What are you reading now?

Anya did you read Bill Brysons book Notes from a small island? This was the first one he wrote about Britain it's wonderful but I haven't seen this last one but did read a review where a celeb was slating it

I enjoyed that one Dara.

Criminal by Karin Slaughter.

I'm 2/3rds into "Behind Closed Doors" by Elizabeth Haynes. This is about a 15 year old English girl who disappears whilst on holiday with her family in Greece and then turns up in her home town 10 years later. The story unfolds in the present and retrospect, the latter relating to her disappearance and her experiences of being trafficked around Europe. Both riveting and horrific.

Finished 'Danger to Elizabeth' last night- and was surprised to find that Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay in 1587 - the year our old house here was built.

Pretty Girls got better, but still not as good as Karin Slaughter usually is. Am now reading The Devil`s Star, by Jo Nesbo. I like his books, but wish I knew how to pronounce names and place names, pity they don`t provide a glossary for the purpose.

I have just read a very strange book - 'How to be Both ' by Ali Smith. It is a book with two completely separate stories one set today about a teenage girl who had recently lost her mother and the other about an artist in the 15th Century. There is a link between the stories via a painting the artist did. In the printed version the story about the girl is first whereas in the Kindle version it is the artist story which is first. I think it is easier to understand reading the girl's story first.It was very hard to get into. This book won several literary prizes.

Always loved Three Men in a Boat and read it many times. Three Men on the Bummel was a disappointment but I will forgive the author for his classic.

I am reading The Rosie Effect about a professor of genetics who has recently married and is a father to be.He happens to be on The ASD spectrum even though undiagnosed. The book is full of humour about how he deals with life. It is better to read The Rosie Project first where he has a project to look for a wife but ends up with someone totally different from his specification.

Great book, the Citadel.

Alison Plowden 'Danger to Elizabeth' about the Catholics and Jesuit missionaries studying in Douai and Rheims and then coming back to preach, and attempt to topple her.

That woman was just amazing.

Read Three Men in a Boat as a class book. Loved it then, I have it on my shelves and still love it.

I'm still plodding on with The Citadel. I spend too much ime on computer these days.

I loved Three Men in a Boat. Live near the Thames so knew a lot of the places they went through.

Yes, he has got a bit grumpy hasn't he? I was thinking Tewkesbury was north of here ... Mrs Hamilton wasn't far off the mark when she wrote on my Geography report 50+ years ago 'She does well to find her way home!'

I can vividly remember a copy of Three Men in a Boat from our school library though I never read it. Might give it a go.

Still reading The Road to Little Dribbling and enjoying it. He does seem to have got the grumpy old man off to a "t" though. Quite sweary too. Only as far as Oxford at the mo, he may cheer up a bit soon.

Reading three men in a boat, didn't fancy it, but have had quite a few lol moments, just shows how inept and silly men can be so far am loving it, not my usual reading

See! Even rubbing bloody Bill Bryson up the wrong way now!

Note to self...switch mental compass on before posting a load of bollocks.

as you were

Oops...perhaps Tewkesbury is where it disappears to after Stratford-upon-Avon

Started reading 'The Road to Little Dribbling ' by Bill Bryson and am seriously p$ssed off by it. He says the A46 runs from Tewkesbury to Coventry and then disappears before popping up in Leicester...

....what a load of cobblers I know this as I use it daily.

It runs as a dual carriageway from Coventry passed Warwick and on past Stratford-upon-Avon ...where it goes after that I can't say but I certainly doesn't just vanish at Coventry.

Pedantic? Not really ... now I'm wondering what else is inaccurate or simply made up in the name of humour?

Get a grip Bill or better still an up-to-date map.

Enjoyed The Ghost Fields as expected. I`m now reading Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter. I`ve read a good few of her books, and loved them, but not too sure yet about this one, it`s not like the others at all.

The Secret of Grange Farm by Frances Cowan. I can vividly remember my Dad buying me a copy of this in 1963. For some reason the title has stayed with me all this time and I managed to get a used copy on Amazon. Pure nostalgia, this one will stay on my bookcase from now on. Just starting The Road to Little Dribbling.

I'm halfway through Frauen by Alison Owings. German women recall the 3rd Reich.
The writer managed to contact about 60 German women who lived through WW2, and this book covers about 30 of the interviews.
Having had rather fixed ideas about the Germans up to a few years ago (I lived through the war), I'm finding this book a real eye-opener. Such a variety of women with such varied experiences, most of them horrific.
The style of writing is such that you have to keep reading to the end of each interview. The writer is American, but speaks fluent German.

Didn`t get to town today, but will look next week in the charity shops. If no joy, then good old Amazon will surely come to my rescue!
I`ve just finished Time of Death, really enjoyed it, my next book, not started yet, will be The Ghost Fields, by Elly Griffiths, another Ruth Galloway story.