What are you reading at the moment?

Have just been in hospital for 10 days and found the old Reader's Digest abridged stories incredibly useful and readable - good for OPAs too. Read 12 stories plus three complete novels brought to me by the incredibly helpful tea lady! At home, I have two reads on the go in the loo. "The Lady from \Stalingrad Mansions" by Alan Coren and "The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear" (which includes his biography).

Re reading "The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 and a quarter years old" by Hendrik Groen, translated by Hester Velmann. I first read it in 2016, and found it again while tidying a bookcase.

It was described as "Funny and frank" by one reviewer. I don't want to put it down - I want to know what the next outing of the anarchic "Old but not dead club" will be, how Henrik's relationship with Eefje is progressing, and whether Henrik and co will succeed in getting hold of the actual written rules of the care home so that they can argue with the dictatorial Director.

A Ruthless Need by Catherine Cookson. An easy read!

Cabowich - yes, it is slow paced but I’m half way through now and the tension is cranking up! Says on the back that the conclusion is both shocking and inevitable, oh no!!!!
Oreo - bit confusing there, sorry. It is her ‘last one out’ but is also called Last One Out.
I can highly recommend all her books But this one in particular has really grabbed me.

Some appalling twaddle from Wilbur Smith, interspersed with a reprise of my favourite Mary Renault novel “The Bull from the Sea”. Now there was a writer! Crisply drawn characters that leap off the page……

The Restoration Garden by Sara Blaydes. Loving it, although a big change for me from a series of dystopian adventures!

Entitled. The rise and fall of the house of York. Paper back.

and I read a few pages then have to put it down as it’s not just the weather making me sweat.

And I have to say I am pleased our beloved Queen Elizabeth 11 did not live to read this, as she would have been horrified to know what her precious son did in his private life. The book is red, red for danger and warning.

The Smuggler's Cave by George Birmingham (1926)

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The coast Road by Alan Murrin. Women’s (mainly) lives and secrets in a Donegal village in the 1990s. I am enjoying it 😊

I hope it's good ... I havebjust downloaded it to my kindle! I will hold you personally responsible if O do not like it!!

And I have just ordered “Flashlight” to take with me on Holiday at your recommendation😄😄😄

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River Kings by Cat Jar a. I saw it recommended on the ‘50 books a Year’ thread. A dense read but very interesting .

Luckygirl3

Litterpicker

The coast Road by Alan Murrin. Women’s (mainly) lives and secrets in a Donegal village in the 1990s. I am enjoying it 😊

I hope it's good ... I havebjust downloaded it to my kindle! I will hold you personally responsible if O do not like it!!

And I have just ordered “Flashlight” to take with me on Holiday at your recommendation😄😄😄

Luckygirl3

Flashlight by Susan Choi.
It is a long book! Sort of family chronicle that encompasses US, Korea and Japan.

I thought Flashlight was an unusual and engrossing story.

I'm reading in the garden right now, "High and Low" by Amanda Craig

henetha I've read all of the Nicci French books, have you read the Freida Klein series? If not, I recommend them.
I'm reading What you are looking for in a Library by Michiko Aoyama. Totally different to anything I read before, a gift from DD, really enjoying it.

Noel Coward’s diaries, Alison Uttley diaries, Elizabeth Taylor (not the film star) short stories.

An Icelandic crime novel called The Quiet Mother

Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell - not impressed

Proust! Swann's Way. (in translation.)
For my second Reading Group.
Not nearly as terrifying as I feared, but needs concentration. This is the ideal weather, lying on a sun lounger under a tree pretending to be French.

I'm re-reading the Wolf Hall trilogy. Having blazed my way through 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies' I've got stuck half through 'The Mirror and the Light' once again. I forgot I never finished it last time and found a bookmark half way through so I am 7 pages further than last time. But for some reason I am finding it really hard work - I don't know if it's because I know what is coming or if the writing is just 'boggier' than the other two books...

The Widows Wine Club, I'm neither a widow, nor drinking wine!

'Just One Thing' by the late Dr Michael Mosley. Worth every penny.

Something by The Secret Barrister. It's on my Kindle, so I can't remember the title, but it's about a court case (murder) seen from the perspectives of the various protagonists - the defendants, the lawyers etc. I'm enjoying it.

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The latest Jane Harper, Last One Out. Thoroughly hooked. Love her crisp, clean style of writing, doesn’t over play her hand but my goodness she packs a punch. Great stuff!

I've not long finished this book and loved it, too. It was slow paced but a riveting story. She's such a good author.

Will be starting Married lies by Chris Collett no5 in the DI Mariner series read no4 yesterday.

Litterpicker

The coast Road by Alan Murrin. Women’s (mainly) lives and secrets in a Donegal village in the 1990s. I am enjoying it 😊

I hope it's good ... I havebjust downloaded it to my kindle! I will hold you personally responsible if O do not like it!!

The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer, just as zany and funny as you would expect.