, so have spent most of it wrapped up to the gills in blankets and snuggled on the sofa, with hot drinks, a box of tissues, and my kindle close to hand. Reading in short bursts has been all I could manage, but has actually been a delight. I’m glad you at least enjoyed your book! Hope you’re feeling better now! 5 hours ago, Brian. said: So many bugs going round at the moment. I was floored with the flu for 3/4 days in January and I’ve come down with something similar this morning. And I hope you feel better soon too! I finally finished The Hidden People by Alison Littlewood today. I was finding the middle part quite slow but it did pick up again eventually! I’m looking forward to starting something different now though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
France Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 On 3/16/2023 at 6:43 PM, Chrissy said: Finished About Time by Jodi Taylor, and thoroughly enjoyed myself with it. Her latest installment of her Time Police series. I have been laid up with a chest infection this week, so have spent most of it wrapped up to the gills in blankets and snuggled on the sofa, with hot drinks, a box of tissues, and my kindle close to hand. Reading in short bursts has been all I could manage, but has actually been a delight. I've got About Time on my Kobo and I'm saving it for when I really need a lift. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 On 3/17/2023 at 6:43 AM, Chrissy said: Finished About Time by Jodi Taylor, and thoroughly enjoyed myself with it. Her latest installment of her Time Police series. I have been laid up with a chest infection this week, so have spent most of it wrapped up to the gills in blankets and snuggled on the sofa, with hot drinks, a box of tissues, and my kindle close to hand. Reading in short bursts has been all I could manage, but has actually been a delight. I really must read some more of the St Mary's series ... there's a few of the main ones I still haven't got round to. They're such fun. Hope you're continuing to feel better, Chrissy xxx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 Not been on the site for a few weeks, so a bit of a catch-up: completed The Ice Palace (Tarjei Vesaas) earlier this month as part of my Read Around the World (for Norway) - a slim but massively intense novel about a young girl coping with the loss of her best friend who goes missing playing truant. A book that demands rereading and more thought. However, have moved on to one of my Tour of the US books, Another Country by James Baldwin, another powerful piece of writing. Both books in an utterly different league to the very disappointing Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff, read for a book group in between these two. Slung aside fairly early on: characters devoid of interest steeped in superficiality. One of those books where the rave reviews are incomprehensible (Gone Girl was another - and several reviewers drew parallels, so perhaps not as surprising as might first appear). I did enjoy The Monsters of Templeton though, and will soon be trying Matrix, which I already have on my shelves. It looks a completely different prospect though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 I've had a decent few weeks reading and I'm slowly catching up with my mini-reviews in my thread. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline, The Dark Tourist by Dom Joly, How to Play Winning Chess by Yasser Seirawan, and The Dark Night of the Shed by Nick Page are all completed and wating to be reviewed. At the moment I am reading The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
France Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 Having read two biographies back to back I did some Kobo diving among my unread books and landed on The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly. I have no idea why I bought it as I got tired of psychological thrillers about the time Gone Girl came out, but so far I'm really enjoying it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted March 28, 2023 Author Share Posted March 28, 2023 Currently reading Fair Helen by Andrew Greig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayley Posted March 30, 2023 Share Posted March 30, 2023 I’ve just started The Appeal by Janice Hallett. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted March 30, 2023 Share Posted March 30, 2023 Finished reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf, as part of the January - March BCF Reading Challenge. It is a book I have been meaning to read for decades, but never actually got from the bookshelf, or more recently clicked on my kindle to read. I am so glad the challenge gave me that push to dive in. Definitely a book you have to be in the correct frame of mind for, as the stream of consciousness style can make you feel like you are drowning in words rather than enjoying the flow of the narrative wash over you, if you are not in the right mood for it. Fascinating, compelling, witty and often lyrical it manages to be an epic read as it stretches across the centuries, yet is equally quite a slow moving and intimate book, observing the title characters quest for life's meaning. I can understand why it is considered a masterpiece and the thought provoking themes make it an important book. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 Two books for my world tour back-to-back: first of the two, The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualuso (for Angola), followed closely by Who Among Us? by Mario Benedetti (for Uruguay - my first South American book of the challenge). Both good, thought provoking reads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted April 4, 2023 Author Share Posted April 4, 2023 Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 Two more world tour books completed in the last couple of days: History. A Mess. by Sigrun Palsdottir for Iceland, and The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield for New Zealand. Both 5 star (excellent) reads, no mean achievement by the latter given my normal lack of connection with short stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted April 10, 2023 Author Share Posted April 10, 2023 Well, I thought that I was reading Martin Chuzzlewit but it turns out that I'm reading Hard Times. Don't know how that happened but I have the Complete Works of Charles Dickens on Kindle so since I'm well into Hard Times I might as well keep going. The only way I found out was to look up one of the characters that I was reading about (on the internet) whilst wondering why a book called Martin Chuzzlewit hadn't mentioned not only Martin Chuzzlewit but any Chuzzlewit at all. I see by my book-mark that I had started out reading Martin Chuzzlewit. Hmmmm. It can only be my fault, I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeleine Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Sounds like you accidentally switched books somehow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted April 10, 2023 Author Share Posted April 10, 2023 20 minutes ago, Madeleine said: Sounds like you accidentally switched books somehow? I must have. I know that nobody else touches my Kindle so I must have somehow switched books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayley Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 20 hours ago, lunababymoonchild said: I must have. I know that nobody else touches my Kindle so I must have somehow switched books. That’s weird! I love Hard Times though 😄 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted April 11, 2023 Author Share Posted April 11, 2023 2 hours ago, Hayley said: That’s weird! I love Hard Times though 😄 It is weird and never happened before but that's alright, I'm enjoying Hard Times anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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