Your Book Activity 2024

[muggle not]

I just downloaded  from the library "Table for Two" by Amor Towles (of A gentleman in Moscow fame). I have only read 10 pages and already know that I am going to love this book. 🙂

[PYX]

'The Power of Habit' by Charles Duhigg. I also have 'Love of Life' by Jack London on my desk. I felt like going back to the classics - there's just something timeless about them that really resonates.

[willoyd]

Just finished Andrew Miller's Oxygen.  Beautifully written, and as thoughtful as previous reads of his (Pure, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free) , but not as engaging, rather lacking in drive and focus.  3/6 stars.  Moving on to Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey, out of the Persephone Press stable.

Edited August 25, 2024 by willoyd

[poppy]

Reading Much Dithering by Dorothy Lambert

[layla999]

"She and Her Cat" by Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa is a comfort book, because of the cats and all of the different POVs inside one story and book

[lunababymoonchild]

Currently reading The Passage by Justin Cronin. It's over 900 pages long and is about vampires (apparently). Only up to chapter 4 and no sign of vampires just yet. It's the first part of a trilogy and I got it for 99p on Kindle.

[Griffo_S]

Currently reading Strange Affair by Peter Robinson, the 15th DCI Banks book, I've been going through the series from the start.

[PYX]

I'm currently reading 'Ham on Rye'. It's a difficult read, but captivating because you see the protagonist developing, learning how to survive and not break.

[lunababymoonchild]

The Bookseller of Inverness, S G McLean

[poppy]

Father by Elizabeth von Arnim

[lunababymoonchild]

The Great God Pan, Arthur Machen

 

[muggle not]

i am #2 on the library hold list for You Like It Darker by Stephen king.

[poppy]

Just started Dear Mrs Bird by A.J. Pearce

[itsmeagain]

King: Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig. Excellent historical account.

[lunababymoonchild]

Out today I just had to start reading Herscht 00769 by László Krasznahorkai, one of my favourite authors.  And when I read that the whole book is one long sentence I found myself just buying it. On page 5 and it’s amazing!

 

[poppy]

Been listening to the audiobook of The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith. Narrated by Frederick Davidson who did it brilliantly. His voice reminds me of Victor Meldrew from One Foot In the Grave 😂

[lunababymoonchild]

Got my long awaited Rebus 25, Midnight and Blue, Ian Rankin yesterday and immediately started reading it.

[muggle not]

I am currently reading (from Amazon):

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel 

By Gabrielle Zevin

 

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before.

"Delightful and absorbing." —The New York Times • "Utterly brilliant." —John Green
 
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, GoodReads, Oprah Daily

 

Edited October 24, 2024 by muggle not

[PYX]

I just finished reading Remarque's 'Spark of Life.' It was a tough read, but I'm totally in love with Remarque's writing.

[poppy]

Pomfret Towers by Angela Thirkell, Book 6 in Barsetshire series

Edited November 7, 2024 by poppy

[Shin]

I'm currently reading Violets are Blue by James Patterson, book 7 in the Alex Cross series.  

I also have A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Mass going on the Kindle, 2nd book in the ACOTAR series. 

[lunababymoonchild]

Just started The Visitor by Lee Child, Jack Reacher 4.

[poppy]

Reading Miss Carter and the Ifrit by Susan Alice Kerby, Cheerfulness Breaks In by Angela Thirkell and Murder In Cold Mud by Emily Organ, depending how the mood takes me 😄

[Brian.]

I finished Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan yesterday and I started on A Plot to Kill by David Wilson last night before bed.

[lunababymoonchild]

Just started Murder in my Backyard by Ann Cleese,, Inspector Ramsey 2

Edited November 27, 2024 by lunababymoonchild