What are you reading in 2015?

[Jackie]

Starting Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent today.

[Beatriz]

Right now I am reading "Station Eleven"

[Paul]

Beatriz wrote: "Right now I am reading "Station Eleven""

I thought that was really good Beatriz

[Beatriz]

So far I like very much!

[Marina]

I'm reading Don Quixote and The Merchant of Venice. Also struggling to finish An Angel at my Table.

[Lisa]

I am in the middle of listening to Everybody Rise. It has recently gotten some kind of rave reviews. So far I am finding the characters quite boring. It will take me awhile to listen to this as I have to listen to it in the car and I don't drive much. Aw well…it will be a very slow read in ore ways than one.


I am finishing up Ash which is OK but nothing great.

Then I am off to the library to pick up some new goodies:) today.

[Paul]

Zipping through Great Faces of Dorset at the moment. Not a bad book on a whole variety of people who live in the beautiful county of Dorset

[Jackie]

I'm about 25 pages into Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. Could be bit of a weepy I reckon.

[Paul]

Finished that now, and just starting Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern

[Sophie]

I started The Child by Sebastian Fitzek this morning, having finished The Girls by Lisa Jewell last night. I've read some mixed reviews about The Child so ready to get my teeth into it.

[Jo]

Sophie wrote: "I started The Child by Sebastian Fitzek this morning, having finished The Girls by Lisa Jewell last night. I've read some mixed reviews about The Child so ready to g..."

I will simply say it's pretty harrowing! I enjoyed it (enjoy not necessarily being the right word).

[Paul]

Just started Coraline. Though keep being given things to do, so haven't read much tonight!

[Lisa]

I read half ofThe Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy last night. It is very enjoyable. It's fun to follow and learn about the other half of Harold Fry's story, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry


I will be starting Runner later for a buddy read.

[Paul]

Still wading through Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern, and have started The Invisible Library which is good so far.

[Lisa]

I finished Runner by Patrick Lee last night. This was a buddy read for me and I really enjoyed it. If you like Lee Child's Jack Reacher or Robert Crais's Joe Pike give this Sam Dryden series a try. I have found a new author just what I need, lol.
Here is my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I also finished The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy which was another good one by Rachel Joyce.
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


I will be finishing up The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant today. It is about a woman who is born to immigrant parents in Boston in 1900. It is an interesting account of her life and times.


Next up is The Shed That Fed a Million Childrenby Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow. He is the founder of Mary's Meals.

[Jo]

I am about to start (deep breath and tissues ready) Late Fragments: Everything I Want to Tell You by Kate Gross. Suspect I am going to struggle with it, but it comes so highly spoken of that I feel I must read it.

Also now well into my audiobook of Summertime by Vanessa Lafaye which is certainly promising for drama and shocks.

[Lisa]

I just started Burial Rites

[Paul]

Just started The Water Knife and after that is The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It this week. Hoping to get to Neverwhere too.

[Jackie]

Lisa, I thoroughly enjoyed Burial Rites. Thought it was a great book.

I'm just about to start reading The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran.

[Jo]

Lisa wrote: "I just started Burial Rites"

It's good, but my goodness it doesn't have (m)any lighter moments

[Lisa]

Jo wrote: "Lisa wrote: "I just started Burial Rites"

It's good, but my goodness it doesn't have (m)any lighter moments"


I thought it was very good but definitely no light moments.

[Lisa]

I just finished Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton. This was a good mystery with some very damaged people. I loved the descriptions of the wildlife on the Falkland Islands.

I am almost finished with The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens. What a fantastic book.


Next up is My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by the same author who wrote A Man Called Ove

[Jackie]

Starting the thriller The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne today.

[Paul]

Jackie wrote: "Starting the thriller The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne today."

Have heard good things about that

[Paul]

The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It is very well written so far, and is making me livid!

[Gail]

Watch your blood pressure Paul!

[Paul]

Gail wrote: "Watch your blood pressure Paul!"

Lisa made the same comment elsewhere. May need a beer later.

[Bella]

Paul wrote: "The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It is very well written so far, and is making me livid!"

