Bookworms unite

The Girl Before by JP Delaney, it's of a similar ilk to The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl. I have also just finished the Girl in Kellers Way by Meagan Goldin ( her first novel ) it was also really enjoyable. 

Lee Childs - The Jack Reacher novels, does it for me any british crime writer, Kathy Reich, Patricia Cornwall, anything that keeps me turning the page , but also love books like the story of heroine Nancy Wake,and Edward "Weary Dunlop"
reading is the greatest gift any parent can give to a child, my nan was responsible for my love of reading,Im with you Cosette,!!
I will read the back of a cornflakes packet - anything will do when I am desperate.

mum2jj said:

I am reading a book by Pamela Hart called A letter from Italy.  Its about a female journalist in Italy in WW1 when female journalists were unheard of.  I'm really enjoying it.
Paula

I listened to her talking about this novel on a podcast. It sounds great. I love stories about women doing unexpected things. Martha Hellhorn, Hemingway's third wife, was also a war correspondent, during WWII. Fascinating woman. Pamela Hart is a one-book-a-year author. I don't know how they can be so prolific.

@Cosette_BCNA Highly recommend the Japanese novels IQ84. Strange but fascinating.

I am reading a book by Pamela Hart called A letter from Italy.  Its about a female journalist in Italy in WW1 when female journalists were unheard of.  I'm really enjoying it.
Paula

Sally obermeders breast cancer story very real

@viking1 I found concentration a problem after chemo etc but I slowly began reading short stories and worked my way back into my regular books.... Just a thought.... I think it was also a confidence thing the more I read and enjoyed the short stories the more I realised I could read a whole "regular book" again. 

socoda said:

What are you currently reading  Cosette?

I'm currently reading Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, one of those classics I've never read. My previous fiction reads this year:

• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent - By an Aussie author, this is a fictional account of the life of the last woman executed in Iceland in 1829. It was shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2014 and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014. It was a fascinating read.
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead - An American novel about slavery that re-imagines the underground railroad as an actual locomotive rather than just a network of passages and safe houses. It won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz - This one is by a Dominican-American and tells the story of a family's struggle in the Dominican Republic and then in America. It won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman - The premise of this novel is that immigrants bring their gods with them. What happens to them? The mythic aspect is a vehicle for observations about society. I wanted to read this ahead of the TV adaptation and I loved it. It has won multiple awards.
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith - This is a 2000 novel by a British author. It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friends and their families in London. Beneath that, it's about Britain's relationships with people from formerly colonised countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. This book has won multiple awards also. It was a lovely read - funny, poignant, and also sad at times.

I cant remember movies or series or books either but it does make the entertainment budget cheap because I can read and watch them over and its still pretty new. Currently in to Fifty Shades of Darkness but i only get thru a couple of pages before I am tired and go to sleep. Next time i pick it up I go back a page or two to fill me in where I was and by that time I am tired too. This book will take 50 years to read 50 shades lol.

Just finished When breath becomes air.  I read a wide variety of books but i find i read a lot less these days.