On Your Bookshelf

[Ella77]

I’ve been meaning to order that, Lola, thanks.

[Annabella]

I love Grace Dent

[Shoe]

I've just finished The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver. I really enjoyed it and it seems to have started my reading mojo again. It did make me realise that LS and I have fairly different political views after doing a bit of research on her. I think I got it free on Prime reading it anyone else fancies it.

[Ella77]

I found that one really disconcerting.

[Shoe]

Definitely, it was a bit too easy to imagine it happening!

[Flora Poste]

I've just finished The New Wilderness by Diane Cook - it's about a community of people who live nomadically in a protected wilderness area at some point in the near-ish future when the rest of the world has been made inhospitable by climate change. It was readable enough, but there was a lot I didn't really like about the plot or the characters - it just didn't hang together for me.

[Lily]

I forced myself to finish Hamnet. Beautifully written and devastating.

I have ordered this from the library. Hurry up, slow readers!

I have just finished Fake Law by The Secret Barrister. Everyone who buys a newspaper should be forced to read this afterwards. Extraordinarily readable and useful. I'm now Adam Buxton's Ramble Book.

[Flora Poste]

I forced myself to finish Hamnet. Beautifully written and devastating.

I have ordered this from the library. Hurry up, slow readers!

Same here! I’m No 21 in the queue though, so it may be some time!

[Chicky]

I just finished Three Hours bought on a recommendation from here and it was brilliant. I stayed up until nearly 1am to finish it last night as I couldn’t put it down.

[purple_dress]

I finished On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous. It was hard going - disturbing, depressing and written in an abstract style - but fairly short so I made myself finish it.

[Pippedydeadeye]

I’ve just finished Between The Stops by Sandi Toksvig. I was a bit bemused to open it from my mum last Christmas but it was surprisingly brilliant. Conversational & hugely feminist and just great.

[Lola]

Ooh I will put that on my list.

[Annabella]

I also enjoyed that book Pip

[Flora Poste]

Yes, I've just added it to my list.

I've just finished Ghosts by Dolly Alderton, it was ok. I feel a bit guilty as it was my choice for book club and I know a couple of them really won't have liked it. Definitely overhyped and, whilst it was quite amusing in places, it felt like it had been rushed.

[purple_dress]

I read Ghosts as well and felt similarly. It was OK and a fairly enjoyable light read but not amazing.

[Turtle Bean]

I'm stuck in a never ending cycle of really terrible cod- medieval romance novels. They do that thing where the hero and heroine of the next book are introduced lightly in the one before so you end up reading on and on because you want to know what happens to them. The sex scenes are so bad.

[Cosmopolitan]

No shame Bean, they're very anaesthetising. I have read many this year.

[Luna]

I’ve got Flat Share to read next which looks interesting if a somewhat bizarre plot.

[Pippedydeadeye]

I’ve just read Watching You by Lisa Jewell. I really enjoyed it, but did guess the twist/killer. A lady in the charity book shop recommended it, and I’m glad I listened.

[Lola]

I’ve just read Dear Edward which was brilliant but also terrifying