I have this book and his other book Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class. I should move them up the TBR list!

Among 10 or so other books, I'm reading Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions by Mark W. Moffett and Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante Pääbo.

[Paul]

Read it soon Bella. Finished tonight and have just written my review!

[Paul]

Just starting The Man Who Swam the Amazon: 3,274 Miles Down the World's Deadliest River

[Sophie]

I've just started Fool's Quest by Robin Hobb. Fancy a slice of fantasy for a change

[Paul]

I have never read any of Robin Hobb books, Sophie

[Pamela]

I had not read any Robin Hobb either, but have just started Assassin's Apprentice which I won in a giveaway and it's very good.

Reading Lustrum by Robert Harris as well ready for the third book in the trilogy coming out soon.

[Paul]

Just starting The Great Gatsby today

[Sophie]

My brother introduced me to Robin Hobb's books a couple of years ago and I was hooked straight away. Assassin's Apprentice is still one of my favourites but the books I'm reading now are about Fitz as a 60 year old!

If you enjoy fantasy at all then Robin Hobb is definitely worth a look, Paul :)

[Jackie]

I'm starting The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell.

[Bella]

Started The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It by Owen Jones last night. Thanks, Paul, for making me push it up the TBR list. I may have some pretty basic questions since I'm American.

I also started Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King and Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo. And I may start Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures by Bill Schutt- I keep seeing it and it wants to be read.

[Paul]

Just started Neverwhere. Been meaning to read it for ages

[Nicola]

My first post on here! Are you enjoying it Paul?

[Paul]

Welcome Nicola. Yes, very much so far, Gaiman is such a good author.

[Paul]

Started The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life this morning. Not bad so far.

[Joy]

I'm not a big fan of short stories, but I'm enjoying this collection - OxCrimes: Introduced by Ian Rankin, a collection of crime / mystery stories by established authors in aid of Oxfam. It even includes one by Neil Gaiman! Some of the authors are new to me and it's prompted me to look out their novels when I'm next at the library.

[Paul]

I have read the ox tales series. Great way to discover new authors, and ones to avoid, without going through the pain of a whole novel.

[Jackie]

I'll be starting All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews today.

[Jo]

Not had much reading time, but lots of audiobook time. Next one up is either Us by David Nicholls or Watching You by Michael Robotham

[Paul]

Started Desert Solitaire last night. Written in the late sixties, it is an account of Abbey's three seasons in the southeastern Utah desert, and his experiences of the natural world at it's most brutal.

[Paul]

Started Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World last night. Good so far.

[Jackie]

Starting Becoming Johnny Vegas by Michael Pennington today.

[Jo]

Starting Us by David Nicholls on audiobook today.

[Lisa]

I just finished Vanished by Kendra Elliot.
This was a good mystery about a missing eleven year old and a detective being framed for murder. I liked both the Detective Callahan and FBI Agent McLane's characters. I will read the next two in this series which right now can be downloaded for $2.00 each.

and


Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf.
I really loved the sweetness of this book about two older people coming together for some comfort and company. I hated the ending. All I can say is the son is lucky I wasn't his mother.

I now have Plainsong on my library list:):)



Last night I started Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League by Jonathan Odell. It is very good.
"Set in pre-Civil Rights Mississippi, and inspired by his Mississippi childhood, Odell tells the story of two young mothers, Hazel and Vida – one wealthy and white and the other poor and black – who have only two things in common: the devastating loss of their children, and a deep and abiding loathing for one another.

Embittered and distrusting, Vida is harassed by Delphi’s racist sheriff and haunted by the son she lost to the world. Hazel, too, has lost a son and can’t keep a grip on her fractured life. After drunkenly crashing her car into a manger scene while gunning for the baby Jesus, Hazel is sedated and bed-ridden. Hazel’s husband hires Vida to keep tabs on his unpredictable wife and to care for his sole surviving son. Forced to spend time together with no one else to rely on, the two women find they have more in common than they thought, and together they turn the town on its head. It is the story of a town, a people, and a culture on the verge of a great change that begins with small things, like unexpected friendship."