What are you reading now?

Nearly finished The Taxidermist's Daughter. Kate Mosse writes well but I haven't enjoyed this one as much as some of her others. Kate Atkinson is next on the pile but I gather it's depressing. Ive got Jane Tulloch after that and it looks lighthearted and enjoyable. I have to be a bit strict about order of reading or I would just read the latest acquisitions.
Btw I loved Elizabeth is Missing, from start to finish. Travelling along with her as her dementia increased was interesting and,i thought, insightful. I wondered if the writer had first-hand knowledge of the condition? I have also recently read The Girl in the Red Coat. A bit disturbing but enjoyable.

Just finished Elizabeth is missing and DH and I are practising counting backwards in sevens. I enjoyed it but wanted to have a few ends tied up. And I wanted Maud to be in a home .

I saw that book advertised recently, number and thought I might buy a copy. Both my older sisters (now sadly passed away) were buffer girls at Mappin and Webb, around the time I was born. It was hard, dirty work but they were a cheerful lot by all accounts!

I`m enjoying The Buffer Girls.

Oh no so many books, so little time!!! I will have to spend more time reading (in bed probably)!!! Just finished Tracey Chevalier's The Last Runaway. If you are interested in Quakers, quilts, American history or what happened to slaves who ran away you will be totally hooked. If you aren't it is still a great read. Honor Bright is a great heroine. Better I think than the Girl with a Pearl earring.

Reading a Spool of Blue Thread as well. I'm about 2/3 through and also enjoying it.
I'm an Anne Tyler fan.

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A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler. Just getting into it ready for April Book Group. Loving it so far ......

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson. One of my all-time favourite authors.

Dark Suits and Sad Songs was alright, but it didn`t grab me quite as much as the previous 2 books. I`m now reading The Buffer Girls, by Margaret Dickinson, but only a few pages in at the moment.

I have just finished Kate Atkinson's ' A God on ruins'. It is a very cleverly written book, and I can relate to the way Teddy feels about the second world war having talked to my dad ( and then found out what he actually did after he died!). However, I found the book rather depressing and now plan to read something much lighter!

My next book is going to be Dark Suits and Sad Songs, by Denzil Meyrick. I`ve read the first 2 books in this series, Whisky From Small Glasses and The Last Witness, and have just found out that there`s another after this one. Denzil Meyrick is native to Kintyre, of Soop fame and also our favourite part of the British Isles, his books are centred around the Campbeltown area, but the place names have been changed, and it`s fun trying to recognise places we`ve been to.

Coming toward he nd of Night Sins, it`s been really good.

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson. Brilliant, one of those books you don't want to end. When it does I have reserved the Jackson Brodie books to read again. She really is a wonderful author.

Loved Slash and Burn, despite all the killing, and there was a lot! I haven `t started it yet, but the next book on my pile is Night Sins, by Tammi Hoag, looks like it`ll be good.

Just started "The Widow" which has a lot of hype surrounding it, it has been mooted as the new thriller of the moment, a bit like "Girl on the Train" a short while ago.

trisher - I loved "The Goldfinch" too Donna Tart takes a long time to produce a book, but this last one was worth the wait.

Sorry you didn`t enjoy Sycamore Gap Annsixty, but I`ll still try it when my book pile goes down a bit. Remember Me was very good, I`m now reading Slash and Burn, by Matt Hilton. Lots of killing, but enjoying it no end.

I have finished Sycamore Gap and won't say too much except disappointing end with too many loose ends. How many more books will it take to tie them up?

Donna Tart's The Goldfinch. Love her writing. Great long books but totally absorbing. Had to force myself to put it down this morning or nothing would have got done!

I'm reading 'A man called Ove'. It's a 'million copy bestseller '. Translated from the Swedish, but apart from the names it could be set in UK. Was not sure about it for the first two chapters but it just gets better and better. It really does make you want to cry one minute and laugh out loud the next. I highly recommend it - bought as part of a 3 for £10 deal on Amazon.

The Munitions Girls was good. Am now reading a book I bought secondhand off a table in Wilko`s yesterday, by an author I haven`t come across before. It`s called Remember Me, by Sharon Sala. A man goes off to work, leaving his wife of just one year in bed. When he returns later in the day, there`s a broken cup in the kitchen and spilled coffee, blood in the bathroom, the bed`s unmade, and his wife is missing. He`s suspected by everyone of killing her, then one day, 2 years later, he comes home and she`s in bed, doesn`t know she`s been missing, thinks it`s sill the day when he went to work and left her in bed. I think it`d make a great film.

Eirel - yes, I'm sorry I missed it. I will definitely see it if it comes back.

It is an expensive thread to look at, almost as bad as the ones on essential kitchen gadgets.

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This is a dangerous thread. Every time I look at it I end up rushing to my Kindle to download a book or books that sound good?

Bellanonna. - you should see the 'Dog in the Nighttime' play if you get the chance. I could not see how it could be adapted for the stage as it was so in Christopher's head but found it brilliantly done. I saw it twice, both in the round and proscenium arch, loved it both times.