Currently reading anything by a British writer? Showing 801-850 of 1,160

[Oksana]

Sarah, if you have not read The Light that Failed by Kipling, I strongly recommend it. I think it is my favorite book by Kipling, although I love them all.

[Sarah]

Thanks! I liked the bit of Kipling I read. And I shall check out. Thanks guys!

[Sarah]

Melanie, I shall take a look at that author. I haven’t read any spy novels per se, but I might like them!

[Carol]

I love Kipling, I am reading his autobiography. I will look for The Light that Failed. Thanks for mentioning it.

[Rosemarie]

I have a copy of A Light that Failed sitting on a bookshelf. I think I will move it up on my tbr list. I finished The Second Jungle book a couple of weeks ago. I enjoyed it more than the first one. And I think Kim is a wonderful book.
Right now I am reading Heavy Weather by P.G. Wodehouse, one of the Blandings series.

[Carol]

Oh my goodness, the Blandings series are ones I loved. I have almost all the Wodehouse books. I went on a kick and searched all over for as many as I could get. Not all of them are as good as Jeeves and Blandings. I still liked them anyway.

Kim is my all time favorite book, I have read it and listened on audible at the same time, and then I have done it all over again. It goes deeper each time I read it.

[Rosemarie]

I have just finished reading Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie, the final book in the Tommy and Tuppence series. I like the books with Tommy and Tuppence becasuse they are a married couple, with children, and grandchildren in this book. They also know how to enjoy themselves at any age. I thought the mystery in this one was clever.

[Rosemarie]

I have started the final book in the Palliser series by Anthony Trollope, The Dukes Children.

[Rosemarie]

I have just started Titus Alone, part 3 of the Gormenghast trilogy.

[Rosemarie]

I have finished Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake, which did not disappoint.

I have just finished the seventh book in the Sherlock Holmes collection, His Last Bow. The mysteries were entertaining and it was a fun read.

[Werner]

For a common read in another group, this morning I read M. R. James' short story, "A Warning to the Curious." It's available online, since it's in the public domain; but I read it in the collection Collected Ghost Stories, originally published by Wordsworth Editions in 1931. The Bluefield College library has a copy of the book, and it's on my to-read shelf!

[Rosemarie]

I am reading The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham.

[Melanie]

I've just finished Cry from the Grave by British author, Carolyn Mahony and highly recommend it. Here's my review:

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

[Oksana]

I just started reading Transcription by Kate Atkinson. I wanted to suggest reading it for our August reading together but my curiosity got the best of me.

[Pam]

I just finished InterWorld, a YA fantasy collaboration by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reeves. They marketed it as a TV show. No one was interested so they wrote a book which reads like a TV show. I thought I would like it but was really disappointed. Not for me. I'll just leave it at that!

[Rosemarie]

I have read a lot of Kate Atkinson's works, but not her more recent books. I have Life After Life sitting on a bookshelf but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.
I have just started The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells.

[Oksana]

Rosemarie, I read Life After Life and A God in Ruins, and loved them both. I read The First Men in the Moon in Russian translation when I was a kid. It will be fun to reread it in original!

[ღ Carol jinx~☆~☔ʚϊɞ]

Reading all of Mark Dawson's books about former members of MI5 very interesting

[Werner]

Usually, I read short story collections on an intermittent basis, as something to dip into while I'm waiting for other reads that for some reason I can't start right away. But yesterday, I started on Peter O'Donnell's story collection Pieces of Modesty as a regular read. It's short, so I don't expect it to take long; it furthers my goal of making progress on some of my "dangling" series; and it'll count towards an annual reading challenge I'm taking part in over in the Action Heroine Fans group.

[Rosalinda]

I just started reading No Graves As Yet by Anne Perry, the 1st in her WWI series and am enjoying it. I have all four of them in the series and plan to read them all in sequence.

[Werner]

One of the two books I started reading today is Emma by Jane Austen, one of several of her novels that I've never read, even though I count her as a favorite author. (I did, though, watch the captivating 1996 movie adaptation starring Gwyneth Paltrow: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116191/ .) This year, I hope to finish reading all of the Austen canon --something I owe to myself as a bona fide Janeite. :-)

[Rosemarie]

I have just started reading Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell.

[Rosemarie]

I have just finished Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell and really enjoyed it. It was her final work and the quality of the writing shows it. It took me a little while to get into it but got more and more engrossed as I was reading this 700 page novel.

[Sarah]

I’m reading Jeffery Archer Only Time Will Tell

[Sarah]

I read the Phillip Pullman books and they’re great! I loved the series.

