Book Notes

[Pippedydeadeye]

There was much mensch in the Book Thief. Also hated it.

[Lola]

The book was very divisive You might prefer the film, Duo.

[Duophonic]

I'm glad there's haters here. I always get the impression that I was the outlier. I'm just going to return it, life's too short.

[Pippedydeadeye]

Saumensch!

[Dáire]

I got to the end and wondered what the point was. "Germans are people too"? It just read like a bunch of quite obvious points being plonked out. Maybe it had some lengthy message in there but I missed it by being annoyed.

[Bat Macdui]

I loved Rizzio. I wish she would write faster.

I have read an absolutely AWFUL book called Absolute Book, I have no idea why I even finished it. It was fantasy? I think. Awful. Total mash up of half thought through ideas.

Anyway, I have The Paper Palace from the library and have bought a book about botany from the RHS, so that should aid recovery.

[Epponnee Rae]

I have just finished (and loved) The Wolf Den and am desperate for the second book which inexplicably isn’t out here until September. Why? I’ll buy it before then if I get back to the UK this summer.

In the meantime I’ve started The Huntress and have just got Queens of Themiscyra on kindle unlimited. And I still need to finish Neuromancer which got abandoned after coming back off holiday. So plenty to be getting on with. But if I had the House With the Golden Door I’d read that first.

[sally maclennane]

I started The Paper Palace at the weekend and am enjoying it so far.

[lazzbo]

I have just finished (and loved) The Wolf Den and am desperate for the second book which inexplicably isn’t out here until September. Why? I’ll buy it before then if I get back to the UK this summer.

The second book is great! Not even available as an ebook?

[Epponnee Rae]

No! Not even hardback, which I would happily have bought.

[sally maclennane]

I finished The Paper Palace today, I really liked it, and loved that it was set in Cape Cod which is one of my favourite places that I've ever been.

Next, the new Mark Billingham.

[Pawpads]

I've been re-reading the early Stephanie Plum series. I think I gave up originally at about 13 so thought I'd start from the beginning again in the hope of remembering why I liked them.

[Dutchie]

Thanks to this thread, I have just started Dear Mrs Bird and loving it so far! It makes me smile a lot.

[Pootle]

I finished The Paper Palace today, I really liked it, and loved that it was set in Cape Cod which is one of my favourite places that I've ever been.

I have this on my next to read pile and absolutely agree about favourite place too. I read Family of Liars, the prequel to We Were Liars, and enjoyed it (although I didn't remember much about the first) and that was the same for sense of place.

I picked up a leaflet from the library about the Great Jubilee Read, which I hadn't paid much attention to, but I've started working my way through the list and I'm enjoying it a lot - it's a selection of 70 books from throughout the Commonwealth over the last 70 years so I'm picking up things I wouldn't normally and finding some really good reads. I'm currently on A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, about India and it's excellent. Most of them are on the library app fortunately so easy to get hold of them!

[Hazey_Jane]

On holiday, I read:

Goodbye to Berlin- Christopher Isherwood. Written and set in early 1930s Berlin, there's not much plot but the author describes the society and characters he meets beautifully.
Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury. Found this difficult to get into and it never paid off, though I can see why it's held in esteem by so many people
If It Bleeds- Stephen Kings. 4 novellas, including a Holly Gibney story- I do love that character- and the other stories have stayed with me and I keep thinking about them which is a good thing.

[Pawpads]

I've just started Verity by Colleen Hoover.

[Pippedydeadeye]

I’ve just finished Mother Mother by Annie Mac. It was heartbreaking.

[Bat Macdui]

I'm currently on A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, about India and it's excellent.

That is an excellent book, but please schedule something er, light, for after it.

I am rereading Guy Gavriel Kay's Sarantium epics. I expect to be at it all summer. It's like going to a nice, comforting, safe little world.

[Ella77]

Oh my god, A Fine Balance is the bleakest book I've ever, ever read.

[Bat Macdui]

I still think about it sometimes, and it's nearly 15 years maybe since I read it.