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Post by geminii on Feb 11, 2024 22:08:16 GMT
I've now started The Lamplighters- Emma Stonex on audio, inspired by a true story of 3 lighthouse keepers going missing from their light in mysterious circumstances in 1972 in Cornwall. I enjoyed this on Audio - very interesting True story behind it too ..
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Post by sony08 on Feb 14, 2024 15:01:51 GMT
So I have now finished the third book in The Day the Earth Turned series called Winter by Chantelle Atkins - read this for TBConFB book club and it was fabulous - really enjoy this series. Now onto The Descent by Paul E. Hardisty - this is a prequel/sequel to The Forcing which again I am ready for TBConFB and again the first book was amazing. Also listening to Tom Felton's Beyond the Wand book - I find this nice and light-hearted and easy to listen to in the car on my way to and from work.
Next book on my list will be The Night Circus!
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Post by adelynechan on Feb 14, 2024 17:01:59 GMT
Finished Freeze by Kate Simants, which started off very strongly - I love game shows and books set in exotic locations, the premise of this one was a combination of the two. Unfortunately I thought it wasn't brilliantly executed, and very quickly lapsed into a run-of-the-mill crime/thriller. Still enjoyable enough, but I thought it had lost its spark. 3.5*.
Then I read Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, one that I'd been a bit skeptical of as I'm not a huge fan of Ishiguro, but was pleasantly surprised to find that I got right into. I did enjoy the first half more than I did the second though, where I thought it got a bit weird, so another 3.5*.
Up next will be The Lucky Escape by Laura Jane Williams.
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Post by windysisters on Feb 15, 2024 8:00:04 GMT
I finished Murder on Safari by Elspeth Huxley last night. Filled with all the lovely descriptions familiar to readers of her autobiographical works but a pretty good whodunnit. I loved how when the crime(s) were being summed up at the end there were footnotes directing the reader to where the clues were earlier in the book. Written in 1938 it does show its age in respect of language and attitude to natives/big game hunting. (happy to pass on the book if anyone is interested)
Next up is a book I bought specifically for the "author shares your initials" category: Jackaby by William Ritter
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Post by adelynechan on Feb 15, 2024 10:14:25 GMT
Finished The Secret Smile by Nicci French on audio (parents are here plus it's "analysis season" rather than "experiments season" at work, so very little listening time). Not sure about this one, while I thought the writing captured the mood of the story really well, the protagonist Miranda frustrated me to no end. On one hand I felt for her, how scared she must have felt in the situation, but on the other hand she did some really stupid things that had me facepalming throughout.
Then I started Karma by Sadhguru, a bit of a random one that I borrowed on a whim when it popped up under the "read by the author" section of my Borrowbox - I do love these. The content isn't mindblowing but listening to this is like doing yoga, almost meditative, so I'm just going to keep going.
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Post by alison44 on Feb 15, 2024 16:37:12 GMT
There have been some reviews about the book criticising his use of bad language; God I think if I had a child that I lost so young, I would be swearing forever about it. Me too, Sal. I'm not a parent, but I can't imagine any worse pain than the loss of a child.
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Post by alison44 on Feb 15, 2024 16:38:19 GMT
I'm reading Death Of A Bookseller by Alice Slater. Finding it very hard to put down.
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Post by adelynechan on Feb 16, 2024 13:08:29 GMT
Finished The Lucky Escape by Laura Jane Williams, a nice enough romantic comedy but I thought was nowhere as good as Our Stop by the same author, which I loved. There were one too many themes in this one, and I thought as a consequence none of them were really that well-developed.
Then I started They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera, which is a bit depressing given the premise (semi-dystopian where people get a call right before they die an untimely death) but at the same time intriguing as to where the author is going to take this.
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Post by windysisters on Feb 18, 2024 13:34:51 GMT
Now that I have a high tech sound system in my car, I've decided to give audio books another go. My library has quite a few from a series I've been reading for years including the next one for me. I've started on Among the Wicked by Linda Castillo and listened to about 50 minutes walking into town and back today 😀
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Post by froglady on Feb 18, 2024 14:19:13 GMT
Reading The Memory Library by Kate Storey.
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Post by geminii on Feb 18, 2024 14:27:20 GMT
Now that I have a high tech sound system in my car, I've decided to give audio books another go. Cool .. my car Audio system pairs with the Borrowbox App on my phone & off I go - great for a long drive
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Post by froglady on Feb 18, 2024 17:58:18 GMT
Now reading Christmas at Black Cherry Retreat by Angela Britnell.
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Post by froglady on Feb 19, 2024 9:41:08 GMT
Now reading The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown. This is a book about nine young men from the state of Washington - farm boys, loggers, fishermen - who shocked both the rowing world and Adolf Hitler by winning the gold medal in eight-oared rowing at the 1936 Olympics. I am enjoying this book but find it quite hard going as there's lots of information about rowing and who sits where on the boat and why, so I keep putting it aside and read something else less deep and then go back to it. It's not a book that I would skim read - each word is meaningful so it takes more concentration than I'm used to. The author spoke to Joe Rantz, one of the rowers, about his life and Joe made it clear that the book couldn't be just about him, it had to be about the boat, the other rowers and the journey they all went on.
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Post by windysisters on Feb 20, 2024 10:31:24 GMT
I finished Jackaby yesterday afternoon. Fun bit of nonsense!
At bedtime I started Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
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Post by adelynechan on Feb 20, 2024 14:04:59 GMT
Parents and I went to Belgium at the weekend, where lots of train time translated to lots of reading time! I finished The Wager by David Grann, one that I'd been struggling with for awhile but I think being able to read in a large chunk did help. It is a well-written NF of a historical event (shipwreck that happened in the 1700s of the Patagonia coast) that I knew nothing about, and I was impressed by how well-researched it was. The author could have been a bit more sympathetic though, at least at the beginning, where I struggled with the unfamiliar naval terms and the many characters being introduced. 4* Then I whizzed through The Dark Tide by Simon McCleave, the first of a series that I really enjoyed! Featuring police hostage negotiator Laura Hart, told in dual timeline of a present day case and a "3 years ago" timeline showing us how Laura got to where she is now. Set on the island of Anglesey, which I visited last year, so it was fun to recognise the familiar places. 4.5* After we got home, for my usual pre-bedtime reading I got through most of They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera, which I then finished this morning. Didn't really get along with it, the depressing premise which I knew about from the title and blurb wasn't really used well and the characters especially Mateo just irritated me. Up next will be The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris (because I am too lazy to figure out which authors share a name with a US Vice President, I've just decided to read one by an actual Vice President ) and Heat Wave by Richard Castle.
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