Just finished reading in 2018

[Nancy]

Just finished

Closing Down by Sally Abbott

Its was 5 star!
Short listed for Aurealis Award Best SF Novel 2017

[Joy]

I’ve just read Homegoing which I loved. It’s a short book but epic in the time period it covers (the start of the slave trade in Africa to the present day). We live briefly with two characters from each generation and I found them engaging. The story is moving but not over-wrought - it has integrity.

[Jo]

Joy wrote: "I’ve just read Homegoing which I loved. It’s a short book but epic in the time period it covers (the start of the slave trade in Africa to the present day). We live briefly with two..."

Joy - it's a great novel, we read it for book club last year and it was a rare unanimous YES!

[Toyah]

I've just finished The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen. I would definitely recommend it

[Patricia]

So many books to add to my list! They all sound wonderful!

[Toyah]

Just finished Dubliners by James Joyce which I was so under-awed by that I DNF. I rarely do that but it was just dragging after the first 8 or so borderline twee stories.

[Toyah]

I've just finished Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. Slightly predictable but still kept me reading and wondering! Overall a good read which perfectly suited my reading mood.

[Toyah]

I finally got a chance to read My Friend Dahmer - a great graphic novel telling the story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's school days. It was really interesting.

[Toyah]

I have just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude. One of the easiest five stars I've ever given! Amazing.

[Paul]

Toyah wrote: "I have just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude. One of the easiest five stars I've ever given! Amazing."

One book I could not stand, I gave it 1 star Toyah

[Nancy]

I just fiinished: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich!
Non-ficiton Classic
Chunkster....but is was work all the hours I spent listening to the
audio book during my morning walks. It is very good!
by William L. Shirer

[Toyah]

Paul it does seem to be a marmite book. I fell in love with it!

[Toyah]

I've just finished Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel and loved it! I love how he uses animals again as allegory. This time to tell a familiar tale.

[Pat]

I read 100 years with book club years ago. Very worthy. Dragged my way through it. Not worth it for me. Others loved it. I read another one by same author- same result for lovers and those who did not

[Paul]

For all of those that like historical fiction I can highly recommend The Gallows Pole

[Toyah]

So I've just quit Blood Meridian. I struggled through fifty pages before concluding it was boring the life out of me. The Small Hand next.

[Toyah]

I finished The Small Hand, and I think I'll move on to Scaredy Cat by Mark Billingham next. I can't quite decide.

[Toyah]

Finished Scaredy Cat by Mark Billingham in a day. Gotta love bank holiday weekends!It was a great thriller. I wouldn't normally read the second in a series before reading the first but it can definitely be read independently

[Joy]

Toyah wrote: "I've just finished Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel and loved it! I love how he uses animals again as allegory. This time to tell a familiar tale."

I must read that one as I loved both The Life of Pi and The High Mountains of Portugal, which I only read in June.

[Toyah]

I've finally got to finish Wyrd Sisters. I've been dipping in and out of it since March, I've had a terrible attention span!

[Nikki]

I have just finished No is Not Enough by Naomi Klein. It was a read for the bookclub I run.

I really enjoyed it, found it both scary and inspirational.

Was interested to read that Dystopian fiction is experiencing a boom in America - I wonder why!

[Paul]

I can't think why either...

[Nikki]

Have finally readEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine ages after everyone else.

I enjoyed it although would say that it was a nice book rather than a great book

[Nikki]

Paul wrote: "For all of those that like historical fiction I can highly recommend The Gallows Pole"

I am going to give this a go. Am trying to read between 50 and 100 pages an evening so that I keep reading when term starts

[Toyah]

I've just finished The Shakespeare Curse by J. L. Carrell. It was full of history, was well researched, and all in all a pretty good murder mystery read!

[Joy]

I've just read Circe - brilliant, couldn't put it down. The author creates gods who are believable but not human and the character of Circe herself is completely convincing.

[Joy]

And now also read The Song of Achilles , another compelling story by Madeline Miller.

[Toyah]

I've just finished Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie. A great classic murder mystery perfect for Halloween month.

[Paul]

Read two Horatio Clare books last week. The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal and Something of his Art: Walking to Lubeck with J. S. Bach both new out

[Toyah]

I've just finished The Mahé Circle by Georges Simenon. A great character study and psychological thriller about one man's increasing dissatisfaction with his own carefully engineered life.