peppercricket
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Post by peppercricket on Oct 26, 2023 12:39:05 GMT
Let us know what you're reading this month, the clocks go back, it's dark at 4pm and the weather is usually awful.
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Post by froglady on Oct 31, 2023 9:25:10 GMT
Family Ties at the Cornish Bakery by Sarah Hope - reading this now.
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Post by froglady on Oct 31, 2023 22:55:15 GMT
Now reading Celebrations at the Cornish Bakery by Sarah Hope.
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Post by adelynechan on Oct 31, 2023 23:10:30 GMT
Carrying forward Mr Two Bomb by William Coles (tree) and The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar (audio).
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Post by windysisters on Nov 1, 2023 11:42:21 GMT
I started The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman (Thursday Murder Club #4) yesterday.
One of the Club's close allies is murdered by an organised crime group - can our sleuths work it out without coming to harm?
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Post by sarita on Nov 1, 2023 12:15:48 GMT
Started Le tapis de course by Michel Layaz, set in Switzerland.
On audio, carrying over The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman.
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Post by adelynechan on Nov 1, 2023 23:00:41 GMT
Last night I called time on Mr Two Bomb by William Coles and skim-read to the end. Both the writing style and the main character's attitude irked me, and although it was a short book I found that I was putting it down a lot and my desire to pick it up again diminished with each sitting.
I also zoomed through Find Her First by Emma Christie (I've just got back from the States and jetlag is keeping me up much later than I would like...) which I found quite good! It was more slow-paced than I was expecting from the blurb but somehow it worked well and the overall vibe really suited what the reveal eventually turned out to be.
Up next will be A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult. I also don't have a NF on the go at the moment and would like one, so I'll also try to start Show Me the Bodies by Peter Apps tonight.
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Post by sarita on Nov 2, 2023 17:01:50 GMT
Le Tapis de course was remarkable. The narrator is a very unpleasant, self-centered, mean and pretentious person. He's dictating his thoughts to his smartphone. The author managed to create one of the best nasty characters I've met so far. 5*. Sometimes a gem lies in a travelling book.
Then moved on to The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak. Quite a disappointment for me. Read 20% and skimmed the rest. I've read much better about the same topic. 2*.
Next up is Devant Dieu et devant les hommes by Paul Colize. This is a court procedural. The background is the catastrophic mining accident that took place in my region in 1956. The author imagines that a crime was committed on that day in the mine. Quite daring, curious to see how he avoided bad taste...
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Post by froglady on Nov 2, 2023 17:18:33 GMT
Now reading Wedding Fever at the Cornish Bay Bakery by Sarah Hope.
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Post by adelynechan on Nov 2, 2023 21:04:40 GMT
Finished listening to The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar, which was utterly terrible. The author tries to address racism and homophobia in the same story but achieves neither, instead creating a hypocritical main character whom I hated.
Up next will be Psychopaths Anonymous by Will Carver, which I have heard good things about and will hopefully be better!
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Post by rosemary3 on Nov 3, 2023 16:00:37 GMT
The weather is indeed awful. I am reading Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart which is pretty grim too, but I'm persisting.
Ears are in the British parliament of the 19th century with Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope. On Kindle I have Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard, the third in a family saga series set around WW2.
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Post by froglady on Nov 4, 2023 9:25:58 GMT
Now reading Picnic Days at the Cornish Bay Bakery by Sarah Hope.
I've also read over the past 2 days:
Finding Love at the Cornish Bay Bakery
Secrets and Surprises at the Cornish Bay Bakery.
Surprising how much reading you can do on a train journey.
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Post by froglady on Nov 4, 2023 18:19:54 GMT
Love in the Air at the Cornish Bakery by Sarah Hope is my latest read.
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Post by sarita on Nov 5, 2023 7:08:00 GMT
Finished Devant Dieu et les hommes by Paul Colize. 3*.
Now reading The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayetu Moore. Set in Liberia.
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peppercricket
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Post by peppercricket on Nov 5, 2023 10:39:08 GMT
Will start Must the Show Go On by Les Dennis later. I heard him recently on Kathy Burke's podcast, Where There's a Will, There's a Wake - very funny man.
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