The Mock Turtle

Every time I try a Sophie Hannah I wind up being horribly disappointed.

I’m reading Mix Tape by Jane Sanderson, which is really good so far & is partly set in Sheffield

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 Everything I Never Told You and now I’m reading Holes.

Louis Sachar?

Yes. It’s on my 11 year old’s reading list and I realised I have never read it.

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 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:

I need some pure escapism so I'm reading The Last by Hanna Jameson and am loving it, fifty pages in.

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.

Which is the first one, Bats? I haven’t enjoyed the KA books that I’ve read so far.

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.

Thanks. I’ve read no3 and the museum one.

lazzbo wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 9:43 am

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 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:

LAZZBO!

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.

I think I have all the JB ones, Cerise, if you want a lend.

Cerise wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 10:15 am Which is the first one, Bats? I haven’t enjoyed the KA books that I’ve read so far.

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.

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!

Libby has them all if you have access to that.

LILY!

Consider yourself warned about Tom Hanks. :D

Cerise wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 10:57 am 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.

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.)

Cerise wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 10:57 am 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.

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.)

Loralei wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 11:13 am

Cerise wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 10:57 am 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.

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.)

Seeing as our J’s are so close in age, it probably was that one!