On Your Bookshelf

[Pootle]

I've added Henrietta Lacks to my list, it looks so interesting.

[purple_dress]

Silver Sparrow is about to come out in paperback - I've preordered it. I'm reading Bel Canto but finding it slow going compared to The Dutch House and Commonwealth.

[Ella77]

Ooh, will look that one up.

(Bel Canto is so strange. I liked it, but it’s strange.)

[purple_dress]

Yeah I kind of am enjoying it but it's quite intense, I suppose. It's not making me want to read it for hours at a time.

[Pippedydeadeye]

Bel Canto was a perfect lockdown read. I’m still going on The Dutch House & not liking it as much. It’s funny how order affects your view of things.

[Pippedydeadeye]

Actually I finished The Dutch House last night. It was fine, very American in that dreamy, time jumping, family saga way.

[Cerise]

I finished Girl, Woman, Other and really liked it. Now on Lisa Jewels latest.

Which one? Is it another thriller? I’m reading Watching You.

Before that, I read Who Sent Clement? by Keith Pearson. It was very easy story and enjoyable in a slightly silly way. There was one bit of the story that was frustrating (a character who seemed to get completely forgotten).

[Kenickie]

Have they taken out the reading challenge from the Goodreads app? It's all changed and I can't see it anymore.

[Pippedydeadeye]

My app hasn’t changed, I don’t think. It’s under my books at the bottom.

[purple_dress]

The reading challenge never worked for me. Loads of my books I'd read weren't appearing so the count was wrong.

[Cerise]

The reading challenge never worked for me. Loads of my books I'd read weren't appearing so the count was wrong.

I had that but then realised that I have to flag them as “Currently Reading” and then “Read” for them to go into my challenge.

[purple_dress]

Ohhhhh! I always just add them as read when I finish. I hardly ever do the currently reading thing. Thanks, that explains it.

[Flora Poste]

Recently I've read a couple off the Booker long list (This Mournable Body which I didn't like at all - it was written in the second person for a start, and I didn't quite get the main character at all and The Shadow King which I really enjoyed).

I'm now reading Exciting Times for book club - millennial relationships set in Hong Kong by a young female Irish author. It's readable enough, well written enough, humorous enough but not a patch on Normal People.

[Turtle Bean]

Kindred was really good. I don't know what to read next. I pre-ordered Survivor and I think that is soon.

[Pippedydeadeye]

I’m going to read another Rebus I think, I brought a pile home from work.

[sally maclennane]

I finished Girl, Woman, Other and really liked it. Now on Lisa Jewels latest.

Which one? Is it another thriller? I’m reading Watching You.

Invisible Girl, its ok but not brilliant.

[Kenickie]

Ah thanks, it's in the same place as Pip's now. Everything used to be on a side menu before.

I have to add the date I finished reading to show it was this year for them to count in the challenge.

[Loralei]

I read most books on my kindle and it dates them as read in GR when I give it a score at the end.

I have just finished All The Things I Never Told You, which was so sad and beautiful. And sad

I'm now reading The Thing About Clare by Imogen Clark. I loved Postcards From A Stranger but hope this one has a better twist than I already suspect at 14%

[Lily]

Did you catch Mark Ruffalo in the series All The Things, Lora? It was fantastically well done.

I am on Louis Theroux's Gotta Get Theroux This. I have got into him a lot since listening to his podcast and the episodes he did with Adam Buxton on his.

[Ella77]

Is that Everything I Never Told You (Celeste Ng)?

I’m reading Silver Sparrow now. Thanks for the recommendation, pd.