Your Book Activity 2025

[lunababymoonchild]

Currently reading The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield

[Madeleine]

Enjoyed that one, I think there was a TV adaptation.

[lunababymoonchild]

I'm enjoying it

[My OKR]

I'm currently reading Daring Greatly by Brené Brown and The Wall - 10000 Days.

[lunababymoonchild]

Currently reading The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn 

[lunababymoonchild]

Cathryn Kemp, A Poisoner’s Tale

[lunababymoonchild]

Embarking on my annual read of Thomas Bernard. This year it’s Extinction.

[poppy]

The Mystery Of the Kneeling Woman by Moray Dalton

[itsmeagain]

Gai Jin by James Clavell. Used it to distract myself from the length, and the more annoying bits, of Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave. Wish I had a quid for every page of these two....

[chickenfeed]

The Illegals by Shaun Walker

 

If only I have the flair for writing I can write my Filipino company bosses' (WFTU) never ending tales of their visits to the Soviet Union and Cuba.

[poppy]

Just finished Death In the Dark by Moray Dalton and about to begin The Stretton Darknesse Mystery by the same author. This is the fourth book I've read of hers and really enjoying them. She wrote Golden Age Mysteries between 1924 and 1951. 

[lunababymoonchild]

White Nights, Ann Cleeves.

[Madeleine]

1 hour ago, lunababymoonchild said:

White Nights, Ann Cleeves.

I think this is my favourite Jimmy Perez book, oddly they never filmed it for the series though they did make a radio version of it.

[lunababymoonchild]

6 minutes ago, Madeleine said:

I think this is my favourite Jimmy Perez book, oddly they never filmed it for the series though they did make a radio version of it.

I am enjoying it

[poppy]

Just finished another Golden Age Mystery, The Red Lacquer Case by Patricia Wentworth and begun another Moray Dalton book, The Shadow On the Wall.

[muggle not]

9 hours ago, poppy said:

Just finished another Golden Age Mystery, The Red Lacquer Case by Patricia Wentworth and begun another Moray Dalton book, The Shadow On the Wall.

You are reading a lor of the Golden Age mystery books, should I try one once I start reading again.

[poppy]

On 8/6/2025 at 1:43 AM, muggle not said:

You are reading a lor of the Golden Age mystery books, should I try one once I start reading again.

 

I really love the Moray Dalton ones. I'm mostly reading vintage books at the moment. Not everyone's cup of tea, but they're pretty short, so wouldn't hurt to try 😊

 

How are you getting on with your eyes? Anything further with the ingrown eyelashes? 😘

[muggle not]

33 minutes ago, poppy said:

 

I really love the Moray Dalton ones. I'm mostly reading vintage books at the moment. Not everyone's cup of tea, but they're pretty short, so wouldn't hurt to try 😊

 

How are you getting on with your eyes? Anything further with the ingrown eyelashes? 😘

I am having surgery on one eyelid on 8-13-25. The other eye will be scheduled later. My reading has almost stopped.

[lunababymoonchild]

5 hours ago, muggle not said:

I am having surgery on one eyelid on 8-13-25. The other eye will be scheduled later. My reading has almost stopped.

You have my sympathy and understanding. I had to have surgery to correct my vision and it was being unable to read that distressed me the most. Back then all you could get were audio books on CD from the book shop,  which cost a fortune and were (as far as I could see!) always abridged, which I can’t abide. I hope that all goes well for you and that you can read again very soon

[Madeleine]

That sounds so painful, I hope the surgery goes well.

[poppy]

On 8/7/2025 at 1:29 PM, muggle not said:

I am having surgery on one eyelid on 8-13-25. The other eye will be scheduled later. My reading has almost stopped.

 

Wishing you the very best, Muggle. Hope the surgery goes really well and you can get back to reading very soon. Big hugs xx 🥰

[France]

On 8/7/2025 at 3:29 AM, muggle not said:

I am having surgery on one eyelid on 8-13-25. The other eye will be scheduled later. My reading has almost stopped.

Wishing you all the best. Eye operations seem to have the most amazing rejuvenating effects, must be something to do with regaining vision you haven't had for ages, even years though when I asked my mother about having her cataracts removed she said it was awful! 'I haven't been able to see myself properly in the mirror for five years and now I can. I've got so old!" She was 89.

[lunababymoonchild]

Dennis Lehane, The Given Day

 

[poppy]

On 8/10/2025 at 3:16 AM, France said:

Wishing you all the best. Eye operations seem to have the most amazing rejuvenating effects, must be something to do with regaining vision you haven't had for ages, even years though when I asked my mother about having her cataracts removed she said it was awful! 'I haven't been able to see myself properly in the mirror for five years and now I can. I've got so old!" She was 89.

 

One of the benefits of not seeing so well as you get older 😅

Edited August 12, 2025 by poppy

[lunababymoonchild]

Have parked the Dennis Lehane for another time because my Hallie Rubenhold, Story of a Murder has arrived and I’m more interested in that, just now