Reading Heart Liberals

[Duophonic]

Quarries village is near me that's probably why it appealed.

[Pippedydeadeye]

I finished Hot Milk this afternoon. No idea was it was really about, but it was dreamy and weird and I loved it anyway.

I’m going to read How To Be A Renaissance Woman next.

[Beena]

I finished Hot Milk this afternoon. No idea was it was really about, but it was dreamy and weird and I loved it anyway.

I think I've read just about everything she's written, Pip, and feel that way about all of them. Have you read Real Estate yet?

I'm reading Just Kids after a bout of feeling like I've wasted my life in suburbia.

[Pippedydeadeye]

Yes, the Living Autobiographies were my first ones and I devoured those. S has got me a copy of Swimming Home for when I next see her. She said August Blue isn’t great, but I’ll read it anyway.

[Duophonic]

Another bit of a book dump for me as I always forget to post but I read to get new recs.

Override: My quest to go beyond brain training - Caroline Williams. Interesting listen, I will not do any of the exercises set in the book and I've forgotten the main takeaways.

The Maid - Nita Prose. Enjoyable enough but the main character was a tad annoying.

Born Lippy - Jo Brand. I love Jo so her nuggets of wisdom were well received.

The Premonitions Bureau - Sam Knight. Non-fiction about a UK psychiatrist in the 60's who sets up a network of 'percipients' who he thinks can predict the future and warn of any disasters. Each chapter covers a notable disaster starting with Aberfan.

So you want to talk about race - Ijeoma Oluo. A good account of the pitfalls of the racial landscape in the US, and how we can be allies.

Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons - James Lovegrove. Engaging enough, I haven't read enough of Conan Doyle to compare fully.

The Ghost and Mrs Muir - R.A Dick. Whimsical romance between a young widow who moves into a haunted house and falls in love with the resident ghost. It's very of its time and there's a lot of 'damn your eyes' and 'swash' which amused me no end.

My Man Jeeves - Woodehouse. I hated this with every fibre of my being. Thick posh twats that are neither use nor ornament. I finished it but won't read another one, the massive working-class Scottish chip on my shoulder wouldn't allow it.

The Stranger TImes - CK McDonnell. I really enjoyed this it was a quick funny at times read. Set in a paper that reports on the weird (Fortean Times'esq).

7 Habit of Highly Successful People - Stephen R Covey. Some interesting concepts, will I implement the changes described in the book? Yes, there's one or two I can work on.

Get Up! Why your chair is killing you - James A Levine. This was really interesting and easy to follow from the guy who invented the treadmill desk. I don't do a lot of NEAT activity but I do move around a lot so this was an eye opener.

[Chicky]

The Premonitions Bureau sounds fascinating, was it good?

[Duophonic]

The Premonitions Bureau sounds fascinating, was it good?

It was and even for me a non-believer the historical info for the events the book covers was worth the reading alone.

[Chicky]

Thank you! It sounds fascinating and is now added to my reading list.

[lazzbo]

After Khalife's escape, I read A Bit of a Stretch and was duly depressed and appalled.

I'm on Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie right now but I'm not enjoying it anywhere near as much as Home Fires.

[Beena]

Yes, the Living Autobiographies were my first ones and I devoured those. S has got me a copy of Swimming Home for when I next see her. She said August Blue isn’t great, but I’ll read it anyway.

Yep. I'm not sure what I made of it and decided it needs a reread at some point. I suspect its a book that benefits from some thinking about. It reminds me of Rachel Cusk's Outline - small vignettes of interactions across the Med, that presumably add up to some insight - but with added magical realism and as the writing is so sparse - I don't know - it felt more like loosely knitted up remnants than a patchwork quilt. I loved the writing, but I never quite got to grips with it as a novel.

The Ghost and Mrs Muir - R.A Dick. Whimsical romance between a young widow who moves into a haunted house and falls in love with the resident ghost. It's very of its time and there's a lot of 'damn your eyes' and 'swash' which amused me no end.

I watched this with Bambs a few weeks ago. It's such a lovely film and there's a lot of 'swash' in that too. :lol:

[Little My]

I think I might enjoy a bit of whimsical romance and swash. :))

[Duophonic]

I think I might enjoy a bit of whimsical romance and swash. :))

I'm not a romantic but it is a lovely gentle book.

[sally maclennane]

I finished Demon Copperhead tonight, I really liked it, although it was also quite bleak.

[Turtle Bean]

I now need to finish A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Football by Suzanne Wrack, which is good but enraging then I have How to Stop Time by Matt Haig and The Long Call by Ann Sleeves both pinched from the village hall tonight after WI. I feel like I might have already read the Matt Haig.

Since my last post, I finished the football one, very good. Read the Matt Haig and another one of his The Midnight Library, bog standard. Read another Kristin Hannah called Wild and then got a third of hers called True Colours but it has been diminishing returns. I haven't finished True Colours and might not. Wild was OK.

Also read The Pure and The Impure by Collette, did not like. The Last Days by Ali Millar, very good, might not appeal to people not brought up as Jehovah's Witnesses though.


Also read/re-read The Priorsford Trilogy by O. Douglas. I'd read two of them before but not the middle one, which turned out to be the weakest by far.

Currently reading To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf for book club. Tedious nonsense. Oh I gave up on the Ann Cleeves one, it felt like every detective story ever.

I've also just got the new Thursday detective club book. I am so tempted to bin off Virginia...

Also today with Pippo at Calke Abbey I got The King's General by Daphne Du Maurier which I haven't read for donkey's years and April in Spain by John Banville. However, we both agreed that we are sick of books by men on the whole. Matt Haig is stealing a living.

[Estrella]

I picked up Yellowface on a whim when I took the kids to the library yesterday. I’m 8 chapters in now and it’s so good. I don’t want to put it down.

[sally maclennane]

I've heard a lot of good stuff about Yellowface.

I'm reading Really Good Actually, which was recommended on here (by Ken I think) and am really enjoying it.

[sally maclennane]

I finished this today and I liked it, it was perfect after DC which was quite heavy going.

[Kenickie]

I'm glad you liked it!

[sally maclennane]

I did, thanks for the recommendation.

[Cerise]

I read I’m Sorry You Feel That Way. It was the type of book that makes me wonder if I feel stuff like a normal person because I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to take from it. Everyone was miserable!

There are a lot of books where I feel like nothing happens. It’s just waffle. One Day I Will Astonish The World is another one.

Now I’m reading The Island Home.