On Your Bookshelf
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Every time I try a Sophie Hannah I wind up being horribly disappointed.
"You first have to find out who you are. Then you have to be it like mad."
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I’m reading Mix Tape by Jane Sanderson, which is really good so far & is partly set in Sheffield
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I really eat to like Sophie Hannah books and I have tried a lot. She was really nice to my mum & sister when we met her, and she’s generally great when I have heard her on the radio.
I’ve just finished The Confession. It was very good, but kind of unsatisfactory.
I’ve just finished The Confession. It was very good, but kind of unsatisfactory.
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I’ve just finished Everything I Never Told You and now I’m reading Holes.
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Yes. It’s on my 11 year old’s reading list and I realised I have never read it.
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I bought this in a charity shop and read the first one and was at the sex scenes. I don't expect Tom Hanks to write about that. :victorian:Pippedydeadeye wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:07 am I discovered today that Tom Hanks has written a book of short stories. I am intrigued.
I need some pure escapism so I'm reading The Last by Hanna Jameson and am loving it, fifty pages in.
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I liked Holes. And I am not generally a fan of Young Adult. I get cross with the characters for being immature.
I made it a third of the way through the only Sophie Hannah I tried, the Melody one. I have a relatively high tolerance for plot holes as long as the pace is fast but it was beyond me. That was till further than I got into The Woman in Cabin 10, though.
I have started the Jackson Brodie books from the beginning. I am pretty sure I've read the first three and can just about remember how they ended, but I can't remember what happened to everyone in the middle. Kate Atkinson writes so beautifully.
I made it a third of the way through the only Sophie Hannah I tried, the Melody one. I have a relatively high tolerance for plot holes as long as the pace is fast but it was beyond me. That was till further than I got into The Woman in Cabin 10, though.
I have started the Jackson Brodie books from the beginning. I am pretty sure I've read the first three and can just about remember how they ended, but I can't remember what happened to everyone in the middle. Kate Atkinson writes so beautifully.
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Which is the first one, Bats? I haven’t enjoyed the KA books that I’ve read so far.
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In order:
1. Case Histories
2. One Good Turn
3. When Will There Be Good News?
4. Started Early, Took My Dog
5. Big Sky
Her 'proper'' novels can go a bit esoteric/vague/confusing in timeline for me, but the Jackson Brodie ones are mostly just exceedingly well written mysteries.
1. Case Histories
2. One Good Turn
3. When Will There Be Good News?
4. Started Early, Took My Dog
5. Big Sky
Her 'proper'' novels can go a bit esoteric/vague/confusing in timeline for me, but the Jackson Brodie ones are mostly just exceedingly well written mysteries.
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Thanks. I’ve read no3 and the museum one.
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LAZZBO!lazzbo wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 9:43 amI bought this in a charity shop and read the first one and was at the sex scenes. I don't expect Tom Hanks to write about that. :victorian:Pippedydeadeye wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:07 am I discovered today that Tom Hanks has written a book of short stories. I am intrigued.
I don't want to read sex scenes written by Tom Hanks. I may have to take the book off my reservation list; I thought he was above that kind of thing.
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I think I have all the JB ones, Cerise, if you want a lend.
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This is interesting because I don't enjoy the Jackson Brodie ones at all - the Big Sky one I stopped reading, but her stand-alone novels I love.
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I read When Will There Be Good News? very late in my pregnancy with J. I had to go in to be monitored for a while and I remember having to try not to launch the book across the ward yelling NEVER in answer to the title.
Thanks, Lora, but I’ll use the library if I feel the need. Save the postage!
Thanks, Lora, but I’ll use the library if I feel the need. Save the postage!
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Libby has them all if you have access to that.
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LILY!
Consider yourself warned about Tom Hanks. :D
Consider yourself warned about Tom Hanks. :D
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I can't remember which one (possibly WWTBGN) but I read the one that starts with the murder of a toddler named Joseph just after my J had been born and remember having a good hormonal sob in the bath at the connection (Not a spoiler; literally happens infirst coupleof pages.)
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I can't remember which one (possibly WWTBGN) but I read the one that starts with the murder of a toddler named Joseph just after my J had been born and remember having a good hormonal sob in the bath at the connection (Not a spoiler; literally happens in first couple of pages.)
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Seeing as our J’s are so close in age, it probably was that one!Loralei wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 11:13 amI can't remember which one (possibly WWTBGN) but I read the one that starts with the murder of a toddler named Joseph just after my J had been born and remember having a good hormonal sob in the bath at the connection (Not a spoiler; literally happens infirst coupleof pages.)