Fiction- What are you reading? Part 2 Showing 2,551-2,600 of 4,606

[Joanne]

I am about half way through the Selected Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

[Leslie]

I love some of Poe's poems - I like a strong meter and rhyme which he was good at :)

[Leslie]

I am still working on the short stories in Calvino's Italian Folktales, which I am enjoying a lot, and listening to the audiobook of The Recognitions. Parts of The Recognitions are hilarious and others confusing and/or dull so I am not sure what to think about the book as a whole yet.

[Nancy from NJ]

Leaving Everything Most Loved

[Petra]

I've started reading Motherless Brooklyn. So far, I'm enjoying it very much.

[Christine]

A Conflict of Interest by Adam Mitzner

[Christine]

Sandy how are both of your books going?

[Tamara]

Petra wrote: "I've started reading Motherless Brooklyn. So far, I'm enjoying it very much."

Petra, I read that several months ago. I really enjoyed it. I hope you do, too.

[Petra]

Thank you, Tamara! It is off to a good start. I'm glad you enjoyed it, too.

[Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)]

About to begin Strangers by C.L. Taylor after finishing the amazing and brilliant She Has a Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be by J.D. Barker. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...

[Nichole]

I have begun The Bend in Redwood Road by Danielle Stewart. I loved the prologue. This book seems promising.

[Christine]

Until I Find You by Rea Frey

[Christine]

Sandy how are both of your books going?

[Nancy from NJ]

Just finished Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline Winspear. 5 Stars reading about Maisie Dobbs is like wearing an old bathrobe.

[Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)]

About to begin Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins after finishing a book with an amazing climax - I had no idea what was happening until it happened! Strangers by C.L. Taylor. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage sandysbookaday.wordpress.com

[Christine]

The Wife Who Knew Too Much by Michele Campbell

[Christine]

Sandy how are both of your books going?

[Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)]

About to start One Of Us Is Lying by Shalini Boland after finishing the 5 star Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage sandysbookaday.wordpress.com

[Christine]

Sandy how are both of your books going?

[Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)]

About to begin Buried Deep by Buried Deep after finishing One Of Us Is Lying by Shalini Boland. My review can be found at my webpage sandysbookaday.wordpress.com and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Nancy from NJ]

I finished The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell early this morning. And next up is Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane. I seem to be on a reading roll but wish I wasn't home because of the Corona Virus. I wonder what I would be doing if it wasn't for my books and computer. So thanks everybody for posting away and discussing books, etc.

[Karin]

I just reread the first 8 Little House books in the last week or two as well as Treasure Island for classics.

[LauraT]

Karin wrote: "I just reread the first 8 Little House books in the last week..."

I read them all last year; delicious, aint they?

[Leslie]

Karin wrote: "I just reread the first 8 Little House books in the last week or two as well as Treasure Island for classics."

My copies of the Little House books got thrown out when my parents sold their house :(

I suppose that I could borrow them from the library to reread them...

[Leslie]

Nancy from NJ wrote: "I finished The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell early this morning. And next up ..."

Every time I see this title, I for some reason think about the children's book All-of-a-Kind Family. I think that it is because the copy I had growing up had a picture of the family on stairs on the cover (connecting in my mind family and stairs)...

[Leslie]

I am currently reading Good Behaviour by Molly Keane, the short stories of Dorothy L. Sayers in Lord Peter Views the Body and listening to the YA book A Study in Charlotte (about the teenage descendants of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson at an American boarding school, involved in a murder of course).

[Leslie]

Oh, and I have started an Agatha Christie Poirot book that I have never read before (imagine my surprise to find one!) - Taken at the Flood written and set just after WW2 (1946 or so).

[Karin]

Leslie wrote: "Karin wrote: "I just reread the first 8 Little House books in the last week or two as well as Treasure Island for classics."

My copies of the Little House books got thrown out when my parents sold..."

Yes, the library will probably have them.

[Nancy from NJ]

Leslie - how did you know That All-of-A-Kind-Family continues for me to be a favorite book. It more or less was the story of my mother growing upon the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I can’t wait to read this book with our granddaughter and tell her about her great grandmother and how she grew up.

[Christine]

Sandy how are both of your books going?

[Karin]

Nancy from NJ wrote: "Leslie - how did you know That All-of-A-Kind-Family continues for me to be a favorite book. It more or less was the story of my mother growing upon the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I can’t wait to..."

Wow, that's interesting. To me it is very different than my parents or grandparents stories since none of them grew up in a large city.

[Leslie]

Nancy from NJ wrote: "Leslie - how did you know That All-of-A-Kind-Family continues for me to be a favorite book. It more or less was the story of my mother growing upon the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I can’t wait to..."

I loved that series! In fact, during a discussion about the current epidemic with a friend, I mentioned that book & the seasonal epidemics of scarlet fever it portrayed. That was my first lesson about what a quarantine was.

[Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)]

Beginning After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill after finishing River of Lies by R.M. Greenaway. My spoiler free review can be found at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)]

About to begin My Husband's Lie by Emma Davies after finishing the astounding After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill. This was a 5 star read for me. My spoiler free review can be found at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Tamara]

I finished The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch, a compelling chunkster (500 pages) about a first-person narrator's obsession with resurrecting a lost love. It won the 1978 Booker Prize. Interesting characters and wonderful writing.

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Christine]

Sandy how are both of your books going?

[Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)]

Christine wrote: "Sandy how are both of your books going?"

After She Wrote Him was a brilliant 5 star read, Christine. And My Husband's Lie was okay. How are your books going? 😷❤😍📚

[Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)]

Starting The Caretakers by Eliza Maxwell after finishing the3-star My Husband's Lie by Emma Davies. My spoiler free review can be found at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[LauraT]

An Italian classic: Il bell'Antonio or Beautiful Antonio by Vitaliano Brancati.
Liking it even if the writing suffers from age ...

[Nichole]

I will read East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood. It is described as a "classic Victorian romance."

[Christine]

Sandy how are both of your books going?

[Nancy from NJ]

Began Guests of August by Gloria Goldreich

[Gavin]

Reading The Fall of Hyperion

[Leslie]

I am reading the short stories in Lord Peter Views the Body in between reading Melmoth the Wanderer, Brat Farrar (a reread) and my audiobook Snow Crash.

[Leslie]

Almost done with Lord Peter Views the Body - only one story left! I am still slogging my way through Melmoth the Wanderer which I am not really enjoying very much. I have started a new audiobook - Swing; very much a boy's YA book but it is early days... And for light relief I am just starting Without Lawful Authority, an English WW2 spy thriller.

[Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)]

Starting Find Her Alive by Lisa Regan after finishing the wonderful and atmospheric The Caretakers by Eliza Maxwell. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and on my webpage my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
The Caretakers is available on NetGalley until 28 April. 😷❤😍📚

[_jolb.85_]

I started reading the Strike series by Robert Galbraith during lockdown - I’m just about to start Career of Evil

[Christine]

I finished my 32nd book and I finished my 33rd book and I finished my 34th book and I finished my 35th book and I finished my 36th book and I finished my 37th book and I finished my 38th book

[Christine]

Sandy how are both of your books going?

[Stephen]

Finished Triptych by Karin Slaughter. Loved it!!