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Post by kaydee23 on Mar 18, 2024 17:35:48 GMT
I currently have 2 books on the go, a print copy of The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne by Freya North. I only started this yesterday but I'm already loving it and a Kindle book Maid of Steel by Kate Baker, set in 1911 which is looking very promising.
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Post by froglady on Mar 19, 2024 10:11:18 GMT
Reading Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros.
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Post by sony08 on Mar 21, 2024 15:37:22 GMT
I have now finished the fourth and last book in a YA series The Day the Earth Turned - what a fab story overall - absolutely loved it. I have also finished listening to Tom Felton - Beyond the Wand which I really enjoyed. And now picked up Longbourn by Jo Baker - a paperback I picked up from a charity shop :-)
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Post by adelynechan on Mar 21, 2024 18:17:46 GMT
Haven't been on here in a week, and finished quite a few in that time! First up, tree book Bullseye by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge, which was okay. It's not my favourite of the Patterson series, I think Ledwidge has a bit more of a longer-chapter style that I feel slows the pace of the story. I did like the political setting and the threatened assassination of the POTUS though, as well as how things cut closer to home than Detective Michael Bennett would probably have wanted. Then I read The Shut Eye by Belinda Bauer (as emzbez commented on Zoom that I've been having a week with a lot of "eye"s), again not my favourite of hers. Belinda Bauer is really good at making twisty plotlines that I don't expect, that part was also the case here and I liked, but I found the psychic aspect distracting as it wasn't obvious what to take seriously and what to ignore! Then The Last Paper Crane by Kerry Drewery, a quick read as about half of it is written in verse. I thought combining prose and verse was a really clever way of distinguishing the dual timeline, and although I don't usually fancy verse I thought it worked well here. Loved the author's and illustrator's note at the end too where they explain some of their inspirations. My score was hovering at the 4/4.5* throughout but the ending plus these bumped it up to 5. Never read anything like it, although it is very sad (not entirely unexpected for a war-themed book). On Kindle, I finished the Zoom buddy read The Girl from Silent Lake by Leslie Wolfe, which I really enjoyed the build-up of but hated the ending! It sets the scene well for the main character Kay to return to Silent Lake though, as the first book of a series. And on audio, I finished The Cat Who Caught A Killer by L.T. Shearer, an enjoyable enough cozy crime (that has a cat on the front cover!) although the author had an annoying tendency to randomly throw in political opinions which I felt had no place here. The narrator also read veeerrrryyyy slowly, I was listening on 1.5x throughout and still felt it was a bit slow. Then my long-awaited reservation of The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton came through, and I whizzed through it in a day the way I did Book 1. I'm so glad I decided to re-listen to this series having read it as a child (thanks geminii!), it was such fun to be sucked back into that magical world and Kate Winslet does a brilliant job voicing the stories. Now back to waiting as the third book also has a library queue. Currently reading Three Card Murder by J.L. Blackhurst as a buddy read with a friend, The End We Start From by Megan Hunter as my tree book and listening to The Party House by Lin Anderson.
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Post by froglady on Mar 21, 2024 19:05:29 GMT
Reading Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. Oh my God - I have just finished this book. Most of the book just hummed along for me but that last section, WOW!l couldn't read it fast enough. What an ending Just off to buy the next book!!
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Post by froglady on Mar 21, 2024 22:08:51 GMT
Now reading Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros. Thank you to the people on here who raved about this series as I am hooked.
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Post by froglady on Mar 25, 2024 12:05:43 GMT
Now reading another book by Rebecca Yarros - In the Likely Event
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Post by eightlegs on Mar 26, 2024 17:05:07 GMT
I whizzed through Hide and Seek - M J Arlidge and now I'm reading The Man I think I know - Mike Gayle
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Post by rosemary3 on Mar 26, 2024 20:05:11 GMT
I'm listening to The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah on audio, having realised I will not get to the tree book this month. I have one of the Freeman Wills Crofts' Inspector French series on the go, The Box Office Murders.
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Post by windysisters on Mar 27, 2024 9:14:44 GMT
I finished Demon Copperhead yesterday. It took me almost 3 weeks - just because there's a lot of words and a lot to think about. Was very good though.
Not decided what to read next because that one has stuck in my mind. Might read some short stories for a day or so.
I'm still listening to The Wire in the Blood which is very good but the app keeps playing up and I've missed some work mornings so it's taking me longer. I'm trying to make up the time by listening while I'm cooking instead of having the radio on.
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Post by froglady on Mar 27, 2024 20:16:42 GMT
Just started Breathtaking by Rachel Clarke : this is the story that the TV drama Breathtaking was based on.
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Post by adelynechan on Mar 27, 2024 23:28:32 GMT
Changed my mind about The End We Start From, as my Amazon parcel containing No One Saw A Thing by Andrea Mara arrived and I wanted to read it right away having seen lots of advertisements of this one on the Tube. Taking what seems like a perfectly relatable situation and adding lots of twists and turns, I thought this one worked really well, though I found the ending rushed. 3.5*
Then I started my book published by Harper Collins: The Doll House by Phoebe Morgan, which is really spooky as I don't really know what is going on right now despite being almost halfway through.
Also finished listening to The Party House by Lin Anderson, a good concept and with well-chosen narrators for a book set in Scotland (one of them had such a strong Scottish accent that I had to slow down the book to get what he was saying). But horribly let down by the very repetitive writing style, I don't know how many times we had to be told that tourists were breaking lockdown rules and brought the pandemic to Blackrig!
Then I started Walking on Sunshine by Giovanna Fletcher, a book that is actually much less cheery than its title suggests, though I'm enjoying it all the same. Reminds me of Cecelia Ahern's P.S. I Love You, a book that I love. Largely told in three perspectives, it works really well read by three people, one of whom is the author. Slightly annoyingly though (and yes, I realise this is pedantic), the three narrators read at very different volumes, ranging from "I cannot hear anything when I'm outdoors" to "this is far too loud my ears are starting to hurt", so I'm having to adjust the volume manually from one chapter to the next.
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Post by natsplatt on Mar 28, 2024 7:16:29 GMT
Reading Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. Oh my God - I have just finished this book. Most of the book just hummed along for me but that last section, WOW!l couldn't read it fast enough. What an ending Just off to buy the next book!! If you’ve enjoyed those Sal you need to read the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas next!! It’s a big series but it’s flipping brilliant!! Nat
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Post by froglady on Mar 28, 2024 8:53:32 GMT
Oh my God - I have just finished this book. Most of the book just hummed along for me but that last section, WOW!l couldn't read it fast enough. What an ending Just off to buy the next book!! If you’ve enjoyed those Sal you need to read the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas next!! It’s a big series but it’s flipping brilliant!! Nat Thanks for this - I think I may have read the first one but it's ages ago. I'll read it again .
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Post by froglady on Mar 28, 2024 10:48:58 GMT
Just bought Leave No Trace by Jo Callaghan: the second book in the AI detective series.
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