[Rosemarie]

I started reading books by Elizabeth Gaskell after joining goodreads in 2016. They are all different, and all good!

[Elizabeth A.G.]

Just read the excellent book A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by journal and writer Sonia Purnell.

I also have her two books about Clementine Churchill and Boris Johnson on my TBR

[Rosemarie]

North and South by Gaskell was good at depicting the social inequalities of the time. Wives and Daughters was her last novel and the characters are much more rounded, with the focus on families.

[Elizabeth A.G.]

Rita wrote: "Elizabeth A.G. wrote: "Just read the excellent book A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by journal and writer [author:Sonia Pu..."

Hope you enjoy the book, Rita! Virginia Hall was an amazing woman.

I have The Mystery of the Blue Train but haven't started reading it yet.

[Rosemarie]

I have just started Lord Peter Wimsey: The Complete Short Stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. I have only read one story so far, and really enjoyed it. I hope the rest are as good.

[Werner]

Rosemarie, I have that collection on my to-read shelf, I've only ever read one of the Lord Peter stories, "The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head," but I consider that to be one of the best "hidden treasure" mysteries I've run across.

[Carol]

I absolutely love Dorothy Sayers. I would advise to read Gaudy Night before you read Busman's Honeymoon. (they follow one another)

Those are two of my favorites. The Nine Tailors fascinated me as well. I have read these books two and three times, whenever I am in the mood to enter her world. The Five Red Herrings another good one!!! Carol

[Rosemarie]

I need to read Busman's Honeymoon again sometime. I just don't known when.

[Rosemarie]

That is good to hear, Rita.

[Rosemarie]

I read a lot of Mary Stewart in my younger days and enjoyed them. I also know what it is like getting committed to too many group reads. I am still reading the Dorothy Sayers book, and yesterday I started The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, more short mysteries.

[Werner]

Rosemarie, I read (and really liked) The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes a couple of years ago. I'll be interested in your review!

[Werner]

As a fill-in book while I'm unexpectedly between novels, I've begun dipping into The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (by, of course, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).

[Werner]

Continuing my program for this year of Jane Austen reading, I've recently started Northanger Abbey.

[K.]

I’ve read almost all Austen except Emma. Of them, Northanger Abbey is one of my favorites.

[Werner]

E. L., I hope you get a chance to read Emma sometime! I finished my first read of it last month, and it got five stars from me.

[K.]

I will put it up higher on my list!

[Pam]

I just finished a nonfiction- DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America by Bryan Sykes. The DNA part was pretty interesting but the travelogue part, across the US, was not as interesting to me. Overall, it was a good read- 3.5 stars.

[K.]

Sounds pretty compelling Pam. I just finished one of those Patrick Taylor novels. It wasn’t my cup of tea. :/

[Werner]

While I'm waiting to start our group's common read next month, I've been filling in the time by reading short stories from a couple of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes collections that I own. Having recently finished The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, I've now started on The Return of Sherlock Holmes. So, the latter book has moved to my "being read intermittently" shelf.

[K.]

I just re-read The Hound of the Baskervilles. I’m wanting to read more Doyle, but, I’m not sure where to start. Did you like the memoirs?

[Rosemarie]

The first set of short stories is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The first two novels are A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four.

[Oksana]

I started reading Cakes and Ale by William Somerset Maugham yesterday while on the plane to London. He never disappoints!

[Rosemarie]

So true, Oksana. I have read most of Maugham's works and have started rereading some of them, including Of Human Bondage (a couple of years ago).

[Pam]

I am reading Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake #2) by C.J. Sansom. I picked up the entire collection, except for book #1 Dissolution, at Goodwill. The series is set during the reign of Henry VIII.

[Werner]

E.L. wrote: "I just re-read The Hound of the Baskervilles. I’m wanting to read more Doyle, but, I’m not sure where to start. Did you like the memoirs?"

Yes, E.L., I did! I gave it four stars, and my review is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... . But as Rosemarie wrote in message 862, it isn't the first collection of Holmes stories; and the two novels she mentioned are where Doyle first introduced the character. There's something to be said for reading the books in the order they were written, even though they're not really a series with a strict chronological progression through Holmes' career (The Valley of Fear, for instance, is set before the last story in the Memoirs).

Doyle wrote a good deal besides his Holmes novels and stories, though those are the best known part of his corpus. For instance, he wrote quite a bit of science fiction (I can recommend The Lost World, and The Best Science Fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle). He personally regarded his historical fiction novels as his best work. I haven't read any of these yet, but I really want to eventually, starting with The White Company.