What are you reading at the moment?

Neither the book nor the series are for me. Some readers/viewers out there must like it but I gave up and had an early night.

 

Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng . Stunning début novel .

 

Philip Kerr - The Lady from Zagreb - not vintage Kerr but a class act nevertheless

 

The House of Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul. It's quite dense and reminds me of a Dickens novel. I was reluctant to make a start on it in term time, but now I'm hooked.

 

Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo - about an elderly, unhappily married West Indian man who has had a secret gay lover since his teens. Recommend highly.

Harbour Street by Anne Cleeve - this author is always very readable, a page turner.

 

Mr Loverman has been on my list for ages . Glad you rated it .

 

Walking Away - Simon Armitage (and listened to extracts on Book of the Week on Radio 4 - he is reading ) . It is so, so, good .... I don't want it to end. (Mind you loved Walking Home too)

 

Michael Gardiner - Escalator

very short stories

 

Michael Arditti - 'Widows and Orphans ' - not finished it but a thoroughly enjoyable read so far.

 

The Many Conditions of Love by Farahad Zama. A good story with several threads set around a marriage bureau in India.

 

MR. COLLINS was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms, without forming at it any useful acquaintance.

I came across quotable page from P & P (in 1001 Books to Read) yesterday, asking me what I am not getting out of Education and Society.

 

I recently read I Let You Go by Claire Mackintosh. I thought it was brilliant and I gasped out loud at the end of part 1.

Books for the remainder of the summer break include: The Buried Giant (Kazuo Ishiguro), A God in Ruins (Kate Atkinson) and The Sunrise (Victoria Hislop).

 

Must say that I thought that ' I Let You Go ' was dreadful. Loved the early Kate Atkinson stuff but struggled with more recent material. Only read The Island ( ? ) by Victoria Hislop and thought it was poor. Just finished ' The Year of the Runaways ' - I usually steer clear of Man Booker nominations ( long listed ) but I thought this was superb.

 

I have much enjoyed A suitable boy so shall look out for this one! Thanks for this.

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It's not quite in the same league as A Suitable Boy, Theo.

 

Yes, I've bow read the blurb on Amazon! But same environment which is pleasingly exotic for me.

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I'm on a bit of a Joe Abercrombie binge atm. Looking for similar recommendations?

 

I'm loving this, an excellent read.



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I suspect I am the only person in the world who thought the TGOTT was completely overated, repetitive and melodramatic !

 

No, Minnie, my sister heartily agrees with you!



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