On Your Bookshelf

[Turtle Bean]

I didn't much like The Time Traveller's Wife myself.

You should read The Shining Girls, Pippo.

[Pippedydeadeye]

I will put it on my list!

[Lily]

Is Tana French good?

Very!

I'm dying to get the new Jane Harper and the new John Connolly. I polished off Cromwell and am now on All That remains by Sue Black, a professor of anatomy and forensic anthropology. It's all about death but it's surprisingly upbeat.

[Elya]

Is Tana French good?

Very!

I'm dying to get the new Jane Harper and the new John Connolly. I polished off Cromwell and am now on All That remains by Sue Black, a professor of anatomy and forensic anthropology. It's all about death but it's surprisingly upbeat.

I loved that, Lily. She’s very uplifting.

Pip, you should try The Time Traveller’s Wife - I know not everyone enjoyed it, but I love it! And I r ally enjoy the Henry one.

I’ve just read Love and Other Thought Experiment, which i
really liked - just an original and unusual concept and beautifully written - although I think it might be a re-read as I didn’t understand it all.

I’m also reading book two of the secret commonwealth- but really not liking it much. I loved His Dark Materials - but didn’t much like the book of dust and this one feels really forced.

[Ella77]

It’s very sad and strange, that one.

[Flora Poste]

I really loved The Time Travellers Wife as well (I didn’t enjoy her second book as much though - the one set in Highgate Cemetery).

[Ella77]

I’ve just finished The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, which came in a Feelgood Book Club box. It’s a story of an elderly woman and her young granddaughter living on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland, and apparently it’s considered a classic across Scandinavia. I nearly stopped reading it halfway through, and I think I pretty much hated it. The child is just awful, full of histrionics, and the grandma only features in a kind of detached, odd way. I found it all quite surreal and weird. The reviews are mostly glowing, so I think it’s probably a Marmite book.

[Turtle Bean]

I've finished Troubled Blood now and feel a bit bereft. I do love Strike and Robin

[Marth]

I've finished Troubled Blood now and feel a bit bereft. I do love Strike and Robin

I am waiting for it to be cheaper

[Annabella]

I am agreeing with Marth

[Turtle Bean]

I've just finished The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It was sweet. I'm considering what to read next.

[Ella77]

I’ve just finished The Guest Book. It was so good! I’m shit at describing books, so maybe just check the official blurb.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B07JMB ... 8&qid=&sr=

I’m going to see what else the author has written.

[purple_dress]

Ooh thanks. I've added that to my list.

I finished Breasts and Eggs which is a Japanese book and was weird even by Japanese standards. My friend and I have been swapping Japanese books recently. I would highly recommend Before the Coffee Gets Cold, which I read earlier in the year, if you like the Japanese surreal kind of fiction.

[Flora Poste]

I like the look of that as well, Ella.

[Kenickie]

I finished Thursday Murder Club. It wasn't great. I feel like I was expecting more because there seemed to be a lot of positivity about it.

[Chicky]

I’m reading Fifty Fifty by Steve Cavanagh which is a legal murder thriller. It’s excellent so far, very creepy.

[Turtle Bean]

I finished The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells now and am reading a Lisa Jewell called The Family Upstairs. It seems ok.

[sally maclennane]

I read that last year, Bean.

I just finished the Survivors and really liked it. She is a great writer. I think I'll read the new Rebus next.

[Hobbes]

I finished The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells now and am reading a Lisa Jewell called The Family Upstairs. It seems ok.

I’m about to start The Family Upstairs, I’ll take OK. Are you just sad it’s not more Strike and Robin? I know I will be.

[Turtle Bean]

I think that's it, Hobbes. It's turning out quite gripping actually.